Did you know..? 10 Blood Omen Facts

1) Katie started writing the book after having a dream. She dreamed a vampire was sitting in the window of her childhood bedroom. The next morning she wrote the scene down, then added a conversation and imagined what had happened before and what happened next. That scene became Chapter 8 of Blood Omen 1: The Vampire Wars.

2) Katie recently changed the English version of her book so that first chapter she ever wrote now IS Chapter 1 (she moved the first three chapters back). Why? Because she decided she no longer wanted her book to start with Dea's dream but to jump straight into the action as Dea is escaping for her life with the vampires.

3) The original name of the first book was The Vampire Wars: Born to Be Bitten.

4) Book 1 and 2 were one book. But it was too big to send to agents and publishers so Katie divided it into two.

5) That vampire Katie saw in the window was originally called Eric. But when she saw that other writers had used that name for their vampires, she changed it to Elias.

6) Before she changed the name to Elias, there was a dialogue in the car:
"My name's Eric."
"Eric? Popular vampire name, that!" I pointed out with a small smile.
He glanced at me non-plussed, then turned his attention back to the road.

7) Dea's original name was Clea. This is a bad word in Georgian! 

8) People in the UK pronounce Dea as 'Deeea' but Katie uses the Georgian pronunciation 'Dey-ya'

9) Dea comes from Medea, the Queen/Witch in the Jason and the Golden Fleece myth.

10) Mica's original name was Misha. But when Katie moved to Georgia and met President Misha Saakashvili (it is a man's name in Georgia), she changed it to Mica.