I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies