Morven Westfield interviewed me as a vampire author for her podcast series, “Vampires, Witches and Geeks.” If you want to hear me talk about my fictional vampires and their characteristics, and quite a bit about vampire folklore and why I made the choices I did, you can hear it at http://morvenwestfield.podbean.com/. It’s about 27 minutes long.
A couple of weeks ago, I got to chatting with one of the cashiers at the local grocery store, who was wearing a pentacle. I asked her if she liked vampire books, and she said she did, and I whipped one of my business cards and one of the promo postcards for Mortal Touch out of my bag, gave them to her, and told her she can read all about Mortal Touch on my website and get it from the library if she was interested.
I was in the grocery store today and the cashier stopped me in the middle of the produce section to say that she’d looked up my website, she can’t wait to read Mortal Touch, and she’s talked to other people who say it’s really great. I told her that she’ll probably like The Longer the Fall as well because it’s all about magic.
Golly, that’s the kind of warm fuzzies that make an author’s day! Too bad book sales are so slow, though. *sigh*
Patricia Altner mentioned my Broad Universe Broadsheet article, “Think Outside the Coffin: Writing the Vampire Novel,” in her blog, Patricia’s Vampire Notes this past week. That got my name (and Mortal Touch and By Light Unseen Media) into Google’s News Alerts! Thanks, Patricia!
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