Vampire Writers Welcome

Welcome to a place where vampire fiction fans and writers can showcase their original writing and critical talents, and link to their own sites elsewhere if they wish.

Our specialist sister pages are enabled for you to post criticism and reviews directly once you have sent your first email.*

Why an agony column?

Because it’s such a great idea. Alas, it is not mine. Nothing is new under the moon, of course, and I came across this one recently in a valuable and delightful series, by a hugely entertaining writer, MaryJanice Davidson. In Undead and Unreturnable her heroine, the marvelous Betsy, Queen of the US vampires goes along with the idea of writing an advice column for her more-and-less obedient subjects.

She does so hoping to civilize her subjects into drinking only from willing donors who are then allowed to survive. In her world, you don’t have to murder to feed. Predation is out – love and voluntary exchange are in.Her first effort is to advise a lonely vamp to contact his ageing parents before it is too late, and how to do it tactfully and without inviting suspicion and - presumably - incoming woodwork…

So I write short varied pieces as part of the ‘Dear Vlad’ column. I have fun with my secret history of the many vampire conspiracies. My readers, if any, who want to show off their own stuff or rave about their favourite vampire or related fiction are invited to provide questions and comments, but it’s not compulsory. Vampire prose only, please for ‘Dear Vlad’.

Dear reader, what do you think of the new lines in sun blocks this year? Good enough for twenty minutes free from agonizing noonday pain, or just a cosmetics industry con trick? Let us know, and also show us what other vampire thoughts you have.

Do you have difficulty fitting in at your local church, what with the hissing and the cringing and the frankly careless way the priest flings the holy water about?

What do you think about Renfields today: too twitchy, needy, and unreliable? Is Contract Henchmanship the way to go? Is there an easy solution to the domestic help problem, or are we all going to have to be nice to the werewolves again?

Let’s see what you’ve got, midnight scribes.

Yours.
The late Adonais Blackburn.

* I need your email address to give you posting rights with blogger.com. You will need a Google account to post thereafter.

Book, television and film reviews can be posted directly by enthusiasts here and here and here.

I hope to add specialist as time allows and demand prompts.

I might not think that a post, thread, or link is suitable for a fun blog. I’ll be putting links to such work in an overflow blog, suitably flagged with warnings. If you do me the favour of writing something vampirish and it’s not actually illegal, the least I can do is let your work be seen, and linked to. Excessively political, religious, technical, abusive and sexual stuff will go there. (Basically stuff I wouldn’t want my daughter to read until she’s eighteen.)

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