CNN interviewed various vampire romance writers, known in the industry as paranormal romance writers, as to why vampire novels are on the upsurge, and what exactly is it that resonates. The Lex admin team members are all big JR Ward fans in addition to Twilight fans (not that we all flew to a remote area in Kentucky in full costume on Mother’s Day for a JR Ward signing or anything like that.) And we know that a lot of members of our forums are Harris, Ward, Rice, etc. fans. So just what is the appeal?
“Heather Graham (not the actress) has written vampire novels under both her name and her pseudonym, Shannon Drake.
Graham said she enjoys the creativity that comes with creating romances with vampires as the main characters.
“There is total freedom,” said Graham. “The only rules are once you make any, you then have to stick to them.”
Graham, whose book “Dust to Dust” melds two frightening topics as vampires seek to save Earth from the 2012 end of the world prophecy, said life can be fraught with lots of anxiety.
Vampire romances are a good escape from that, she said.
“You get to have something sexy, something edgy and something that is scary, but outside the realm of our everyday scary,” Graham said.
Ward said women gravitate toward vampire heartthrobs because the vampires are “always in 3-D.”
“They are deadly, they are dangerous and they are desirable,” Ward said. “Big, bad, sexy and lethal, but redeemable is a great setup for a romantic hero.”
eh….The only vampire romance series I like is Twilight & Sookie stackhouse series aka True Blood.
The Ward books are all so great! Laurellk Hamilton I am on book 13 they are all just great.
I love The Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward. The characters are all so intense and almost animalistic. But their emotions and relationships are so romantically and passionatly human. (VERY PASSIONAT!!) The hot vampire sex is a bit much for me and I’m almost embarrassed to be reading it. (And me a grown woman!) But I love the characters and how deeply she develops them. They feel things, good and bad, so much more intensely than humans so you can’t help but be drawn in. She wrote an insiders guide to the series and in it she interviews the Brothers. Very cool that they really live in her head.
Hmmm….
Twilight was my first real vampire book. I loved it from the start, and got hooked up with the vampire thing (thank you Stephenie ^^)
The sad thing is, nowadays just every author has to write a vampire book!
And many are hard on the line of plagiarism ( like House of Night and Vampire Academy ~~’)
I really love Kresley Cole at the moment, because she also writes about ghosts, and Valkyrie and Werewolfs and Fairies and so on….
The fantasy world is vast, and just because vampire books sell good these days,it doesn’t mean everyone has to write one.
Ps.: Christine Feehan and Stephenie Meyer can of course write as much vampire books as they want ^^
i love JR ward is amazing. nuf said
I love JR Ward books!!!! I think they are completely different from whats out there. But I also wanted to say this. I have read 4 vampire series now. I started with Twilight, then Sookie Stackhouse Novels, Argeneaus Family/Rogue Vampire Series, and Black Dagger Brotherhood being the last. Its hard to pick a favorite because I loved them all as I read them. If I did not I would have stopped. I am a very proud supporter of paranormal romance and fully plan on reading more vampire series as long as they keep my attention!