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A while back a friend of mine introduced me to the work of L.A. Banks. I was so impressed with her work that I had to contact her for an interview.

Let me just say that this is a woman that I would have had in my home. When I contacted her, she replied by explaining that normally, all interviews went through her publicist. But, she happened to like my tone and could imagine herself having coffee with me in her kitchen. Hence, she agreed to do the interview.

Before I could turn the phone interview into text, my hard drive crashed. Since then I've been trying to catch up on things. It seems that I will have to put those things aside and get that interview down now so that her fans that didn't know her can have a chance to see what kind of a person she was.

In the interview, we discuss her vampire books. And, maybe you wouldn't think that someone who wrote about vampires was very spiritual, but authors like Leslie Banks and Anne Rice would tend to disagree with you.

L.A. Banks wrote about vampires because she saw them all around her. I don't mean that she saw people with fangs who were afraid of sunlight. What I mean is that in her interview she expressed how there were "vampires" all around, sucking off of the lives of people with their manipulations and offerings of drugs. If you've read her books you can see that she didn't judge those people so much as see how they could better put their skills to use for a higher purpose.

Leslie Banks wasn't just a great writer of fiction. She was a writer who was shocked by her success. She was a woman who stopped in the middle of an interview to say hello to my young son when she heard him come in from school. She laughed at life and herself.

My condolences to the friends and family of Leslie Ann Banks. She will be missed.

Photo credit: Taken from L.A. Banks' Facebook page

Before I review this series, I have to confess that my neighbor introduced me to them as a result of some lengthy conversations about spirituality. She and I discuss positive energy a lot. We talk about the concepts of light and dark and so forth. Of course, I had no idea why she thought I would like these books since I had never expressed an interest in vampires. Once I read the books, I understood. These books aren't about vampires. They're not even really about vampire hunting. What they are really about is the concept of light and dark.

L.A. Banks has created a master collection that literally leaves the reader feeling as if they have just taken a "white bath". Her characters are vibrant and sexy, yet suffer from the same flaws of humanity that the rest of us do.

You won't find codependent teenagers that sparkle in the sunlight in this series. Nor is it a collection of historical romances. What you will find is yourself, questioning everything you ever knew about the black and white lines that define right and wrong.

L.A. Banks doesn't just tell a great story, she motivates her characters to become acutely aware of their senses even as her stories bring the reader in touch with their own. It's impossible for the reader to not be able to relate to at least one character and to feel compelled to search their own concept of good and evil and how they are sometimes intertwined.

Whether you read just one book or the entire series, you'll be able to imagine the characters come to life as you feel the hot breath of a leathery wingspan or the heat of passion that makes one want to "drop fang". If this series isn't made into an epic movie series soon, I'll have to wonder if Hollywood has given up on the idea of blockbuster profits!

In fact, I was so impressed with this series that I had to interview the author herself. Look for the interview with L.A. Banks to be published here in the near future so you can get a glimpse of the woman who so masterfully developed such intricate characters in the Vampire Huntress series and created some new ones in her latest book, Shadow Walker (Neteru Academy Books).