Lia Scott Price's Vampire Guardian Angels Comic Book Series

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 4

A very special thank you to all my wonderful friends and fans, I'm truly honored to receive your feedback, posts, responses and shares on the comic book series and I am grateful for everyone's support! Thanks again! You all rock!

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 3

A very special thank you to all my wonderful friends and fans, I'm truly honored to receive your feedback, posts, responses and shares on the comic book series!

I am grateful for everyone's support! Thanks again! You all rock!

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 2

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 1

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Photos March 2014

Turning the Ordinary into Something F'd Up: How I Write Horror

"Look at what's 'normal' and f--k it up."

I like to play a "what-if" game when I write. I like to look at something normal, like a Guardian Angel, and see how f'd up I can make it into---a Vampire. A Serial Killer. I also like to take everyday situations and people and just turn them into something out of this world. That's the fun part about writing--to make it into a game and "push the envelope" and see how much more bizarre and unusual I can make my characters and stories. I like to f-up the ordinary and make it into something disturbing.

Another thing I like to do is have a TV show that is completely unrelated to horror playing in the background while I write (say, Animal Planet), and I won't read horror novels--I will read a totally different genre or even a magazine or watch a news channel. Then I let my imagination turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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Why I chose to write about Vampires

How did I get into writing about Vampires? Part of it was when I first read the Bible I was inspired by all the blood-drinking references and killer angels, and that also became the basis for one of my stories in which ancient angels were actually Vampires hidden by the church, fed with victims of the inquisition who the church called "heretics", and worshipped as "angels", and hidden and protected by the church in Bible verse. And I was always terrified of life-sized, blood-covered statues and those "incorruptible bodies of Saints" on display in churches---I always thought they were vampires as a child. So those images stuck with me. And that became one of the influences for my stories. It became a "what-if" scenario, and I took it a little further by also making my Vampire Guardian Angels into serial killers.

I'm also a fan of the "classic", "B-movie" vampires, (1980's vampire films such as Lost Boys and Fright Night), films such as 30 Days of Night, From Dusk till Dawn, and Salem's Lot, and the Hammer Films with Christopher Lee such as the Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. (Also check out my friend Charles E. Butler's homage to the Hammer Vampires in his book "Vampires Under the Hammer.) Vampires were what scared me the most so they were the perfect "monster" to write about.