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[Vampire Month] The Vampires of my life by A.J Campbell

26 Thursday Mar 2015

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Angel, Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, David Boreanz, David Cameron, Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Oldman, Otto Criek, Pratchett, Spike, Terry Pratchett, The Little Vampire, Twilight, Vampire, Xander


For her guest post, Alex gives us this quirky little play… Spot the not so subtle political metaphor for bonus points…

Scene: A bedroom, at night. Long white curtains billow at a casement window. Three redhaircandles, in a tall wrought-iron stand gutter threateningly in the draft. Our protagonist lies, in a gauzy nightgown, on the high four-poster bed. Suddenly, she awakens to a rapping at the window.  

Protagonist: Who’s there? What is it? [Through the window enters a small, scruffy boy, ghostly pale with small fangs poking over his bottom lip.]

Boy: Muahahaha! I am here to suck your blood!

Protagonist: What? Who the… Oh, it’s you.

Boy: [Strikes a pose] Yes! ‘Tis I. The nightmare of your childhood! The creature who gave you sleepless moonlit hours and began your life-long fascination with the denizens of the night!

Protagonist: You’re The Littlest Vampire, aren’t you? When did you learn a word like “denizens”?

LV: Ah… you remember me!

Protagonist: Yes, I remember you. I remember hiding your book as far away from me as possible in my room so you wouldn’t crawl out of the pages and nibble on me in my sleep. I was still in junior school at the time though.

LV: [Looks pleased with himself] And since then? Do I still terrify you?

Protagonist: Are you kidding me? I used to think that sleeping with a scarf on would stop you being able to get to my neck. You were a good first introduction to the genre, but the only thing making you scary was the fact that I was a bit too young when someone gave me your book to read.

LV: [Subsides, crestfallen] Oh.

Protagonist: Go on. Go home before it gets light.

[The Littlest Vampire exits, and our protagonist settles back down to sleep, but is soon awakened once more by a knocking at the window.]

Protagonist: Littlest Vampire? I thought I told you to go home.

Sultry Voice from Outside: “Littlest” Vampire?

[At the window, David Boreanaz appears, doing his best to smoulder.]

Protagonist: Oh my… What are you doing out there?

DB: I can’t come in unless you invite me.

Protagonist: Oh yes… I remember that little bit. That’s about the first thing that stopped me being quite so terrified of Vamps. The idea that they couldn’t get at me unless I let them in. Problematic idea, really, tallying with notions of victim-blaming and bad things only happening to bad people. But it’s very much a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing, only able to be countered with a lot more knowledge. Like the time we did the Black Death in school, and I had nightmares for weeks until Mum told me about Penicillin.

DB: So…

Protagonist: Oh no, you’re not getting an invite. You can stay right there, mister. I remember Angelus. And your Irish accent Sucks.

DB: You’re a… fan then?

Protagonist: Oh, I used to love Buffy. Still do. It’s a cult classic. Makes me feel very old knowing it finished over ten years ago now. It was something of a defining feature of my teenage years – forget Edward or Jacob – the question was always whether you fancied Angel or Spike more.

DB: Which team were you on?

Protagonist: I was a geek. I fancied Xander.

DB: Oh. I should probably go then. See, I had this whole bit worked out about coming in, representing your every teenage fantasy, showing you how sexy vampires can be…

Protagonist: Nah. Sorry. Not tonight. Whilst it might be fun someday to revisit my burgeoning youth, I just want to crack out this article and get to bed.

DB: Another time then?

Protagonist: Perhaps. Shut the window on the way out?

[Boreanaz blows a kiss, and exits. Our protagonist again addresses herself to sleep, when a further knock on the window disturbs her attempt at slumber…]

Protagonist: Again? Really? Who is it this time?

[A tall, immaculately dressed Victorian gentleman appears at the window, incongruous only because of the small, round, black-tinted spectacles he is wearing.]

