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Vampire Lore — It Takes All Kinds
When giving her thoughts on Laurie London’s 2012 novel Seduced by Blood a while back, Geek Speak HQ’s paranormal romance expert Amy Sharma said this: “… vampire lore needs some sort of IEEE standard....
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The Sunday Quiz — October 16, 2016
Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 21 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Information Please note that CORRECT SPELLING and COMPLETE ANSWERS are very...
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The Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
INTRODUCTION | SERIES BUY IT HERE aka The Southern Vampire Mysteries; True Blood GENRE: Paranormal Chick Lit. SETTING: Bon Temps, Louisiana for the most part, with a lot of action in Shreveport and the...
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Vampire Lore — One Lore to Rule Them All
Creative writing advice, via The Big Lebowski First, I must thank my colleague Rachel Hyland for her thoughts on the other side of this debate. I mean, she called me funny, and flattery will get you a...
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The Undead Series by MaryJanice Davidson
INTRODUCTION | SERIES BUY IT HERE AKA: The Queen Betsy Series GENRE: Vamp Romantic Comedy with a touch of Urban Fantasy. SETTING: The Twin Cities, Minnesota, with a side trip to Wyndham Werewolf...
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Introducing the Official Vampire Lore Standards — Because Enough is Enough
Last month I argued (rather well, if I do say so myself) in a Geek VS Geek that we need some basic standards for vampire lore for use by authors and screenwriters across the board. Following up on my...
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The Official Vampire Lore Standards, Part 1
THE OFFICIAL VAMPIRE LORE STANDARDS (or OVLS for short) I: Life, or How Do You Make a Vampire? Lestat sires Louis… Pretty much all the Ancient myths have sinners, drunkards, unbelievers, outcasts,...
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The Official Vampire Lore Standards, Part 2
THE OFFICIAL VAMPIRE LORE STANDARDS (or OVLS for short) continued… See Part 1 here III: Cool Powers? Movie Blade is only a “half-vampire”, but he still has the cool superpower of, well, being cool....
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Quote of the Day — June 22, 2017
I’ll tell you this, if there ‘are’ any intelligent creatures on this planet… they’re our enemies. — Captain Mark Markary (Barry Sullivan), Planet of the Vampires (1965)
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The Official Vampire Lore Standards, Part 3
THE OFFICIAL VAMPIRE LORE STANDARDS (or OVLS for short) continued… See Part 1 here, and Part 2 here V: Death, or How Do You Kill a Vampire? Abraham Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) dispatches a vampire in...
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