Please welcome Jeaniene Frost!
Would you tell everyone a little about yourself?
Hi, thanks for having me on your site. My name is Jeaniene
Frost, and I’m a vamp-a-holic ;). Seriously, I’ve loved them since I was a
child, so it’s no surprise that vampires are what I write about. Well, that and
ghouls, ghosts, demons, and black magic practitioners, but vamps generally take
center stage in my books. I’ve wanted to
be an author since I was twelve, but I didn’t actually finish a book until I
was thirty. That book turned out to be my debut novel, Halfway to the Grave.
What sub-genre do you write?
I’m shelved in romance, but my novels have been called a
hybrid between paranormal romance and urban fantasy because I don’t change
couples with every book. The Night Huntress series features Cat and Bones.
There are six Night Huntress books on the shelves now, with more on the way. My
new Night Prince series features Vlad and Leila. Their first book, Once Burned,
hits the shelves June 26th, and the sequel comes out spring 2013.
Who/what is your writing muse? And in what environment or
conditions do you write?
I don’t have a specific writing muse. Ideas come to me at
all times, even in dreams (which was how I came up with the characters from my
debut novel, in fact). I write while listening to music, but that’s less
because music is a muse and more because it drowns out distracting other
sounds. As to environment, I’ve written everywhere. On the couch, in hotel rooms, on a train, or
in a corner by the TV because that’s all the space I had in my old townhouse.
I’ve only had a “real” office for a year.
What are you working on at this time?
Right now I’m finishing Night Prince book two (untitled as
of yet), the sequel to Once Burned. I’ve really enjoyed expanding Vlad and
Leila’s story, and there may even be a third book for them in the future. But
after I finish Night Prince #2, I’m back to writing more Cat and Bones.
Until then, however, I’m excited to have readers discover
the Night Prince books. Since Once Burned is the first book in a new series,
readers don’t need to be caught up on any of my other novels to dive in to Vlad
and Leila’s story.
Description:
She’s a mortal with dark powers…
After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her
dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying
powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets
through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude…until creatures
of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress
call to the world’s most infamous vampire…
He’s the Prince of Night…
Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all—but
whatever you do, don’t call him Dracula. Vlad’s ability to control fire makes
him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a
new weapon against him – a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When
Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to
consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy
intent on bringing them down in flames.
And here is the “teaser” page that appears at the beginning
of the book:
“Why
didn’t you tell me there was a catch to drinking your blood? Maximus said that
doing it made me, ah-”
“Mine,”
Vlad finished without hesitation.
My temper
rose at his complete self-assuredness. “I didn’t agree to that, so forget it.”
He sat on
the edge of the bed and leaned down, setting his arms on either side of my
face.
“You think
my blood is the only tie between us?”
His voice
was low, yet edged with palpable hunger. It seemed to rub me in places I’d only
ever touched before, making my anger fade under a flash of desire. Vlad was so
close that his hair was a shadowy veil all around me, and when he began to
caress my face with light, sure strokes, it was all I could do not to close my
eyes in bliss.
“This is
our true tie,” he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. “You’re
meant for me, and I will have you.”
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