Richard the Vampire Makes the Big Time!

Yes, I just learned that along with Never Ceese being mentioned on the TV Tropes site, my vampire Richard is mentioned as well. The only disappointing part of it all is that due to readers of targeted "Christian" fiction labeling my work Christian at every turn those on the this site assume my stories are targeted Christian fiction as well. So very sad. But nevertheless, Richard is mentioned in the same breath with Anne Rices' Lestat and ummm . . . Bunicula!!! LOL

Here's the Link.

But if you don't want to dig to find it, here's the excerpt.

Richard, a vampire in Sue Dent's Christian werewolves-and-vampires novel Never Ceese needs blood to survive, but copes with it in a novel way — he tells a sob story to people on the Internet about his mother needing blood transfusions and gets donations to live on. He still occasionally craves blood from a living animal, but can cool his urges by draining blood from livestock. One of the biggest weaknesses of vampires focused on in the book is that vampirism is a "curse" that prevents a vampire from interacting with, speaking of, or even thinking of anything holy — not just crosses, but Bible verses, God himself, churches, etc. Richard, with help of a mentor, can fight against it enough that he can manage to quote John 3:16 ("For God so loved the world..."), but still has to go through quite a bit of pain to do it.


Awww, they know who I am. How sweet! But for the record this is not a Christian werewolf-vampire novel. The lable "Christian" anything in fiction points to a targeted market that I don't write for. It's general market horror with a underlying Christian theme. Please do not apply any success it has to those who claim the broader label "Christian" to identify their targeted work. They won't allow their authors to write about vampires or werewolves of lore and in fact turned my books down because I wrote about them. Gotta love it.