It's the pitch meeting for a Newspaper Movie, only it's an Urban Fantasy It's going to be Twilight meets All the Presidents Men! Exploring themes of freedom of the press, corruption, truth, and the undead. It's called All the President's Vampires where one intrepid reporter will get the tip of a lifetime from the ghost of Calvin Coolidge's pet raccoon Rebecca, which breaks the story that will take down a president. We open on a grizzled old reporter moving out of his DC brownstone because his wife is an angel, like literally, but it turns out even angels have a limit -- and being married to a fairy who can always detect the truth who went to journalism school is hers. That night, as he's guzzling beer at the local bar for journalists, (different than the pub for cops, the cafeteria for politicians, the steakhouse for lobbyists, the blood bank for vampires, and the morgue for zombies), he gets a tip through his anonymous email to meet a source in a parking … [Read more...] about 1 Reason Why Movies Should Not Have Vampires and Reporters
Urban Fantasy
There Are No Alpha Werewolves?!
I have a small problem with the state of current Urban Fantasy. It is all shifters all the way down! Here's an exploration into why that particular myth is a strange choice to go viral. Chaste sexy monsters? Sexy monsters have been around forever from Beauty and the Beast to Frankenstein. (Though if you want to dig deeper, just be prepared when googling sexy monster!) It seems to have really taken off with the film era and Bride of Frankenstein. But even so, until Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries, and Twilight, werewolves were not a part of global pop culture, and if they did get in, they were firmly bad guys and mostly there for the ick factor. Now we get swoony werewolves aimed at teenagers. What? Before the aughts, werewolves were bad guys; subprime mortgages were a great investment, and social media was young. The worst thing that happened on a platform was living vicariously through the juice cleanse of your junior year prom … [Read more...] about There Are No Alpha Werewolves?!