This was awesome mate! I loved it. You need to write about vampires more if you have such a good handle on them. What do you usually write about? I really love your writing style regardless.
My books are about a fantasy world with pretty much every race thrown in but vampires are also an important part of it. Looks like I'll have to do some consulting with the vampire expert here before I finalise those parts.
Thanks, but I wouldn’t consider myself a vampire expert, like I said that’s the only time I’ve actually written anything vampire related.
My “main” story is a sci-fi series set millennium into the future after mankind abandoned a dying Earth and migrated to a distant galaxy in search of a new home, where some settled on an untouched paradise world they call Gaia and call themselves Children of Gaia. Rejecting the follies and arrogance of mankind, they seek to live in harmony with nature and go so far as to incorporate animal characteristics and genetically hybridize themselves. Gaia also has a mysterious “magic” power that mages can tap into by connecting to the ley lines crisscrossing the globe, and also building their cities atop intersections of ley lines which power them via aether reservoirs. The Children are largely isolationist except for the diplomatic sect known as Arbitrators, but recently there’s been a political conflict brewing between the isolationists and those who feel Gaia needs to become more fully engaged with the interstellar community.
Meanwhile, a large faction of mankind formed into the Terran Imperium, an interstellar empire modeling itself after the Roman Empire with a bunch of occupied worlds and enslaved alien races, but it’s repeating history with its capital world Tellus Romana growing increasingly polluted and incapable of sustaining life, making it more and more dependent on its colonies.
The ostensible keeper of the peace is a United Nations-esque body called the United O’Deran Interplanetary Federation which is in a sort of Cold War with the Imperium, but it’s fairly venal and ineffectual.
It’s a big ensemble cast, but there’s basically three most central protagonists, a Gaian Mage professor with heightened powers who finds she has this “yin and yang” connection with her counterpart, a former slave and gladiator turned a revolutionary leader who is seeking pieces scattered across the cosmos to awaken an ancient superweapon named Sekhmet, a doomsday weapon of the ancient race of “gods” (actually advanced telepathic and virtually immortal aliens). You could liken him to Daenerys Targaryen a little bit, including the part where he thinks he’s a great liberator but is actually going off the deep end.
Third central protagonist is cocky flyboy fighter pilot for the Imperium, which is in a long war with a reptilian alien warrior race, though (surprise surprise), it’s not quite as cut and dried as people think re: who the real aggressor is.
There’s loads more going on, but this is TL:;DR enough.
I’m also in a collaborative writing project with my ex in a sort of dark comedy ‘verse about a bunch of assassins. We each have a few characters. My main ones are a freelance Austrian assassin, a Mossad agent, and a goon for the Russian Mafia, though the Austrian one is the only one I really have anything written for. It starts as a dark comedy with unreliable narrator stuff from how self aggrandizing his character is (also quirks like being obsessed with Falco), but gets into a character arc of catching feelings for this Turkish artist who doesn’t know his real profession and both of them eventually being targeted by the assassin’s crazy Russian gangster ex.