Hi Guys!!
Welcome to my blog on this wonderful Wednesday! Not only is it Author Take Over, but I have gotten a new design for my blog - and I absolutely LOVE it!! Ren, who made the design, did a FABOLOUS job!
But back to business :-)
Today I have the lovely Kate Serine coming by, telling us why she wrote Grimm Consequences. Not only has Kate made this wonderful Guest Post, but she also offered to do a giveaway - so keep your eyes peeled for the Rafflecopter in the end of this post! :-D (open international)
Sooo. Without any further delay... please welcome Kate on Sabina's Adventures In Reading and give her a big hug!!
When
my agent suggested writing a Transplanted
Tales novella to offer my readers something between the release of Along Came a Spider (#3) in August 2013
and Ever After (#4) a year later, I
knew exactly what story I was going to tell.
When
I originally conceived the idea for Red,
the first book in my Transplanted Tales
series, I had planned to write a trilogy that chronicled the gritty crime fighting
adventures of Tess “Red” Little (a/k/a Little Red Riding Hood) and her
detective/grim reaper boyfriend, Nate Grimm. For this reason, I’d been
intentionally vague about Nate’s background because I’d always intended to give
him a story of his own.
But
when it came time to plan the subsequent novels, my editor thought some of the
other characters should have their own book and a chance at Happily Ever After,
and asked me to write the series more as paranormal romance than urban fantasy.
So that’s the direction we took.
As
happy as I’ve been with this approach, and as much as I’ve enjoyed exploring
the mysteries and romances of the other couples, I still desperately wanted to
tell Nate’s tale and give readers some additional insight into his story and his
love for Tess. I just needed to figure out when and how to do it.
The
“how” was easy: From the moment I wrote the description of Nate in the first
few pages of Red, I knew the dark
past he was so eager to forget would eventually come back to haunt him. In
fact, in order to set the stage for this eventuality, I began dropping hints in
The Better to See You and Along Came a Spider, insinuating that
Nate and Tess had been through a lot since the end of Red and that their love was even stronger for it.
So
when I was offered the chance to tell the rest of Tess and Nate’s story in the
form of a novella, I was ecstatic! And, I have to say, I had a great time
revisiting my old friends and am very proud of how the novella turned out. I
hope readers will have as much fun reading Grimm
Consequences as I had writing it.
Now,
to give you a peek at what’s in store for Tess and Nate, here’s the official
blurb for Grimm Consequences, releasing
April 17, 2014:
You reap what you sow…
Saying
Nate Grimm has a dark past is an understatement. Fortunately, no one’s bothered
to look too closely at the Fairytale Management Authority’s lead detective and
part-time Reaper. And that’s the way Nate wants to keep it. For after centuries
of torment and loneliness, he’s finally found happiness with the hot and
hard-charging love of his life, Tess “Red” Little.
Of
course, his love for Tess is the reason there’s a posse of Reaper judges after
him, led by a sadistic bastard acquainted with Nate from once upon a time. Now,
Tess will pay the price for Nate’s transgressions unless Nate severs his ties
to the transplanted Tales—and Tess—forever. His enemy has the advantage in
speed, malice and brutality. But the Reapers have underestimated the depth of
Nate’s love and devotion. And the fury of his wrath…
Kate SeRine (pronounced “serene”) faithfully watched
weekend monster movie marathons while growing up, each week hoping that maybe
this time the creature du jour would get the girl. But every week she was
disappointed. So when she began writing her own stories, Kate vowed that her
characters would always have a happily ever after. And, thus, her love for
paranormal romance was born. Kate currently writes urban fantasy and paranormal
romance and is the author of the award-winning Transplanted Tales series, available from Kensington Books.
Kate lives in a smallish, quintessentially Midwestern
town with her husband and two sons, who share her love of storytelling. She
never tires of creating new worlds to share and is even now working on her next
project.
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