Q&A with Donaya Haymond discussion

Most books and series have a specific trigger. These can range from, gee, I think I'll write a book to (say) having a picture of a faun in snow coming to mind. What was th trigger for Halloween Romance?

I read Bram Stoker's Dracula when I was eleven, and thought about how, though I enjoyed the classic, I personally believed that no force can MAKE someone evil, that it's all about choice. I left it for a while. Then when I was 13, it occurred to me that it would be amusing to write a story in which two magically cursed people fell in love, each hiding their respective nature from the other.

The choice thing comes into all your books so far I think. Some things are excusable (i.e. no one blames Selene for the fact that she's unavailable one night a month) but others are down to personal choice (i.e. Ferdinand chooses NOT to drink human blood).

Right, except for voluntary and sanitary donations. The belief in choice is very dear to me.