Recently I asked Margaret what had been going on this past year.
What is new and exciting in your life?
My husband is retiring in May 2002 after 30 years as an officer in the Navy,
and our oldest son is remarrying soon. In between transitioning into a
civilian job, my husband will probably get started on the sequel to our
collaborative fantasy novel, Wild Sorceress.
Where can we find you on the web?
Vampire's Crypt http://members.aol.com/MLCVamp/vampcrpt....
Realm of Vampires http://www.simegen.com/reviews/vampires/...
What are you currently working on?
I've just finished the publisher's edit for Wild Sorceress, a fantasy novel
written by my husband and me together, for Spring 2002 release by RFI West. Next I'll be working on the edits for Crimson Dreams, my
vampire romance from RFI West in the first quarter of 2002. Both these books are no longer available from RFI West. They are now available from Amber Quill. http://www.amberquill.com
What are your plans for the coming new year, 2002?
In addition to the novels mentioned above, I have an erotic vampire romance
novella, Night Flight, due from Ellora's Cave http://www.ellorascave.com early
in 2002. It's a spinoff from Dark Changeling, featuring Roger's hybrid
daughter as an adult.
Anything else you want the readers to know?
My fanzine, The Vampire's Crypt (now closed to submissions), will have its
final issue in Spring 2002; however, all 25 issues will remain available from
the new distributor, Secret Pleasures http://www.secretpleasurespress.com.
Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien, a lit-crit survey of this theme from
the mid-19th century to the 1990s, is now for sale as a trade paperback from AmberQuill. http://www.amberquill.com
Book Review
Sealed in Blood
Margaret L. Carter writes about some of the most interesting vampires in the vampire universe. Not part of the undead or descendants from lost aliens, her vampires are a lost branch on our own evolutionary tree. A different species. Intelligent, humanoid, long-lived. They drink blood, but when they can't get blood, warm milk will do. Why these vampires don't even have fangs. They do have the ability to change into a giant bat-like creature or appear to disappear. They have astounding powers of hypnosis. Sunlight causes them only minor problems. But without some limitations a story wouldn't have tension. So just what kind of problems do these vampires have? They feed on both the psychic energy and blood, and while any blood will do, only humans
