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It’s been two years since Alex Priest first hit shelves as a collected trade paperback.
Now, I’m bringing it back - bigger, deeper, and bloodier than ever.
The Alex Priest Novel is going live on BackerKit.
If you’ve read the comic, you already know the basics:
Vampire hunting isn’t glamorous. It’s a job. Groundskeepers call in infestations. Corporations handle cleanup.
And Alex Priest? They’re just trying to get through another shift at LC&B (Living Corpses & Bite).
Then everything goes sideways. A corporate merger with DEAD LLC forces Alex into a partnership with the one person they absolutely don’t want to see again - their ex-girlfriend, Janelle Garcia, the country’s leading magical analyst.
They haven’t spoken in five years. Now they have to work together to stop an apocalypse. And this time? The vampires aren’t playing by the rules.
So what’s new?
This isn’t just a reprint.
This is a 90,000-word novelization that expands the original five-issue series into a full-length novel.
Deeper worldbuilding and lore
Expanded character arcs (especially Alex & Janelle 👀)
Brand new scenes and storylines
More time with the systems behind vampire hunting as a blue-collar industry
A closer look at the corporate horror lurking under it all
Plus, the story continues to center queer identity and representation, including:
A genderqueer lead
Asexual representation
A messy, complicated, very real exes-to-partners-to-more? dynamic
What kind of story is this?
Blue-collar supernatural horror
Corporate apocalypse vibes
Queer paranormal romantasy (light spice)
And a whole lot of “we’re saving the world but also unpacking our feelings about it”
(And if you’ve supported Alex Priest before—thank you. This next step exists because of you.)
I’m incredibly excited to finally share this version of the story with you. It’s been a long time coming, and it digs deeper into everything I’ve wanted Alex Priest to be from the start.
Let’s hunt something dangerous.
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