Please welcome paranormal romance author Felicity Heaton!
Creating the world of the
Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series
It’s wonderful to be back here at Bitten by Paranormal Romance for
the next stop in my Vampirerotique Summer Book Tour.
Today, I’m going to talk about creating the world of my Vampire
Erotic Theatre romance series.
The thing I love most about writing vampire romances is that I get
to play with a societal structure and I often get to really flex my
world-building skills. I can’t help it. Whenever I write a vampire romance, I
have to dream up a different sort of society, a world in which they live with
laws they abide or break, people they either look up to or down on, and other
fascinating aspects. It’s an intrinsic part of my vampire worlds and as
important to me as what sort of vampire I’m writing.
Vampires are ageless. They live for centuries if not millennia, so
it makes sense to me that they would have a very structured society that might
seem antiquated to humans and perhaps a social divide too. You have to consider
that they’re from a different time. When they were raised (or turned, but more
about that later) it was probably in a very different world to our modern one,
a time when humans had a very structured society too. The divide in modern
human society is less noticeable than the one that existed a century or more
ago. The divide in vampire society in this world isn’t.
I often write vampires as one breed with only age and who their sire
was as a deciding factor on where they stand in society. That’s the case for my
Vampires Realm series and also some of the worlds in my stand alone novels like
Heart of Darkness. Sometimes though, I want a stronger divide and that’s when I
introduce two very different types of vampire, and that’s the case with my
Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
When dreaming up this world, I had established that the theatre
would be a middle ground for vampires from the two sides of society. It’s very
antiquated and old in its ways, and while both sides of society attend the
theatre, they do so in a way that keeps them divided. I wanted to have that
clear divide between them to reinforce the sentiments of the two sides and the
feelings that run throughout the series.
Make no mistake, I have kept the vampires very similar to each
other. They all stem from the same genes and ancestors after all. They breed
and produce offspring. They all age at a rate much slower than humans and stop
aging when they reach full maturity, appearing somewhere in their thirties to
mortals. They live on a blood only diet but have some body heat and a
heartbeat. The purer their blood or the younger they are, the quicker the UV
rays will burn them. They live in a world they have fought to keep hidden from
the majority of the human population.
What divides the vampire in the world of the Vampire Erotic Theatre
series is the purity of their blood.
There are the powerful pureblood aristocrat families, who pride
themselves on having only pureblood vampires in their lineage, and the elite
families, who have turned humans within their bloodlines.
When I was coming up with the world, I wanted these two different
types of vampires. I wanted the strong and the weaker (they’re still far
stronger than mortals) vampires to exist in the same world. The aristocrats
with their mission to keep their families pure and perfect, untainted, and the
elites who are weaker because the power in their genes has been thinned by
generations of breeding with turned humans, but are more down to earth and
modern than their aristocrat brethren. The elite vampires don’t feel the same
way as the aristocrats but they put up with the barriers between them and the
often antiquated views of their stronger kin. If you think about it in terms of
human society, the aristocrats are the lords of old and the elite are the
common people they find disgusting and don’t want to associate with.
The theatres make this very clear. The aristocrats have private
boxes and look down on the elite who all sit in the stalls, but regardless of
where they sit, when blood is spilled on the stage all of them react the same
way, with their vampire side emerging and salivating for a taste.
The series is focused on vampires from both sides of society. Four
vampires run the erotic theatre, Vampirerotique. Two of them are elite, Javier
and Callum, and two are aristocrats, Antoine and Snow. There are another two
elite vampire heroes in the series, Andreu and Payne, but they don’t
technically run the theatre. I wanted to have two from each world because it
meant that I could play with both the upper class and lower class citizens, and
show their differences or lack thereof. It also meant that the theatre could
entertain both sides. In a world so focused on power and position, you would
need aristocrat vampires associated with the theatre in order for their kind to
deem it a place worthy of their patronage. In essence, the four owners of the
theatre have found a way to bring the two sides of society together... in a
way.
