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Besides her new weird fiction fantasy series, Seattle Vampire Tales, queer author Ramona Ridgewell (she/her) has two poems in the speculative poetry anthology, ""Eccentric Orbits Volume 4: An Anthology Of Science Fiction Poetry,"" (May, 2023), and two poems in ""Eccentric Orbits 5: An Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry,"" (Summer, 2024). She co-edited ""Two Hour Transport Anthology: 2,"" (August, 2024). This anthology contains an excerpt from her debut novel, ""Being a Vampire ‐ Seattle Vampire Tales Book One,"" Intrepid Turtle Press (October 1, 2024).
Ridgewell's story of a Seattle-based vampire sub-culture during Covid and the George Floyd demonstrations provides an unforgettable mix of vampire and human characters who interact in the parks, alleys, and on the freeways of her nighttime city to produce an unforgettable romance, suspense, and horror novel. -- Seelye Martin Rix is trying survive in a Seattle locked down for Covid. And he's in love with a human woman, Maggie, an ER nurse always in danger from this new disease, while Rix himself also worries about vampire hunters that are killing his kind. This is a deeply compassionate novel about a vampire who wants to do the right thing by everyone - human and vampire - in a hostile and difficult world. It's a beautiful and compelling read, and an accurate account of the years Covid hit Seattle. -- Keyan Bowes
