Blog Tour: WORLDS OF FIRE: BLOOD RED MOON by Deborah A. Bailey

 

Worlds of Fire: Blood Red Moon

by Deborah A. Bailey

 

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GENRE:   Romantic Fantasy

 

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BLURB:

 

Out of the ashes, a new beginning...

When his family and most of their kind were destroyed by the Guild, Derek inherited the position of Vampire Lord. Alchemists held the keys to creating portals to other worlds, knowledge they passed down to phoenixes. Their utopian society was crushed when the Guild invaded, intending to unlock the powerful secrets phoenixes possess. Lovers Derek and Avani met the night their city was sacked and after the city succumbed, they were lost to each other.

Love will be resurrected in blood and fire…

Having lost her memory, Avani became a protégé of the Guild Master, conditioned by magic to believe shifters and vampires were evil. Eventually, she was made Seeker, tasked with finding the Vampire Lord in order to gain access to phoenixes.

When Derek finds Avani, he neutralizes the magic that's kept her from remembering who she is. However, the Templars have almost certainly made a pact with the enemy of all supernatural creatures, in order to gain access to the portals. Only a phoenix can save the world from utter ruin now, but that was precisely the asking price…

 

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Excerpt One:

 

"You're thinking about the Guild, aren't you? They don’t deserve your thoughts, or anything else." Derek was standing next to the tub, undressing.

 

How had he known? Could he read my thoughts? Another thing I'd heard that vampires could do. As if in response the stabbing pain increased, like something within me was fighting to get out. Each stab cut deeper and deeper and I doubled over.

 

The water was shut off. I felt pressure on my back, moving me forward. Then splashing as Derek joined me in the tub. He sat and braced his legs on either side of me. He put his arms around me, holding on as I shivered. 

 

His presence surrounded me like the water. A vampire. My enemy. A dangerous predator who I'd been taught to fear and hate.

 

Derek pulled my hair back and bared my neck. Soon he would sink his teeth into me to save me. Or he would have his revenge for what we'd done to his people. Maybe that had been his plan all along. I'd be less trouble dead.

 

In the cooling water, his touch melted me as he glided his tongue over my neck. The pain in my chest slowly subsided. Not gone but not dominant anymore. My body was becoming attuned to him. My gasps of pain lessening as my breathing matched his. In and out. In and out. Steady. Deliberate.

 

The Vampire Lord and the Seeker. Finally, together at last. But not in the way I'd always thought we'd be.

 

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Guest Post: My Writing Process

Usually, my story begins as a conversation in my mind between the characters. I might not know who the characters are just yet, that takes more writing. But eventually I get an idea of who these characters are and what is happening in their world.

Since my stories are character-driven (as opposed to plot-driven) I have to get a feeling of who the characters are. What do they want? What are they hoping to achieve? It might take a lot of writing before I have those answers.

Finally, once I've written several scenes, I have an idea of what the story will be about. At that point I may write an outline so that I'll have a rough idea of how the story will go. I'm a "pantser" and not a plotter, so my story may change a lot as I work on it. I don't stick to the outline, instead I use it for guidance.

For Blood Red Moon I had a rough idea of the first chapter of the story, but I made a lot of changes to it. At first Avani and Derek were adversaries but weren't connected, however in the final version I wanted them to be long lost lovers. As I wrote the different drafts, I had more of an idea of the vampire and shifter cultures. I didn't know what they would be up front; it took writing and working on the story before it came to me.

As I wrote and edited, I had more of an idea of how the story would go and how it would end. In fact, I wrote the ending before I finished writing the last third of the book. I knew where I wanted the story to go, and with each version of the draft I understood how to get the characters there.

Often the completed story ends up being more than I expected. I may not know what that story will be when I first start out, but it's rewarding to go from those initial ideas to a fully developed story.

 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Deborah A Bailey's Paranormal & Science Fiction Romance novels include suspense, a bit of mystery and a lot of romantic heat.

Her short stories have won awards from the Philadelphia Writers' Conference and have been published in US1 Magazine and the Sun and are included in, Electric Dreams: Seven Futuristic Tales. She's the author of non-fiction books, and articles for various online publications.

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