The Frame:

Joe is a kind of a detective. Kind of. In the same way he’s kind of alive. Duck around the issue as long as you want, sooner or later it’s gonna bite you. See, Joe’s a vampire. Yeah, a blood sucker. But not in the usual way, least not in the way you’re thinking from the books and the movies. Joe’s got a sickness, same sickness a lot of other poor slobs got. And all of them are creeping around Manhattan, trying to stay out of the public eye, out of the sun. Got themselves organized into Clans, each one laying claim to some turf. Wanna stay alive, gotta be with a Clan. Except Joe. He doesn’t hold with that way of life. That way is no life at all as far as he’s concerned. Ha, life, that’s funny. Sort of.

Joe goes his own way. And he gets by that way. But that way also gets him trouble. Plenty of it.

The Deal:

Joe Pitt was started by another one of those first lines kicking around in my head, “I smell them before I see them.” I knew it was vampire. I knew it was noir. I started writing.

The Pitt books are published by Random House under their Del Rey imprint. I read a lot of those Del Rey mass market paperbacks when I was a kid, so getting my books slapped with their logo is pretty fucking cool for me.

There will be five books total in the Joe Pitt series. Each one is a self contained adventure, but there is a master arc that runs through the entire series.