Sabrina is Not a Happy Camper

Okay, I've just been on another world, and you'd think I'd be happy to get back, but damn it! Men. They're all the same. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Love them, that is.

What? You mean you didn't know I was even gone? Well, I was. It was not something I could get around, being sucked into a portal is not too much fun and then trying to find my cousin and on another world where vampires rule. You try taking on the king of vampires and see if you come back at all without being impaled!

Why am I so grouchy? I'll tell you. I'll tell you... Vasyl is leaving me alone. He realized I hadn't gotten over Dante (you remember, the shiftchanger I was seeing and then we quit seeing one another because of his master--that damned Bjorn Tremayne--told him to keep his hands off me. Screw him! Bastard!) I happened to be in love with him (Dante), and then everything went too fast when Vasyl asked me to marry him. At the time, I didn't know Dante was so sick he would die. I figured if he wasn't interested in me, I'd marry someone who was!

But now Vasyl is letting me mend my broken heart, even though we're married. I'm so messed up, angry, I just want to spit.

And now things have happened in a way that might screw everything up.
Oh, crap, I can't tell you much, if you haven't read the book,Vampire Nocturne http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Nocturne-Sabrina-Strong-ebook/dp/B00BD75KE0/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361635152&sr=1-17&keywords=Vampire+Nocturne

*****SPOILER ALERT****
You see, when Dante died (in Vampire's Trill http://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Trill-ebook/dp/B006GSS29Q/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1) he came to me in his astral shell, and gave me a stone that I keep with me always. I wore it while on Beyond the Black Veil. Then, while I killed the Dreadfuls, it collected their essence. Very creepy. And then at a moment when things looked really bad for me, he appeared. Well, Dante was a bear first, and fought off a couple of vampires while I was tied to a chair and they were draining me. God. I hated that place! Then he appeared to me, and killed someone who was all part of the plot to kill me.

So, yeah. Dante is back. I'm in two minds what to do. He's not exactly human, though. He's still, like sort of... well all the way dead, but more than a ghost. I haven't figured out what he is, and he's staying away as well. So, yeah. Dante is back in my world. And with Vasyl staying away it's making me crazy--we haven't even consumated our marriage yet!!

Thanksgiving is coming up (book #4 Vampire Caprice due out in December 2013), and Bill Gannon is still staying across the street in Mrs. Bench's house pretending to be her grandson. I know he's the off-spring of Nephilim (a few generations), and what he wants with me... well, I'm not going to go into that right now. It's like what the vampires all want from me, since I'm the sibyl and there's this prophesy that says I'm supposed to bring the dhampire into the world. I'm not willing to let them have their way with me. I'm just not in a mothering sort of mood right now.

So, I'm just trying to stay sane. Maybe I can have a normal, very human Thanksgiving? You see, I can't tell my brother and his wife about my troubles. They don't even know I'm married, let alone married to a vampire. Oh, that would be fun to blurt out in front of my brother and all my relatives--especially my grandma. No, wait. Maybe bring Vasyl to Thanksgiving dinner? No... I couldn't. I just couldn't do that.  Could I?

How To Interrupt a Vampire's Good Time

“I can remember that one night, at my place, when we nearly . . .” Tremayne's sultry voice purred in my ear over the phone.

“Yeah,” I said, squirming in my seat.

“We should take a road trip, somewhere. Just you and me. Get the hell away,” he suggested.

“Mmmm. Not gonna happen,” I said.

That reminded me of the time he pulled me out of that house, rescuing me on his big Harley, and sped off into the night. We wound up at his private place, which is now his new headquarters. He almost took my blood.

But that reminds me of something else. Something important. The vampires are now allowed to hunt humans. I kid you not. So be aware of that, please, when you go out at night.

Sabrina Strong here. I'm filling in for Lorelei today. I think she's gone off with her hubby, for a little get away day. Cool.

I didn't start out as a vampire slayer. I still don't think of myself as a sibyl, or anything but me, Sabrina Strong, a touch clairvoyant who just happens to have been bitten by a werewolf. Oh, and you'll find out what happened to that guy in the second book of my adventures.

But, I got off my original track. I thought I'd discuss with you the basics of vampire lore and the confusion that people have about them.

Like you can't tell a human from a vampire by using the mirror/reflection technique. That won't work, like in all the Dracula movies. Vampires have a reflection. They have physical bodies; why shouldn't they have a reflection?

I wouldn't recommend slaying a vampire yourself. Vampires don't sleep in coffins and believe me they are completely dead to the world as some would have you believe. In other words, you wouldn't be able to sneak up on one and put a stake through his heard. And Buffy, she is The Slayer, so she can do it one-handed, which is cool.

I, on the other hand, have this cool dagger. Well, I can't tell you too much about it, it might spoil the next book for you, so I won't say anything else about it.

But if you do wish to sharpen a couple of stakes, just in case, be sure it's the right kind of wood. oak, hawthorn, ash, rowan are all good to use.

Crucifixes are good too to thwart a vampire's thrall, but only if that vampire was a Christian in their human life. And a believer. All important things to know.

But, if you aren't really up to staking a vampire—gak, who is?--just go for the old reliable; holy water in a water pistol. Works every time!