Goodreads asked C. David Belt:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

C. David Belt “The Children of Lilith” started as an image in my head. I saw a dark scene in a warehouse filled with shadows. Vampires encircled a mortal, “ordaining” him as a new vampire. I knew two very contradictory things about the scenario: 1: Vampirism was a choice, i.e., no-one could be forced into vampirism unwillingly; 2: The man at the center of the circle was unwilling; he was becoming a vampire against his will. I’ve always enjoyed a good vampire story, but the idea of forced eternal damnation always rubbed me the wrong way. And yet, in life, choices are forced upon us by others. So I wrote a story about the world’s first and only unwilling vampire. I was also inspired by the true story of a woman in Oregon, an LDS wife and mother, who went into the hospital for a routine procedure, received a tainted blood transfusion, and developed AIDS as a result. The choices of a stranger changed her life and those of her family. Yet she chose to not become bitter, to not curse God, but to make the best of the life someone else had forced upon her. In her case, a priesthood blessing cured her, but she made the choice to accept and move forward in faith before she was cured.

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