Everyone always asks an author what inspired them to write a particular story.
I write under another name as well-paranormal horror romance. My editor and best friend called my latest book in a series a fluffy romance. Dunno why, but it crushed me. There are dead people, ghosts, reapers, gods, and sex. It’s also mxm.
Part of me felt like it was the best book I’d ever written. Authors are constantly growing, changing, and learning. I’d written it in 3rd person deep(which is as close to first as one can get without writing in first). And after my best friend called it fluffy, for some reason, no one touched it. I still don’t think it’s been read at all.
Not sure what happened, or why. Maybe it’s the cover? Maybe it’s the blurb. Dunno.
Then another story hit me.
I had a scene in my mind, Lou walking up the steps to school, and his best friend turned his back on him. So, I wrote it. It is light and fluffy. I love paranormal and cats. I prefer cats to wolves, even though I do have two books that are wolves, written under my real name.
I wrote Lou- a beginning, a middle, and an end. Then Fire Ridge Pride began to take shape in my mind, so I wrote Jaime. All under a pen name. And people are reading, which shocked me.
Then I wondered if my real name is tainted. I still wonder that.
Not sure if there will be a book five, yet. Still thinking about it. Currently in the process of writing another, of course it will be mxm, and hopefully it will be as well-received as Fire Ridge Pride.
Thank y’all so much for reading! I appreciate each and every one of you!
Jae
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