They also provided me with a chance to explore which of the vampire
breeds are truly stronger—the aristocrats or the elite? Those obsessed with
purity or those adapting to a modern world and embracing love wherever they
might find it?
It’s a complicated world, with vampires fighting their pride, their
past, the laws and society itself to find love that will last eternity. I hope
it’s a world that you’ll step into and find yourself immersed in their lives
and their romances as their fight for their forever afters.
Be sure to follow this
fantastic tour between June 28th and August 25th to learn more about
the passionate heroes, wicked heroines, and life at London’s premier vampire
erotic theatre! You can also find yourself in with a chance to win a $50 or $25 Amazon Gift Certificate if
you follow the tour. More details, including how to enter and a full list of
stops, are available at the Vampirerotique Summer Book Tour page: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/vampirerotique-summer-book-tour.php
All of the books so far in the series are available in paperback,
and in ebook from Amazon Kindle and Kobo. Covet and Crave are available from
Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks and Sony Reader too. Seduce will be
available at those retailers soon. Excerpts are available for all of the
current releases in the series, so you can get a taste of these wicked erotic
romances.
Books in the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series
Enslave (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 4) – Coming
August 4th!
Bewitch (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 5) – Coming
soon!
Unleash (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 6) – Coming in
2013!
Biography
Felicity Heaton writes passionate paranormal romance
books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In her books she creates detailed
worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping
romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy
shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!
If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara
Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then
you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked,
Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong,
powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series she writes as F
E Heaton or any of her stand alone vampire romance books she writes as Felicity
Heaton. Or if you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate
and erotic then try Felicity Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
In 2011, four of her six paranormal romance books
received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated
as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her
releases received five star reviews from numerous websites.
If you want to
know more about me, or want to get in touch, you can find me at the following
places:
My website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/felicityheaton
Twitter: http://twitter.com/felicityheaton
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/felicityheaton
Thanks for having me here at the blog to talk about Vampirerotique and my Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series! Looking forward to meeting all the commenters.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the newest release and the success of the series. This series is on my must buy list, I love paranormal stories, especially erotic ones ;)
ReplyDeletemanning_j2004 at yahoo dot com
Thanks for letting us take a peek into your vampire world building. It helps us readers with your books. This is a fantastic tour. I so need this series.
ReplyDeleteluvfuzzzeeefaces at yahoo dot com
Thanks for sharing more about the series. It sounds like a good one.
ReplyDeletebn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com
Love your books Felicity .Thank you for sharing with us I love love love vamps.Have a fantastic weekend
ReplyDeleteflanagan@mebtel.net
Great giveaway!Can't wait to have the time to read Enslave! Fantastic Series.
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It's so nice to discover more about how was to create the vampire world in those books.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Love the series. I particulalrly enjoy Felicity's style. Every single book that I've read of her, I've never had to 'push' through. I've always been gripped.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being involved in the tour.
beckyhjohnson79 @ yahoo.com.au
Wow I loved this post the insight into what you achieve is awesome. I love your worlds and especially love this new one. I can't wait for Enslave, Bewitch and Unleash come out. I've got so into the stories and back stories of all of them so far. I am amazed how you manage to keep track of all the worlds in your head- they are so complex, but you do and that's what makes them so great.
ReplyDeleteHello Ms. Heaton,
ReplyDeleteIm N awe of ur lovely work . I'm l@@king 4ward 2 learning more about ur Vampire series..U know N a way Vampires reminds me of the HATFIEDS & McCoys..:D Then again I'm left N wonder & thoughts of a TALE OF TWO CITIES...thanx
all the best:D
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ReplyDeleteThese books sound absolutely amazing!!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, I love to get more background on a series I'm interested in!
ReplyDeleteI loved the interview! Its great to get to more about and author and the book series :d Thanks Felicity for the giveaway and interview
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