Editing Nancy A. Collins (section)

==Writing==
Collins has written numerous novels since 1989, most of which refer to and directly include races of creatures the author calls Pretenders, monsters from myth and legend passing as human to better hunt their prey. She is best known for Sonja Blue, a young woman with demonic powers who after being taught by an older male mentor, hunts and kills vampires.  Her first appearance was in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wikibin.org/articles/sonja-blue.html|title=Sonja Blue|access-date=2023-08-01}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|sure=y|reason=wikibin reference.|date=May 2025}} A. Asbjørn Jøn notes possible intertextual links between the Whistler character in the 1998 movie ''[[Blade (1998 film)|Blade]]'' and a character named Whistler in the Sonja Blue novel, ''A Dozen Black Roses'' (1996), as they possess "striking similarities in role, dramatic focus, visual appearance, and sharing the name".<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283318599|title = Vampire Evolution|last = Jøn|first = A. Asbjørn|date = 2003|journal = METAphor|access-date = 25 November 2015|page = 23}}</ref> Margaret L. Carter, in her article on 20th century vampire fiction, listed ''Sunglasses After Dark'' as one of the 13 most influential vampire novels published after 1970, particularly in the way Collins depicted vampires as parasitic beings with no identity of their own who 'borrow' the memories of their hosts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.simegen.com/reviews/vampires/gravedig.htm|title = Outstanding Vampire Novels}}</ref>