Saturday, January 30, 2010

The world of the Writer

Writing a novel requires the ability to inhabit two worlds. There's your day to day life: grocery shopping, work, exercise, the street you live on, the people you meet day to day, your husband, wife, children, siblings...your favorite restaurant. The familiar components of your world.

When I turn on my computer and click into the icon for Blood Kiss, I pass through a portal into another world and another time. In this world I walk in the boots of Christian Du Maure, a vampire born in eighteen century France who now lives in Manhattan. Sometimes I am a spectator, dancing in a club called the Grey Wolf that he owns, sometimes I am back in Meudon France, with him as a mortal youth, riding through his lands, understanding his hopes and dreams for his future.

Then there is the seductive Gabrielle. I watch as she seduces both Christian and his friend, the beautiful Michel Baptiste and lures them into the world of the vampire. They are so young and innocent with no concept of the road ahead for them. I feel the love they both share for the mortal Josette Delacore, or the hatred they have for the vampire Gaetan, their rival throughout time.

I live inside all of my characters, from the mortal woman who love the undead to the undead themselves, with their wily ways and dark embraces. Sometimes it's hard to make the transition back to my day to day, especially when I spend hours at a time writing. Sometimes it feels schizophrenic and I am not sure whose voice is speaking to me when I write. I just know that I have to get it down on paper.

I love my characters and I am committed to bringing them to life and hopefully, bringing them to more readers once I find a publisher. I am forever optimistic as I jump back and forth between the grocery store and the Grey Wolf, balancing each world.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

I'm here

I had a wonderful Christmas and New Years and oh my goodness, it's almost the end of January! Where the hell does the time go? When I was working full-time I had no time and since I have not been gainfully employed I seem to have less time. How does that happen? I have reread parts one and two of Blood Kiss (working title) and am moving into part three.

Christian has just learn much about his past and that it is populated with people who have always been there but he has never known until now. It's almost mind blowing for him as his priorities are suddenly shuffled once again. What priorities you may ask can a vampire have beyond his or her next seduction or next meal, or both at the same time, as the case may be, but Christian is not just an ordinary vampire.

To learn just what Christian is truly made of you will have to wait until I finish Blood Kiss and find a publisher for not only this book but my debut novel, Immortal Obsession.