Author Michelle Belanger has made it her life's work to explain the nature and existence of modern, living vampires -- and the community that has grown up among them. With books like The Psychic Vampire Codex (Weiser, 2004), Michelle has shattered the code of secrecy that once shrouded this underground community in myth, helping ordinary people to see the world through vampire's eyes.

Michelle is a vibrant speaker who has lectured at colleges across the Midwest. Her work has been referenced on the SciFi Channel, CSI, the Discovery Channel, the Women's Entertainment Network, the History Channel, and A&E. Michelle appears in numerous books on the vampire community.She has 2 presentations:

Vampires: the Real Underworld:
Dracula. Blade. Lestat. Alluring and romantic, vampires embody our darkest desires: undying beauty, eternal youth, sexual freedom, and immortal power. To most people, vampires are simply myths, but to a burgeoning modern community, vampires are very, very real.

Michelle Belanger, author, performer, and ... vampire opens wide the doors to the real underworld -- a thriving modern subculture of self-proclaimed living vampires. Meet vampire lifestylers, psychic vampires, and blood drinkers in this multi-media adventure that allows you to view the secrets of a fascinating modern community through vampire's eyes.

Michelle will offer a candid look at her own experiences within the modern vampire subculture, explaining her involvement in the early community and how she -- a magna cum laude graduate of a prestigious university -- came to accept that she was in fact a psychic vampire.

Michelle Belanger, convinced nearly two dozen real-life vampires to break the silence that has so often kept their community shrouded in suspicion and secrecy. A diverse collection of contributors—including Madame X and Sanguinarius—speak candidly about their beliefs, practices, and how they awakened to their identities as vampires. These fascinating firsthand accounts come from both psychic vampires who feed on energy for spiritual and physical nourishment, and sanguine vampires who drink actual blood.

Their true stories shed light on the compulsion to feed and what it feels like, working with donors, living with a social stigma, ethical principles, and other aspects of modern vampire culture.

Here's what people are saying about her new Book.

—Positively brilliant! Michelle Belanger’s collection of balanced and intimate views on life in the vampire underground is a landmark contribution to vampire history, literature and lore. This is a fresh and exciting look into the world of vampires, how they live, what they think–—and why. A superb resource for both fans and scholars.
—Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters

—There's no book available on the vampire culture today with the range, depth, and diversity of Belanger's Vampires in Their Own Words. This collection confirms that there are more ways to be a vampire than Bram Stoker ever imagined, and many of them are more satisfying than Dracula ever dreamed.
—Katherine Ramsland, author of Piercing the Darkness and The Science of Vampires