Guild member, Erik Christopher Martin recently published The Case of the Niceferatu¾his seventh published novel and fourth book in the Dotty Morgan Supernatural Sleuth series: The Case of the Niceferatu.

The book has been an astonishing success. For two days in the first week of January M was #1 in Children's Fantasy and Supernatural Mystery. It also hit #2 in Children's Paranormal Fantasy and Children's Mystery and Detective Adventure. 

For about 2 days in the first week of January it was #1 in Children's Fantasy and Supernatural Mystery. It also hit #2 in Children's Paranormal Fantasy and Children's Mystery and Detective Adventure. 

Elderton, North Carolina is home to Dotty Morgan, an inventive thirteen-year-old paranormal detective. Despite taking self-defense instruction for a year, Dotty is no fighter. She tries to protect her girlfriend, Hannah, when they are attacked in the locker room following one of Hannah’s wrestling matches. While it is Hannah who saves Dotty, the event awakens Dotty’s suspicions that paranormal individuals are present in her town.

Hannah, is injured as she saves a boy in a sledding incident. While the boy is unharmed, Hannah’s leg is broken. Not being able to be in wrestling competitions or to work in a self-defense studio, Hannah can no longer defend Dotty.

Now alone and wearing a mohawk with tailored clothes made by her close friend and fashion designer, Parker, Dotty endures daily teasing from the basketball team. Spitballs and humiliations become her new norm.

Parker’s dad is spending all his time with a beautiful woman client. Parker’s mom throws out his dad. His dad seems different. Parker tells Dotty that his father worries him.

Dotty discovers Parker’s father isn’t having just an affair with his client, the woman is turning him into a vampire. She also discovers a missing Elderton woman has become a vampire. Then she investigates a hidden apartment in a parking building. The residents tell her they only use the blood bank to feed themselves but say there are others who are blood-sucking monsters.

Dotty, her friend and housemate, Greg, and Greg’s vampire hunter father, investigate and try to stop the monster vampires. Some times they work together, sometimes not.

Tension ratchets up when Dotty learns a group of bad vampires plans to descend on the town for a gathering called the Fifty-Year Feast, where a large number of the town’s residents will be attacked, fed on, and killed.

Every chapter of Martin’s book is full of surprises and the pace never lags as each revelation raises the stakes. Dotty, a scientist at heart, struggles to find a cure for the vampires. Specifically, she wants to save Parker’s dad from becoming a full-fledged vampire. Will she succeed?

Martin’s paranormal creatures are unique. Some are harmful. Others need protection. In his four novels, Dotty invents ways to detect, understand, help or fight the paranormal. The Case of the Niceferatu is his best book so far.

In addition to writing books for YA and middle-grade readers, Erik Christopher Martin’s short fiction for adult readers has appeared on the Tales to Terrify Podcast, in Frontier Tales, Coffin Bell, The Potato Soup Journal, and various other anthologies and journals. He is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the San Diego Writers and Editors Guild (SDWEG). Visit www.DottyMorgan.com or www.ErikChristopherMartin.com.