Ewe won't believe this...PNR author Anita Cox

Grace McGovern is the Lycan Princess in Anita Cox's latest release Saving Grace (Shifter Chronicles Book 1) and she has a story to tell about her author, Anita, and a conversation they had over drinks...

Ewe won’t believe this…

Anita Cox and I were sitting down over her favorite adult beverage, the espresso martini, chatting about where she would take my character.

Now I must preface this by saying that Anita scares the hell out of me. She’s all about pushing the envelope and torturing her characters…just a bit. But I’m a tough Lycan Queen. I can take it. So I thought.

She takes a sip of her martini, places it on the coffee table and leans back pulling her fingertips together. “I was thinking,” she starts.

My heart starts racing. She’s been thinking again…the late night writing and obscene amounts of coffee combined with sleep deprivation sometimes give her really crazy ideas. This is usually when I choose to climb into some shadowed forgotten part of her brain until she’s rational again.

“What if I gave you a dick?” she asks.

I can tell from the look on her face, stern and ravenous, that she’s dead serious and has given this a lot of thought. My face reddens but my curiosity is at its peak. “What? Like a strap-on?” I look up at the ceiling as I try to imagine the delicate predicament I’ll have to enact.

With a giggle and a wiggle of her left brow she leans forward. “No, like a real penis.”

“Since girls don’t have penises, I’ll assume you’re changing the main character to a man.” Great, now I’m out of a job.

The maniacal laugh gives me goose flesh.

My stomach churns when she shakes her head. She plans to give me, Grace, a man-sausage, a pole, a chicken-to-choke…a tube steak.

“Oh it’s just for one scene,” she waves her hand in my face and commences to slamming the rest of her martini.

So, I’m going to be sporting a cock. How did I get this job again?

Saving Grace (Shifter Chronicles Book 1)
Anita Cox
January 15, 2015
237 pages
Already struggling with her royal status, Lycan Princess Grace McGovern faces the challenge of accepting a mate. The very sexy Roman LaRossa, is already infatuated with Grace. He’s also her pack’s Beta. As Grace’s was raised in the human world, she is determined to bring Lycan women’s rights up to speed, bringing them equality and protection for the violence they face from the Scottsboro pack’s supernatural puppy mill. Can Grace succeed in her goals or will the Scottsboro pack win by kidnapping her and using her to breed her royal blood into their pack until there’s nothing left of her?

Jagger Merrell, Alpha of the Scottsboro pack, takes great pride in his need to bring an end to the Lycan Clan and will do anything and everything he can to bring it and their too independently minded Princess, Grace McGovern to her knees. Will he finally rule the Kingdom of Lycan and tame this odd Alpha Princess once and for all?

Roman, the Belfast Pack’s Beta, has always loved Grace but will his chauvinist and controlling ways cause her to refuse him as her King?

Can Grace find love with Roman? Can Roman save her from Jagger? Who will win this battle of wills to rule the Kingdom of the Lycan?

Content Notes: M/F, Trans, M/F/H, Menage, F/F, Violence but not for titillation

About the Author:

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Anita has been writing general fiction, under her given name, for nearly a decade. In 2012 she strapped on a new name for a new genre and dove head first into writing erotica. Anita Cox's erotic debut series Dirty White Candy was picked up by Liquid Silver Books in 2013,but this wasn't her beginning. Under her given name she has written crime fiction (some with paranormal elements,) paranormal romance and suspense novels. In 2014, she became a Director for the Erotic Author's Guild. Her altruistic nature found its purpose, assisting other erotic authors with issues specific to the genre.​ With a busy home life, Anita manages to ferret out enough time for each hat she must wear, though secretly, she wants to shut the world out and just write.

J. E.Taylor: The writing process through the eyes of a teen

Did ewe know... watching The Walking Dead with a twelve-year-old might not be the most prudent thing to do as a parent?

My son and I have always had a kinship with weird, superhero type television shows, after all, he grew up watching Smallville and Supernatural with me, so when he asked if we could watch The Walking Dead, I thought what the heck, we both like scary movies, how bad can a television show be?

After five minutes of us staring at the television in wide-eyed shock, I reconsidered. That was clearly not a show for kids and when I switched the channel, he didn’t argue. He’s never asked to watch it again.

