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“A book should take you on a journey where hardships and confrontations lead to a satisfying accomplishment or lack there of. Even rich, tangible characters will seem dull without an interesting and clear purpose.” -Tyr Kieran

DarkMedia Interviews Tyr Kieran: “I’m a storyteller first and foremost. I write to take my readers on an adventure they won’t get anywhere else; one that offers the gamut of emotions amid vivid imagery and creative events. As a writer [...]

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“Understanding psychology allows me to add dimension to some of my characters: explore the motivation behind their behaviors…” -Tessa Dawn

DarkMedia Interviews Tessa Dawn: Tessa Dawn grew up in Colorado where she developed a deep affinity for the Rocky Mountains. After graduating with a degree in psychology, she worked for several years in criminal justice and mental health before returning [...]

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“…want to know a secret? Human evil is the worst evil there is.” -Carole Gill

DarkMedia Interviews Carole Gill: Author Carole Gill wrote her first story at age 8. It was science fiction. She switched to horror in her teens and has been writing ever since. Widely published in horror and sci-fi anthologies, The House [...]

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“Just like we all need to laugh, we all need to feel fear. It’s human nature.” -Brandon Ford

DarkMedia Interviews Brandon Ford: Author Brandon Ford grew up in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started writing at the approximate age of 8 and spent a lot of time testing the waters with various genres. He wrote dramas, comedies, essays, plays, [...]

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“I think people are so enchanted with the mythology of vampires because there is an innate romanticism about the concept of forbidden love and eternal life.” -Jessica Cartwright

DarkMedia Interviews Jessica Cartwright: Jessica Cartwright lives in Sydney Australia with her husband and loveable but hyperactive dog Phoenix. She is currently working on her second instalment of the Fallen Grace trilogy, Hidden Splendour which she hopes to release in [...]

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“Kids today read more than ever before, but they’re reading screens instead of pages. What does that mean for books? I think it means that we need new books for them.” -Bekka Black

DarkMedia Interviews Bekka Black: After a childhood often spent without electricity and running water, Bekka Black (pseudonym for author Rebecca Cantrell) escaped the beautiful wilderness of Talkeetna, Alaska for indoor plumbing and 24/7 electricity in Berlin, Germany. Used to the [...]

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“Very few of us are heroes, and all of us at some point in our lives are villains whether we know it or not, whether we want to admit it or not, and that’s how I see the vampires in my story.” -Michael Smith

DarkMedia Interviews Michael Smith: Caballo Blue’s Michael Smith is an art director living in Chicago with his two crazy macaws, Mitch and Bruno. He sometimes let’s his imagination run wild. When did you begin work on “Caballo Blue”? What would [...]

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“My starting point was that I wanted my vampires to be indisputably the bad guys… I wanted to get back to the monsters of my childhood.” -Jasper Kent

DarkMedia Interviews Jasper Kent: Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire, England in 1968. He attended King Edward’s School, Birmingham and went on to study Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specialising in physics. Jasper has spent almost twenty years working [...]

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“You can’t have light without darkness – the older I get and the more I experience the more I want to get that message out there.” -JD Phillips

DarkMedia Interviews JD Phillips: JD Phillips is a native of Bar where she majored in psychology and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University.  She has been writing since childhood and has had several short works published in [...]

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