TERENCE TAYLOR is an award-winning children's television writer, whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among many others. After a career of comforting young kids, he's now equally dedicated to scaring their parents. His short horror stories have been published in all three "Dark Dreams" horror/suspense anthologies. "BITE MARKS: A Vampire Testament" is his first novel. "BLOOD PRESSURE", second in the opening trilogy of the Vampire Testaments, came out in April 2010. He has taken a brief break from the conclusion of the opening trilogy -- "PAST LIFE" -- to work on an atypical semi-autobiographical satiric roman a cléf of South Slope life called "Quitting Christmas", the first in a series, about the effects of the tenth anniversary of a death on a group of old friends.He lives quietly in Brooklyn and laughs a lot between acts of literary carnage.