The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.