[Guest Post] What is Horror? by Rebeka HarringtonProtagonist: [Squealing like a completely star-struck fan-girl] Oh My God, it’s Garry Oldman as Dracula… Oh, this is the Francis Ford Coppola version! I remember this! I’d just read Bram Stoker’s book, and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread! My English Teacher at the time had this theory that if Stoker was alive today he would have published the book as an interactive work – just a box full of diaries and notes and newspaper clippings and “phonograph recordings” which would probably be MP3s or something these days. You’d get the entirety of Dracula on a USB stick and have to piece it all together. Wow! And I saw that film, and I was thinking, I don’t remember all those sexy bits in the book, but I was seventeen, so I didn’t care, and… and… and… Keanu Reeves was a perfect Johnathan Harker, because he has all the acting ability of a wet dishrag, and that’s absolutely fine, because Johnathan Harker is a wet dishrag – seriously, who cuts themselves shaving, watches a grown man that he’s only just met lick the blood off the razor and then hurl the mirror out of the window, and his only thought is “That’s most inconvenient, I’ll have to get a new shaving mirror.”? Oh my God, I am amazingly psyched to meet you, sir, this is fantastic.

GO: [Mildly perturbed] Are you going to be like this all evening?

Protagonist: I’m sorry, I may settle down soon, but I’m not at all certain.

GO: In which case, I think I’d probably better go. It was a pleasure meeting you. [He tips his top hat]

Protagonist: No, don’t go! See, that’s exactly why you were amazing, you showed how vampires could be suave and sophisticated, yet also menacing and creepy and sexy and… and… [realises how over the top she is being.] Ok. I get it. You probably should go. I’m really sorry, I’m not usually like this. I don’t know what’s come over me…

[Gary Oldman turns into a bat and flies away, blowing the entire special effects budget in the process. With a sigh, our protagonist once again turns to the bed. She has not long laid down when there is a clicking sound, like that of a camera shutter, and a doctorwhotwilightsmall flash of light.]

Otto Chreik: Vonderful! Simply vonderful! Ze vay ze candlelight shines on ze flowing curtains, and ze hair spread like zat on ze pillow! Ya, ya, von more! Svoon please! Ya, more svooning, zat is perfect!

Protagonist: Otto?

Otto: Ya? Von second please… [he takes another picture, then puts down the camera.] Can I help you?

Protagonist: Otto Chreik? Otto: Ya, ya, it is me?

Protagonist: You must be here to represent my Pratchett phase. Which, in fairness never really ended. It’s wonderful to see you. I’m so, so sorry about Sir Terry. He was a master of the genre, this must be a terrible time for you.

Otto: Ya, ya… Vell, unlife goes on, as they say.

Protagonist: Pratchett’s vampires taught me so much about the genre… Count Magpyr and his family – the fact that the worst villains are those who pretend they’re doing this for your own good…

[A spectre of David Cameron floats lazily past]

Cameron: Don’t mind me, I’m just a metaphor.

Protagonist: [after his retreating back] Now there’s a vampire I could quite happily stake.

Otto: Indeed.

Protagonist: Even the comic vampires – I’ve always loved comedy, wish I could write it myself, but I tend to overdo it. Comedy is the best teacher, because it allows learning to sneak in round the edges while we’re laughing. Even a character like yourself can show us that there is so much that vampires can teach us about the nature of humanity, the nature of evil – your own comic persona being just that, hammed up round the edges deliberately to seem non-threatening, because we all know where we are vis a silly accent, and we forget about the blood.

Otto: [Bows slightly] Vell, I’m glad to haf been of service. But now, I really must be goink, I haf a scoop to catch for ze evenink edition.

Protagonist: Send me a copy of the pictures, won’t you?

[Otto exits with a dramatic flourish.]

Protagonist: Well, that really must be everyone – I can’t see how…

[At this point Edward Cullen pops up at the windowsill]

EC: You know, you’re like my own personal brand of…

Protagonist: No! No, no, no, no, no! You can fuck right off! I had to read your books when I was considering writing my PhD, but that was only ever so I could rip them apart!

EC: But teenage girls love me! Protagonist: Yes, and I probably would have done so when I was fifteen, but I’m a lot more savvy now, and I’ve discovered feminism, so screw you and the dodgy paperback you rode in on! You’re as bad as Fifty Shades of Grey, what with teaching impressionable young girls that stalking is the basis of a good relationship. And I don’t even think you’re a real vampire – you’re some sort of crystalline blood-powered golem anyway. Vampires don’t sparkle!

