Bite Me Your Grace by Brooklyn Ann (Guest Post/Giveaway)

Please give a warm welcome to author, Brooklyn Ann!

Writing About A Writer
Stephen King writes a lot of characters who are writers. At first I thought he did this is a convenience, falling under the “write what you know” category. Or maybe he was subconsciously putting himself in the story.

Then the heroine in my debut novel told me she was a writer as well. “Whoa!” I said. “What do you write?”
“Horror!” she proudly proclaimed. “None of those insipid romantic novels.”
“Thanks for that,” I replied, a little stung. “But I love horror. I wish I could write horror. How do you go about it?”

As I wrote her story, BITE ME, YOUR GRACE, I found out how. We have a few things in common, such as looking at a crazy situation and thinking of how to make a story out of it, but there are some major differences.

First off, Angelica had to deal with major sexism in her time. Women were supposed to be wives and mothers, not authors. Plenty flouted that convention and many female literary voices prevailed. However, the most popular were the romantic types, such as Jane Austen.

So her genre was also a problem. Angelica’s idol, Mary Shelley, got away with it because her father owned a publishing company. From what I understand, horror is still a difficult market for a woman.

Another way Angelica and I deviate is how we seek inspiration. I usually listen to music and daydream. She decided to break into her neighbor’s house because she thought it was haunted. It worked out for her because he was a sexy vampire. But if I tried it, I’d probably be looking down the barrel of a gun. (I live in Idaho.)

Anyway, while writing BITE ME, YOUR GRACE, I discovered that writers as characters can differ greatly from the author penning their story and can be a constant surprise.

Bite Me, Your Grace 

(Bite Me, Your Grace #1)

by Brooklyn Ann

Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages

Published April 2nd 2013 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

ISBN 1402274440

England's "vampire craze" causes much vexation for the Lord Vampire of London, Ian Ashton. To save his reputation, Ian enlists aspiring authoress Angelica Winthrop without realizing she has hidden plans of her own.
Angelica Winthrop's life goal is to ruin her reputation, avoid marriage, and become a gothic authoress like her idol, Mary Shelley. To find inspiration for her new story, she breaks into the home of Ian Ashton, Duke of Burnrath, not knowing she will be coming up against the Lord Vampire of London. Romance sparks and reputations are at stake. But who knows the real difference between fact and fiction?

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