So it feels very exciting to have been in on the ground floor of urban fantasy and to see what’s happened to it since then. We all started out at roughly the same time. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, and Patricia Briggs.

That was kind of something that evolved around the first few writers in that area, like Laurell K. Well, there wasn’t an urban fantasy when I started out. Read the interview: Feature Interview: Charlaine Harris - Fantasy Magazine CHARLAINE HARRIS ON HOW URBAN FANTASY HAS GROWN AS A CATEGORY SINCE SHE STARTED HER TRUE BLOOD BOOKS We don’t want to grab you and bite you.” And people could believe that because people are gullible. Vampires would say, “Oh no, we’re not dangerous. So I read some articles about synthetic blood, which never has really worked out before now-though people have made the attempt-and it seemed to me like a viable synthetic blood would be the perfect answer to my problems.

So they would have to have another food source. But to make them less frightening, to give them a reason for being out, I had to develop a theory that would let them look less vicious. My initial thought on the series was I wanted to write about a woman dating a vampire. CHARLAINE HARRIS ON HER VAMPIRES USING SYNTHETIC BLOOD The author shares how the urban fantasy category has grown since she started, talks us trug her jump from mystery writer to urban fantasy author, and reveals which TV depiction of one of her True Blood characters she liked the best.

Dead in the family by charlaine harris