Writer and Editor C.B. Calsing/ G.G. Royale

Tween, vampire-obsessed me would have devoured Shelley Wilson’s Blood Born . I would have loved having age-appropriate vampire novels with a touch of romance then, and I was highly entertained by it now, even if I’m not part of the target demographic. When Emma is turned into a vampire, her world is turned upside down. Her grandmother is kidnapped, a mysterious woman shows up on her doorstep promising to help her, and she meets a male vampire she has an instant attraction toward. All of this is hard to process for the loner who has always been haunted by a darkness she can’t quite explain. Now she needs to fight her own family, whom she’s only just learned about, to save her grandmother and her new-found friends at the Haven, a place for vampire half-breeds. Unfortunately, the vampire who changed her does not have Emma’s best interests in mind, and conflicting prophesies offer little guidance. This is clearly the first in a series, as the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger. The plot has...

Here is the cover artwork for the next anthology in which one of my stories, "Beneath the Ironwoods," appears. It is set for a May release!