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" \n You might know Meg Cabot from her bestselling young adult novel The Princess Diaries. And while her latest book, about a 20something who falls for a hot vamp, is just as addicting and fun to read, you might be surprised at how, well...naughty this new novel is. We caught up with Meg to talk about why sexy bloodsuckers continue to be everyone&amp;#039;s obsession\u2014and how she gets herself in the mood to write vampire sex scenes. Dirty, hot, unputdownable vampire sex scenes. Q: Why do you think female readers are so into vampires? A: I think it has a lot to do with the appeal of bad boys. We know they&amp;#039;re up to no good, but they&amp;#039;re so much fun! (Added points if they&amp;#039;re unnaturally strong and kill people who are mean to us, such as our bosses.) And some people think it&amp;#039;s because male vampires tend to be rich, handsome, and powerful, and women can&amp;#039;t help but be drawn to men who seem like they&amp;#039;d be good providers. It&amp;#039;s hormonal!  Q: How are the vampires in Overbite different from those in Twilight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries? These vampires are old school. They can only survive on human blood, and they will murder for it. They combust in sunlight (they don&amp;#039;t sparkle) and they&amp;#039;re always scheming about how to take over the world to enslave humans and make them feedbags. Which makes the fact that main character is in love with one even more dramatic and controversial. Q: And about those sex scenes...How do you get into the mood to write them? A: I actually have a sexy playlist. It includes all the songs from all the steamy sex scenes from all my favorite shows and movies. I spend hours on end putting the mixes together! The most recent one I added to the playlist is called &amp;quot;In Ruins&amp;quot; by Fol Chen. (I first heard it during the last season of &amp;quot;Weeds&amp;quot;. It&amp;#039;s a scene when Nancy walks into a deserted bar and ends up having super hot sex with the bartender.) Listening to that one definitely puts me in the right mindset. Q: How is writing a straightforward hot hook-up, like &amp;quot;Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore&amp;quot;\u2014the short story you wrote for our August Red Hot Read\u2014different from writing vampire sex scenes? A: Not that different, actually. Although there&amp;#039;s less biting! Q: The fun plot and hot sex make Overbite the perfect summer read. So while all of us are reading your book, what will you be reading? A: Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries. I just finished In Search of the Rose Notes by Emily Arsenault. When the book opens, the skeletal remains of a girl have just been recovered. It could be Rose\u2014a babysitter who had disappeared twenty years earlier. Best friends Nora and Charlotte had worked as &amp;quot;kid detectives&amp;quot; to try to find out what happened to their babysitter at the time, to no avail. Now in their late twenties, they get together again to try to discover what really happened to Rose. It&amp;#039;s a totally engrossing, creepy thriller. A perfect beach read! Check out this video to get the scoop on some of the vampires you&amp;#039;ll read about in Overbite. And be sure to pick up the August issue of Cosmo for Meg Cabot&amp;#039;s racy Red-hot Read! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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