Linda Suzane - Captivity, Darkhour Vampires

bitten by a vampire. I've heard writers talk about characters taking over, but I'd never experienced it. What a trip! The stories literally wrote themselves. If you would like to know more about how I came to write CAPTIVITY, check out my web site http://www.darkhourvampires.com

Tell us about how you go about writing such a series?
I wrote the first book is less than two weeks, over 50,000 words. It was actually the last book in the series. I then went back and wrote the first book CAPTIVITY in less than three weeks. I was driven, the words just flowed out of me, the story, everything just seemed to work. I started at the end of March 1998, and by the middle of September, I had four books and was well into a fifth. When I re-read the books, I kept thinking they were really good, but I wasn't ready to trust my judgement. I was clearly too close to be rational. You know sometimes you write something that you think is great and then when you re-read it, it really stinks or you write something that you think really stinks, and when you get some distance from it, you realize it isn't so bad. So I went on to finish EYES OF TRUTH. When I got finally returned to working on the series, I knew they were what I wanted to spend my next few years writing about. So I set about rewriting the first book in the series, CAPTIVITY. As often happens things change. One of the minor characters, Thom Barber, the newborn vampire, who was in the original story just as a device so I could explain what these vampires are like, became a character in his own right, so the book is no longer just Wade's and Donovan's story, but Thom's as well.

Now I'm working on book two and three in the series. I'm having problems with these two books. Although I have Mignon's story written, it was supposed to be the second book, I know that there is a third novel that completes this portion of the story. The first three stories take place in the early 1980s. The next three books take place some eighteen years later. I don't think of them as trilogies. I was just telling the story of how Wade was first bitten and how Mignon/Prane came to escape her husband. As I worked on the stories, I realized that there needs to be a third book to finish telling Thom's story and to set up some things

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