Meet the Author: Terry Spear

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Sorry I didn’t get the interview up as usual on Monday, but I think you’ll find it worth the wait. This week’s interview is with an exciting new fantasy writer, Terry Spear. Her new release, Heart of the Wolf was selected one of Publishers Weekly “Best Books of the Year!”

 

 

 

Other titles are Winning the Highlander’s Heart, The Vampire…In My Dreams. Terry’s website is www.terryspear.com

 

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Terry Spear is the award-winning author of a brand new werewolf series, starting with Heart of the Wolf, named Publishers Weekly’s BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR for 2008,  NOR Reader Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance of 2008, and a Recommended Read from Fallen Angel Reviews. She follows up with Destiny of the Wolf (formerly titled Don’t Cry Wolf), release date Mar 1, The Bite of the Wolf and Allure of the Wolf, both fall releases. Allure of the Wolf’s title is subject to change also. She also writes a medieval romantic suspense series, Winning the Highlander’s Heart and the next is The Accidental Highland Hero. And she writes young adult paranormal romances. The Vampire…In My Dreams is out now, some teen fans have said they enjoyed it as much as the popular Twilight series, and Deidre’s Secret, psychic teen book coming March, along with the ebook version of Deadly Liaisons, a vampire adult romantic suspense.

Does she have a particular genre?

So what do they have in common? They’re all romantic suspense!!! Most are paranormal. Even in Winning the Highlander’s Heart, the heroine has premonitions.

She’s often been asked why she writes about werewolves. Seems vampires are okay, but a lot of readers wonder about the werewolf angle. Simple. She loved reading Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang. A look at wolf behavior from a wolf’s perspective. When she felt the market was becoming overwhelmed with vampire romances, although she loves writing and reading them, she tried a werewolf story, based more on real wolves to create the most credible world she could.

Terry’s advice for writers starting out.
Terry says she’s an eclectic reader and so she loves to write everything from nonfiction for teen and genealogy magazines, to fiction novels for adults and young adults. She explains that you have to love what you write, so it helps to love reading in the same genre. Get pesky rejections? Keep writing, revising, and submitting. It’s the only way to get picked up.

She advises: Learn the craft. Even though we can be avid readers, dissecting the works to see what makes them work is essential. Online writing classes can help. She teaches some where she critiques student’s work during the class. Critique partners can be invaluable also. Contests are so subjective, but sometimes they can help also. 

 What’s next for Terry?

 She’s currently working on Plight of the Wolf and Night of the Wolf for the werewolf series. And she wants to write the sequel to The Vampire…In My Dreams and another medieval tale. J

 For more about Terry:

You can check her site out at www.terryspear.com and she blogs regularly with other shapeshifter authors at http://shapeshifterromance.wordpress.com.  Check it out as she and the other authors regularly have giveaways.

And she enjoys hanging out with the paranormal authors of Sourcebooks Casablanca at: http://www.wickedlyromantic.blogspot.com/

 Here’s what a couple of reviewers have said about Heart of the Wolf:

The vulpine couple’s chemistry crackles off the page, but the real strength of the book lies in Spear’s depiction of pack power dynamics, as well as in the details of human-wolf interaction. Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible.―Publishers Weekly

A solidly crafted werewolf story, this tale centers on pack problems in a refreshingly straightforward way. The characters are well drawn and believable, which makes the contemporary plotline of this story of love and life among the lupus garou seem, well, realistic. ~~Romantic Times

  What’s coming up for Terry?

Her latest upcoming release, Destiny of the Wolf, coming March 1!       

 Question for readers: Terry wants to know if you had a choice to shapeshift, what would you like to be?

Great question I think I’d like to be a cat. I can’t wait to see what other readers say!

 

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