Comments on: Will Davis at the Guardian Blogs that Vampires Are Forever

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By: Peter Allchin

Peter Allchin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:55:42 +0000

I have to agree with Jeaniene Frost. I am also an author. However, I am not here to publicise my work, but to say that there are vampire novels out there, like my own, that buck to trend, as defined by Tracy. I do feel that there is too much sex, romance and handsome vampires in many of the vampire books, but if that is what the reader wants, then fine. I prefer to write about something other than that; no shapeshifters, no ‘magical’ weapons, and certainly no vampire any woman would want to have sex with!

By: Percy A Ashe

Percy A Ashe — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:14:15 +0000

I love the Gothic genre and wish it would come back. :)It’s hard to find a good gothic nowadays, but author Devon Quinn does a fantastic gothic with her “Eternity” series.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:02:16 +0000

I’m still waiting by the phone for Gothic Romances to call again. ;D

Oh, man…. you and me both. I read some of the best Gothic Romances but now I can’t find them very easily.

By: Are Vampires Dead or Just Mainstream? « Harlequin’s Paranormal Romance Blog

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:09:02 +0000

[...] From Smart Bitches and Dear Author, another salvo in the debate about whether the paranormal romance reading community is ready to move on from reading about vampires. This time, a different take in that vampires are not “over”, just moved into the mainstream. [...]

By: ジェーン(Jān)

ジェーン(Jān) — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:59:05 +0000

Trends are a cyclical thing. They always come back.

I’m still waiting by the phone for Gothic Romances to call again. ;D

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:24:32 +0000

I think the thing with trends is that even when the trend dies down, there are going to be those who love that particular genre. Like historicals. For a while, historicals were ‘off’ the trend map, but there are those die-hard historical lovers that continue to look for them.

Same goes with paranormal-yes, paranormal is huge right now, although I think the trend is leveling, or already has. But just because it’s leveling doesn’t mean these books won’t continue to sell. The next big trend will hit but vamps will still sell to the die-hard vamp/paranormal lover.

In a few years, they’ll be the ‘big’ thing again.

Trends are a cyclical thing. They always come back.

By: Noelle (NHS)

Noelle (NHS) — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:09:13 +0000

In a year or three, the next Big Thing will be here, and we’ll all be bewailing the proliferation of interracial historical romances

Oh how I do hope so since that’s what I’m finishing edits on!

By: Angelia Sparrow

Angelia Sparrow — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:02:13 +0000

I just finished edits on a vampire short story that’s more about predation than angst. I hesitated to make the character a vamp, especially one that’s an open diabolist dedicated to Asmodeus, but decided it served the story.

There is a proliferation of Vamp romances, and I am tired of the “Oh look at me, I’m so broody” routine. It’ll die down. In five years, there will still be a few, but it won’t be the current swarm.

Ditto shapeshifters.

In a year or three, the next Big Thing will be here, and we’ll all be bewailing the proliferation of interracial historical romances or Space Opera.

By: Janie Harrison

Janie Harrison — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:01:11 +0000

But not every writer who writes vampires, for example, does it because they’re chasing a market trend, or trying to jump on the Fang Bandwagon. Some of us just love vampires, so we’re choosing to write about the creature we love. I’ve been a vamp fan since I was a child and didn’t even know what the term “market trend” meant.

I agree. This is the sad part. Sometimes gems get lost in dust heaps. I'm a big vampire fan and collect a lot of vampire fiction, but try to write one when the trend is gone, gone, gone. Been there, done that. Despite the current *trends* I feel vampires will always be popular with people.