Goodreads asked Katherine Villyard:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Katherine Villyard My writer's group has writers at all levels, and one was moaning that everything "has been done." I firmly believe that execution is the most important thing, so we had a one-time challenge of "the vampire has a wife, and the story is set within the last two years." As I expected, everyone's story was completely different! One had a lot of world-building about the chosen vampire hunter who decides not to perform her duty because she's touched by the bond between the vampire couple. One had a very rationalist tale in which a man who got an odd virus from a bat messes with a telemarketer (his wife was an elderly, um, snack). One was slapstick humor about a vampire ne'er do well, his nagging wife, and his career difficulties.

And then there was me.

There was this voice that started talking to me, and he kept talking. He talked to me for 52,000 words, and is still super chatty in revisions. I didn't mean to write a vampire novel, but... he talked, and he talked, and I followed him wherever he wanted to go. (This was Abraham, for those of you who've read "Becoming.")

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