{"product_id":"9781945373190","title":"Of Saints and Shadows","description":"\u003cbr clear=\"left\"\u003e  \u003c!--#include virtual=\"\/include\/rule_index.asp\" --\u003e  \u0026lt;%=fontruletext%\u0026gt;Christopher Golden Talks Vampires and Fiction\u003cbr\u003eby Douglas   Clegg\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;%=xfontruletext%\u0026gt;  \u0026lt;%=fontbulktext%\u0026gt;Christopher Golden may just be one of the most prolific authors around.  He's   sold more than 23 novels, the bestselling X-Men trilogy Mutant Empire, as well as a bestselling   series of \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" novels, which he cowro  te with Nancy Holder. His recent projects include \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/\u0026lt;%=searchhost%\u0026gt;\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?\u0026lt;%=sLinkPrefix%\u0026gt;\u0026amp;isbn=0399144%20%20501\"\u003eX-MEN: CODENAME WOLVERINE\u003c\/a\u003e and the popular \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/\u0026lt;%=searchhost%\u0026gt;\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?\u0026lt;%%20%20=sLinkPrefix%\u0026gt;\u0026amp;isbn=0671024337\"\u003eBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE WATCHER'S   GUIDE\u003c\/a\u003e.  Also, in May, Pocket Books will launch a quarterly series of young adult books, the   first entitled BODY BAGS.  In comics, Golden has signed to do a Batman: Elseworlds   project for DC  Comics, novels, novelizations, nonfiction -- is there anything the guy can't do?   Still, first and foremost, he's an imaginative and prodigious talent who never lets genre boundaries   hold him back, and his new novel, OF MASQUES AND MA  RTYRS, is no exception.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTired of the same old vampire stories, the voluptuous tales of heaving bosoms, sexy,   homoerotic undead, and purple prose? Look no further -- Christopher Golden has reinvented the   vampire myth into nonstop action, suspense, and fascinating dark fan  tasy.  Meet Peter Octavian, leader  of the coven of Shadows, part of a group of renegade   vampires who attempt to keep the vampire world from spinning out of balance.  They protect   human life as much as is possible from the darker vampires, who enjoy   carnage and chaos. Although the Shadows can shapeshift, they're not above using modern   ammunition and hand-to-hand fighting to keep their bad-boy vampire cousins in line.  This, the   third in The Shadow Saga, which began with OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS, is   Golden's best yet.  I had a few minutes with Christopher Golden and learned more about his   approach to writing, imagination, and vampires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;%=xfontbulktext%\u0026gt;          \u0026lt;%=fonttexthead%\u0026gt;Douglas Clegg\u0026lt;%=xfonttexthead%\u0026gt;:   \u0026lt;%=fontbulktext%\u0026gt;What drew you to vampires? What about them intrigues you? Do you think it's   a subgenre of fantasy and horror that can be exhausted, or is it an endless source of   ideas?\u0026lt;%=xfontbulktext%\u0026gt;      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;%=fonttexthead%\u0026gt;Christopher Golden\u0026lt;%=xfonttexthead%\u0026gt;:   \u0026lt;%=fontbulktext%\u0026gt;I've always loved vampire stories, but that isn't why I wrote this series.  Its   creation was prompted, actually, by one of the fundamental questions of the mythological world   I've created.  If vampires could transform themselves, on   a molecular level, into mist or a wolf or a bat, isn't it silly that they would have to stop there?  From   that, I began to craft a reason why vampires would \u003ci\u003ebelieve\u003c\/i\u003e such things to be true, and the   story grew in both directions.  As to the latt  er question, I truly believe that as long as there are imaginative writers, there will be new twists on   the subgenre.  It's all about the careful choosing of story elements, and how those elements are   then structured.\u0026lt;%=xfontbulktex%\u0026gt;    \u003c!--====================Q\u0026As, there must at least 2Qs and 2As, after that it's   optional=====================--\u003e                   \u003c!--====================Q\u0026As, there must at least 2Qs and 2As, after that it's   optional=====================--\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;%=fonttexthead%\u0026gt;DC\u0026lt;%=xfonttexthead%\u0026gt;:   \u0026lt;%=fontbulktext%\u0026gt;  Where do the ideas come from? I'm being a bit arch, since this is a typical interviewer question,   but you seem to have an especially rich treasure trove of ideas, and the energy to put them down   on paper in imaginative ways.\u0026lt;%=xfontbulktext%\u0026gt;    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;%=fonttexthead%\u0026gt;CG\u0026lt;%=xfonttexthead%\u0026gt;:   \u0026lt;%=fontbulktext%\u0026gt;The publishing world moves a bit too slow, actually. And that's an   understatement.  The three Shadow Saga books, of which OF MASQUES AND MARTYRS is the   latest, are really one major idea with several hundred little ideas thrown in.  I  'm fortunate enough to have ideas coming at me from several different angles.  From dreams, of   course.  From spur-of-the-moment inspiration, which no one can really explain. For instance, my   son watching \"Winnie-the-Pooh\" videos over and over, creati  ng within me a certain perverse hostility toward those characters, even though I love them, was   the inspiration for my upcoming Signet novel, STRANGEWOOD [due in September 1999.] And   then there are economic motivators, of course.  For instance, Hey,   this is suddenly hot, but it bores me...on the other hand, if you twisted it around and did something   similar, but \u003ci\u003enasty\u003c\/i\u003e...hmmm.  Some of my best ideas for work-for-hire projects have come   about in that way.  Or the \"How come they've never don  e \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e?\" angle.  That's common as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you split my work between original and   work-for-hire, I guess I would break it down this way: In work-for-hire, I want to get the characters   I'm doing down on paper exactly right.  I want to re-crea  te them at their fundamental level.  If I can do that, I feel like I've succeeded.  In my original work,   however, the motivations are completely different.  I don't mind using an element of this or that,   but whatever I choose to do, I want to do in a   way that I've never seen before.\u0026lt;%=xfontbulktext%\u0026gt;  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JournalStone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46439628701937,"sku":"9781945373190","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781945373190_p0.jpg?v=1765828733","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945373190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}