Growing up in a small suburban city in the Chicago suburbs, Rodrigo Palmerin found his interest in supernatural things when the lights went out and he was told various ghost stories of vampires and demons. Interested in drawing, he originally had planned for the book, Blood Rose, to be an anime show. But feeling he wasn't satisfied in drawing it, he turned to some inspiring books such as Twilight and Cirque Du Freak that convinced him to make his show into a novel.