I never really planned to write about vampires, but with so many books and movies about vampires coming out, I started having second thoughts.<\/p>\n
What could happen when a human meets a troubled soul with a past, a being who looks<\/em> like a human, has thoughts and emotions<\/em> like a human, but isn’t human? Secrets could be discovered – or withheld, the past could become vital, and plots could heat up. Stories could actually be exciting on their own, without the routine insertion of graphic or violent scenes. I don’t like storylines that hit you over the head with shocking elements or break a few taboos just to get attention… With paranormal characters like vampires, many authors are still racing down that well-beaten path anyway, writing about bare-chested vampires, half-dressed werewolves, and so on.<\/p>\n But \u2013 if you take another fork in the road as an author – you enter a mysterious and exciting region of storytelling, where some characters are human and some are not, where real emotions can live and real dramas can take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never really planned to write about vampires, but with so many books and movies about vampires coming out, I … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n