Linda Suzane -- Interview with Contributing Editor from Oregon

to Themestream and Written by Me. You can check my Suite 101 homepage for links to all my web writing. .

My next project, starting in April, is to teach a writing class at our local college called "Write and Publish Online" . In connection with the class, I am starting an online community, list, newsletter -- Beach Net Writers Co-op. It is open to all writers who live any where on the Oregon Coast and who use the Internet to publish or promote their writing. For more information, people can contact me at LindaSuzane@Suite101.com.

SB: Where do you get the inspiration for your vampire/ebooks column? Is it all from your personal experience?

LS: I have been interested in vampires ever since I began writing. One of my first attempts at writing was Science Fiction story about a race of vampires. In 1998 I had an experience like none I had ever had in many years of writing. A character stepped out of a short story and DEMANDED I tell the story of how he was first bitten by a vampire. Five months later I had over 230,000 words and five books. It was a wonderful heady ride. I have never written anything like that. I then went on to finish The Eyes of Truth, my fantasy mystery, which happens to have a couple of new breeds of vampires. I think I have found what I really enjoy writing about, my niche, vampires, blood, and murder. I started reading every vampire book I could get my hands on as market research. Along the way, I discovered e-publishing and just how many wonderful vampire eBooks there are. It was only after I started this column that I discovered how many vampire stories, poems, serials there are the web. I am starting to work on a list.

I am also working on rewriting the first book in my vampire series, Bloody Captivity, and am planning to run it as a serial once I get a vampire website running, probably in three or four months.

I hope you've enjoyed finding out about Linda, and hope you take a look at her wonderful column, Vampire ebook Authors.

To read more articles in this series see:

Rick Francona, Port Orford

Kirk Johnson, Sixes

Linda Sharp, Bend

Terrie Murray, Portland

Thomas Martin, Beaverton

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