I’m sure all of you have noticed the graphic of the backless woman on the right hand side of the page. If you haven’t you should have your lesbian card revoked. It is part of the cover of everafter, a new lesbian vampire themed book released last week that is devouring the Amazon.com chart, entering the top 10 for LGBT books and the top 50 for horror books.

We sit down with one of the authors, Trinity Tam*, after she and her co-author and girlfriend, Nell Stark, returned from promoting their book at Women’s Week in Provincetown, MA and ask her some inappropriate questions.

Grace: Why did you decide to write this book?

Trinity: I did it for the fame and fortune. And for Rachel Maddow.

Grace: Give us a short synopsis of the plot in 140 characters or less, because Twitter has taken over the world.

Trinity: Valentine Darrow is bitten by a vampire on her way to propose to her lover, Alexa Newland, and their lives and love are placed in mortal jeopardy.

Grace: A short synopsis of the plot in haiku format, because we like haikus.

Trinity:
Vampire Valentine
Threatens girlfriend Alexa
With her queer diet

Grace: Despite being in the fantasy genre, was anything in this book inspired my real life events?

Trinity: Let’s see… the story takes place in New York City; I live in Jersey City (but tell people I live in NYC because NY > NJ. There, I said what we were all thinking anyway). Valentine is a medical student; I’m Chinese-American. Vampires exist in the book; I worked in Hollywood. The book is a memoir, actually.

Grace: So, what is the thing with lesbians and vampires? Your theory?

Trinity: It’s menstruation angst, for sure.

Grace: You wrote this book with your girlfriend. How was that? Was it a pleasant experience, or did you fight a lot about plot arcs? Creative direction in general?

Trinity: For the most part, it was an amazing experience. Until we broke up in the middle of the book. For personal reasons, not creative differences. If you read very carefully, you can probably pick up where that happened because writing fiction is a lot like slitting your wrist and bleeding all over the page in complete sentences.

Grace: Did you have a lot of makeup sex afterwards?

Trinity: Yes. And it was amazing.

Grace: Were you stoked when you found out your book broke the top 10 in the gay and lesbian section of Amazon.com?

Trinity: OMFG. Why does Amazon have to update the rankings hourly?? My faith in humanity rises and falls with our rank. I sit at my computer all day refreshing the page like an asshole.

Grace: Will there be a sequel?

Trinity: everafter is the first in a four-book series. The sequel, nevermore, will be coming out next year with the subsequent titles coming out every year thereafter. Why four books, you ask? It’s a monumentally unlucky number in Chinese superstition and I love a good challenge.

Grace: Finally, what would Buffy do?

Trinity: She’d get her freak on with Faith, already. From beneath you, it devours. Uh-huh.

Okay kids, let’s be good lesbians and traipse on over to Amazon to BUY THE BOOK. Although Grace Fox hates vampires, the rest of us approve of our fanged sisters.

*Fun fact: Trinity Tam is the nom de plume of Jane Chen, who was the producer of the award-winning film Red Doors, which came complete with a lesbian romance in which a woman won back her jilted lover with gouda. (Don’t hate. It works.)