Neil Benson

I retired after working thirty-seven years as a psychologist in mental health and behavioral managed-care healthcare to become a full-time writer.

My vampire novel, Unholy Embrace, was first published in 2010. I created a second edition to correct a few details and make sure readers had purchased a properly edited novel. The idea for Unholy Embrace came to me after watching Kate Beckinsale in Underworld. I was intrigued by the idea of a "totally" alpha female vampire and what type of relationship she might have with a tall, muscular mortal male. Of course, it was necessary to give them lethal adversaries.

Dark Journeys, my short anthology of vampire short stories and dark poetry was published in November 2012 in Amazon Kindle. The anthology contains my short story A Problem with Werewolves, which was published in the October 2010 issue of Night to Dawn Magazine. I rarely plan to write dark poems. They come to me from places in my psyche that are unavailable to my conscious mind.

A Problem with Werewolves was the starting point for my vampire novel, Unholy Embrace, published in 2010 by Night to Dawn press.

My novel Wizard under Fire Should be published in 2019. It features a 26-year-old female wizard, Athena Weitz, who works for the Department Of Homeland Security preventing terrorists from carrying out their missions on American soil. She is partnered with a Special Forces Captain who has as much trouble dealing with her as he does with terrorists. Tena is more familiar with Glock pistols than Wizard wands. She and our partner form the tip of the point of the spear against terrorism.

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