The origins of Templar's Fire, a Gothic Vampire Novel
When I began writing the story Templar‘s Fire, a Gothic Vampire novel (http://www.scribd.com/doc/16391295/Templars-Fire-A-Gothic-Vampire-Novel), I started with an image that stuck in my head. I kept seeing this eerie looking guy hiding behind a stone altar peering around the corner as if he was waiting to attack someone. Didn’t know why, but the picture stayed with me.
Since my interests at the time were in researching the Knights Templar due to a Templar ancestor who died while fighting alongside them (in Egypt of course), that eerie guy transformed into an ex-Templar.
Before all of this, I had worked on science fiction stories, with an occasional horror tossed in and really wanted to write a vampire story. However, I wanted my vampire to be closer to the classic style vampire and I wanted him as close to invincible as possible. Since the Knights Templar allegedly knew dark magic, I decided that Edwin Blutleer needed those skills.
By then, I had begun writing his tale and knew that he was the guy looking from behind that stone altar. I placed the altar in a fictitious old church in Cornwall, England not far from where an actual Templar church still stands. Who but a vicar would be entering the church early in the morning? The confrontation was set, and I let the characters guide me from there.
I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
Margaret Atwood”
—The Handmaid's Tale
About Larry
Born, raised and educated in New York, Larry Schliessmann is a 2004 winner of the L Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, an Ezine Articles Platinum author, and a 2009 winner of the “National Novel Writing Month.”
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