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I certainly hope so, Crich, because a lot of Hot Blood (not the vampire bit, obviously) is based on personal experience.
Part One of the novel is set in Manhattan and, obviously, I know Manhattan well enough.
But Part Two is set in a fictional Central American country called San Vasquez. No such place, except I spent a while in Nicaragua during the Sandinista-Contra War, even traveled up via military convoy to a garrison outside the border town of Jalapa, and wrote it up for a couple of newspapers when I got home, and so that whole section of the novel is based on those events.
Part Three is set in Prague. I've been there three times.
Part Four starts out in Budapest. I've been there 5 times, since my wife -- a translator -- used to attend a lot of business meetings there. And then it finishes up in the Hungarian countryside, and I have experienced that place too.
It may seem strange that an awful lot of a novel about vampires and magical creatures comes out of real life, but that's the way it is writing this kind of fiction sometimes.
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