A successful Kickstarter project, "The Undead Sorceress" is a multicultural fantasy novel which reached 135% of its campaign goal back in November 2013. During a promotional campaign via the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program, The Undead Sorceress hit number one on May 24, 2014 in the categories of Asian Fantasy and Asian Fiction on the Amazon Kindle site.
The Undead Sorceress is Volume 1 of the International House of Vampires, a fantasy series featuring characters that are vampires, sorceresses, warlocks and robots with different ethnicities and gender. The tagline of the book series indicates its heavy Eastern philosophy influence: "East Meets West, vampires suck chi, magic follows the Tao." "Within the Asian community, there is an idea of filial sacrifice in which younger generations are expected to fulfill the needs and wants of the older generation. This is especially true of parents whom gave up everything to immigrate to another country for their children," author JF Garrard states. "When my grandmother had a stroke, I asked the gods to take the years of my life in exchange for her health. After recovering from this incident, my grandmother told me I was stupid to pray for such things. This traumatic incident inspired me to write a story in which a grandmother does want to live forever and asks her descendants for the ultimate sacrifice."Videos