Anne Rice, the acclaimed author of 1976′s Interview with the Vampire, has launched a new series of books focused on angels, dubbed Songs of the Seraphim. The first book, Angel Time, went on sale last week.
The book, according to its blurb, focuses on Toby O’Dare, a contract killer in the United States – the sort of person who is definitely going to hell. But into his world comes a seraph (angel) who gives him the chance to redeem himself. He is then taken back in time to thirteenth-century England, where a variety of dark acts are taking place, in his search to make things right.
Rice has stated that the new series is being published as part of her commitment to do Christian fiction in a variety of forms. She is continuing to work on other books in her Christ the Lord series as well, and the second book in the Songs of the Seraphim series is already with her publisher.
The author has recently conducted several interviews with the press about the launch, including with the Wall St Journal. She told the WSJ:
“Only some of my readers are reluctant to read my Christian-themed books, and the reason they give in emails to me is that they don’t want to read anything Christian. They are resisting the Christian books pretty much the way people resisted my earlier supernatural books, on the basis of the theme.”
