If you’ve read my Kerry Anne King novels you’ll notice I always manage to infuse a tiny little bit of some sort of magic in there, even when I’m writing real world stories, and my Kerry Schafer books are all built around either fantasy or paranormal. Friendships are weird) and then SHE suggested maybe I try my hand at midlife paranormal instead.
Even an erotica experiment, just to see if I could pull it off.Īt that exact moment, I got a text message from Pam Stack, the brilliant woman who runs the Authors on the Air Radio Network - and, by the way, reads like 400 books a year or some crazy number - and I told her I was considering experimenting with a “Love me Goat Herder series,” since goats are a long standing joke between us (don’t ask. You know - step away from the constrictions of traditional publishing and the contract book I was working on, and write something for the heck of it. I’d had a couple of drinks - okay, maybe three, which is a LOT for this lightweight - and declared my intent to write something just for fun.
We were a couple of days into a two-person writer retreat in Narraganset. I’m always curious about the ways books and readers find their way to each other (if you’ve got a great story about how you found your favorite book, I want to hear it!) and in this case, The Golem and the Jinni was suggested to me by my writer pal Heather Webb. And if I happen to be reading it while drinking a freshly made-from-scratch strawberry margarita (which I was) while sitting in my hot tub (which, alas, I wasn’t) all the better! Discovering the Book In this case, I did actually happen to be happily reading The Golem and the Jinnion Friday, and I have to tell you - not much in the world makes me happier than being absorbed in an immersive fantasy. (Bets on how long I keep it up? I’m kinda notorious for bright ideas and then not following through.) If it happens to be the cereal box? So be it. Have you ever stopped to wonder what’s up with the whole Friday Reads thing? I mean, come on - hands up if you only read on Friday? But since Friday Reads IS a thing, I’ve hatched a plan to start posting here about whatever I happen to be reading when Friday rolls around.
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