Well, I finally finished MY PET VAMPIRE the novel. This piece started out as a short story of 3,297 words and only 9 pages long. I had the idea and notes for it as far back as 2008, but did not finish the story until 2012. After some friends kept urging me to write more, do more with it, I finally took their advice. I started the novelization process on 1-15-2015 and finished it on 5-20-2015. The finished book is 574 pages and 225,995 words.

For the past four months I have had tunnel vision, working to get this completed by the time I set my goal at. Now, it is the editing and proof reading part of the process. I usually do a little of the editing as I write, but there is always the final edits to see to before it can be submitted or published.

So far, I am really pleased with the story. After several years away from the story I returned to find my short story had exploded into a big book with an entirely different kind of vampire.

I have always loved vampire stories (or any kind of paranormal story) but grew tired of seeing the standard shlocky rip off of Dracula (loved Stoker's book but not many of the follow up copy-cats) I don't care for shiny, sparkly or poofy emo vamps either.

I wanted something different, something that could step into the 21st century with us and thrive amidst our tech age and media presence. I feel that I have accomplished that.