Coming August 25th 2014!
Scottish Werewolves: freaky Vampires and a Slayer with a bad addiction and an insane legacy. Add a big dose of sarcasm, sizzling chemistry; a lot of silver and a ton of blood and . . . Welcome to the Blood Series.
They're back! The Blood Series has been revamped and repackaged and will be re-released on August 25th 2014.
Note: She-Wolf and Cranberry Blood are both previously published titles, but have been polished, improved, and have even had scenes added for their re-release. Both books as well as all that will follow will be self-published.
Scottish Werewolves: freaky Vampires and a Slayer with a bad addiction and an insane legacy. Add a big dose of sarcasm, sizzling chemistry; a lot of silver and a ton of blood and . . . Welcome to the Blood Series.
They're back! The Blood Series has been revamped and repackaged and will be re-released on August 25th 2014.
Note: She-Wolf and Cranberry Blood are both previously published titles, but have been polished, improved, and have even had scenes added for their re-release. Both books as well as all that will follow will be self-published.
How The Blood
Series Began
By Elizabeth Morgan
Ideas
come to writers in many different ways. My ideas are often through dreams. On the
odd occasion I will look at something, or someone will say something, and a
small seed becomes planted in my mind. Sometimes it rapidly begins to blossom
in to an idea, and other times the idea takes some tender loving care and
persuasion. This post is all the madness and reasoning behind how I came up
with writing my urban fantasy/paranormal romance series.
As
you know the books have already been published before, so August 25th marks
their re-release. You don't have to really read them in order. You could read
book 1, Cranberry Blood before the
prequel, She-Wolf, but events in CB
would make more sense if you read SW first. I'm going to try my best to not put
any spoilers in here, but since I wrote CB before I did SW and I'm talking
about how everything came together it might be a little difficult, but by all
means read on, because if anything you get to see how my crazy brain works ;-P
The
moment the seed was planted....
So,
I am waiting on this dark, quite road. Every now and again a car drives past,
but other than that it is extremely quite. Across the road from me stands a
fence, and beyond that is a college. With the sky being that odd blue colour it
is in winter, the building looks like a giant black block. I'm tired and cold,
hopping lightly from one foot to the other hoping the bus will show up soon,
otherwise I'm going to be late for work. My focus is fixed to the college and
its flat roof, and I find myself thinking it would be quite freaky to be
walking down that street and look up to see a bulky figure sitting there. Feral
golden - or whatever eye colour one would find chilling - eyes locked on to me.
I'm alone on this street. If people are up and getting ready for work the
lights in their houses aren't on. Would anyone be able to hear me if I
screamed? Would that creature chase me now I have seen it? Is it hunting? Or is
it up there for an entirely different reason?
Yes.
Believe it or not, but that's how the idea for the Blood Series started. Yes, I imagined I had a Werewolf sitting on a
roof looking at me.
Okay,
it wasn't exactly that straight forward.
For
years I had been playing about writing scripts, and for a while I had wanted to
write something to do with vamps and werewolves. I had always loved old school
horror, and anything paranormal, and one of the sayings writers do stick to is
- write what you know, what you love
- well I love me some vamps and were's, so darn it, I was going to write
something with them in it.
For
two months I sat scribbling and ripping up note after note, trying to figure
out what type of a story I wanted to write. There are so many stories out there
- stretching back years - with these two particular types of mythological
creatures, I knew there was no way I was going to come up with something
completely original. So I decided instead of trying so hard to do something different,
I wanted to take parts of stuff I loved about those particular stories and just
twist it all into something new. Something me, and my odd little imagination
could whip up.
I
love Dracula - so I knew I wanted to add a little Romanian folklore in there. So
my vampires are based on a Romanian vampire know as a Strigoi. I picked this
type of vampire because it reminded me of the guy from Salem's lot. He gives me
the creeps. So naturally I loved the image.
I
love the settings of old horrors, there is always some moors or a forest, and
in all honesty a lot of the old horror are set in England or across the UK -
even if it's only a couple of scenes - So the series definitely had to start in
the UK, but I also wanted the United Kingdom to be the "home" for most
of the characters and the series.
Scotland was a definite for my Werewolves.
Wide open spaces. Moors. Forests. This Pack can run free.
And
then let's not forget, the havoc when the big bads come to town, which they
always do. So I set the other part in London. Because let's face it, who
doesn't love the idea of Werewolves and Vampires running around killing in
London, England?
Last
but not least, kick-ass Heroine - I wanted a kick-ass heroine - or at least a
chick who is kick ass in her own right - I wanted my heroine to have a problem
though; an addiction, or maybe for her to be trapped in a position that she
doesn't want to be in, but has no choice.
After I had figured all of that
out the story arc became a little bit clearer. But, the story that formed was
not She-Wolf (Blood Series Prequel.)
Oh no. She-Wolf I wrote in August
2010, and I will get into that in one moment.
Cranberry Blood
(Blood Series: Book One)
It
took me 9 months to write the original. It was the first book I had ever
written, so I was still getting use to how to go about everything. Once I
finished, I sent it off to some very helpful ladies who gave me their honest
opinions. The feedback was positive, and very useful. After reading through CB
a couple more times, I realised I had backed myself in to a corner. That was no
good.
