Frequently Asked Questions…
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When can I buy your books?
My agent, the fabulous Ginger Clark with the Curtis Brown Ltd Literary Agency, is currently shopping my urban fantasy, Red Hot Fury. As soon as I have any details to announce, I will definitely share!
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How did you come to write Red Hot Fury?
We have the book’s POV character, Marissa–Fury and Chief Magical Investigator of my fictional Boston–to thank for that. She actually first appeared in a WIP (work in progress) of mine called Furious which features her 16-year-old niece, Cori, as the POV character. I had actually come up with the idea for doing a YA urban fantasy with a Fury as the main character, and when the livejournal community Fangs, Fur, and Fey ran a query contest, I whipped up a one-page query letter and entered it. I actually did really well and got to the next stage which included (if I recall correctly) getting my first five pages read. There was a lot of positive interest in the premise and my query letter, so I sat down and wrote a couple of chapters. But something just wasn’t quite gelling for me.
Eventually, I realized that I kept getting swept up in the backstory of how Cori’s other aunt, Vanessa–Marissa’s sister Fury and best friend–was murdered. And Riss kept demanding more and more stage time, and finally I had to face the inevitable. Time to set aside Cori’s story, with the plan to get back to it later, and in the meantime let Riss take center stage. I haven’t regretted that decision at all. I really, truly think that Red Hot Fury is the best book I’ve written to date, and I just love the cast of characters, the world-building, and hope that I get the opportunity to write more books featuring both.
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