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Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a huge mystery fan, and I love weaving the paranormal into my books. That extra oomph of paranormal amps up the mystery/suspense factor, I think. My final book in the Riga Hayworth series of urban fantasies, The Hermetic Detective, is coming out on Halloween, and I’ve got a…
How long have you been a vampire? Technically since birth, because I am a human-vampire hybrid, not a demon-possessed walking corpse as in those absurd folk legends. In a sense, however, I became a vampire when I learned my true nature and origin at the age of forty. Previously, I thought I was afflicted with…
How long have you been a vampire? I was infected with the virus that mutates human DNA in 1659 in France. Of course, at that time, I only knew I’d been drained near death, fed blood from my vampire mother’s veins, and woke up immortal and craving blood. Do you drink blood or are you…
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’ve been writing supernatural and horror tales since the late 60s and early 70s. My first novel was a lesbian Vampire tale, SO DEAD MY LOVE. After going through several publishers, I finally my rights back and decided to put out the edition I originally wanted, on my own….
How long have you been a vampire? Wow, right to it then. To be sure, you aren’t a member of the press? This won’t get out? … I’ll be 280 years next month. Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? Unfortunately, as a part of my condition I drink blood, quite a…
How long have you been a vampire? Two hundred and five years to be precise. Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? I claim no psychic talents though I must say deriving nutrition in such a way sounds interesting. No, my dear, I’m most definitely a drinker of blood. What’s the worst…
THE ETERNITY FACTOR by B.J. McCall For vampires, everything that’s fun is illegal. Once accepted by society, vampires are now considered unsafe to live among humans, but that doesn’t stop Azza from sneaking out of the Cemetery for a midnight party. Although the penalties are serious, nothing is better than a little intimate action with…
Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? Five of my sisters are married to humans now. But my sister Foomna, and I are baobhan sith. We are also called dancing vampires. We dance with human men until they fall exhausted, then transform our fingernails to talons, claw them to shreds and…
It’s Vampire Week on the Compelling Beasts blog and I, Zenobia Renquist, am here to tell you about my favorite vampire films. I won’t say movies because not all of them are movies. Some are TV series, some are animated features and some are anime series. I don’t discriminate when it comes to my favorite…
TOP FIVE Favorite Vampire movies of all time (and yes I was able to whittle it down to 5 but not easily) Twilight But not just any of the movies, though I’ve seen them all, the one that really grabbed and offered me more is Breaking Dawn Pt. 2 (though that doesn’t mean I…
Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? I am a baobhan sith, dark fey. We cross into the highlands from our fey realm at least once a year to feed on men. We drink their blood. What is the best thing about being a vampire? My talons. When that crazy blonde Valkyrie…
Immortal Relations by G.D. Ogan Blurb: When Gary Logan discovers an old black-and-white photograph of his father in Prague with a woman’s handwriting on the back, he flies there to investigate where his father had worked, only to meet and fall in love with a beautiful lady who he believes to be a vampire. In…