From Promise Me to Unhallowed Love
A: The Unhallowed Love Series
(so far, A Good Year, Year of the Demon, and Year of the
Incubus) was born out of the Promise Me Series, after it ended. My heroine
of Promise Me, Sar, had been on an emotional rollercoaster of five years
of alternate Hell and Heaven throughout the eighteen books, and I thought she
needed a break. I also needed a break from writing as Sarelle; I both admired
her and was horrified by some of her rationalized missteps. There was an inert
self-destruction in her that made me want to give her a happy ending, or as
happy as the consequences of her choices made possible. Yet I missed the
surviving sub characters of the series end—Devlin Dalcon’s danger and
seductiveness, Danial Racklan’s loyalty and cunning, Lash’s
impolitically-correct nastiness and brutality and most especially Shaker’s perfect
charm and hilarious sense of humor—and wanted them to go on. The Unhallowed
Love Series came into being to tell more about Shaker’s view on life and give
him a chance for more than just a supporting player. Instead of a Northeast
farm or rural setting, I decided that a demon would be more comfortable in a
large city where victims were faceless and plentiful, involved with a woman who
was the opposite of Sarelle: Debbie Deal, a ruthless, plotting corporate CEO
who viewed her film company, Pandora Productions, as the most important thing
in her life, and wouldn’t know how to bake cookies any more than she would know
how to take care of a pet.
Q: What can we expect in the
future?
A: The series will continue in
a 4th book, tentatively titled Year of the Siren. I’m also at
work making a sequel inspirational book, Deep Breaths II: Tales of
Inspiration, and a third short horror story anthology called Under a
Setting Sun.
Q: How do you come up with the
names of books?
A: A book’s name needs to be
intriguing, fit the genre(s) it inhabits, and be as original as possible, to
avoid confusion with other stories. Choosing a few words that needs to sum up
your entire work is incredibly hard, and so I often operate with a working
title, then change it at least once before the book is published…unless I
already know the entire plot and have a brilliant stroke of inspiration for a
title, which does happen once in a very great while, lol.
Q: Do your characters seem to
hijack the story, or do you have the reins of the story?
A: I definitely do not have the
reins, I’m along for the ride. When I try to rein in characters, my writing
feels forced, like a dressed-up child going to a family event who can’t move
well because their fancy outfit coupled with the decree “do not get dirty!”
puts on so much restraint that the result is a fake version of the real thing.
It’s not interesting for me to write, and it’s not interesting for readers,
either. You’ll find no cookie-cutter stories here.
I'm an OSHA-certified safety and health inspector at a metal fabrication shop in upstate New York. I have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a double minor in chemistry and biology from Binghamton University.
My writing credits include nonfiction, horror, suspense, erotica, and contemporary and historical paranormal romance.
I am the author of the demon romantic suspense Unhallowed Love series, the paranormal action-adventure fantasy Lash series, and the vampire romantic suspense Promise Me series. I also co-authored (with Eric Dietrich) the nonfiction book Forbidden Conversations. I divide my free time unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing firewood, caring for stray animals, and sewing cat beds, catnip mats, & cat toys for donation to animal shelters.
Year of the Incubus is my favourite. Dark, blue, and mysterious...
ReplyDeleteThank you Emmaline! :) Vassago does make a captivating incubus! :)
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