EC: I’m only sparkling because I love you…

[At this point, our protagonist punches Cullen square in the face, causing him to fall out of the window. There are loud cheers. She then pulls down the casement and locks it firmly against any further night-time intrusions. Finally, she manages to get a good night’s sleep, though what she dreams about is anyone’s guess…]

Bio

Alex Campbell was born in the wilds of Northumbria, and from an early age cut her teeth on legends like that of the Lampton Worm, which formed the inspiration for her first book, Wyrm’s Reckoning, out later this year..

She obtained a degree in English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, then in a shameless attempt to avoid Real Life, followed this up with two Masters Degrees in Science Fiction and in Writing from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores respectively.

Now, she lives in Portsmouth, at what she insists on referring to as the “wrong” end of the country, with her fiance and a number of dead house-plants. She is a keen gamer and LARPer, for which she makes many of her own costumes. She is not ashamed of being a geek

You can find her on her blog:  https://galacticavoice.wordpress.com/ and also on her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Campbell/1525096601059912

[Vampire Month] Zoe Adams Interview

18 Monday Mar 2013

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Anime, Anita Blake, Ann Rice, Arthur Golden, Avenged Sevenfold, Bleach, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cleethorpes, Dracula, James Marsters, Laurell K. Hamilton, Lestat, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shinigami, Spike, Vampire, Vampires, Zoe Adams


Today’s Vampire Month Victim is Zoe Adams. Born and still living in Cleethorpes in the UK, Zoe is currently finishing her BA (hons) in Professional Writing and already has a host of publications out there including a number of short story credits including Pawprints on the Heart and Darkest Dreams. You may also find her name appear on articles on The Fact Site and Rude Magazine (where she talks about Womens’ sex, relationship and health issues).FacebookHomescreenImage

What is the earliest memory you have of writing? What did you write about?
The earliest memory I have of writing is at primary school, and being asked to write a short scene, paying particular attention to description, encompassing the traditional: Who? What? Where? Why? When?

I wrote about a superhero rabbit who lived in an old abandoned ruined plane. His best friend was a talking potato.

When did you decide to become a professional writer? Why did you take this step?
I decided to become a professional writer when I started a relationship, with my partner of five years (this year). We watched a lot of anime, namely Bleach, which focused on shinigami’s (Death God’s in Japan). I started thinking about the non-canon characters and putting them into ridiculous situations and having love affairs.

He spurred my desire to write – to give them as gifts to him.

His passion and drive, along with mine led me to apply for a BA (Hons) Degree in Professional Writing, where I learnt how to harness my own imagination. Since then, I have had success, and my partner has continued to hold onto me and keep me upright throughout.

What would you consider to be your greatest strength as a writer? What about your greatest weakness? How do you overcome this weakness?

My greatest strength I would say is my imagination. My writer’s journals are creaking open with ideas which have never been used, or expanded upon, and it is my aim to continue to write more, and perhaps encompass several into one.

My greatest weakness I would say is my hatred of redrafting. I hate the idea of ripping my delicate piece apart, and I am loathe to start on it with my red pen.

I have overcome this slightly with my university lectures. It has led me to be able to see my own flaws such as repetition and actions which are impossible to perform.

Tell us about the place where you live. Have you ever derived any inspiration from your home or from anywhere you have visited?

I live in Cleethorpes, which is a seaside town in North East Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom. It can be incredibly busy, and quiet all at the same time. There isn’t much here, but I suppose that opinion differs on your opinion and age.
Inspiration has come from my hometown, as I take its various features and meld them into a new place, all of my own.
I often take inspiration from other locations, such as when I visited Kos, in Greece, for a holiday, and decided to write about Greek nymphs. This is my Final Major Project at university.

Which book, if any, would you consider to be your greatest influence and inspiration?
A great question, but an equally hard one. I have been influenced by many great authors and their novels.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden was such a beautiful novel, so rich in detail, whilst still retaining a wonderful story. It really changed my opinion on historical novels.

ten silver bulletsWhat drove you to write about Vampires?

I’m not sure what it was that drove me to write about Vampires. The truth be told, I was terrified of them as a child, but I remember my brother watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and being immediately fond of Spike (James Marsters). I don’t know whether it was his cruel sadistic Vampire nature, or his dazzling good looks, but whatever it was, it got to me.

One of the first Vampire books I ever read was the third Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book, Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton. I was hooked on this badass female protagonist, who hunted vampires and raised zombies. I admit, it was sexy, especially this sort of forbidden romance with werewolves and vampires.

 

What do you think is the attraction for Vampire fiction? Why is it such a popular topic?