So
in February 2010, I ripped the book to pieces -
mentally - and started to re-plan and piece it back together. I took all the
ideas and characters I loved and placed them on my mental "keep"
file, then looked at the rest. A week later, I had a new story. My heroine
wasn't as weak as she was during the original. She was stuck - vulnerable in a
sense - due to the shit life had dealt her. I was completely in love - not to
mention in lust - with the secondary character who has stepped up to be my new
hero. Overall, I was happy. Everything had clicked in to place, and the flow of
the story - past & future of all the characters - was crystal clear.
So I got to writing it, and had it finished by June. I
sent it off to my helpful star ladies, and got great feedback.
If
it wasn't for this book, for the heroine & hero - Heather Ryan &
Brendan Daniels - as crazy as it is to admit - there would be no She-Wolf, and
as much as I would like to kill Owen MacLaren - the hero of zed book - I do adore
that book.
She-Wolf (Blood
Series Prequel)
This
book was never planned.
There
are a lot of characters in the Blood World, and while writing Cranberry Blood I did a lot of history
info (family trees, character profiles etc. - completely agonising, but worth
it.) So I always knew the story between Owen and Clare.
It
would be a lie to say that I never thought about writing their story, because I
plan - and hope very much - to write a few short stories regarding certain
characters in this world. All of them have been through some interesting
events/situations at one point or another. All of them have a story to be told.
I just never thought that I would be writing Clare Walker's and Owen MacLaren's
any time soon.
She-Wolf
started when I was trying to write a different story - Stepping Stones, which was recently re-released with Decadent
Publishing. I was trying to concentrate on a conversation between two sisters
from this sweet contemporary romance I was writing, and Owen barged in
demanding his story be told. Mix that with a moment of day dreaming on the bus,
while listening to "Follow You
Home" by Nickelback, where I was shown the entire opening scene from
the unwritten story and well, I had no choice after that. I had to sit down and
write. As I started writing, I realised that their story took place before the
events of Cranberry Blood, and that
the two stories were actually linked.
(I realise that might sound a little insane. I have
characters from Cranberry Blood in
this story, so naturally the stories would be linked? Nope, some of my
characters - despite the fact they are pack members or coven members - they
have stories that don't affect their pack/coven. And I thought that would be
the case between Clare and Owen. Oh, how wrong I was.)
I
planned for She-Wolf to be a
freebie. When it went past 10k I decided it would end up being a novella, and I
might query it. By the time it had gone past 40k I was pretty certain that it
was actually a novel, something that had Owen gloating in the dark corners of
my mind. 73k - I was finished.
Now,
the original/previously published version of She-Wolf ended on a bit of a cliff hanger. Since I got my rights
back and have gone through the manuscript a good few times, a scene has been
added, some have been extended, and the ending has been tightened, but it still
is a bit of a "to be continued . .
." ending.
It wasn't originally planned, but
because it is set before Cranberry Blood
it was hard to avoid. In all truth, I suppose you could say the end of
Cranberry is the same. You see, I was trying to do something a little different
and in a way the prequel and book one have ended up being instalments in one
big story. So, even though the books end, the story does and will continue. And
when the ultimate ending of this story happens, which at the moment I think
will be in 2 novels and 2 novellas time, you won't be disappointed. At least I
hope you won't, because I have to say - and as bad as it may sound - the
ultimate ending only hit me a couple of weeks ago while I was in the shower -
yeah, funnily enough I get a lot of ideas in there as well ;-P - and man, I
really didn't see it coming, but I love it and I hope you will too.
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Author
Bio:
Elizabeth Morgan is a multi-published author of urban
fantasy, paranormal, erotic horror, f/f, and contemporary; all with a degree of
romance, a dose of action and a hit of sarcasm, sizzle or blood, but you can be
sure that no matter what the genre, Elizabeth always manages to give a unique
and often humorous spin to her stories.
Like her tagline says; A
pick ‘n’ mix genre author. “I’m not greedy. I just like variety.”
And that she does, author of erotic ménage horror, Creak, paranormal erotic horror and UK,
US & Australian Amazon best seller (Gay/Lesbian, Fiction, Lesbian), On the Rocks, erotic romance, US, UK
& Spanish Amazon bestseller (Erotica Short Story) Truth or Dare? And sweet contemporary romance, UK & US Amazon
bestseller (British/Drama & Plays) Stepping
Stones.
She also has her hand in self-publishing. Look out for more
information on her upcoming releases at her website: www.e-morgan.com
Away from the computer, Elizabeth can be found in the garden
trying hard not to kill her plants, dancing around her little cottage with the
radio on while she cleans, watching movies or good television programmes – Dr
Who? Atlantis? The Musketeers? Heck, yes! – Or curled up with her two cats
reading a book.
For
more information on Elizabeth's work, published and upcoming, head on over to
her site:
Website: www.e-morgan.com
Blog: www.xxxxmyworldxxxx.blogspot.com
Twitter: @EMorgan2010
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Blog: www.xxxxmyworldxxxx.blogspot.com
Twitter: @EMorgan2010
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