Welcome to the blog, Doris! Tell us a little bit about your newest
release.
Claiming his Human is book six in The
Projects series. I actually got the idea for the story from the
latest Evernight Anthology call, but it very quickly became apparent,
that I had a much longer story on my hands than was allowed word
count wise for the antho. So that idea went out of the window and I
let the story develop as it needed to. It ended up over 50 K in the
end and was such fun to write. Bear shifters are my absolute fav
heroes to write about. Might have something to do with the fact that
hubby is known as Papa Bear in my house. ;-)
Here is the blurb:
Shifters defend their mates to the
death...
Bear shifter Darius Longton never
expected to find his mate in his favorite coffee shop, but one sniff
of her scent in the air is all it takes for his bear to know the
truth. This delicious, sinfully curvy redhead is his.
Too bad she’s human and far too
fragile for his volatile bear.
Holly Trent cannot understand the
instant attraction she feels for this man. One look from his
heavy-lidded eyes is all it takes to set her knickers aflame with
lust. However, she will not be another notch on his bedpost, no
matter how much his voice alone makes her want to sink to her knees.
But when a customer gets heavy with
her, everything changes. Darius’s defense of her places them both
in terrible danger. Thrown headfirst into shifter council politics,
it falls to Holly to save her mate.
Be Warned: BDSM,
anal sex, spanking
That is less a warning than an invitation! Was there any part of this story you
found particularly tough to write? If so, why?
Well, not tough per se, but my editor
is half convinced that I only write shifters so that she cannot pull
me up on the amount of growling my heroes do.
I do like a man who growls...
*whistles innocently*
It would appear however, there was too
much growling even for a shifter story, so I had to prune quite a few
in edits.
It's ellipses for me! I'm forever being told I need to cut back, but I just...can't...help myself. Is there any part of this story you
absolutely love, and why?
Oh, so many of
them. Darius is just yummy and Holly was a fantastic heroine to write
about. She has so much spunk, and she’s not afraid to put these big
bad Alpha shifters in their places. I giggled a lot when I was
writing, as she has some of the best lines. This was one of them.
“You two furry Neanderthals can stop
sniggering, too. This isn’t remotely funny. It’s—”
The combined enraged growls of their
respective bears filled the van. Darius had to marvel at Holly’s
response. Where was the frightened stiff young woman of yesterday?
Nowhere to be seen, that’s for sure because this new, much more
assertive version rolled her eyes and mimicked a yawn.
“Save your posturing for whatever
hapless female you’re trying to impress. It won’t work on me.
Besides, I know damn well you can’t touch me, so give over and shut
up.”
A no-nonsense heroine is always a bonus for me. So we know you love bears, but do you have a favourite genre to write
in?
Hmm, that depends on my muse. She is
currently on a shifter fix, and I do love writing shifters. However,
I also really enjoy contemporary. My muse is like a demented gnat at
times, and I’m a complete slave to her, so I write whatever takes
her fancy.
Are there any genres you haven't tried
yet that you really want to?
I would love to try my hand at a YA
story, but I can’t see it happening anytime soon. My characters can
never keep their hands off each other!
Who are your biggest influences –
they don't have to just be literary ones!
My gran. She was a truly amazing woman,
and if I’m half the woman she was then I’m doing okay. I still
feel her influence every day, and I just know she would be so proud
of my writing.
Now, the important question. Tea or coffee?
Coffee in the morning and during the
day. Copious amount of tea in the evening.
Apart from writing, what are your great
passions in life?
My family and my furbabies. I couldn’t
imagine life without any of them.
Nope! Everybody needs a furbaby :) What else are you working on right now?
What's up next from you?
Well, I did mention my demented muse,
right? She has me writing three different stories at the same time
right now. Alien Warriors, a Vampire, and a Dragon shifter.
*head desk*
Plenty of other stories in the works. I
have the start of the next book in The Projects, more books in The
Cleaners, and my Spectrum Auctions series and whatever standalone my
muse will conjure up.
And read on for a very NSFW excerpt!
