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Heritage has its price.
For centuries, werewolves have been condemned to live in the shadows. Now, in a Victorian world of steam machines and gas lights, sheep farmer Nick Buchanan unwittingly finds himself married to a werewolf. His new wife Agatha only wanted to escape a life of torment, not realizing that a greater destiny was her birthright. They will have to overcome one werewolf’s legacy and the madness of another to keep Australia from being thrown to the wolves. In sickness and in health, for better or worse, they are on the road to redemption for all werewolves. “Birthright is an epic tribute to werewolves everywhere. It will change your mind about them being mere monsters.” —Verdine Daniels, editor kulturmag.co.za
Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 403 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Aug 20, 2012)
ISBN10: 1432794590
ISBN13: 9781432794590
Genre: FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal
To paraphrase my father, “I write for my own amusement and everyone else’s amazement.”
I’ve always been a storyteller. Even as a small child, I would follow my mother around the house, reading from whatever happened to be at hand. I had imaginary friends. I dreamt of other worlds and creatures that would inhabit them. When I lived in Alaska as a kid, I was an uber tomboy, always outdoors making up adventures. We moved to Colorado when I was in junior high and I met friends with the same vivid imagination. I suddenly became a complete shut in, writing like there was no tomorrow. That started me down the path I am on today, with more than twenty years’ worth of storytelling under my belt, but nothing to show for it. Publishing had never appealed to me. I kept my stories to myself and my friends.
What changed?
I was fed up with my real world job and decided to go the way of so many talented wordsmiths and get published. I let go of my fear of success and dove in. I went with self-publishing to start with to get myself out there. I’m not afraid of rejection notices. I just wanted to get into print sooner rather than later.
Birthright is my first novel. A word of explanation about how it happened.
I believe in signs. The universe will tell you when you’re on to something. My stories are written first as movies in my head. I cast them, score them, the whole nine yards. It helps me to visualize what’s going onto paper if I can hear the dialogue and envision the actors as the characters. It makes them more visceral and genuine to me, and I hope to my readers. I’m always looking for actors/actresses to inspire me. In ’93 I saw Jurassic Park and thought Sam Neill was terrifically talented. So I decided if I was to write something for him, what character would I want to see him play? My lifelong fantasy with werewolves gave me a great idea. Think of the tension and drama that would come from an Australian sheep farmer marrying a werewolf. I had the basic premise, a couple characters, but nothing more. It went nowhere until this past winter. For some reason, seeing him in JJ Abram’s ill-fated Alcatraz sparked the blaze that propelled me into a four hundred page love story about werewolves taking over Australia. Think Country Life (or Man from Snowy River for American audiences) meets Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, but it’s really something far more original and groundbreaking. I guess inspiration truly comes from unexpected sources.
So now I’m working on the second book in the Shepherd’s Moon Saga, as well as an entire series of books about American ghost towns with paranormal histories, a steampunk novella set in another world and a whole mess of short stories. Someday I’ll be able to quit my day job, which is actually an evening shift.
There you have it, my history as an author in a nutshell that’s a little cracked. 
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