I knew I couldn't release "Lord Loss" until "The Saga" was over, so I set it aside for a couple of years and focused on completing my vampire series. (Although I did put the names of the characters, and brief descriptions of them, on another sheet.)
Like "Cirque Du Freak", I managed to squeeze all of my plot notes for it on to a single A4 sheet of paper, and that was what I worked from and built the book up out of. I wrote the first draft of "Lord Loss" back in February 2001, and assumed it was a one-off book - although "Lord Loss" would prove to be the entry point for readers into the world and ways of The Demonata, it was originally intended to be read (and still can be) as a single, stand-alone book. Originally I hadn't planned to write another series. How could I possibly follow an epic, international, multi-million selling series like "The Saga Of Darren Shan"?!? In retrospect the answer was simple - by creating one of the fastest, hardest-hitting stories ever written for children! (These were in the days before YA was a common term, so The Demonata was classed as a children's series.) But it could have all been oh so different. It got to #1 on the overall bestseller chart in Taiwan, was the #1 children's bestseller in Ireland for five weeks in a row, and got to #2 on the children's hardback chart in the UK (#7 on the overall children's chart). Author Notes:Lord Loss, the first book of my Demonata series, went on sale in the UK and Ireland (and Japan, where they had caught up with the British schedule, and Taiwan shortly after) on 6th June 2005. You might never look at the world in the same way again. Fast-paced and bloody, horrific and fantastic, frightening and exciting. "Lord Loss" is the first book of "The Demonata", a ten-book series which will take readers into new worlds and universes, all of them populated or threatened by demons. But there are secrets to be uncovered and hard truths to learn, and Grubbs is about to find out that as crazy and deadly as the world now seems, life is about to get a whole lot worse!!! Grubbs moves to the countryside to recover, and starts putting his life back together. He discovers that demons are real, and that terrible things can happen right in front of your eyes.Īs Grubbs slowly and painfully tries to deal with his new situation, help appears in the form of a friendly, eccentric relative.
But when his parents and sister behave strangely. He leads an ordinary life, and expects it will always be that way. A bit bigger and slyer than a lot of boys his age (he loves to play evil, ingenious tricks on his sister), but nothing special. Plot Outline:Grubbs Grady is an average kid.
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