Deanna is a native Californian, transplanted to the slower paced lifestyle of southeastern Louisiana.
When she isn't writing, she is often goofing off with her husband in New Orleans, playing with her two shih tzu dogs, making glass beads, or out hocking her wares at various bead shows across the country.
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It’s tough being a faery in New Orleans, a city fraught with vampires… especially when their very existence drains your life-force.
Willow Rhoswen, owner of The Fated Cupcake and part-time vampire hunter for the Void is having a rough week. Four years after her twin brother’s mysterious death, Willow’s life is threatened and the director saddles her with a new partner—her ex-boyfriend, David. To her horror, he’s turned vamp, which causes her physical pain whenever she touches him… and any other specimen of the undead.
In order to save Willow’s life, David agrees to turn double agent against the most powerful vampire organization in New Orleans. Or so he says. And she’s convinced they know something about her brother’s death. Unsure where David’s loyalties lie, she turns to Talisen, her childhood crush, to help her solve the mystery.
Caught between two gorgeous men and a director who’ll stop at nothing to control Willow’s gifts, she’ll have to follow her instincts and learn who to trust.
Otherwise, she risks losing more than just her life.
Q) What inspired you to write this story?
I’d say Influential Magic was inspired by the three things I love most. New Orleans, Urban Fantasy, and my dog. It’s probably not a surprise that I’m a huge urban fantasy reader. And since I live near New Orleans and it’s one of my favorite places, it was natural to set it there. Then we have Link, the wolf-shifting Shih Tzu. Don’t tell any of the other characters, but I’m pretty sure he’s my favorite. I’m not sure why I decided to make Willow a faery, except I do think it would be cool to have wings. Who doesn’t want to fly?
Q) How long did it
take you to write?
I started Influential
Magic back in the spring of 2011. But then I went on to publish my Jade
Calhoun series and IM had to wait for a bit. I went back to it in Sept of last
year. Even though it was half written, it took me six months because my writing
had changed quite a bit over those eighteen months and the story took a few
different turns that I wasn’t expecting.
Q) What is your
favorite thing about writing?
The zone. That place where you go when you’re fully emerged
in the story, living it with your characters and feeling everything they are.
It’s the draft phase when I don’t worry about editing, just getting the story
out. That’s my favorite part. My next favorite is the final read through when I
see it all come together. It’s like graduation day.
Q) What is your least
favorite thing about writing?
Opening the notes from my editor. Don’t get me wrong. I love my editor. She saves me from myself
every time. We writers have a hard time seeing what we said on the page verses
what we meant to say. So it’s the editor’s job to tell us when we need to clarify.
And that often means revisions. One revision can change the entire rest of the
manuscript. Just when you think you’re done, you’re not and you have to go back
through the entire thing to make sure the changes match. It’s daunting
sometimes.
Q) If you could be
any famous person for one day, who would you be and why?
Is it crazy that I don’t want to be famous? I’m pretty
introverted. I like people and can be social, but I’m more of an observer. That
said, I’m going to say someone fabulously talented like Norah Jones so I could
experience just once what it was like to sing and not have people throw
tomatoes.
Q) What is the oldest
thing in your fridge and how old is it?
A jar of pickles. It’s a year old
and never been opened.
Q) What can readers
expect from you in the future?
Angels of Bourbon
Street, the fourth book in my Jade Calhoun Series is coming out at the end
of May. Irresistible Magic the second
book in Crescent City Fae will be out this September. Then Look for Shadows of Bourbon Street.a Rafflecopter giveaway
