This special Halloween edition of 7 Questions is with horror author Jacky Dahlhaus.  Her book, Succedaneum – Living Like A Vampire has been re-released this week, and she has taken some time out from her busy schedule to chat vampires, twins and pet couture.

1. As a vet you must have an opinion on pet couture, right?Best response yet to this question...

But only at Halloween!

2. Vampires, you can kill them with a pencil, how is that scary?

Anybody can be killed with a pencil… now that’s a scary thought! 😀  It’s not what you can do to it, but what it can do to you!

3. Who is your favourite vampire?

Caleb is my favourite vampire, although technically he’s not a real vampire (you’ll have to read my book to find out what he really is). He’s handsome, kind and just. I mourned for two weeks when I had to kill him.. He looks a bit like a young Ioan Gruffudd, a Welsh actor know for his role as Horatio Hornblower and Mister Fantastic in the 2005 Fantastic Four movie. You’ve got to agree, he is a hunk. Those eyes, that smile!
Like we'd edit out the boobs, we're not boobist.
Like we’d edit out the boobs, we’re not boobist.

4. It’s Halloween, and there’s a crazed killer on the loose, what is your weapon of choice?

My favourite weapon of choice to fight a crazy killer during Halloween would be my pen(cil). I one day hope to change the world with it (by either killing the killer with it (see my answer to question 2), or in a more conventional way :D).

5. Isn’t the Oxford comma a bit annoying?

I had to look up what an Oxford comma was, found it, and must admit I do use it. As English is not my first language and my memory isn’t what it used to be (it’s been thirty years since high school), I had to learn the English grammar from the internet and picked up anything that people post on there, good or bad…

6. Do you and your sister ever switch places just to mess with people?

Unfortunately my twin sister and myself aren’t look-alikes. She’s unnamed-2tall, with the darkest brown eyes and an hourglass figure. I’m short, apple-shaped, and  have blue eyes. Her hair is thin and sleek, my hair is thick and wavy. I’ve got bigger boobs though (feel free to cut them off for your website 🙂 ). My Mum keeps telling me I was found behind a tree, lol!  ​This is my Halloween look, wearing a wig, fangs, and red contact lenses.  This is my ‘normal’ look. Better put that one on the website as some people are starting to think I’m a real vampire, lol! Sorry, but my sister doesn’t want her photo on the internet… ​Some people even won’t accept we are related anyway, so just imagine a complete stranger :D.

7. Who will like your book and why?

People who will like my book are people with a sense of humour, adventure, are terribly romantic, and haven’t got a dicky ticker! Oh, and they have little time to read (it only has 70K words and short chapters).
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