Thanks so much for having me on your blog today! I’m excited to talk about my latest release A WOLFISH TANGLE and how I came to write in the paranormal genre.
When I first started reading in the paranormal genre, it was mostly about vampires. Which, naturally, meant I tried my hand at writing a few vampire romances… except I tend to write my paranormals with humor involved.
Then I got to thinking. What I really love to read are historicals, and what I really love to write are historicals… so why not mash them up together and see what I get? Thus was born my love of writing cross-genre stories.
For the Wolfish series, I knew I wanted some of the characters to be werewolves, but I couldn’t settle on a time period. Originally, the first book (A Wolfish Scandal) was going to be a Regency story, but then I took a trip to the local historical society and consequently a living history museum and fell in the love with the Civil War time period. Come to find out, there was only one battle that occurred in Indiana, so I used a portion of that in A Wolfish Scandal.
Fast forward six months or so to A WOLFISH TANGLE. Still in the Civil War time period, I found a fantastic bit of news in that there was a notorious Union prison camp right down town where the current-day Indiana Fairgrounds are located. Of course I had to jump on that. Plus, my hero in this book is a frustrated wolf-shifter who’s struck out in love and pretty much everything else he’s tried his hand at… and he wears glasses. Sigh.
I’ve found that putting paranormal characters against a historical backdrop really ups the tension and conflict of the story. I hope you’ll check out A WOLFISH TANGLE as well as the other stories in this series.
Blurb: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
While the War Between the States grips America, Franklin Garrett fights his own battle. A wolf shifter, he successfully manages Rutledge Estates, but he’s a failure at romance. When an old family foes resurfaces and threatens his idyllic life, he sends his cousin Grey and his wife Lyndal away for their safety. Unfortunately, a different sort of peril lands right on his doorstep, stirring his protectiveness and sense of duty.
Caroline Harrison’s brother is detained in Camp Morton, a Union war prison in Indianapolis. Led by intuition, she arrives at Rutledge Estates, where she’s promptly kissed by an inebriated Franklin. Her personal desires collide with her devotion to her family and her personal promises, yet Southern charm will see her through. Though she’s had enough of arrogant men, she needs his help to spring her brother.
When the man who decimated the Rutledge wolf pack shows up, both Franklin and Caroline must figure out what’s more important in life—family or love?
Book video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Zi2-HmFmM&feature=youtu.be
Short excerpt (from the very beginning of the book):
“Unfortunately, my dear Mr. Garrett, our courtship is at an end. We just don’t suit after all.”
The matter-of-fact announcement from Miss Hattie Terrance caused Franklin’s gut to clench. He lost his appetite to finish the remainder of his supper. “I beg your pardon?” He dabbed at lips with a snowy linen napkin and then laid it over his lap. All around him, the dining room of the Carlisle Hotel buzzed with genteel activity. From the low ebb of conversation to the flicker of candlelight on the tables to the faint ring of silverware against bone china, the scene gave off a romantic air, one that apparently was lost on Hattie. He slid his wire-rimmed spectacles up the bridge his nose to better regard his female dining companion. “We don’t suit?”
“Not in the least.” Her easy smile, the one that used to put him at ease, now displaced his enjoyment of the evening with a heavy sense of foreboding.
“Perhaps you should explain. When did you come to this decision?”
She efficiently cut into her chicken breast, balanced the knife on the edge of her china plate, and then transferred the fork to her left hand. “Precisely at the moment you kissed me when you collected me for dinner this evening. It was the last straw, after all.”
“The last straw?” Yet when he’d done so, she’d simpered and returned his kiss without a word. Troubling indeed. “Why would my kiss tonight be any different than the other embraces I’ve given you?” He took a sip from his water goblet and set it aside with a frown. He and Hattie had been more or less courting for the better part of two months, having become friends during his cousin Grey’s ill-fated house party, and they had been in each other’s company since. He’d assumed they’d been compatible. She’d never complained before.
But then, women were fickle creatures.
Hattie tucked a stray tendril of blonde hair into the bun it had escaped from. “That is exactly the problem.” She slipped the bite of chicken into her mouth, chewed, and swallowed before continuing. “Your embraces are uninspired, Franklin. Your kisses lack zest or heat. In short, you’ve become predictable, and that is a disappointing turn of events.”
“My dear, this is hardly a conversation to have over dinner, let alone surrounded by the general populace.” A slow burn of indignation crept up the back of his neck. “And even if it were, why didn’t you bring the problem to my attention earlier?” Despite the high impropriety of the conversation, his curiosity wouldn’t be denied.
“I believe I did. You simply refused to listen.”
“I would have remembered such an announcement.” For the first time in his life, he had no idea what to do with his hands or where to look while in her company. How did a man behave when presented with such a dismal assessment of his romantic prowess?
With a sigh, she gently laid her fork on her near-empty plate. “For the past week, I’ve tried to direct your amorous attention to the various places on my person I like to be touched, but you have a backward notion in your head that women aspire to gentleness and respect while kissing or performing other tasks. At times, this isn’t so.”
“I’m afraid I don’t understand.”
One of her eyebrows arched. “It’s with a fair amount of thankfulness our relationship never progressed very far in the bedroom; otherwise, this evening might have been more awkward than it is.”
Franklin’s fork clattered against the delicate china, but none of the diners in the immediate area paused in their conversation to pay him any mind. “Hattie, I really must protest the content of this conversation.” Did she intend to give him an in-depth critique of his performance during lovemaking, where anyone in the city could overhear?
Publisher buy link: http://www.lsbooks.com/a-wolfish-tangle-p703.php
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Sabrena
October 3, 2012 at 8:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’d love to, thank you!
Victoria Zumbrum
October 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thanks for the giveaway. I would love to read this series.
sue brandes
October 3, 2012 at 7:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hi Sandra. Love these book covers and the stories. Really liked the book trailer. Don’t enter me in the giveaway.
Mel Bourn
October 4, 2012 at 11:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hello! Thanks for the excerpt! I love a good teaser.
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z
October 5, 2012 at 8:27 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I like how she ends there courtship, now a days people break up over facebook or send a text. The civil war is a favorite time frame for me, people had nicce manners back then.
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Randomly drawn winner is Z (seawitchreviews) Please send me your email address to sandra (dot) sookoo (at) comcast (dot) net and I’ll get your prize right out!
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