UFI welcomes Author Celia Breslin. Thanks for Joining us!!
What can you tell my readers about yourself that they might not know from
looking on your bio or reading in another interview?
Hm... Little know fact about me: I was classically trained on piano from age
six through sixteen, and sang in an a cappella group in high school.
What do you enjoy doing on your down time?
What is this “down time” of which you speak? LOL. ☺ I love to hang out with
my family and wander around our city. San Francisco is a fun place to live.
What is your favorite part of writing?
Immersing myself in the worlds I create and getting to know my characters.
Do you have any certain routines you must follow as you write?
As a full-time mom, I fit in writing and other editorial work around my
child’s schedule. A typical day during the school year looks like this:
chauffeur child to school, exercise, write, line or content edit and/or read
slush pile for an indie publisher, pick up child, spend evening with family,
write a little more before bed. Rinse, repeat.
What are some of your favorite books or authors in the Urban Fantasy/
Paranormal Genres?
I have so many favorites, including: J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood,
Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark, Amber Belldene’s Blood Vine, and Larissa
Ione’s Demonica and Lords of Deliverance. I’ve read them all more than once.
How would you pitch DIAMOND MOON to someone who has not heard of it before?
Here’s the elevator pitch: Human-wolf hybrid Darci wants a cure for her
shifting problem not a Wolf mate, but Dominant wolf Ross intends to change her
mind and capture her heart.
Can you tell us a little bit about the world that DIAMOND MOON is set in?
Diamond Moon is set in The Black Hills of South Dakota. Much of the action
happens in or around the small shifter town of Los Lobos. The Tao pack owns the
area—the pack itself is fractured but on the mend, after the death of its crazed
and cruel Alpha. The Alpha’s son returns home to set things right in the first
book of this multi-author series.
In my story, Dominant Wolf Ross Luparell returns to the pack to settle in the
area and help build homes for homeless pack members. To his surprise and
delight, he also finds his mate.
Fun facts about this world: you’ll meet a slew of great characters from the
many authors writing in this shared world, and you can read the stories in any
order, as they’re all stand-alone stories.
Do you have a favorite scene in DIAMOND MOON ?
I’m quite fond of Ross and Darci’s first kiss scene. One second they’re
having a nice conversation over dinner and the next they’re on the table… :-)
Which one character out of all your books was your favorite to write about?
What about the hardest to write about?
Well, all of my characters hold a piece of my heart. But I hope my wolves
will forgive me if I confess a vampire is my favorite. His name is Jonas and you
can meet him in my vampire series, The Tranquilli Bloodline. An ancient vampire
originally from England, Jonas embodies extreme violence in a pretty package.
He’s a man of few words, dark and moody, fiercely loyal and violently
protective of those few people he loves, such as Carina, the series heroine. I
adore him so much that I gave him his own short story in the series, entitled
Vampire Code. You can also enjoy Jonas in action in Haven and Destiny.
The most challenging character to write about was Gee, for Diamond Moon. Gee
is a mysterious, badass Werebear bar owner living in Los Lobos. He appears in
every story in the series. He was the hardest to write because he’s not my
character. That said, it was super fun getting to know him for his appearance in
my story.
What Other Projects can we look forward to reading from you?
My urban fantasy vampire series, The Tranquilli Bloodline. Haven, Destiny,
and Vampire Code are out now, and I’m working on the fourth novel in the series,
entitled Origins. Vampires, love, mayhem…
In paranormal romance, I’m working on two more stories for Decadent Pub’s
Black Hills Wolves series, featuring Ross’s two siblings, a younger sister and
an older brother. More Wolf goodness, action, and love…
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Celia lives in California with her husband, daughter, and two feisty cats.
She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance, and has a particular fondness
for werewolves, vampires, and the Fae. Her award-winning vampire series - The Tranquilli Bloodline - is available from Champagne
Books. Diamond Moon is her first werewolf story for Decadent Publishing’s Black
Hills Wolves shifter line.
When not writing, you’ll find Celia exercising, reading a good book, hanging
with her family, or indulging her addiction to Joss Whedon’s TV shows and
movies.
Find Celia and her books
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Diamond Moon
Black Hills Wolves #12
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Human-wolf hybrid Darci
Diamond spends every full moon locked in auntie’s basement in Southern
Oregon. Her excruciating shifts terrify her, the last one causing her
heart to stop beating. Seeking a cure, she journeys to Los Lobos.
Ross
Luparell returns to the struggling Tao pack, using his millions made in
the tech industry to build homes for pack families in need. He never
imagined he would also find his one true mate. But when a hybrid with
the biggest green eyes he’s ever seen lands on his doorstep in the
middle of a wicked summer storm, there’s no denying it. She’s the one.
She
wants a normal human life, free from pain-filled shifts. He won’t give
up on her Wolf, and will do whatever it takes to help her accept her
true nature. But can he convince her to trust him with her heart?
Excerpt:
He reached out with his Wolf senses. The feedback froze his fingers on the
doorknob. Female. Damn, she smelled good. Human. Wolf. Wait…both? The copper
tang of blood hit his nose. And injured.
He flung open the door. His abrupt move caught his visitor off guard, one
small, white fist raised to knock. The woman startled and fell forward. Catching
her, he pulled her inside, kicking the door shut with his foot.
She sagged against him, a shivering bundle of wet woman. Underneath the
dampness, her scent drop-kicked his gut. Apples and cinnamon. Roses and honey.
His body perked up, taking extreme notice. He fought the growl of possession
threatening to tear out of his throat. Holy hell, had his potential mate just
walked into his home in the middle of a storm?
The scent of her blood jump-started his brain into action. He lowered her
gently to the floor. “Jesus. You okay?”
His instincts urged him to check her for wounds, but he was a stranger and
didn’t want to spook her. But goddamn, he wanted to touch her. Peel off her wet
clothes. See all of her. With a jacket covering her torso, tight jeans hiding
her legs, and her ball cap pulled low on her face, all he’d seen so far was her
quivering pale chin, full red lips, and those delicate, trembling hands.
“S-s-sorry, d-dripping all ov-v-ver your f-f-floor,” she said, teeth
chattering. Her snow white fingers curled on the hardwood, arms trembling with
her effort to keep herself upright. Blood streaked the wood. A line of liquid
crimson slid down her jaw and dripped from her chin onto her jacket.
To hell with propriety. “You’re injured. Let me help you.” He pulled off her
cap and damn near swallowed his tongue.
Big green eyes blinked up at him from a face so pale it made him think of
moonlight. Drenched, short black hair lay plastered to her head, the ends
framing features reminiscent of the fairies his sister loved to draw for the
hidden-object games she designed. Ethereal beauty. My beauty. He stroked a
knuckle down her cheek then ran his thumb over her soft, full lower lip.
She flinched and batted his hand away, falling to her side in the process.
Ross snapped back to reality with a healthy hit of guilt. “Shit. Sorry.”
His gaze shot to her forehead where a two-inch cut sent blood trailing over
her prominent cheekbone with its silky-smooth skin he’d so enjoyed caressing—
Shit. He gave himself a mental ass kicking for scaring her. “I’m Ross. You’re
safe here. Promise.”
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