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Vampire Fans?
Infamous as Elle!:
Looking for some insight since I can't possibly read everything out there in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre (at least without book holding hand cramps).
Is there anyone out there who avidly reads anything that involves vampires in the plot or as main characters?
I'm asking because I have a story idea and I need to know that I'm not inadvertantly ripping someone off with the story I want to write. My previous graphic novel idea was eerily similar to The Cell, even though I came up with the idea a year before the movie came out. *grumbles*
Delarith:
No but I tend to avoid stories with vampires in them like the plague. It was only how much I enjoyed the Alera books that made me start reading Dresden. And the whole Twilight series (young vampires in love ) makes me want to retch.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Elle de Valois on January 15, 2009, 08:00:53 PM ---Is there anyone out there who avidly reads anything that involves vampires in the plot or as main characters?
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Not quite "avidly reads anything", but generally trying to follow most things with vampires that are not doing recycled Anne Rice/Laurell Hamilton angstmuffinery and similar cliches, so fire away and I'll see if it reminds me of anything.
Infamous as Elle!:
This story would be more like vampires falling....err, out of love and in love and out again....centuries of snarky-ness.
Basically the premise is two people, bound together as companions but estranged in marriage (Vivian would say her favorite mistake), but she is a "psychic consultant" for a police department in a city yet to be determined and Dante is a medical examiner/coroner in Boston. When suspicious deaths begin to crop up looking like copycat crimes from not only their past but also crimes that live in infamy, they end up having to team up to save the day....err, night. Oh and they happen to be vampires.
I kind of wanted to combine my loves across different genres and have been looking for a way for years to do it.
Twilight, it ain't. That whole series has some epic rants attached to it on my part, believe me.
I just tend to have the uncanny ability to come up with stories that are close enough to other stories that I don't even know about yet, to seem like I'm ripping my ideas off of them. Frustrating to be sure.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Elle de Valois on January 15, 2009, 09:04:21 PM ---This story would be more like vampires falling....err, out of love and in love and out again....centuries of snarky-ness.
Basically the premise is two people, bound together as companions but estranged in marriage (Vivian would say her favorite mistake), but she is a "psychic consultant" for a police department in a city yet to be determined and Dante is a medical examiner/coroner in Boston. When suspicious deaths begin to crop up looking like copycat crimes from not only their past but also crimes that live in infamy, they end up having to team up to save the day....err, night. Oh and they happen to be vampires.
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I'm not aware of anything like that done with vampires, fwiw.
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