The Motivational Vampire
From Brian David Bruns—author of Cruise Confidential, Foreword Humor Book of the Year, a Benjamin Franklin Award winner, and the writer ABC’s 20/20 put on camera for the cruise-ship nightmare he survived—comes a new spin on self-help.
Make it undead.
Real life skills disguised as vampire lore.
Did you know that everything you’ve heard about vampires came from government paperwork? Or that the earliest vampires hungered not for blood, but beef stew?
Learning about vampires reveals what really shapes our world—manipulation.
The Motivational Vampire shows us how to spot it from others and fix it in ourselves.
How the Great Vampire Epidemic humbled the Vatican and transformed the Holy Roman Empire teaches us how to identify an agenda.
How early science “verified” the existence of vampires teaches us about confirmation bias.
How the evolution of vampires—from page to stage, Bela Lugosi to Brad Pitt, Dragula to Twilight—reveals the forcing functions changing our world.
How Bram Stoker ditched his entire plan for Dracula to escape the sunk cost fallacy.
Find drama in how the first vampire novel was written by the world’s greatest lover in a year without a summer—then stolen by his doctor, then stolen by his publisher. Learn how fear functions and how vampire movies can make us better able to overcome it—not emotionally, but physically! And really, who doesn’t want to meet the headless vampires of Asia, or the blood-sucking-toes vampire of Australia?
Even if Stoker, Rice and Meyer are already on the shelf, you still don’t have this.
Learning vampire lore reveals patterns that affect us all:
- Slap a label on someone and you’re done.
- Call the problem something nicer and you get to wait.
- Stay scared and you’ll keep refreshing the thing that profits from it.
- Keep trodding a dead end path because you’ve already spent the years.
No rules to follow.
No mantras to memorize.
Lessons stick because they’re FUN.
Is this a path to success for everyone? Nope. But it’s probably yours.
Who this is for:
You want vampires you don’t already know. Cuz you’re a freak.
You want to laugh. Because life sucks. Generally speaking.
You want to learn. Because life sucks. Like, yours, specifically.
Who this is not for:
People who take their vampires too seriously.
Those who want a gentle pep talk with no edge.
The book shows how they manipulate you.
The guide shows how you manipulate you.
The Supernatural Success Guide
A focused companion that pulls ten clear patterns straight from those stories. Each short lesson shows:
The manipulation at work.
The fear driving it.
The practical fix you can use immediately.
Together the Book and Guide train you to follow fear to its source—whether it comes from media, institutions, or the stories you tell yourself—so you stop being easy prey and start making clearer choices.
“Honestly bought this because I like vampires and thought it would be light. Ended up thinking about how little I understood how the world really works. But it wasn’t a lecture, it was funny.”
— Tony T.
Ready for some weird motivation?
The Motivational Vampire set:
ebook + guide (in ebook, mobile & printable formats) $17.95
audiobook + guide (featuring immersive music & sound effects!) $27.95
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