Karen Koehler - Slayer and Dragon's Blood - Page 5© Linda Suzane
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Nov 11, 2001
the neck and doesn't want anything to do with Coven politics anymore. He has
the Chronicle because it assures him the Coven won't take him out, but I don't
feel he's interested in knowing what's in the book. That will change in
Bloodlines, when he's forced to confront some horrible truths about himself and
his people. Until then he's still "running" and trying to have a normal life. The
church hasn't gone away; it's just lying in wait. It can't do anything until Alek is
out of the way so the next big thing on their agenda is removing the rogue in
their midst, which won't be an easy task. Alek is a powerful warrior with a mind
and spirit entirely his own. As for Booker, he'll be back in his own story. I can
see his and Alek's path crossing again, but not for a while. And when they
finally do...well, I really can't say what's going to happen. Just that they won't
be brothers anymore. Booker definitely has his own definition of the "truth" and
he's not a half bad swordsman, either, so there are bound to be sparks--literally. What do you like best about writing about vampires? Their society. One of the main themes I like to hit on again and again is the idea
of the sub-culture. The vampires have one defined by their own rules of play
because they can't obviously live in the world of the humans and, therefore,
can't live by human rules. In Slayer, the vampires are not humans turned into
undead monsters; they are monsters from birth, born vampires. They are not
"undead" since they have never died. They are living, breathing beings, just
different from humankind, hobbled by their need to depend on the humans for
survival but shunned because of that need, that rampant bloodlust. As an almost
symbiot society of beings, they prey on humans but are also preyed on by
humans and other vampires and slayers, forming this complex social chain. In a
way, they represent many of the micro-worlds we find in the real world. In the
Seventies it was the hippie culture that was often shunned or misunderstood. In
the Nineties it was the Gothic movement that intrigued or frightened the
mainstream. The fact that a culture can live within our own, yet virtually
invisible to most people's eyes, just holds so much possibility in terms of story
and theme. Is there anything else you would like the readers to know? That I have only begun to fight...I mean write. I have a lot of time and
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