A writer of French Huguenot extraction, one of Tony-Paul de Vissage’s first movie memories is of being six years old, viewing the old Universal horror flick, Dracula's Daughter on television, and being scared sleepless—and now he’s paying back his very permissive parents by writing about vampires.
 
This was further inspired when the author was kidnapped by a band of transplanted Romanian vampires sightseeing in the South. Overjoyed at meeting a human who wasn’t frightened of them, they offered to pay his way through college if he would become an author and write about vampires in a positive manner. He agreed, though he didn’t begin writing horror until after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from a well-known Southern University. A variety of occupations ranging from stage work to doctor’s assistant took precedent for several years, as did moving from one United States coast to another, until eventually that first novel was published.
 
A voracious reader whose personal library has been shipped more than 3,000 miles, Tony-Paul has read hundreds of vampire tales and viewed more than as many movies.