BLOOD TOUCH--Welcome to the Gratista Vampire Clan

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF CINSEARAE S.



AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

 

Ms. Santiago has been writing, editing, and producing her own works through print-on-demand and conventional publishers. She is the creator of the Blood Touch series released in 2004 and available at Amazon.com. Her recent project is the all-new, dark paranormal romance series, "ABRAXAS". A digital artist and still-photographer, Ms. Santiago is also Editor/Publisher of Dark Gothic Resurrected magazine--a 2nd place finalist in the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll for 2008--having created this publication to give new and unpublished writers and artists of the aforementioned genres a chance to shine and see their names in print, preferring unique, edgy stories that are out-of-the-box.

Her Yahoo writers group, (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gratista_Vampires) is an extension of DGR magazine, where other talents of the genre can join, share interests, network, and have the opportunity to be published in her group's bi-annual anthologies. She also had two erotica stories published with ForbiddenPublications.com under her pen name, Mistress Rae. Ms. Santiago received the Author's Site of Excellence Award in December 2007 from Preditors & Editors, and is the Cover Artist for DamnationBooks.com and individual clients.

An avid fan of 'old school' horror movies (Freddy, Jason, Michael, Pinhead, etc.), Halloween is her favorite time of the year. She attended Community College of Philadelphia, majoring in English, with interests in creative writing and Theater. Ms. Santiago enjoys the Vampire/Goth scene and can be found haunting Philadelphia's "Dracula's Ball" from time to time, or roaming cemeteries and state parks. She has always been drawn to the flipside of life--the supernatural, odd, bizarre, Gothic and 'darkly beautiful' always being an inspiration to her.

 

She lives with husband and three pets-- one hamster, Sniffles IV, and two Rat Terriers, Hades and Chaos.


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Quirks: Collecting skulls and anything that seems an oddity.


Fave Animals: Frogs/Toads, Fruit bats, Crows, Ravens, Sparrows, and Squirrels.


Personal Quote: “Insanity is my sanity.”


Favorite Music: The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, Gary Numan, Carfax Abbey, Diary of Dreams, VAST, Depeche Mode, Enigma, Delirium, HIM, Marilyn Manson, Sting, Annie Lennox and a lot of Gothic and New-Age, instrumental music, to name a few.


Favorite Television Shows: House, Bones, Smallville, Supernatural, Reaper


Favorite Movies:

The Lost Boys

Dracula (1993) starring Gary Oldman

Interview With The Vampire

Queen of The Damned

The Craft (1996) starring Fairuza Balk

May

The Crow

Legend (1986)

Labyrinth (1986) starring David Bowie

Edward Scissorhands

Ed Wood

Sweeney Todd

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Sleepy Hollow

The Prophesy

Dracula (1979) starring Frank Langella (I loved, loved, loved his portrayal of Dracula, and still do!)

Pan's Labrynth

The Devil's Backbone

The Orphanage

Shaun of The Dead

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Nightmare on Elm Street Series

Halloween (the original one)

House of 1,000 Corpses

The Harry Potter series

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy

(There's lots more, but hey, can't name them all...*grin*)