Guest Post by Laurie Bowler

(Laurie is the author of some fantastic paranormal romance books. Check out Laurie's books on Amazon .Laurie can also be found on her website and here is a link to her Facebook Page.)

It’s been an amazing journey so far in the writing world. Paranormal beings are dominating

my life and my imagination, creating them is so much fun and intriguing.

There are so many reasons why I enjoy writing. At first it was only a hobby and something I

decided to do suddenly in November 2009, and now I have found myself developing further

with the plots and characters that I create.

Every day is a massive learning curve, reading reviews and hearing readers thoughts and

feelings teaches me many different aspects that |I could incorporate into my writing, and for

this I am grateful.

My writing career has been a continued and I have found myself becoming relentless with the

stories that I create. If anyone told me in 2009 that I would create 25 stories by 2011, with

10 others waiting to be edited I would have said they were exaggerating just a tiny bit, but I

have accomplished this and I am sincerely pleased with the progression of my stories and the

chance to be able to deliver them in different versions.

Although my stories are generally driven towards vampires, I have developed so many

different perspectives of them in my stories, intergrading the old traits and the newer more

modern style of a vampire into my stories.

Vampires are mysterious, strong and anything a writer desires them to be. This is most of

the fun when I write about them and create their worlds. There is nothing more exciting than

creating a different type of vampire that hasn’t been written before.

Over the years vampires have changed, an authors perspective on our favourite paranormal

species have developed and given a different take with every vampire novel that gets written.

Since the great Dracula was written, and I believe that Dracula is absolutely brilliant and

a complete original of our favourite paranormal species, we now have vampires that can

twinkle, use different powers and they also have the ability to fall in love.

Modern vampires are growing on me, and they are becoming somewhat gentle in the horror

genre, their skills and their abilities have grown and added a certain mystique to their already

mystical appearance through the conveyance of an author’s word. I believe modern vampires

have pulled away from the traditional traits a vampire has been known to do, such as

manipulation to an human in order to collect their prey to feed without much resistance, they

have been known to induct slaves to carry out their work in humans by creating hybrids by

that I mean a human who is stuck between our world and the world of the vampire, obeying

the vampires wishes and dirty deeds whenever he wishes.

I’m passionate when creating vampires, and my interest has grown with the paranormal

genre, I want to create a vampire race that is different to those already out there, and worlds

including new paranormal creatures (as seen in Depths of Darkness) that have either not been

heard off and are completely fictional, or they are legends and I have adapted their characters

to fit the theme of my stories.

My own vampires run between the modern take and the old traditional themes that we are

used too. Some of the older traits such as the ones Dracula was able to do have stuck with

me inside my vampire world. The vampires I write about do not fight werewolves as we

usually see in an authors perspective and they have been written many times, my vampires

fight a cat like creature, called a Gulon.

The Gulon is an extra added paranormal creature that has originated from a Scandinavian

legendary creature, when I first read about them I wanted to create them in a way so I adapted

their legend to fit with the vampire and paranormal theme, and then added something special

about them inside my books. The Gulons can be read in the Moon Rising series that currently

consists of 3 stories, Moon Rising, Sunrise to Sunset and finally the latest title Golden

Horizons, very soon I intend to create a series of stories purely on the Gulons, along with the

vampire in Moon Rising, the Gulons have been fascinating to create and adapt.