Today I have the pleasure of hosting Ivy Devlin who is the author of the upcoming book Low Red Moon. For this post I had asked Ivy about what lead her to write the story and what research did she do? Below is her response.
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I've always loved the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and I thought "What if....?" and went from there. It just seemed like the perfect story for a paranormal romance--with the possibility for some very interesting twists along the way!
As for research, I thought about Woodlake, where the story takes place, a lot, and even drew a map of where everything was so I could look at it in case things started to get a bit mixed-up in my head--but with a small town, it was pretty easy. :-) I also wanted Ben's last name to be perfect, so I did some digging around, saw something that made me go, "ah ha!", read a little more, and well--that's how Ben got his last name!
For me the most fun thing about writing Low Red Moon was finding out things I didn't know about the characters--for instance, there's something that happens to Avery that I never saw coming when I first got the idea for the book, but as I started writing and it came out, I just went with it. And I'm really glad I did.
As for research, I thought about Woodlake, where the story takes place, a lot, and even drew a map of where everything was so I could look at it in case things started to get a bit mixed-up in my head--but with a small town, it was pretty easy. :-) I also wanted Ben's last name to be perfect, so I did some digging around, saw something that made me go, "ah ha!", read a little more, and well--that's how Ben got his last name!
For me the most fun thing about writing Low Red Moon was finding out things I didn't know about the characters--for instance, there's something that happens to Avery that I never saw coming when I first got the idea for the book, but as I started writing and it came out, I just went with it. And I'm really glad I did.
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Thanks for stopping by Ivy....Check back later for my review of Low Red Moon which will be available form Bloomsbury wherever books are sold on 14 Sept 2010.
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Great post! Looking forward to Low Red Moon!!!
ReplyDeleteInteresting back story! Thanks for sharing. :)
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