For today's Book Chat, T. Michelle Nelson is talking about vampires and her fascination with them. Death Warmed Over, book three in her Lily Drake series, is now available.
THE FASCINATION WITH VAMPIRES
Last year I spoke at a conference about the fascination so many of us have with vampires and the evolution of the vampire in literature. Vampires are incredibly easy to glamorize and romanticize.
Of course, there's that sense of danger. No woman wants to be bored, and vampires don't have mortal vulnerabilities. However, in my opinion, the vampire is the paranormal creature of choice for one reason alone. Eternal youth.
As I get older, this concept becomes more and more attractive. I went out last week to one of my favorite restaurants, which is owned by a friend, and my waiter appeared to be around 17. I asked the owner how old my server was, and to my dismay he was actually a year older than the fake age I use. I apparently have forgotten completely what 22 actually looks like.
What I would give to be eternally 25 years old, healthy and have that twenty-something metabolism. Yet another huge reason I'd love to be vampire - I could eat without the guilt. I love food. Tasty food. You know, with fat, carbs and calories. Unfortunately I rarely enjoy that type of food because my almost forty year old body renders fat faster than a sauté pan full of bacon on high heat.
I'd make a great vampire. I'd appreciate so much - the halting of the cruel aging process, good health, and immortality. But should vampires turn out to be real and are actually reading this... give me a couple weeks before you turn me. I've got five pounds of winter weight I'd like to get rid of before I'm stuck with it throughout eternity.
Of course, there's that sense of danger. No woman wants to be bored, and vampires don't have mortal vulnerabilities. However, in my opinion, the vampire is the paranormal creature of choice for one reason alone. Eternal youth.
As I get older, this concept becomes more and more attractive. I went out last week to one of my favorite restaurants, which is owned by a friend, and my waiter appeared to be around 17. I asked the owner how old my server was, and to my dismay he was actually a year older than the fake age I use. I apparently have forgotten completely what 22 actually looks like.
What I would give to be eternally 25 years old, healthy and have that twenty-something metabolism. Yet another huge reason I'd love to be vampire - I could eat without the guilt. I love food. Tasty food. You know, with fat, carbs and calories. Unfortunately I rarely enjoy that type of food because my almost forty year old body renders fat faster than a sauté pan full of bacon on high heat.
I'd make a great vampire. I'd appreciate so much - the halting of the cruel aging process, good health, and immortality. But should vampires turn out to be real and are actually reading this... give me a couple weeks before you turn me. I've got five pounds of winter weight I'd like to get rid of before I'm stuck with it throughout eternity.
In the conclusion of the Lily Drake
series, Lily must choose not only what is best for herself and her son, but for
her people. Her sword will be stained with blood through her efforts to
preserve the lives of the people she loves, but she won’t be able to save them
all.
When a devastating loss crushes her
will to live, can Lily go on and be the leader she has to be? What is she
willing to sacrifice to save others?
Death comes to everyone...even the
Queen’s house...
What
doesn't kill you will make you wish it did...
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T. Michelle Nelson is a native of
Benton, Kentucky and a graduate of Murray State University. Currently she
resides in a small town in Ohio, which is also the setting of her Lily
Drake series. The first two books in the series, Life and Death of
Lily Drake and 'Til Death Do Us Part, are currently
available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon or any of your other favorite online
bookstores. A short story prequel The First Time is also available. Death Warmed Over, the third and final
book of the series will release in late June.
When she isn’t writing, you can
usually find her spending time with her son, singing out of key, watching
B-Horror movies or discussing world problems with her little dog, Toadie.
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