So, Pixie is kind of the opposite of your expected vampire.

If we’re taking vampires and their bites as a sexual allegory (which I also will deconstruct why does it need to be one?), we’re going to address that head-on, take apart the dysfunction and fear, and rebuild that story into something better. So, maybe uniquely, a huge, HUGE emphasis in Stake Sauce is on consent. And that’s something I want no part of, ever. (Vampires are people too?) Especially the predatory nature – vampires/their bites are usually really sexually-charged in fiction, and just as often, non-consensual and never addressed. I really wanted to try something different here, because there are as many different ways to write vampires are there are to write humans. If you haven’t seen this mock-u-mentary of vampires trying to fit into the modern world and being huge dorks, highly recommend.)Īlso, by nature, vampires in other fiction are often predatory. (A wonderful exception from which I absolutely drew Stake Sauce influence is the movie What We Do In The Shadows. We have a pretty singular concept of what vampires are, and it tends to be upscale, rich/powerful/elegant Victorian Goth-styled, pale/thin/white allo cis hetero people being graceful and sinister/brooding, with a distinct lack of down-to-earth, everyday characterization, and just… very serious. I think most readers aren’t over vampires themselves so much as the super-popular mainstream version of them. How would you recommend it to readers who are over vampires?

You recently published Stake Sauce which is the first part of a serial novel, mostly Patreon-based. We had the chance to talk to her about writing, representation, ranking her own books (cruel!), and more. Today, we have RoAnna Sylver who penned Stake Sauce and Chameleon Moon. For pride month, we invited several LGBTQ+ authors in Hollywood News Source.

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver