Bite Bits: Gabrielle Faust, Tanya Huff, Anne Rice & ... Kyle Schmid?

Gabrielle Faust (who can also be found on Twitter by the same name, re: Gabrielle Faust ), author of the Eternal Vigilance book series, is in the process of adapting a script, with acclaimed indie director Anthony Brownrigg, for the first novel in EV series. And a petition has been started to collect signatures to "show...enthusiasm for this creative project and prove to possible movie studio executives that there is a demand for this film to be made". Here is a link to the petition: Help Make Eternal Vigilance into a movie! 

The goal is to collect 500,000 siggy's by the end of 2010. And I for one, am in hope that they will be able to achieve this goal (hence why I've decided to dedicate a blog post about it).

As an avid, die hard vampire fan(g) girl, I would be lying (to myself and you) if I said that I didn't want to see more vamp fare out there.

I most certainly would. 

But that doesn't mean that just for the sake of making vampire film (or Tv series), it should be: come what may, or anything goes, be it good or bad!

Not at all!

But when something merits being explored, when it has the "chops" (pardon the pun), to potentially become something great (or even greater than it is), then one can only hope it be given the chance to do so.

I mean, when you think of it, there have been some (books-to-film) which have been given the chance to become more than what they are, but have left some of us, (of the more logic mind in my opinion), thinking; "Really? ... but it wasn't all that good!" ( insert obvious Twilight reference here)...

And just in case there is wonder as to what makes me qualified to critique what merits a good or bad piece of literature or film - well I cut my teeth on Dracula and Anne Rice novels at the early age of 12 and 13. Not to mention, at an even earlier age (6? 7?) on some classic films of varying genres, from Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles to silent films, musicals and foreign language...

But I digress!

Faust's EV series continuously garners positive critical appeal, some of which can be read here: http://www.gabriellefaust.com/about-the-book 

So it's with a love for things that go "bite in the night" that I'm hoping and supporting that this book-to-film, gets to see the light of ... a studio set!

And yes, Gabrielle just happens to be a "HUGE" fan of actor Kyle Schmid (the embodiment of vampire Henry Fitzroy from tv's Blood Ties)... But that's beside the point!

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And speaking of Blood Ties, Tanya Huff, author of the Blood Books, on which Blood Ties is/was based, and from where we got our beloved vampire Henry Fitzroy (as played by Kyle Schmid ) is now on Twitter! Re: http://twitter.com/TanyaHuff 

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And speaking of authors, the (former?) vampire queen B herself, Mrs. Anne Rice, has, for want of a better term, "taken notice" of actor Kyle Schmid (it all comes back to him in this blogpost doesn't it? LoL!).

Albeit it was mainly to comment on the visually aesthetic appeal of the young actor - as fans posted photos in response to her (Rice's) FaceBook post that day regarding, one Matt Bomer of the tv show White Collar . 

Rice (referring to Bomer) said (and I quote): "I just love Matt Bomer. It's so difficult to determine what makes beauty; poise, voice, demeanor, all this is part of the mystery along with killer blue eyes and gorgeous dark hair, and gorgeous facial bone structure."

To which a fan of hers (and Kyle's I presume) replied: "Hi Anne, that description of Mr. Bomer (re: beauty; poise, voice, demeanor, ... killer blue eyes and gorgeous dark hair, and gorgeous facial bone structure) is also closely reminiscent of another actor (albeit younger than the aforementioned). This is actor Kyle Schmid!"

The pic posted by said fan must have caught the authors eye, for she then took the time to comment on it. You can see her comment here on her FaceBook page!

So who knows, reliable sources tell me (i.e. someone who had emailed her and received a response) that although she had "never heard of Blood Ties", she will "check it out when she can."

So in this world of "never knows", we may just yet hear her comment on more than his "aesthetic appeal", but his damn fine acting chops as well! ;o)

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And as I'm on the Kyle Schmid trend in this post, I might as well go full circle and add a fan made youtube video here, wherein, Kyle as his character vampire Henry Fitzroy, stars.


This vid (in my opinion) brings to mind a line of dialogue from the Blood Ties epi 5:55, where Henry says to Vicki: "I don't need to make a sexual advance... I am ONE!"

Well, you be the judge! 

Happy V-day! Here are some Vampires for Valentines Vids.

So I scoured the web (youtube) to find a plethora of certain Vampire related vids for Valentines.
Here are a few (several) featuring my top three Vamps du Jour ( or more specifically du Nuit!) : Henry Fitzroy (Kyle Schmid), Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). Enjoy the double V-day (Vampires and Valentines) Love!

**Note: the order is from bottom up (i.e. last is 1st)**

And of course finishing with the Honarable H himself, Henry Fitzroy:

And of course as they say, when it's nice, do it twice, so here's another Vampire for your Valentines more Honorable Henry:

Oh well what, the hell! When it's this nice, you do it thrice! More Vampire for Valentines, means more naughty, haughty Henry (as portrayed perfectly by Kyle Schmid ) :

Followed by... the E-man, Eric Northman (and the True Blood crew):

Starting with... the D-man, Damon Salvatore:

Sympathy for the D-Man: Damon Salvatore

**Caution, may contain spoilers if you’ve not seen the episodes yet! **

If you tuned in to these episodes of the last two weeks of the Vampire Diaries: Children of the Damned and Fool Me Once (Thurs. Feb. 5^th and Thurs. Feb. 11^th) respectively, then like most (if not all) of us who diligently and dedicatedly watch each week, you would probably have been at the edge of your seat (or close to tears after last night), with all that was going on therein, especially as it relates to Damon. 

In short we could have called these two episodes: The Damon Diaries!

In Children of the Damned, we were taken back, waaay back to a time of corsets and waistcoats (1864). And we were made privy to "from whence he came", that is to say: The innocence of Damon Salvatore, before he went all "Grr Argh" vampire. 

That episode of TVD (as it is often referred to on Twitter ) was a roller coaster ride of revelations from beginning to end (and yet had still left us with cliffhangers) including: more as to why Anna (Jeremy's "cute stalker chick") wants to find the grimoire almost as badly as Damon does, and why Damon told Stefan (back in the pilot episode): "I promised you an eternity of misery, so I'm just keeping my word."

The Damon of "Then" (1864) was devoted and in love with Katerine, even after knowing that she was a vampire. He was so in love that he was willing to have himself turned to be able to stay with her.

Unlike Stefan, Damon was very perceptive of their father Giuseppe Salvatore and protective of Katherine, and he knew that Giuseppe would not understand nor accept the fact of Katherine's true nature, even if they'd all come to love her.

Hence Damon beseeches Stefan, no matter what, not to disclose anything to their father Giuseppe. But as Stefan reveals, he had "put my fate in my father and Damon put his fate in me and I destroyed that."

And so leads to the first act of betrayal on Damon by Stefan.

Then of course in the same epi. (Children of the Damned), we saw the further betrayal of Damon by the “lovely” Elena. After she (albeit afterwards regrettably) told Damon that she was “telling the truth” about Stefan’s loyalty in helping Damon release Katherine. 

The look of hurt that Damon gives Elena on her betrayal could not be hidden. I tell ya, if looks could kill…

Well as if that wasn’t enough, switch to last nights (Thurs. Feb. 11^th) episode: Fool Me Once. Just when you thought that Damon would have his “happy ending”, lo and behold we find out that Katherine, the love (and death) of his immortal life – WAS NEVER IN THE TOMB! 

And furthermore that she has been alive, undead and well all this time, never once coming to seek out, “the love struck idiot” (as Anna called him) that is Damon.

Thus by the end of the episode, Damon is left betrayed and bereft. And you wonder why he has trust issues?

It is with regard to all these harrowing happenings over those two episodes, why I can’t help but feel sympathy for Damon. 

Yes, true I am already a fan of the D-man – reason being from the beginning that I was a sucker for this bad boy – but now added to that, is also the fact that beneath his "cocky much" exterior, we see there is much more to Damon as he is now, in the present day and moreover WHY he came to be the way he is, i.e. “acting” the bastard.

Stefan may be considered by some the better brother to like, but Damon is by far the rebel with a cause, that cause being - “Love”! 

Happy Valentines… Vampire Diaries, Dearies! ♥

**Note: The Vampire Diaries will be on haitus, returning March 25th!**

Love Cures Cancer (or a former Vampires Valentine request)

So this post is mainly in promo of a cause near and dear to the heart of one human who used to play a vampire (and with any hope and luck will one day play a vampire again :o).  

Kyle Schmid ( the embodiment of vampire Henry Fitzoy) and one of the founders of  the Love Cures Cancer charity made this announcement, earlier this week via his official FaceBook page :

Kyle Schmid Ladies and gentlemen the countdown is on. One week until Love Cures Cancer 2. The second annual party to raise money for the Los Angeles Children's Hospital. Please do your best to make a donation or spread the word! February 10th it kicks off at Voyeur in Hollywood!

  More info can be found on the LCC site: Love Cures Cancer.

And here is Kyle's PSA from last year:

Death Becomes HIM (and Poem featured)

Well, as it was announced yesterday, not even 24hrs ago as yet, that Sam Worthington is in talks to play Dracula in a film titled Dracula Year Zero.

This adds to the already growing number of actors who are associated with vampire or vampire related films, including Johnny Depp set to play Barnabas Collins in a Dark Shadows remake and Brad Pitt set to produce Vlad.

Soon, before you know it, everyone in Hollywood will have been "Vamped".

So it's with that fang-tastic idea in mind that I am posing the question to you my dear readers: Which actor (or actress if you will) would you like to see play a vampire, be it again or for the first time, in Tv or film?

And continuing in the vein of things, My poem Beautiful/ Deadly is featured today for Writer's Wednesdays on author Nicole Hadaway's blog All things Smart and Scary.

And in celebration of All things Beautiful and Deadly, here are two fan made videos featuring actors who play(ed) vampires, and if I do say so myself, Death Becomes them both Beautifully indeed: It's Vampire Henry Fitzroy (as embodied by actor Kyle Schmid) in a fan vid set to the song Time of Dying by Three Days Grace.
And Vampire Damon Salvatore (as portrayed by actor Ian Somerhalder) in a fan vid set to the song Oh Death by Jen Titus.

And the Winner is....

CONGRATULATIONS go  to CheriS33 who has WON the random draw (done by Nicole) from last weeks contest, for an e-copy of Nicole Hadaway's Release!

Please send your email address to me, so I can forward to Nicole, @ VampirePhile@Gmail.com

And THANK YOU ALL who participated. 

It was great to read all the comments about Henry and to know that he is a vampire who still (and always will) hold(s) a special place in all our hearts!

Author Nicole Hadaway guest post w/ Contest: "Why I Love Henry Fitzroy".

Today VampirePhile welcomes and has the pleasure of hosting author Nicole Hadaway as guest, along with a contest (from Nicole).

Nicole is the author of Release, which recently got four fangs via Fang-tastic Books blog review. And today, Nicole's post relates to one of the subjects which (to quote Nicole) was: " one of the the catalysts that spurred me on to write my own vampire novel."

Of course, Nicole was referring to one of her/my/our favourite vampire Tv shows: Blood Ties, which is still missed to this day by many (if not all) fans of the series.

So it is in that vein, (pardon the obvious pun), in which she writes today, one of the quintessential fave vampires of our time - as perfectly embodied by Kyle Schmid - none other, than, Henry Fitzroy.

Why I Love Henry Fitzroy

by Nicole Hadaway

I lived in Europe for a year and therefore missed out on an entire season of American television. (This wasn’t always a bad thing ;-), but I did miss out on Moonlight. However, our cable system was wise enough to show Blood Ties, and that was when I fell in love.

