From AfterEllen.com (the show will apparently air in the fall on CHUM):

• Christina Cox sweetens the small screen
  “It’s not often in the entertainment business that the author of a book singles out an actor to play a character, and years later she actually ends up on-screen in the role. But that’s exactly what happened to actor Christina Cox (Better Than Chocolate), star of Lifetime’s new series Blood Ties, based upon the novels of Tanya Huff.”

From TV Guide – the show debuts in the US this weekend, on CHUM in fall 2007:

• Christina Cox is out for Blood as TV’s sexy new slayer
  “A show like Blood Ties crosses genres; it’s action-packed; there’s a great, sexy, unrequited-love element to it; and there are ass-kicking demons, an ass-kicking vampire and a gun-wielding chick. Really, it has all the components.”

From AfterEllen.com, and interview with author Tanya Huff, whose books are the basis for the CHUM/Lifetime series Blood Ties:

• Behind the scenes of Blood Ties
  “How does she feel about the de-queering of Blood Ties? ‘I think it’s unfortunate,’ she said, ‘but I also think that, you know, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. It’s kind of what happens now. It’s a compromise you have to make when you get onto television at all. The fact that they’re doing adult heterosexuality is actually fairly amazing, given the general consensus that adult heterosexuality is defined as Desperate Housewives.’ “

From GeekMonthly.com:

• The Making of Blood Ties, Part 2 (Part one is here)
  “Guiding the television adaptation of Tanya Huff’s vampire novels is executive producer Peter Mohan. In the second part of Geekmonthly.com’s interview with him, we look at the challenges of creating an ambitious series on a limited budget and how the show has evolved from the beginning to the point where the first season is wrapping production.”