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“Kids today read more than ever before, but they’re reading screens instead of pages. What does that mean for books? I think it means that we need new books for them.” -Bekka Black

DarkMedia Interviews Bekka Black: After a childhood often spent without electricity and running water, Bekka Black (pseudonym for author Rebecca Cantrell) escaped the beautiful wilderness of Talkeetna, Alaska for indoor plumbing and 24/7 electricity in Berlin, Germany. Used to the [...]

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“Very few of us are heroes, and all of us at some point in our lives are villains whether we know it or not, whether we want to admit it or not, and that’s how I see the vampires in my story.” -Michael Smith

DarkMedia Interviews Michael Smith: Caballo Blue’s Michael Smith is an art director living in Chicago with his two crazy macaws, Mitch and Bruno. He sometimes let’s his imagination run wild. When did you begin work on “Caballo Blue”? What would [...]

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“My starting point was that I wanted my vampires to be indisputably the bad guys… I wanted to get back to the monsters of my childhood.” -Jasper Kent

DarkMedia Interviews Jasper Kent: Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire, England in 1968. He attended King Edward’s School, Birmingham and went on to study Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specialising in physics. Jasper has spent almost twenty years working [...]

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