Stories of vampires seem to have changed over the last few years. Where it began I don’t know and will leave that to the literary historians, but I can speculate that it began with a 1960’s soap opera. The change has come from making ghosts and vampires from being creatures that send tingles up our spins and out our fingers to objects of pity, remorse, and even of love. This is not a bad change and has lead to a creation of a cross genre of supernatural romance. Sadly, it seems that the fear aspect has been replaced with something else.

While Dark Medicine has romance in it, as does most dramas, it is not a pure supernatural romance. What Dark Medicine does with the romantic aspects is step back into gothic horror and the sense of fear. The novel is almost completed as a first draft, in the later draft will be the exploration of the showing of emotions (see a blog on my Fiction Writing blog on this topic)of the various levels of love and of fear, with the intention of building a crescendo in the reader as the story builds.

As to the progress of Dark Medicine, this weekend has not been as productive as I wished, but I still believe that I am on track to have the dictation draft done by the end of the month and the transcription draft completed by the end of November. Those on my “Trusted Reader’s List” to give me critiques should have it by the end of January.

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