Happy Book Birthday to Faith Hunter! Enjoy this Q&A, excerpt and enter Rafflecopter giveaway…all here on Slippery Words.Faith answers questions from the Beast Claws, her Street Team.Q – How did you design the Unit? Did you start with what the story arc needed, a love interest, a surrogate child, supportive female characters, or did you create the characters and they evolved with the story?Faith – that was soooo much fun! I started out with Rick and Paka because that gives me instant conflict. Then I added Rick’s up-line Supervising Special Agent Soul. Then I needed a person to take over if Rick was disabled, and that gave me JoJo, the unit’s smartest character with the best organizational abilities. Then I needed another were-cat to help Rick with his little shape-changing problem, and instantly Occam stepped onto the page. And I needed a witch to deal with witchy problems. T. Laine (named after my cousin, Tammie Laine) walked right at me, fully formed. We had a nearly perfect pack, but I had a bunch of alphas and betas and nothing else. I needed someone to take both the Zed position in the pack (the Omega position) and also be the one who had be most opportunity to grow or mess up. And that left Tandy. Voila. Unit 18.
Q – How did Tandy an empath end up in PsyLED? What is his back story? He seems a bit fragile to be in an active unit.Faith – Tandy’s history is only now coming clear to me. I think he was perfectly human until he was struck by lightning. Then everything changed. His gift opened as the electricity zapped through his brain and his glandular system. And yes he is fragile. But his ability to tell when someone is lying or hiding something is invaluable in an interrogation. And he needed protection, which the unite began to give him. Wait till you see what happens in the next book!Q – Can Nell break Paka’s hold on Rick?
Faith – LOL You will have to wait on that one. But it’s a good question. A better one would be – what would be left of Rick if she did?Q – Can Nell sense the unnamed Vampire she rescued and Claimed still?
Faith – it hasn’t come up. And Nell would hate to think about vampires in any capacity. Maggots and all…Q – Is the relationship between Nell and Soulwood edging along a Dryad type relationship in spirit and soul form?
Faith – Not exactly. Dryads are European in origin and Nell is something similar but not spiritual. She is her own creature.Q – Are the gwyllgi naturally evil? Or is it a case of nurture? Will we ever see just how the werewolves of Montana deal with the wayward dogs?
Faith – Both. They are selfish by nature but could have been taught good manners and compassion. As to the Montana wolf question, I have no plans to write that story. But it could happen!
EXCERPT
Rick set down the pot and his mug and pulled his cell. He made a note, not asking who I had talked to. I figured he knew, so I didn’t offer, but it would be in my report. What wouldn’t be in the report was the fact that I had told Jane Yellowrock everything about the situation up here, even the classified things that no one was supposed to talk about outside of PsyLED. I had only met Jane twice, but she had a good head on her shoulders and knew a lot about paranormal things and creatures. And she was trustworthy with secrets, maybe because she carried her own.Thomas Jefferson’s quote about lying becoming habitual seemed like a mighty truth, and I was clearly racing down that particular road to hell, myself. But keeping secrets meant lies, and my job meant keeping secrets. I was trapped in a catch twenty-two from which there was no escape except back into the life I had lived before. Alone. Or full speed ahead into the life of a liar, with people I liked. There wasn’t much contest. At all.
GIVEAWAY!
There is a tour-wide giveaway for 5 copies of CURSE ON THE LAND, 2 sets of the Soulwood novels (BLOOD OF THE EARTH & CURSE ON THE LAND), and a $25 gift card to Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Giveaway runs October 17th to November 12th. If you’d like to share, the Rafflecopter code is below.
About CURSE ON THE LAND:
Before Nell Ingram met skinwalker Jane Yellowrock, she had no one to rely on, finding strength only in her arcane connection to the dark woods around her. But now she has friends in the newly formed PsyLED team to keep her grounded — even if being part of the agency responsible for policing paranormals comes with dangers of its own…After training at the PsyLED academy, Nell returns home to her woods to find the land feeling sick and restless. And that sickness is spreading. With the help of her team, under the leadership of agent Rick LaFleur, Nell tries to determine the cause. But nothing can prepare them for the evil that awaits: an entity that feeds on death itself. And it wants more….
CURSE ON THE LAND (Nell Ingram #2) | Faith Hunter | Roc Mass Market Paperback | $7.99 | 352 pages | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 9780451473325 | Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.
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About Faith Hunter:
Faith Hunter, fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. She writes three Urban Fantasy series: the Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock, a Cherokee skinwalker who hunts rogue vampires. The Soulwood series, featuring earth magic user Nell Ingram. And the Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban, post-apocalyptic, fantasy series featuring Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage. (There is a role playing game based on the series, ROGUE MAGE.)Under the pen name Gwen Hunter, she writes action-adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Faith and Gwen, she has 30+ books in print in 29 countries.Hunter writes full-time, tries to keep house, and is a workaholic with a passion for travel, jewelry making, white-water kayaking, and writing. She and her husband love to RV, traveling with their rescued Pomeranians to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast.
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