The Chicago Sun-Times has a feature article on the new book Friday Night Bites, which features the Windy City as its setting:

“You would think an author who writes a series of books subtitled “A Chicagoland Vampires Novel” would be a native Chicagoan, or at least a transplant. You might be wrong, though.

“I don’t live in Chicago, but I do live in the Midwest,” admits Chloe Neill, author of the recently released Friday Night Bites. “Chicago had left an impression on me. The first time I visited was when I was a campaign staffer in 1996, and it was such a magical and meaningful experience for me both personally and professionally that I filed Chicago in the back of my mind as a place I might want to visit at some point in my writing.”

When Neill sat down to write her first novel in the series, Some Girls Bite, she was looking for the ideal big city in which to set her tale. New York and New Orleans have been the settings for numerous vampire tales. Her memories of Chicago came back to her and she realized after doing a bit of research that the Windy City had never been prominently featured in any vampire book…”

Read the full article by Misha Davenport HERE.