Old vs New Vampire novels

I don't think it needs to appeal to adolescent girls. I know a lot of adult women who love vampire books and are a little embarrassed because they are reading YA titles. I think there is a market out there for 20, 30 year old women who enjoy reading about vampires and would appreciate a more dialog driven, adult story (including yours truly).
I think part of the appeal of vampire fiction lies in women's "need" to save tortured men and in return be rescued. A romantic interest would probably help sell the story - when people talk about vampire books, it usually comes down to a love triangle, and that is what they seem to be rememberd for... Eric v. Bill, Damon v. Stephan, Edward v. Jacob... some people have a tendency to focus on the romantic plot and I think that is what draws many women into vampire fiction. It isn't necessary, but it seems to help.

It does not have to appeal to girls at all. Besides that niche is filled by Twilight already. Better to write stories closer to horror, not many of those any more.

The Passage by Justin Cronin is getting a lot of positive attention and it's about futuristic scary vampires, not sexy teen heartthrobs.

The women as victims/superfluous characters...

well... at least can you try to skip the "women as herded animals for raping" theme that is in most of the horror books I've been subjected to over the past year?

Rather not see them at all than have this repetitive "fantasy" theme show up again.

Lots of competition in the teen-angst category, and also in the more mature "porn for women" (Ward, Frost, heck, even Harris) category so I'd say going for the group that Cronin was targeting would be a good bet.

Is your novella something that's available for us to read now? If so, I'm sure many of us would read it and could possibly then give a better opinion on how it could be expanded upon to create a full-length novel. I would definitely be interested in reading it!

Bit of a tangent thought here, but, hell yeah The Passage by Justine Cronin is scary. It's a doorstop of a book and I'm to a point where I can't read it before bed. Shivers!!!

Worlds away from Laurel K. Hamilton which has become purely porn.

>8 GirlMisanthrope:. HA! Totally agree with you GirlMisanthrope, on the Laurel K. Hamilton porn comment!!

Hey!! anyone can say me some names of unpublised novels..

I'd say if you have an idea for re-interpreting the vampire or putting your own spin on the subject, do it. Though somewhat maligned now, the reason the Twilight books became popular is because they were doing something different and you could say the same of Brian Lumley, Charlaine Harris and Kim Newman to name three. All very different interpretations of the creature but it was the fact they were different that got people's attention.

Could be interesting.