The New Vampire & Introducing My Website!

This has been the craziest busy week for me with sick kids and doctor appointments! I am glad the week is about over and we can enjoy the weekend soon! Tiana's tour of the surgical facilities at Cincinnati Children's Hospital is Saturday morning, but the rest of the weekend promises beautiful weather and relaxation so far.

I was checking out Nathan Bransford's blog post from yesterday and found it (as well as the tons of comments) very interesting. The question he poses is What is the new vampire? Basically, the idea is that vampires will eventually fade out of popularity and something else will take their place. What is the new vampire? I don't know that quite yet. I hope that it's teens with supernatural powers because that would fit right up the alley of the Elyssia Masters series. Personally, I think vampires aren't going anywhere anytime soon. They have always had a level of popularity in pop culture, just look at The Lost Boys movie or Interview With a Vampire. These are not new phenomenon in our pop culture, these are movies from when I was a teenager. My question is Did vampires ever actually go out of style for us to believe there will be a "new" vampire? I'd love to hear commentary on this from my readers. It would make a great discussion question.

In other news, I think I have failed to mention that I started up a website of my own and would like to share that with you now. I've been working on it and wanted to get it to a point that I was relatively happy with it before sharing it with you all. I have now officially purchased my domain name and can introduce you to www.melissapetreshock.com!

The music of the moment is "Fragile" by Sting. This is not the regular album version but the version he did for the CD set "America: A Tribute" that was done after 9/11. It's an acoustic version that's very soft and deeply meaningful. I just love his voice and the guitar music in this song. I can see this song playing a part in Blame It On The Samba, but will have to see how the book plays out (if I can ever get it done) before deciding.

Well, that's all till Monday. Don't forget, next week is my daughter, Tiana's surgery on Wednesday so there will only be blog posts on Monday and Tuesday. The remainder of the week I will be at the hospital with Tiana and will be offline. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers as they are greatly needed.