One of the most noticeable things about your websites is your constant and dedicated interaction with fans and critics. Do you enjoy being accessible to your readers? Have the interactions with your readers affected the progress of Demon Vampire?
The progress, no. I wrote Demon Vampire in three weeks short of a year. I began the website several months later. I have a great respect for my fans and especially my critics. I once had a heckler that said I'd never get the book published. I corrected him on a few key points and asked him to specify his concerns with added detail. He unfortunately never replied. Regardless, his comments and others have revealed the weaknesses that I had overlooked in my planning. I thank them and continue to ask everyone to tell me what they think of Demon Vampire. That said, I exuberantly enjoy the words of a fan telling me they loved the book. That is exactly why I've added so many review features to the site. I want everyone to know what other people think of the book, as well as my responses.
Demon Vampire has been described by you as an "epic" novel. Have you had to cut a large portion for publication?
Thankfully, no. The way the margins were cut, and the selection of font, it was able to be wrapped up into less than 500 pages. The only thing that had to be changed was the beginning. The first draft I came up with didn't hold the attention that the current one does. I'd say that is about the only real change to the book. Granted, it was a radical concept to write this new opening. No names, no easy connection to the rest of the characters in the book. It was a truly unique way to establish a continued ending to the book. When people re-read it, they'll have to analyze it to understand what the dream honestly means.
Who is your favorite fictional or mythical vampire? Why?
The character Virgil, in Dante's Inferno. The character experiences the throws and extents of the human condition. I'd like to say that the name means nothing to me, but it obviously does.
"I strongly advise you to refer this site to one of your friends, sit quietly in the corner of your darkest room, and rock back and forth in a chair softly repeating to yourself: "There's no such thing as vampires, there's no such thing as vampires."
Do you believe vampires exist?
There are many things I know exist. Things that I have seen with my own eyes, felt with my own hands. There are also many things I have never seen or touched. Of those things I am told some exist and some do not. I can honestly say that if you told me that there was a creature on the other side of the planet that could kill me in an instant and drink my blood, I wouldn't want to piss that thing off. Meaning, I accept that there are things I do not know in this world. It is not my place to deliberate the existence of something I have never seen. I only know that I have yet to meet, in person, the archetype of the supposed "fictional" vampire. Are vampires real? To me, it depends on your definition of a vampire.
At the heart of Demon Vampire is moral conflict. If you had to choose power, grace, and immortality at the cost of your soul, would you?
I must say that if I was in Zack's position, that would be a hard choice. I am not a religious person, I consider myself spiritual in nature. The best way to answer that would be in what I wrote about a character named Moira in the book. She decides to die rather than let herself be absorbed by the demon vampire. With that character, I give my reply.
Finally, what's got you Fanged?
My future. In about six month's time, I have amassed more than 5,000 followers between all of the different websites I am linked into. Word of Demon Vampire is spreading. It is infecting people with a buzz that is catching on. People want to see a poetic vampire novel again. With Demon Vampire, I have given them all something new to read.
Special Thanks
My Wife, my Daughter, and my Mother.
Thanks in no particular order to Jon, Ron, Lance, Drew, Zack, Chris, Kyli, Rebekkah, Marin, Martin, Alan, Peggy, Michael, Emily, Herald, Eada, Ellen, Crystal, Scott, Mrs. Mosley, Mrs. Hyatt, Mrs. Nolan, Ms. Campbell, Allie, Ken, Irene, Amanda, Dorothy, Joe, Bruce, My Tarot Deck, and Kathy for standing by my work so much.
Additional Thanks to Michael Clutton, Amy Mah(Vampire), Michelle Belanger, Eva Coopersmith, Gothic Beauty Magazine, Don Henrie, Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz, Steven King, John Grisham, Penny Sansevieri, Kathleen Brehony, Karen Jones, Jeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman, Julia Devillers, R.L. Stine, Thomas Pope, Kosta Danaos, Buckethead, Metric, Naked, Dante Alighieri, William Blake, Michael Crichton, Hideo Kojima, Noah Lukeman, and Mark Joyner for teaching me to write memorable fiction and how to offer it to the world.
Afterword
Remember that dreams create reality. Think and make the world grow better.
- Virgil Allen Moore
Know what I have said and understand that these are the titles of the next three books in the Redgold Series.
Demon Vampire: Special Science Report 1192
Demon Vampire: The Elder Ritual
Demon Vampire: Redgold (book two in the main storyline.)
Demon Vampire
Written by
Virgil Allen Moore
Erudite Small Press
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