Please forgive me if this has been mentioned in other posts, but I came across something the other day, that I would like people's thoughts on.
Now, before I get into it, I just want to say that I've read plenty of PNR, and see new books coming out all the time. So, I know this isn't a big issue with regards to sales, and there's always an audience for it.
I've heard some writers are shying away from using terms like Vampire, Werewolves etc. because it's "cheesy".
I only ask because I have an idea for an adult romance that involves a man who drinks the "life essence" in people's blood to make him live longer. He doesn't have a problem with sunlight, silver, garlic, or anything else like that. So I wasn't planning on calling him a vampire as I don't think it fulfils the brief. I wasn't going to give him a name at all, actually, but that's for another post.
Would readers think I was trying to get out of calling a spade, a spade? Or in my case, call a vampire, a vampire?
Now, before I get into it, I just want to say that I've read plenty of PNR, and see new books coming out all the time. So, I know this isn't a big issue with regards to sales, and there's always an audience for it.
I've heard some writers are shying away from using terms like Vampire, Werewolves etc. because it's "cheesy".
I only ask because I have an idea for an adult romance that involves a man who drinks the "life essence" in people's blood to make him live longer. He doesn't have a problem with sunlight, silver, garlic, or anything else like that. So I wasn't planning on calling him a vampire as I don't think it fulfils the brief. I wasn't going to give him a name at all, actually, but that's for another post.
Would readers think I was trying to get out of calling a spade, a spade? Or in my case, call a vampire, a vampire?