Vampires, to me, are sexy, powerful, masterful. They are everything we want to be deep down, and especially if we are too scared or ashamed to actually do something about it. They can fight for anything and take what they want without giving a damn.
I think it’s a popular genre, as we can broadcast our own views and thoughts into these creatures of horror. We can be terrifying, sexy, alluring – everything we aren’t able to be in reality.

In a fight between all the greatest Vampires of fiction, who do you think would come out on top?
Tough question! Again! I suppose it depends if you look at novels or television. And if you’re quite biased.
Dracula is a powerful creature – the one everyone fears, but at the same time so is Anne Rice’s Lestat. Cunning, deceptive…
Can you come back to me on that?!
What about in some other contest such as sexiness or dress sense? Who would win that one?

Why do you do this to me?! Erm, I REALLY like Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Jean-Claude from the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books. Spike can win sexiness, and Jean-Claude (yes, he’s French) can be incredibly stylish.

How well do you think one of your characters would fare against the winner(s) of the above?grindhouse
I have to say I think my vampire characters (Christoph, Matthew and Brian) would be crushed! They’re not tough enough – they got their butt’s handed to them by a female werewolf and her partner. What chance do they have against Dracula or Lestat?
I think Matthew might stand a chance in sexiness against Spike. Matthew was based upon the lead singer of metal band, Avenged Sevenfold, M. Shadows.

Style wise, Jean-Claude wins hands down!

Tell us the basic premise behind your latest novel.

My latest novel is an adult’s book. It has just been accepted by Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Press, and we’re aiming for a late spring/early summer release. It’s the first in a trilogy, and is entitled, ‘Best Served Chilled’.
It follows Tokyo born, Hiraku Michiyo, and a deadly Japanese alcohol demon. Will she survive her ordeal? You’ll have to read it to find out!

[Vampire Month] Dianna Hardy Interview

20 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by D.A Lascelles in Guest posts

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A Silver Kiss, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Demons, demons and angels, Dianna Hardy, Eric Northman, greatest weakness, guest blogging, guest posts, poetic things, Poetry, professional writer, Spike, The Witching Pen, Vampire Poetry, Vampires, Witches, writing


This week we take a close look at author (and Vampire poet) Dianna Hardy as she suffers the probing questions of the interview…

Dianna Hardy is a multi-genre author of paranormal things, dark things, poetic things, sexy things, taboo things, and sometimes funny things. Writes about witches, demons and angels. All info can be found on her website DiannaHardy.com

What is the earliest memory you have of writing? What did you write about?

I think the first “book” I ever wrote was Little Miss Rainbow, when I was around eight years old. I drew pictures in it and stapled it all together, but don’t ask me what the story was actually about because I have no idea – I can’t remember! Possibly something about how Little Miss Rainbow got her colours, or shares her colours to make people happy.

When did you decide to become a professional writer? Why did you take this step?

I thought I was going to be a professional writer at around sixteen and seventeen, when I was heavily into my poetry phase, and also writing a few short stories, some of which I managed to get published in small press magazines (before the days of eBooks!). Those ideas were quickly stifled by people that scoffed at the idea, and by a general disappointment in the education system at the time (I was doing my ‘A’ Levels). So I sort of brushed it aside for other stuff. More recently, it was giving birth – almost three years ago now – that had be going insane with boredom, and wondering what the hell I could do with myself. There’s something about being a mother that really asks you to tap into your creativity, and I refound my love of writing again. Only now, digital books exist and self-publishing is accessible. I never looked back.

What would you consider to be your greatest strength as a writer? What about your greatest weakness? How do you overcome this weakness?

Greatest strength: characterisation (that is, getting inside a character’s head).

Greatest weakness: procrastination. The solution? I have no idea I’ll let you know when I find it!

Tell us about the place where you live. Have you ever derived any inspiration from your home or from anywhere you have visited?

I am not inspired at all by where I live at the moment. I like countryside, or at least being within 20 minutes walking distance of a good country / woodland walk, and at the moment, I’m living in a town that’s sort of grey and a little urban, and … ugh … I’d love to move away. Countryside and natural things around me inspire me: rolling hills or mountains, trees, woodland, etc.

Which book, if any, would you consider to be your greatest influence and inspiration?

