Life's Seductive Beauty

Category: Vampires and the Paranormal

  • The Vampire Path to Rebirth and Wonder

    “I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.“ Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire The Vampire Path to Rebirth A “newborn vampire”—when I saw this quote out of context, the term newborn struck me. Being newborn is to experience everything anew, with wonder. It’s to be present, in the moment. We…

  • The Appeal of Vampires: a Sensual Awakening

    I’m no longer sure there is an appeal to vampires that’s any different from the appeal of other antiheroes, such as pirates or cowboys/girls or folks in uniform or witches and warlocks. One reader says the appeal of vampires is the heightened senses conveyed in their stories, another says it’s the bad boy allure, another…

  • Myths and Fairy Tales: Tell Me a Story; Now Tell Me Again

    If I Had a Nickel I wanted to write a story about a vampire guitarist. A friend scoffed: “If I had a nickel for every story about vampire guitarists…” Despite this quick dismissal of whatever need or passion was driving me to the sensuality of the vampire and the sensuality of music, I had to…

  • How Genre Influences the Story

    The instigating event: She walks with her sister down the apartment complex sidewalk. In the green, four teen boys bat a volleyball around. They look; she looks. She talks quickly to her sister about their visit. Rapid talk. And while  her mouth says things like, “She looks healthy, happy.” Her mind says, “Hot boys. Don’t…

  • Five-Star Review for Vampire Novel

    Tom Olbert gives a five-star-review to the vampire novel Beside the Darker Shore. “Esposito has a vivid and delicious power of imagery reminiscent of Ray Bradbury; every dewdrop sliding off every blade of grass and the crackle of every autumn leaf resonates in a narrative that flows like sweet, dark wine. The story takes us from…

  • Five-star review for vampire novel

    Five-star review of Beside the Darker Shore Excerpt: “Beside the Darker Shore is different. It is not your usual vampire tale. There is no sex in the book, per se, but it is one of the most powerfully sensual books I have read. When humans offer their blood to vampires, the eroticism of the bloodletting has…

  • Vampire Novel Wins Reviewer’s Choice Award

    I was very happy to hear that my vampire novel was chosen as Reviewer’s Choice for December at Two Lips Reviews, where the reviewer had this to say: “Beside the Darker Shore is different. It is not your usual vampire tale. There is no sex in the book, per se, but it is one of the…

  • To Spin on a Thread, Eating the Sun and Moon

    In Romania, the Varcolaci vampires hunger, not for the red blood flow of humans, but for the light of the sun and the moon. Sometimes depicted as small animals, but also as pale and parched humans, one legend has it that they’re created at midnight if a woman spins without candlelight. They travel wherever they…

  • Meet Arturo de Rosa, Vampire

    Arturo de Rosa was born in the year 965, Cordoba, Spain. He currently resides in Potes, Spain, but is visiting Boston on the urging of his human blood prostitute, Stephen. In this scene he’s walking the street of the vampire community’s leader, envisioning Alec Marshall, whom he knew in those early years in Cordoba. Excerpt:…