verushka70

I had the 'delight' of reading Twilight too. *groans* Borrowed it from an ex-coworker of mine. It was professional badfic. Booooring characters that stomped onto the plot until it just read like one of the longest whines I've ever come across. I kept thinking/hoping/wishing for *something* to happen that could shake the badly written angst. Never in my life have I wished so hard to kick a character (or a group of them) in the pants. I mean, hellooo, you're vampires! Imagine the possibilities!!!

Alas, like you said in your post, if Meyer can publish such a horrible (because of the poor execution and pacing) book, anyone (no matter the degree of talent) can publish a novel.

Well, actually, here in fandom, many people have and what's been posted is a zillion times better than the Twilight saga.

Also, yeah, Anne Rice's best vampire stuff appeared in the first two (maybe three) books. The quality jumped down the abyss after Queen of the Damned never to return.

I haven't read Anita Blake. Meh.

In truth, I'm not in the habit of reading a lot of vampire (or supernatural) pro fic. So, not counting the Harry Potter books, I would reccomend Poppy Z's Lost Souls as well as Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt series. The first is a very in-your-face pro-slash novel as you well know. ;)

The Joe Pitts are decent enough (from a vampire perspective) and quite engaging (from a detective angle).

Don't know if you read about werewolves, but I've dug Kelley Armstrong female werewolf books.