Vamp It Baby

So I've always been a bit of a vampire obsessee, ever since I was a tween... Other girls wanted to be the prima ballerina, I wanted to be a vampire.
Growing up on a steady diet of Anne Rice and Dracula I suppose it's not really suprising. I remember the first time I read Bram Stoker - ah love at first word! And then I discovered Anne Rice, I loved them all but Interview with the vampire was my absolute, 100% fav.

The first ever book I wrote was called 'Crimson Wars' and it was a vamp-human war type novel. It was truly appalling - I was fifteen years old and honestly looking back not only do I cringe, I shudder. It's like a little window to my mindset at that point in my life. I splurged out all my racing teenage hormones onto those pages, laid down all my supressed longings and fell in love with my male lead.

Cringe once more...

So where is this leading you might ask? Well two things really. One, there seems to be a bit of a ressurection of vamp lit at the mo - ably led by Twilight (which yes I love, yes real men sparkle, yes Steven Strait should have been Jacob... sigh, swoon... I digress). Kresley Cole is also one of my fav vamp story tellers. Her stuff is a wee bit racy but it's good. So rise of the vamp yada yada - and that brings me to number two.
I've had a vamp novel bubbling away in me for some years now - it's shaped itself in my mind and is likely to be another horror/love fest. But is it the right time to write it? In terms of my target audience (the tween) I could never beat Twilight, it would be impossible. So what to do... jump on the bandwagon or let it bubble away a bit more...

I'm torn I must admit. There's no desperate hurry I know, I still need to get Immune published ASAP and I've started a new WIP, Fallen Angel and then there are the hundred other projects racing away in my mind... but the pull of the vampiric is strong... so should I wait or should I bite...

Thoughts appreciated...