Word Processor, Romance, Cats, Kids and Creed: GUEST SPOT: Nancy Kilpatrick and THRONES OF BLOOD

Good morning book lovers! Today, I'm featuring Nancy Kilpatrick, she discusses her series, "Thrones of Blood". Enjoy!

I’m really excited to interview you about your new vampire series. Did something in the real world inspire the Thrones of Blood books?

Not that I’m aware of. I started this series 10+ years before book 1 (Revenge of the Vampir King) came out. I was in Florida alone one February for one whole month. Believe me, getting away from Montreal’s frigid winters was a reminder that a) I still had a brain; and b) I could actually sit in the shade and write outdoors, or with a window open. And that’s what I did in 2006. I wrote 80% of the first book, 60% of books 2 and 3, and 45% of book 4 & 5. Over the decade that followed I revised madly and strengthened the connections of the two overarching series plots. Maybe the sound of surf and a temperate climate lured me right back into vampires, which I’d written about before–well, I am allergic to direct sunshine.

What is your favorite scene in the series?

It would be difficult to pick a favorite scene in any of the books. When the dynamic between characters crackles always is interesting to write. The sexual tension and love/hate between characters is obvious, but I also love a lot of other interactions, for example, Wolfsbane and his twin sister, Hemlock. And the character Belladonna, who is wise, clever, fearless, cynical and funny, or so I’ve tried to fashion her, so when any character interacts with her, that’s a joy to write.

What was your writing process like as you wrote the books?

Once I returned from Florida, I worked a little on the books now and then because other work impinged. During those years, I edited or co-edited 6 anthologies and put out a collection of stories, plus wrote a whole lot of stories for anthologies. Besides that, I teach writing for a college’s Distance Ed program. That’s just the tip of the work iceberg. What I found with this series is that I worked differently. Not sequentially. I’d work on the book that caught my interest that day. Each book features new characters that ‘star’ in their story, but other characters appear as well, since this is a world and the larger story is ongoing. It was really fun to work in a new way, just by feel, whichever book I felt like working on that day. No stress because I had no plans to publish these and referred to them as The Unpublishables.

What was the best thing that happened during your promotion of the series?

One of the delightful things that recurs is how people on the internet and face to face at shows respond to the covers. My series is vampire novels for adults, not YA. Between the covers readers will find sex, violence, (sometimes a combo), treason, treachery, love, hate, jealousy, betrayal, misunderstanding, life, death, undeath, murder, you name it. These are vampires so not particularly PC. I think the gorgeous covers express the mature subject matter very well while presenting hot vampires. LOL The covers were designed by the very talented Istvan Kadar who, by the way, is from Transylvania, so he knows his vampires! Check him out at https://www.facebook.com/istvankadarphotography/

About the Author

Nancy Kilpatrick is an award-winning author. Her publishing credits include 22 novels, over 220 short stories, 6 collections of her stories, 1 graphic novel, 1 non-fiction book and, as well, she has edited 15 anthologies. She lives in Montreal and her work is published in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and has been translated into 8 languages. These are the genres in which she has published: dark fantasy, horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, erotica. Details can be found on her website below.