This is how I feel today. Not bad, just a little tired and washed out into different colors. Well, I’ll have to admit my ideas for a blog today were nonexistent. It might have been because I’m writing my fantasy romance novel, the first in a trilogy that will be coming out at Ellora’s Cave. The trilogy is called Daryk World, and the first book is Daryk Hunter.

This is my first foray into writing fantasy romance, but it isn’t exactly foreign territory because I’ve written other paranormal romance. I consider fantasy romance just one spectrum of the subgenre. What I’m loving about the fantasy part is creating an entire world that is just my own, and hopefully one readers will respond to as well. These stories are erotic romance, so there’s always the added challenge of writing the erotic into the story in a way that is believable to me. I don’t do slot A into tab B sex scenes. Nope. They have to be unique to the characters and foremost the love scenes have to be in the right place for the story. No quota of sex scenes designed to be thrown into the story to make sure there’s enough sex. Nope. J I can’t write a story like that. What I have to do is be in the right frame of mine, whether it’s with the right music and my mind open to the possibilities. Asking the characters to speak to me and tell me what they want to do.

The three heroines in the three books who all met each other on a ship and became quick, fast friends. A huge storm tears apart their ship, and that’s where they’re lost from each other but found by three seriously hot men. Daryk Ones. Men trained to protect the innocent and keep the peace because of their superior strength, their intelligence, and their ability to defend the people against dragons. Yes, there are dragons in my world and other toxic creatures too numerous to mention right now. There are glaciers, deserts and jungles in this world, too.

Then there’s the problem of the heroes from the next two books showing up in the first book. That in itself isn’t a problem. I wanted readers to know a tiny bit about these men so hopefully they’ll clamor to read about them later. Rayder Tyrus, who is the hero of the second book, Daryk Rogue, is definitely a rogue. He’s a disgraced Daryk One, a man who should be a warrior and hero to his people but is essentially undercover with slave traders to exact revenge for his sister’s death. He popped into the story when I didn’t expect him to and demanded to be written right NOW. And he’s hot. Very, very, very hot.

Eryk Gauth is the hero of the third book and he’ll have complications of his own in Daryk Warrior, but in this first book he’s popping in pretty quickly. He may show up again later in this story. I never say never.

And once again I remind myself my best stories are when the unexpected happens. When something I didn’t foresee jumps out and says, “create me.”

Off to create more Daryk World!

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