I do not even know where to begin with this question – there have been so many over the years. More recently, it was reading Heather Killough-Walden’s Big Bad Wolf series that inspired me to write paranormal romance, not least because that was a self-published series that hit the Kindle bestseller list (and has since then gone way beyond that). I loved her writing style and the story, and it motivated me to write my own paranormal romance series – The Witching Pen Novellas. (This one’s not about vampires.)

What drove you to write about Vampires?

Vampires have always been a huge love of mine. They’ve always represented a shadow to be embraced; monsters in which you can find beauty within ugliness. It was this concept that inspired me to write A Silver Kiss (Vampire Poetry). This is a gothic collection of dark, freestyle and rhyming poetry that studies the above idea of the shadows within human nature, using the vampire as a tool for that study.

I’m also a third way through a novel called Project Veil (working title), which is my own brand of vampire mythology. There’s no release date yet, but keep an eye out!

What do you think is the attraction for Vampire fiction? Why is it such a popular topic?

Everyone is looking to find beauty and acceptance within their darkness – that is what vampires represent, and that is why I feel they are popular.

In a fight between all the greatest Vampires of fiction, who do you think would come out on top?

Oh God, I don’t know! Probably Spike from Buffy, because he handles his torture with tongue-in-cheek humour and is forever the optimist. That smacks of ‘winner’ to me.

What about in some other contest such as sexiness or dress sense? Who would win that one?

Eric Northman for sexiness (when he’s being a bad boy, not when he’s being a drooling romantic).

How well do you think your character would fare against the winner(s) of the above?

Oh, my main guy in the upcoming Project Veil would win hands down. Even I’m drooling over him, and I wonder if that’s the real reason why I had to stop writing the novel for a bit 😉

Tell us the basic premise behind your latest novel.

 I can’t really talk about Project Veil yet, as it’s so new and still being written and plotted out. But I can talk a little about The Witching Pen Novellas and its spin-off novel The Last Angel. I touch – just touch – on vampires in the third book of the series, The Demon Bride, and they’ll be mentioned again in The Last Angel, although vampires will not play an active part. They are intertwined with my mythology involving ‘bloodthirsty angels’. From this mythology, comes the book Project Veil. So although there will be no direct link between my current series and Project Veil, there will be that mythological tie that is touched on in The Demon Bride and The Last Angel.

 Current info can be found here: http://www.thewitchingpen.co.uk and anything about Project Veil will be updated on my main website, or my Facebook Page.

 

[Vampire Month] Rebekah Harrington Interview

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

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Alexandre Dumas, Ann Rice, Bekatum, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charlaine Harris, Eric, guest posts, indepth interview, Lestat, lovable cat, Rebeka Harrington, Spike, Vampires, Vampires Revealed, writing


First up for Vampire month is Australian writer Rebekah Harrington. This post sees her answers to my indepth interview. Look out for her guest blog post on Thursday

Raised in country Victoria, Rebeka started her writing career working for the local newspaper as a teenager. While she decided not to pursue this as a career, she has always enjoyed writing and being creative

With so many varied interests and eclectic taste in most things, Rebeka enjoys incorporating all of them in her writing. She particularly enjoys writing about vampires.

Rebeka seeks to define and explain vampires in a way not done before. This has been achieved with her debut title “Vampires Revealed”. Following titles will revolve around exploring the world and characters created in her first release.

Currently Rebeka lives inMelbournewith her “demented” but lovable cat, dividing her time between writing and managing a small boutique entertainment agency.

What is the earliest memory you have of writing? What did you write about?

In primary school, maybe about Grade 1 or 2. I wrote about a wizard with a magic ‘finger’. The wizard was having such a giggle at walking around ‘zapping’ people with a tail, rabbit ears and the like.

When did you decide to become a professional writer? Why did you take this step?

I’m not sure I actually made that decision, my writing made it for me. When I returned to writing it was because I had time to devote to it. It was only when others enjoyed my work and encouraged me to publish that I took that step.

Even now I don’t think I would class myself as a ‘professional’ writer. I write because I enjoy it and apparently my readers do too.

What would you consider to be your greatest strength as a writer? What about your greatest weakness? How do you overcome this weakness?

Hmm that is really tough to answer. If I had to pick one thing as a strength, it would be my ability to ‘channel’ a character. This might sound crazy (maybe I am) but not only do I talk to my characters, but their lives play through my mind like a movie. When I’m writing describing something it really is exactly that. I see characters and scenarios in my mind long before I start to put pen to paper. This makes my characters much more real for me and I hope for my readers too.

