DANCING IN THE DARK is T.D. McKinney's exciting police procedural vampire novel. Since I especially enjoy books that combine my two favorite passions, mystery and vampires, I was looking forward to reading this book and I wasn't disappointed. DANCING IN THE DARK took 2nd Place at the Preditors & Editors 2004 Readers Poll for both Horror Novel and Mainstream Novel and is available from Amber Quill Press. http://www.amberquill.com/DancingDark.ht...
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INTERVIEW
To start, tell us a bit about your published work.
I've been very lucky. I had four works published in less than a year. It's been very surprising and amazing fun. The response to all of them and to upcoming releases has been very gratifying.
The first work released is IN THE LONELY DEAD OF MIDNIGHT from eXtasy Books. It's part of their Tarot series and I was very grateful to be included in such a wonderful project. It's the story of a love so strong it survived death. I started wondering what happens to the souls of the dead if a vampire takes the body - assuming vampires are soulless creatures as some authors/dramas have stated. What would happen if you have a ghost (the soul) in one place and the body (the vampire) in another? Chance DuBois is a vampire but he's also a ghost who loved Vivian so much he agreed to be turned into a vampire thinking he could stay with her forever. But it didn't work out that way. So now, who is the real Chance - the vampire or the ghost and which is the man Vivian really loved?
MY SECRET YANKEE from Amber Quill Press is a more traditional romance though my co-author Aimée Masion and I managed to throw in a twist. It's an exploration of secrets and social mores in Union-occupied New Orleans. There are actually three romances. There's Angele and James - the more mature Creole lady and her Yankee major, Charlie and Wesley - her young sister and her Southerner-turned-Union-soldier suitor, and their cousin Severin and Antoine - two Southern gentleman, one Creole and one Cajun. Severin and Antoine are actually the established, long-term relationship but because of the tenor of the times, their love has to stay hidden. With Angele hiding her affair with James and the family declaring Wesley an unfit suitor, it's very much a story of how covering up can save love or destroy it.
