The Upside of Oral Surgery

Is there anything worse than sitting in  a reclined chair while a stranger with two assistants do unspeakable things to your mouth? Well, ok, there are a lot worse things but you know what I mean.
 I was prepared for the ordeal by first taking some temapzepam an hour before the event. This, I was told, was for anxiety...of which I had none, really. I knew this whole thing was not going to be fun from the beginning.
  Arrived at the posh office and everyone was all polite smiles and cheerful dispositions and I wondered why it took two no nonsense assistants to usher me into the office. Did they think I would make a break for it?
 Dentist arrives promptly and is filled with assurances but at least he does not offer any jokes as he begins to inject the local anesthetic into all parts of my mouth--so much that the tip of my nose goes numb and that's ok because then they hook me to the nitrous oxide. Now I've never had 'laughing gas' or 'sweet air' before and I was hoping to get some sort of rush.  You've no idea how disappointed I was!
It was explained to me that this would make me less conscious of how much time I'd be worked on. Well, the nine hours of lying there and listening to the cracks and buzzing felt just like nine hours!
  I do have to admit that I did feel groggy when it was all done--they wheeled me out to my patient wife who'd had her hair done and all I could day way "Mgrmmph" as my mouth was stuffed with gauze.
Feel good today, however and the best part is that i should stick to cool/cold beverages for the next several days and no strenuous activity which means I can write, watch TV, write and drink beer! So back to the final proof of ABIGAIL'S BLOOD PASSION!

What happened to the vampires of our youth?

Remember when you used to go to a vampire movie when you were a kid?  The sinister male lead, draped in an ominous black cape and his victims were all buxom, sensual women dressed in negligees? If you were an adolescent guy, it was the closest thing to soft core porn. If you were a budding girl, it was the closest thing to soft core porn. Ah, the guilty pleasure of it all! Then we got older, more worldly and the vampires of our youth were tossed next to old baseball spikes and unused dolls.
  And my how the vampires have changed! They lost their street creds and now, depending on what you watch or read, look as if they just stepped out of LA FITNESS and dress like models from Vogue or GQ. Then there is the ever popular Goth look so popular in movies nowadays--lots of Spandex and black leather (not that I don't appreciate that look with buxom vampires). Story lines have changed as well--now it all seems so soap opera, doesn't it? She's a vampire and he's a werewolf--how can their union survive? She's a vampire and he's some hunky mortal--how can their union survive? The best: the vampire king is evil as hell but there is a newer, younger, more hip version trying to usurp the vampire throne...so damn sad!
That why I wrote ABIGAIL'S BLOOD PASSION, a vampire novel that doesn't insult an adult's intelligence or strain credulity. Of course there is a lot of sex (it IS a vampire novel, after all)! Along the way I've addressed the vampire legend in a different way, too. It ain't as easy to be a vampire these days but you'll have to read the book to find out. ABIGAIL'S BLOOD PASSION is in the final stages of publication should be available soon...read it!

I'm being very sympathetic for Abigail this evening as I've been having a helluva toothache for the past two, sleepless nights.  What could be worse for a vampire than a toothache?  Well, of course there's the sun and the NSA. "Wait," you ask. "The NSA?"
And I answer with an emphatic YES!  Not much had changed for vampires for thousands of years--they knew where and how to hide but in this data-hungry age, records are kept of everything! Part of Abigail's problem (the problem of most predators) is how to remain hidden.
  Anyway, the book should be out soon and you can see how she deals with it!
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