My book is one with an alternate history. 

It is present day.  Cars still run on gas, cell phones still a constant staple, we have electricity and we still don’t have robots.  So basically technology is the same but things have happened in my world that aren’t possible in this world. 

My world is where vampires, lycanthropes, trolls, and other things that go bump in the night exist.  They not only exist but it is common knowledge that they exist.  Magical events are a common occurrence, though not so common that people are desensitized.  A world where a person having psychic powers is treated skeptically but not scoffed at.             

Imagine this world.  Imagine a world where vampires do exist and its common knowledge.  Mankind has never doubted their existence.  Same goes for lycanthropes, trolls, fairies, or even ghosts.  They exist and we acknowledge their existence as a matter of fact. 

And though these creatures are accepted as real it doesn’t mean that they would be tolerated.  In the world we live in now there is prejudice against race, religion, sexual orientation.  Add to that mix people who are vampires.  You know there would be people who would feel strongly that the undead are evil.  Lycanthropy would be a disease where the victims would be treated much like people with AIDs.  Some of the more “acceptable” creatures such as fairies and mermaids would be revered. 

In this politically correct world wouldn’t we try to stop the unfair treatment of the supernatural?  Wouldn’t there be those who would fight as hard for the rights of the supernatural as would there be those who would fight against them?  And if you gave supernatural creatures the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness what issues would that cause?  Then you have issues on how to incarcerate them if they break the law.  And you’ll have to make special laws concerning them because you wouldn’t want to give vampires rights but let them use their power indiscriminately against the powerless humans.  And what about vampires, would their “allergy” to the sun make it mandatory for all businesses to have a sunless area much as they do handicap accessible bathrooms and so forth? 

Another thing to think about …  in this world of magical supernatural power existing right next to science and its logic would cause some issues.  Scientists, the unethical ones, would try to find the source of the power, to explain it away.  Would there not be a supernatural science in existence if it were accepted and proved that supernatural powers existed?  Wouldn’t creatures with supernatural powers be exploited?  Imagine a special op unit of lycanthropes, hell a whole unit of lycanthropes in the army.

All these things must be considered.  In order to successfully write my book in this alternate world I have to consider and address many of these things.  So when I say I am trying to build my world, I’m trying to make the rules of what I believe would happen if the supernatural existed in common knowledge.  I’m asking myself these questions and many more. 

I am building my world…