![]() ![]() Her day-to-day life hits familiar crime fiction beats, as she bickers with her partner from her days as a police detective and is ultimately vindicated. The main character, Vicki Nelson, is a private investigator who has no prior involvement with the supernatural. The beloved read it and said, “You know, instead of writing a vampire book, why don’t you write a Tanya Huff book with a vampire in it.” And so that’s what I did. So I wrote the first chapter of my “vampire book” and it just wasn’t working. ![]() ![]() We were thinking of buying a house in the country and so would need a mortgage and vampire books came with a large-and, as I mentioned, loyal-fanbase built in. ![]() In a desperate search for something decent to read they’ll cross their fingers and pick up just about anything with fangs on the cover. Well, at the time I was working at Bakka-a science fiction bookstore in Toronto-and I noticed that vampire readers are very loyal. Here, Tanya Huff states that she had the idea for the novel back in 1989, and gives the commercially-minded decision behind its conception: Or, more accurately, I’ve been reading the 2006 omnibus edition that also includes the sequel, Blood Trail, and a new introduction by the author. I’ve been reading Tanya Huff’s book Blood Price, published back in 1991. ![]()
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