The Immortal Heroine

I had a lot of fun with my first six novels. The Dragonborn trilogy originally started out as a single, x-rated satire on the main quest line from the Skyrim game, asking the question "What if the Dragonborn was an insatiable slut?" But as Katja's feelings for her two studly lovers deepened in book two, it was inevitable that she would settle down. By book three she'd become a wife and mother, and though she still had a strong sex drive it was completely satisfied by the two men she'd been lucky enough to marry.
The DragonSon series, written with a YA audience in mind, was a logical extension of the lives of the characters in the earlier series. Bethesda's lawyers eventually objected to my selling these books online, so in early 2015 I re-vamped them to remove all game references. Some elements of the game universe still persist, such as the existence of cure-all potions that ensure nobody will spend months recovering from an injury.
The Dragonborn series was reborn as the Fireblood Chronicles, with all-new characters and plotlines - but the sex scenes in Destiny of the Fireblood and its successor volumes are as sizzling as ever. As a writer, I find I come to fall in love with my characters. I don't want to usher them into old age and infirmity, but keep them young and vibrant forever. After all, this is fantasy - not real life, where even the most beautiful and heroic eventually fall to ruin.
The DragonSon series became the Fire Scion series, which was easier to rework since all of the plot lines and most of the characters were already my own creations. And I couldn't resist carrying Bernadette and her two husbands into immortality by the end of book three. But their story was done. Their battles had been fought and won, and they and their many children stood on the threshhold of a bright future: a happy ending. Could Bernadette, Andrion, and Erik face peril together again? Of course. But I felt it was time to leave their game-borne universe behind.
In the Shadow God series I created a picaresque heroine, a girl with the deck stacked against her. Yet by her wit and spirit Leila managed to triumph again and again, beating the odds with the help of a divine alliance she had never sought. Yet she, too, eventually settled down - marrying her true love and becoming a mother. I completed Mother of Shadows at the beginning of 2015 and then embarked on the project of reworking the Dragon books into the Fireblood and Fire Scion series'. And then, I decided to start a new series with a heroine who could truly become immortal.

Demon Bringer, first in the Darkshield series, went from initial inspiration to completed first draft in only eleven days. Its heroine, Adara Willoughby, is a smart and fiercely determined young woman who starts out as an innocent. As her saga progresses (book four is currently being written) she will learn much; but she has no desire to settle down. She has loved and lost, and will do so again and again as the lure of adventure calls her onward. Each new lover is adored in his way, but none has the power to hold her back in her quest for new knowledge and the richness of experience.