One day, as we were taking the long walk into York Village so he could get his girlfriend a birthday gift, he sheepishly asked if I might want to write a book with him. I asked him what his idea was, fully expecting it to be a carbon copy of all the Percy Jackson books he had just read, but boy was I surprised. While the influence of those adventures was obvious, the premise was different and damn good.

We strolled slowly and I asked a metric-ton of questions, making him think and adjust and firm up a pretty decent outline for the series. Forming the story arc was the easy part. Getting into a thirteen-year-old’s mindset is a completely different experience.

My son had no idea how complicated writing a compelling story was. His idea was basically a string of events with no emotional punch. When I explained he had to engage the senses and let the reader experience the character’s feelings instead of telling them everything, it got real interesting.

In one of the early scenes of the book, Nick, the main character kisses his girlfriend’s cheek. As we were writing this scene, I turned to my son and asked:

“What did she smell like?”

To which my son’s eyebrows rose and he shrugged with that ‘why you asking me’ look that only a thirteen-year-old can deliver.

“Seriously, what did her hair smell like?”

“I don’t know. I don’t go around school smelling girl's hair.” His exasperation was clear. This wasn't what he wanted to be talking to his mother about.

“Maybe you should,” I said and that earned a laugh.

“Writing is more than just giving the visual cues or just sequence of events. You need to engage all the senses.” I’m not sure the lesson got across through his laughter, but I persisted, changing the subject to something even more uncomfortable. “What did he feel like when he kissed her?”

I’m not sure how long he laughed and I worked hard not to join him. I kept a straight face waiting for his hysterics to end. When he finally wound down, I invited him to think about how he physically reacted when he kisses his girlfriend.

As you can imagine, that question didn’t go over well. I think the boy turned every imaginable shade of red, but it got him thinking. After a while, and quite a bit of prodding on my part, he came up with some very good descriptions.

If you want to find out what’s in the mind of a thirteen-year-old, check out Don’t Fear the Reaper - the first book in our Death Chronicles trilogy.
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Thanks for letting me hang here!

Ciao,
JET

The Ryan Chronicles Trilogy (The Ryan Chronicles #1-3)
by J.E. Taylor
The Ryan Chronicles Trilogy includes Saving Grace, Raven Heart and Trinity's Wrath:

SAVING GRACE
The Ryan Chronicles – Book 1
When CJ Ryan's girlfriend decides life is less complicated without him, CJ travels a destructive path into despair, walking the line between what's right and what feels good. But what feels good is a dangerous slope to travel, especially when Lucifer wages war for his soul.

One wrong step and CJ could fall into the devil's trap, becoming no better than the demons he battles.

RAVEN HEART
The Ryan Chronicles Book 2
CJ Ryan still can’t remembered a thing about his past, but he is determined to have a future with Valerie. Despite his lack of memory, he finds himself ensnared in the cutthroat world of entertainment whether he wants it or not. The push into the spotlight shines a harsh glare on his family and brings with it a plague of horrors that drag him to the edge.

With the darkness of the past threatening, CJ turns to his brother looking for answers, but when an enemy with a psychotic history re-enters their lives, it will take more than just his memory to save them.

TRINITY’S WRATH
The Ryan Chronicle's Book 3
CJ Ryan's life seems to have fallen into place, and while the backdrop of his Hawaiian honeymoon provides the perfect healing elixir, the guilt of sentencing his father to an eternity of torture at Lucifer's hands starts to intrude on his happily-ever-after.

When he and Valerie return from Hawaii, a note from the king of hell greets him, outlining in sickening detail his plans for CJ and those he holds dearest.

With everyone he loves on Lucifer's hit list, CJ must start living up to the bargain he made in Heaven, but every one of Hell's gates he closes is one less portal available for his father's escape.

About the Author:

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J.E. Taylor is a writer, a publisher, an editor, a manuscript formatter, a mother, a wife and a business analyst, not necessarily in that order. She first sat down to seriously write in February of 2007 after her daughter asked:

“Mom, if you could do anything, what would you do?”

From that moment on, she hasn’t looked back and now her writing resume includes six+ published novels along with several short stories on the virtual shelves including a few within eXcessica anthologies.

In addition to being co-owner of Novel Concept Publishing (www.novelconceptpublishing), Ms. Taylor also moonlights as a Senior Editor of Allegory (www.allegoryezine.com), an online venue for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. She has been known to edit a book or two and also offers her services judging writing contests for various RWA chapters.

She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children and during the summer months enjoys her weekends on the shore in southern Maine.