INTERVIEWING one of my FAVORITE AUTHORS...

G.D. Ogan
G. D. Ogan; Author of the Immortal Relations series!!!

Q: What are you working on?

A: Currently I'm jumping WAY OUT OF MY Adult Paranormal-Romance genre' working on a book for my six year old granddaughter Lily titled, "Lily and the Time Buggy." It's about building a time machine to take Lily, her Pop-Pop (me) and a friend of mine who owns a "Museum of Pre-History" back to the age of dinosaurs. This is not a "See Spot run, see Jane chase Spot, see John follow Jane" type of book for a child to read (too many big words and concepts). It's a book to be read to a child by an adult who can explain some of what the book contains. My granddaughter LOVES DINOSAURS so this is going to be for her, I'm not sure I'll get it published. Once finished, I'll work on my forth book in my "Immortal Relations" series titled, "Immortal Relations, REVENGE!" I already know what it is about and much of the action for it.



Q: How does your work differ from others of the same genre?

A: I REALLY RESPECT the new crop of authors who are bringing "NEW LIFE" to the genre' of the LIVING DEAD! One of my favorites is, of course, Augusta and her Morte' Series. I just LOVE the developing relationship between her two principle characters Babet and Cian and all the supporting caste (what a great series of films it would make). My vampires are unusual in many ways, for the little blood they need they have corporations owning funeral homes. In accordance with funerary laws blood from the deceased is replaced with preservatives and rather than having that blood flushed, it is quick frozen for later use by our good vampires - a true symbiotic relationship. The good vampires were, for the most part, "changed" by being attacked by the out of control, evil type of vampires. My good vampires have sworn to protect humans from such attacks, harm from human criminals and the evil designs of power-mad politicians trying to enslave the masses. My guardian vampires live together for mutual defense in The Residency Coven, as well as other covens and in the third book open a new coven in the lower part of Canada outside of Cayuga in an old military armory they have refurbished and made into a Health Spa. Gary, the primary male character starts as a human in search of information about where his late father worked at the end of World War Two when he finds a photograph which reveals that his father had had a tryst while stationed overseas. Flying to Prague, Czechoslovakia, he meets a lovely but very unusual young lady. But she seems to know far more about his father than she possibly could. Gary immediately realizes she is not the normal human female he has dealt with before, but it isn't long before he cannot hide his growing love for her.



Q: Why do you write what you do?

A: The first book, "Immortal Relations" starts out with a true-life family story. When "Gary" finds the photograph of his late father as a young man in Prague, that part is true (only in this case Gary Logan is actually Guy Ogan - yours truly). It was my own father whose picture is on page two of the book. When I found that photograph a flood of memories returned to me of things my late mother had said, many, many years before - things I couldn't understand when I was just a child. She had said, "He is over there with THAT woman!" When I asked who she was talking about she would say nothing. I would later hear her exclaim, "He has had a child with THAT woman!" Again, there was no further information provided when I asked, but not long after that she asked me "What would you do if I divorced your father?" I was only six years old and not as sophisticated and street savvy as many children are today so I never put two and two together. Finding all this out and having all those memories come flooding back WAS MORE THAN A SHOCK TO ME. That night I couldn't sleep and I got up and felt compelled to go to the computer. I was a competent typist in college and during my graduate programs, but arthritis had taken its toll on the flexibility of my hands. However, that night the story poured forth at a speed from my fingers I had never reached before and it was as if they had taken on a "life-of-there-own." You could say my Muse took over...or perhaps that I channeled that first story, as if to give a different and positive view of vampirism, one not seen before. With the subsequent novels, "Immortal Relations, Love and War" and "Immortal Relations Coming Out" a lot is "provided" through my dreams and because of my diverse background of military officer and working in the Texas Prison System, retiring as a Psychologist, the stories are mostly about what I have done or was trained to do, as well as what I believe is important. Basically, Gary is in fact ME...I can honestly say, "To know Gary is to know me."



Q: How does your writing process work?

A: As alluded to above, I dream in character and get up and type or sit at the keyboard in the daytime and type what comes to (or through) me. I love to type late into the night and past the break of dawn when the house is quiet and I can let the story flow consciously or unconsciously.

Immortal Relations
Immortal Relations: Love & War

**G. D.'s books can be found…

"Immortal Relations" http://amzn.com/B006ZCBT6G Caution, there is "explicit togetherness" sex in the book.


"Immortal Relations, Love and War" http://amzn.com/B00A4IEHL6 Action on steroids, but far less explicit sex.


"Immortal Relations Coming Out" http://amzn.com/B00G5BQS18 A lot of political intrigue as well as romance.