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Originally published September 6, 2013 for Guilty Pleasures
The Future of the Biting Love Series
Thank you to DiDi and Guilty Pleasures for having me back!
Picture a rainbow, or better yet, the St. Louis Gateway Arch. The Biting Love series is a set of blocks fitting together to make an overall arc.
Each block is a hot romance between a strong vampire and the human woman who claims him, and each can stand alone.
Put them together, though, and they form a story of good versus evil, the Alliance versus the Coterie. Granted, at the start of the series, the bad guys are more bumbling and inept than a bunch of storm troopers. But hey, the books also have humor. By the end we’ll see something a little more like a boss.
The first several books laid the foundations of quirky little Meiers Corners and dealt with local problems, only hinting at wider issues.
The newly released Beauty Bites, Biting Love Book 6, takes us outside the small town and broadens the conflict by introducing two unaligned vampires, Ric Holiday and Aiden Blackthorne, who don’t want to bow to either master. It also has a heart-rending scene which deepens our understanding of vampires.
I’m very excited that the next book, Downbeat, Biting Love Book 7, is scheduled for March 2014. Downbeat is about halfway through the series. It’s Rocky’s story, and I actually started it in 2008 before the first Biting Love book was even released, but its place in the series arc meant I didn’t get to finish it until this year. I’m glad it was delayed though, because this story is near to my heart, and my readers, editors, and the writing community has made me a better writer and the story benefits from that.
I’m in the planning stages for Book 8, Aiden’s story. Aiden was a character who leaped out of my psyche onto the page and demanded his own story. Frankly that one will be a hoot because it pairs the sexy, smooth assassin with an inept but loveable Ruffles.
The final book? The faceoff between the boss villain and the head of the Alliance, naturally.
If everything goes as planned, that is. Since Murphy sees all and FUBARs all, things may change. Stay tuned :) .
