The Book

Why do I feel the need to write a book?

This year is the year I write a book.

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to write a book, and though the idea for the genre of this book has changed immensely over the past few years I think I am finally set on my idea for the book.

I think it is genuinely a terrible idea and the three words I would use to describe it right now in its very uncompleted format is… raunchy, excessive, and weird.

But yet I still think it’s a good idea.

And it took me awhile to get to this specific idea for this book.

Let me bring you back to January 2024, one year ago. (and this is going to jump around a bit)

It started when I watched the movie “Vampire Academy,” yes I know the movie wasn’t amazing but omg I loved and still love it so much. So, this started the journey of reading all 6 of Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy books and omg I cannot say enough how much I love them. They are everything. I have read other fantasy books and other vampire books and these just do something for me, I don’t know what it is.

Fast forward a bit to the middle of the year, I try and tackle the big “write a book goal,” I fall short. I try again, this time using my new found love of ChatGPT, and even with AI, I don’t complete it.

I tried writing 2, count it…one…two…books in 2024 and didn’t even get close to finishing them. wtf, why can’t I stay motivated, why can’t I do this?

Anyway, so throughout 2024, I am Obsessed with vampires… Anything vampire really, I started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (love it), I watched Interview with a Vampire the movie and the series ( love it!), I watched the twilight movies obviously (they’re okay), love love love vampires.

So my first book idea was a romance… no good… but my second was a book that I was going to call excessive and it was going to be all fantasy and fairytale creatures and it was going to have all the troupes and be crazy and confusing but of course the main character was going to be a vampire obviously.

Didn’t finish it… big shocker because it would have literally been so crazy.

So life goes on.

If you know me, you know I love true crime and my favorite true crime podcast is Morbid. Yes this may seem unrelated. So I go about my life and I think in November of 2024, I listen to one of their episodes, that I honestly can really remember details of now, but it was about this murderer who was nicknamed BlueBeard. I don’t really remember why, go listen to the episode if you want to know (Episode 626), Alaina and Ash are amazing.

So I listen to this episode and I go, huh, BlueBeard kinda sounds like BlackBeard. Huh, Blackbeard, haven’t thought about him in a while. You know what would be really crazy? If Blackbeard was a vampire, wouldn’t that be cool. Huh, I wonder if vampire pirates are a thing? Let me look up vampire pirates. Yooo vampirates! That’s such a cool name!

So I spent about an hour reading about the children’s book series by Justin Somper called Vampirates and then I watched about 45 minutes of a vampire pirate dinner show musical. So a pretty productive day for sure…

Then I do a bit more research and to my knowledge it looks like no ones really written about vampire pirates, or its been awhile at least. So I’m saying what the hell, why not?

That’s basically how I got the idea to write a book about Vampire Pirates. Don’t completely understand how I got there? yeah me neither.

If you’re reading this (what are you doing here?) Love you, Bisous. Good Bye.