For someone who once struggled to learn how to read due to mild dyslexia, I never thought a day would come I would be putting my own book on the shelves, let alone in English and not my native tongue. From the moment I tentatively trudged through my first books and fell in love with the fantastic worlds hidden among the ink-stained pages, I knew it would become my salvation. But, reading wasn't enough. The pull of the stories bubbling inside of me was too great to ignore, and despite my conviction that I wasn't a good writer, eventually, they won. I started writing short stories while playing literary role-playing games with my fellow reader friends, and soon it became evident it wouldn't be enough. The Wave of Silence pushed its head out of the black chaos of my thoughts one very cold day in my hometown Pula, while a thin layer of snow was slowly becoming thicker, fat flurries stinging my face as the wind blew them around. Snow, you see, is an extremely rare occurrence in this country of mild winters. I was standing in front of a building I've just moved into and staring into the rusty door of an old Austro-Hungarian shelter. The memories came back as some twenty-five years ago I've spent a couple of hours inside of it during our national war, while the sirens wailed outside. The memory wasn't unpleasant, this part of our country never actually hit by the war, and to my child mind, it was all a game. The memory of the underground, cavernous and labyrinth-like shelter, however, spurred ideas. The rest I can thank our rich history, local myths and legends. Unbeknownst to most, Istria - our province - has the first-ever documented vampire. Mr Jure Grando was accused of being a štrigun (strigon), the local, old word for a warlock, often thought to raise from their graves and suck blood from young maidens. Poor Mr Grando's widow lived in fear of those nights in which he would raise from his grave and terrorise her and the villagers. I used strigon idea and moulded it into shapes, added my big love of science into it and the endless puzzle the universe is, and voila! The Wave of Silence came to life. The rest is to be seen, the future offers many open doors. And should they close, I'll just open one of many windows.