I didn’t really read paranormal mysteries, preferring instead the more human kind, like Agatha Christie, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. Yet I always enjoyed watching vampires on TV or in the movies – Fright Night, The Lost Boys, Angel and Buffy are among my faves, and my two all-time favorite television shows, Charmed and Xena:Warrior Princess certainly don’t skimp on the paranormal fantasy!

Now look, I’m a little old here – I actually saw The Lost Boys in the movie theater when it played back in 1987! I also saw Fright Night the year before, and the vampire in that movie was everything I thought a vampire should be: smooth, suave, handsome, cultured, well-mannered and confident.

Very much like Henry Fitzroy. I was so happy to see Henry as a well-mannered, cultured vampire who had a conscience but didn’t overdo it – he still played with his food, and made no apologies about preferring female humans (like -- where can I sign up to be on his dinner guest list? ;-). He didn’t abuse his feeding, though, and he was a great mix of a nice bad-boy.

Plus, Kyle Schmid did an amazing, just awesomely wonderful job as Henry. He is a really great actor and should really be in more movies. 

I know Soni is a member of Kyle Schmid Central so I can confess here that I rented and watched Joy Ride 2 and The Thaw just to see Kyle!
In recent years I’ve been a fan of historical fiction, so I really liked the idea that Henry was tied to the actual illegitimate son of Henry VIII, who supposedly died of tuberculosis. Very, very clever of Tanya Huff to have taken the tuberculosis symptoms (paleness, tiredness, shortness of breath and death) and put a vampiric spin on them!

After Blood Ties was mercilessly canceled, I had to get my Henry fix by reading the books (though admittedly I only read two of the Blood Series but all three of the Smoke Series which are really good and I highly recommend them). The books gave more details about Henry’s history, which got me thinking about my own vampire, Miranda.

Miranda had been in my mind for nearly 20 years at that point, but I never could come up with an original story for her. Not until I started thinking about her own history, and where she was during important historical events such as World War II. The more I thought about her during that time period, well, that was how Release was born.

So that’s why I love Henry: because he’s a great incarnation of the cultured, civilized vampire who’s got a bit of a bad-boy edge. Thinking about his own history was one of the catalysts that spurred me on to write my own vampire story, and I hope he would approve of Miranda as much as she admires him ;-)

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About the Author:

Nicole Hadaway used to work as a lawyer, but now she only writes about such things as bloodsuckers and deals with the devil (sorry! she couldn't resist a lawyer joke there!). After having lived in such varied places as Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Louisiana and even Monaco, she now makes her home in Texas.  Her first novel, Release, was published in September 2009 and features vampires in a World War II setting. She’s currently working on the sequel, Return, which takes place during September 2001.  If you'd like to read more about her, you can go to her blog here: http://nicole-hadaway@blogspot.com.

!!!Contest Time!!!

Nicole has offered to give a free e-copy of her book Release (sorry, it's not out in paper-back as yet) to one lucky person who names what they like most about Henry. Contest is open until Monday, January 25th, 10am eastern. So leave your comment replies below to enter!

Names will be drawn at random and Winner announced later in the week, so be sure to check back to see if you've won or you can be sure to provide an email address to which Nicole can contact you to send the e-copy of Release.

And here's an added special treat, by request from Nicole, and which may help in reminding you all what is liked most about Henry. It's a fan made Blood Ties vid set to Kelly Clarkson's Beautiful Disaster.  Enjoy!

Announce: Author Nicole Hadaway as Guest this Thursday w/ Contest.

This coming Thursday January 21st, VampirePhile will have the pleasure of hosting Nicole Hadaway author and blog owner of All Things Smart and Scary as Guest. Nicole will be guest blogging on a specific subject (that will be of particular interest to you Blood Ties fans) and there will also be a contest involved (the 1st ever for VampirePhile). 

So stay tuned!