Happy New Year, everyone! I hope
you’ve all had some moments to relax and enjoy the holidays over the past few
weeks. To eat some amazing food and spend time with your loved ones. I managed
to sneak in some reading, some researching, and spent all day yesterday
watching college football (Roooolllll Tide!!!).
As of today, I’m officially officially back to work, and
I’m very excited about all the things I’ll get to write in 2018. White Wolf was not just my favorite
project of 2017, or even just my favorite project ever, but the beginning of a series whose stories and characters
have haunted me for years, and which I’m so thrilled to finally share with
everyone. The Sons of Rome series marks a new chapter in my writing life, one
that is hefty, dark, and more complex than all my writing endeavors thus far.
For the first #TeaserTuesday of
the year, I wanted to share the cover for Red
Rooster, Sons of Rome Book Two.
Red
Rooster picks up right where White
Wolf left off, finding Nikita, Sasha, Trina, and Lanny in a modern-day
mess; this book also revisits Fulk, Anna, and Val, and introduces some new
characters who have parts to play in the big picture narrative. If you’ve read
any of my three existing series, you’ll know that I like to write ongoing
conflicts and plotlines that carry through from one book to the next, and that
involve the whole ensemble cast. SoR takes that to the next level; it’s a
series full of individual stories stitched together to make one big story, a
patchwork quilt of sorts, told in my traditional non-linear fashion. There’s an
overarching story at work here, and an endgame, but one that’s going to develop
at its own organic pace, with lots of adventure, mystery, suspense, and action
along the way. I love this framework, because it’s going to allow me to dig
deeper into each character, to take them farther, and explore them in a way
that a series of self-contained happily-ever-afters would never allow. It’s
decidedly not a series for readers who have to have a standalone, or even for
those who don’t like to read outside the romance genre; urban, contemporary,
historical – in all its forms, this is an epic fantasy tale at heart, and the
journey has only just begun.
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