Author Christopher Moore on His Book Bite Me

Christopher Moore: The Blood Sucking Fiend series was my take on vampires, but what I wanted to do different with it is that, they don't get the instruction book. Stephanie: He was ahead of the game when it came to vampires. Hi, my name is Stephanie and welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking to author, Christopher Moore about his latest book, Bite Me. Could you tell me about Bite Me which is the third in the Blood Sucking Fiend series. Christopher Moore: In the last book, the vampires decided they didn’t want to kill people, but they needed to feed and there was a homeless guy who, actually I saw on Market Street in San Francisco and he was the model for this, who had a sign that said, “I am homeless and my cat is huge.” And so they went to this huge cat to feed off of it. At the end of the last book, the huge shaved cat, Chet gets turned into a vampire, so this book is basically Chet, the huge shaved vampire cat is turning all of the stray cats in San Francisco into vampires and he’s feeding off of the homeless people and other people who aren’t fast enough to get out of their way and our vampires, as well as their minion, Abby Normal, who’s a teen Goth girl, Abby Normal and her boyfriend Foops have to save the city from vampire kitties. Stephanie: I know that you do a lot of research for your books. What was the process like for Bite Me? Christopher Moore: A lot of it is just observing things in the city and then working them in. I use historical elements from San Francisco in this series. Emperor Norton who was a homeless guy who declared himself emperor of San Francisco is an ongoing character in my San Francisco books as were dogs, Boomer and Lazarus. They existed in Mark Twain’s time and he wrote about them. These books are a little more contemporary in what they do and less historical in some of my -- my last book, Fool was King Lear -- Shakespeare’s King Lear as told from the point of view of the fool. That kind of book takes a lot of research, whereas this one is just kind of walk around the neighborhood and look at goofy things. Stephanie: Could you tell me about the writing process for the third book in a Trilogy? I mean, are you really conscious about trying to tie up loose ends? Christopher Moore: I think so. I think in this one in particular, I went into the last book, had a sort of unsatisfying ending for me and the readers, I think. It just sort of left them and the characters at the end literally in limbo. I don't like to end stories so much as leave infinite possibilities for life going on for the characters and I think that’s what happens with this, but the story arc itself wraps up. So I was conscious of that as I was writing.