Rosemary Laurey - Walk in Moonlight
Rosemary Laurey is a transplanted Brit who fell in love with a South Carolina U.S. Air Force Captain in Turkey and who has lived happily ever after since then. With that kind of story, you would expect her to write romance novels. Her first book is Southern Song, available from Hard Shell Word Factory. http://www.hardshell.com/detail.asp?prod...
A traditional romance about a Special Ed teacher in South Carolina who has problems with the new school principal, including falling in love. Her second novel was quite a departure from the first. Walk in Moonlight returns to her native England and takes her into a world of witches and vampires. She has also had short stories appear in Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Single Soul and according to her "What's Coming Page," a couple of short traditional romances, a children's book about learning disabilities, and a couple of erotic short stories coming out soon. Even better she is working on a sequel to Walk in Moonlight, Rapture in Moonlight, which is due to be published in November.
You can find her home page at http://www.rosemarylaurey.com/index.html
INTERVIEW
How did you come to write about vampires and witches?
It happened ... I was writing along quite happily and it was about the middle of the third chapter that I had a moment of realization; the reason why Christopher seemed so "different" to Dixie wasn't just because he was English, but because he was a vampire. I really only made the discovery a little ahead of her ... had to do a bit of rewriting...
Quite a few authors make their vampires old, but most don't make them historical personages. How and why did you decide to use Christopher Marlowe as a character?
His death has always intrigued me ... heck, scholars have long debated the circumstances and cause and if, in fact, he really did die ... so, he seemed a perfect candidate.
Every author picks and chooses how their vampires will appear. One of the plot elements that you used very well was the fact that vampires couldn't enter unless they are invited. How did you choose what your vampires would and would not be able to do?
It wasn't always a conscious decision as such. Some, such as being able to appear in daylight and the taboo on entering without invitation, I took from Bram Stoker.
How and why did you come up with the idea that home soil, even if it came from the embassy grounds, was necessary?
Seems to me, with all the vampire powers, they need some disadvantages to balance
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