I was heavily into comics for a while and created a few characters of my own based around the titles X-Men, Hellblazer, and Sandman. Again, I haven't written these off yet.
My next project was Soul Triangle, originally intended to be a trilogy of novels involving a celestial bond between a hitman, and serial killer and a dirty cop. The first part only came to 40,000 words (half Blood Lust) so that one's going to be the first chapter of three in one novel. Probable after Revelations. Maybe.
It was in 92 that I saw Innocent Blood with the ingenious concept that maybe vampires weren't inheriently evil, just creatures of necessity.
Cameron sort of evolved from the notions of my other ideas.
One problem with that concept was that the stuff I knew about when I was aged 16 - 18 was mostly very boring or was derived from things I saw on telly or cinema. Also, I seemed to get better grades for the more twisted stuff than any of the bits with any sense of reality.
I wanted Cameron to have been running away from his family so had them based in the south and put him up in Scotland. I'd been to Edinburgh once so there he was.
I wanted to put in a Dracula reference so needed Yorkshire and I needed somewhere with a dense population so I could kill lots of people quickly. I looked in the atlas. My mate Andy went to Leeds so that sort of counts as something I know.
When it first went on sale, the publishers say they sent a press release and review copy out to the local papers and radio. Since the first article in The Crawley News (which was down to us contacting them) they were less than interested in giving me any more exposure. They weren't even fussed about the Halloween/signing crossover. I'd even got a copy sent to Jeremy King and spoke to him a couple of times to find out whether he was going to do a review and I got, "Yeah, of course," back.
I got a phone call from some girl at Southern Counties Radio who was more interested in me talking about Bram Stoker's Dracula and how most of it was set in England than anything I had done. Nothing further happened there.
To be honest, the publishers weren't much cop either. Everything that had happened had been down to me and the missis plugging where ever and when ever we could.
Now I'm back to square one.
Not yet.
And if I do become rich and famous, the chances are I'll deny knowing you so you'll only look silly so don't bother anyway.
- POST A POSITIVE REVIEW AT AMAZON.CO.UK (remember "if you have nothing nice to say...)
- RATE OTHERS REVIEWS AS BEING 'USEFUL'
- POST A POSITIVE REVIEW AT AMAZON.COM (ditto)
- RATE OTHERS REVIEWS AS BEING 'USEFUL'
