So,
Happy Christmas, everyone! Hope you had a wonderful day - as I did! - and are still enjoying
the Festive Season!
Today,
I’m participating in The Next Big Thing blog hop, which sees writers answering
questions about their works in progress, and tagging other writers to follow
on. Last week, I was tagged by the wonderful, multi-talented and intriguingly
named K.A. M’Lady, whom you can catch up with here:
And you can read all about her
Next Big Thing here. Many thanks to K for her tag!
Now, the next part of my job
is to tag the next authors and their blogs – which was doubly difficult because
a) I admire so many and b) everyone’s so busy over Christmas and New Year!
However, I'm happy to say I have manage to pin down one of my favourites, my old friend Kate
Rothwell/Summer Devon who writes beautiful, unusual and charming historicals
(Kate) as well as highly imaginative, erotic paranormals (Summer). Summer's next book is an m/m contemporary called Taming the Bander, published in February by Samhain.
You can track her down
here:
here: http://summerdevon.com
and here: http://katerothwell.blogspot.com - where you can check out her Next Big Thing post next Wednesday, 2nd January 2012.
And so back to my next big thing, Blood of Angels... Here are my interview answers:
What is the working title of
your book?
I’ve
just been proofing the final files for BLOOD OF ANGELS.
Where did the idea come from
for the book?
BLOOD
OF ANGELS is the natural progression of a story that began with BLOOD ON SILK,
the first of my Awakened by Blood trilogy. I’m now writing a spin off series
called Blood Hunters, of which BLOOD OF ANGELS is the second book. It grew
largely out of the previous stories and characters which got under my skin. Although
I have to confess that Angyalka, my agoraphobic vampire heroine, actually grew
out of my own realization that with writing so much I was beginning to avoid
going out of the house! So I took Angyalka’s issues a stage or too further J.
What genre does your book
fall under?
Paramormal/vampire
romance – on the steamy side!
Which actors would you
choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
I
always find this a really hard question to answer! Very seldom do I see my
characters as like any actor I know. So I suppose I have to pick actors that
change dramtically with each role. Johnny Depp in understated mode could play
Istvan, my scientific yet kick-ass hero. Not sure about Angyalka – although
Hungarian, she has a style I associate with France J, but I can’t think of a specific actress!
What is the one-sentence
synopsis of your book?
Obsession...
a wounded hunter, a damaged vampire
Where do you plan to submit
your book, or will you self published it?
I’ll
be self-publishing it - I’m self-publishing all the Blood Hunters series
How long did it take you to
write the first draft of your manuscript?
I
can’t remember! A first draft of a full length novel can take anything from
three weeks (my fastest ever!) to three months. I think this one was probably
seven or eight weeks.
What other books would you
compare this story to within your genre?
Goodness,
there are so many vampire romances out there that I wouldn’t know where to
start! Plus, I suppose we all like to think our own story is unique J. The best comparison is probably with my other
stories, especially BLOOD GUILT, the first book in this series, and with the
prequel Awakened by Blood trilogy, BLOOD ON SILK, BLOOD SIN and BLOOD ETERNAL.
Who or What inspired you to
write this book?
Hmm
– a combination of things and people! As I say, this book is a natural
progression from a story that keeps moving forward in my head. As such, I have
to acknowledge my agent, Robert Gottlieb, on whose advice I first wrote BLOOD
ON SILK from a long-standing germ of an idea. And my husband, who's actually
the inspiration for at least part of all my heroes, including the inventive and
off-the-wall Istvan of BLOOD OF ANGELS J.
What else about your book
might pique the reader’s interest?
Vampires - both scary and sexy! Need I say more? :) Well, maybe I should!
BLOOD OF ANGELS is another stage in the saga readers might have read or at least heard of before, and my world seems to grow with every story. It features wounded and yet strong characters whom readers may have met in the past. Plus, there's a hot enemies to lovers tale - always irresistible to me! And meeting old friends such as Saloman, Elizabeth, Maximilian and Mihaela. And of course new readers to this world have a new vampire series to catch up on and follow :)
BLOOD OF ANGELS is another stage in the saga readers might have read or at least heard of before, and my world seems to grow with every story. It features wounded and yet strong characters whom readers may have met in the past. Plus, there's a hot enemies to lovers tale - always irresistible to me! And meeting old friends such as Saloman, Elizabeth, Maximilian and Mihaela. And of course new readers to this world have a new vampire series to catch up on and follow :)
Oh and it should be out in January 2013!
Marie