My weakness as a writer is remembering I’m writing fiction. Too often I fall into the trap of writing too succinctly. This is a direct result of my training as a journalist. Why use 100 words when 10 will do? So sometimes I forget that I need to add descriptions and nuance for the benefit of the reader. But I’m working on it!

 Tell us about the place where you live. Have you ever derived any inspiration from your home or from anywhere you have visited?

I live in Melbourne, Australia which according to the ‘experts’ is one of the world’s most liveable cities. Australia in general is a fantastic place to live. The stereotype ‘laid back Aussie’ is well-deserved, and I’m no exception.

We have brain melting summers and freezing cold winters. We can proudly boast some of the most dangerous and poisonous creatures on the planet. Never a dull moment in the Land Down Under. 

When I’m writing I try to avoid making cultural references, only fellow Aussies would be familiar with colloquialisms.

Which book, if any, would you consider to be your greatest influence and inspiration?

There is no one particular book, but certainly Alexandre Dumas is easily my greatest influence. A lot of his early work was written in serial for newspapers, for which he was paid per word. Hence the reason his writing is verbose to the extreme. However he never seems to get bogged down and bore the reader. If I can ever write half as well as him I will be ecstatic.

What drove you to write about Vampires?

Selfish curiosity pure and simple. I was not happy with how many assumptions are made about vampires and the complete lack of explanation in most vampire fiction. All the myths are just accepted as fact, no one seemed to dare challenge that. (Don’t get me started on vampires that sparkle.)

So when I had the time I collated every question I could think of, all the myth and everything I could lay my hands on relating to what we accept as ‘vampire portrayal’.

Then there is the one-dimensional view of vampires – they drink blood. To focus on vampires only as blood drinkers is like summing up humanity as oxygen thieves. I simply couldn’t believe that blood was the only thing that motivated vampires.

Given that I couldn’t really find my answers or any satisfaction elsewhere, I decided to do it myself.

What do you think is the attraction for Vampire fiction? Why is it such a popular topic?

You’re really not going to be happy if I say ‘I have no idea’.

I think escapism plays a big part in their appeal. The opportunity to take a journey with someone who is powerful, charismatic and more than just a little enigmatic. They are so unlike humans, but because they look human we want to relate to them. Sometimes this happens with dire consequences and sometimes not. All depends on the author.

For me it’s about observing and scrutinising humanity from a unique perspective. Who else can sit in judgement of mankind if not a superior being like a vampire?

In a fight between all the greatest Vampires of fiction, who do you think would come out on top?

Anne Rice’s ‘Lestat’ would give most a run for their money. Although I’d like to think my ‘Bektamun’ would easily put him on his backside.

‘Spike’ from Buffy or Eric (Sookie Stackhouse series) would certainly wreak havoc while charming the pants off more than few in the meantime.

It would be fun to see… Could someone arrange that please?

What about in some other contest such as sexiness or dress sense? Who would win that one?

Charlaine Harris really hit the mark when she created Eric, he makes even me weak at the knees and I don’t bat for that team if you know what I mean. I think Eric epitomises the allure of vampires. Old, powerful and infinitely devious all packed into a gorgeous Viking warrior. Forget the TV show (True Blood), when you read Eric you can see/feel his age and demeanour in the way he deals with people.

Ok, time for me to stop drooling.

 How well do you think your character would fare against the winner(s) of the above?

I’d like to think Bektamun could make mincemeat of any vampire which crossed her path. But considering there are few female vampires as lead characters (books, movie or TV) there is no benchmark to measure against.

In any case, Bektamun would go down fighting.

Tell us the basic premise behind your latest novel.

My current release “Vampires Revealed” is an autobiographical mocumentary, narrated by Bektamun. She is 3000 years old and wants to let humans in on the fact vampires are real. Not only that, she goes to great lengths to explain in a way humans can understand what it is like to be a vampire.

It has been described as a “manual for vampires’. While there is some rather tedious information to be conveyed, Bektamun keeps you interested by relating some of her experiences and encounters.

In Vampires Revealed, Bektamun introduced several characters. My next book (which I am desperately trying to find time to finish) starts to explore some of those characters and discloses more of Bektamun’s history.

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