Hello,
Selena Kitt, welcome to SASSE Sheets. I appreciate you spending the day with us
here. Readers have loved you for years and your naughty erotic shorts that push
the boundaries. *smile* You have made a way for a lot of romance authors to
express themselves freely in erotic writing.
SASSE: Please share with the readers a
little about yourself. If you were not a romance/erotic writer, what would be
your creative outlet?
Selena: I’ve been writing erotica and
erotic romance since 2006. I started at Literotica, and was publishing on
Amazon before the Kindle was even invented! If I wasn’t writing, I’d probably
still be doing birth photography. I was
a doula and apprentice midwife before I started writing again.
SASSE: I love historical romance books
and paranormal books. When I stumbled across your Highland Wolf Pact series it was like Christmas and my birthday all
in one. I bought all three and started diving in. How did your muse convince
you to take the readers on an adventure to 1500 Scotland? What sparked this series
to life?
Selena: I was actually in a boxed set
called “Highland Shifters.” The authors wanted to time the release with the
premiere of Outlander, which we did. The
idea was to combine Scottish romance (which was entering into the mainstream
with the STARZ series Outlander) and the popular shifter genre.
SASSE: Tell us about Book 1, Highland Wolf Pact. What was your
inspiration for this storyline?
Selena: My inspiration for the book came
from doing a little Google research about werewolf lore in Scotland. Interestingly, Scotland doesn’t have any real
werewolf stories, but they do have legends about “helpful wolfmen” called
“wulvers.” This piqued my interest, and I started imagining a race of wolf shifters
hidden in the highlands. My heroine came
into being when I decided I wanted to something involving the ongoing conflict
between England and Scotland that was so common in the 1500s. King Henry VII had the idea of “marrying the
border” (combining English and Scottish households) and had been sending
English brides to Scottish lairds on the border in order to help decrease
animosity. Sibyl Blackthorne turned out
to be quite a spunky female for the time period—of course, she had to be, to
hold her own with a wulver like Raife!
After she’s promised in marriage by her uncle to a very cruel Scottish
laird, circumstances take Sibyl out of the frying pan and into the fire, when
she’s “rescued” by a wulver—and taken into an entirely new world! I had a lot of fun researching and developing
the wulver’s world. Women in the 1500s
didn’t have much of a choice/voice (like Sibyl getting married off without her
consent) and so I found it interesting to make the female wulver situation
parallel (female wulvers don’t have any choice about when they change/shift,
and it’s tied to birth and their cycles).
Selena: My favorite scene to write in
that one was when Kirstin runs off on her own to find a way to be with Donal,
which leads to—well, I can’t say much or I’ll spoil it. I loved Kirstin as a character, and writing a
romance between a she-wolf shifter and human male hero was a fun
challenge. I got a chance to more fully
develop the wulver lore in this one, and Kirstin as “healer” played a large
part in that.
SASSE: Have you ever been to Scotland?
If not, is it a place you plan to visit one day?
Selena: No, I never have. I’m far from a world traveler, I’m
afraid. Airplanes scare me. But maybe I’ll take a trip across the ocean someday. It would be fun!
SASSE: Last but just as good a book as
the other two. What was the most challenging or difficult part to write in Book
3, Blood Reign?
Selena: The fight scene—when our heroine
Bridgit meets our wulver hero, Griff.
(Griff is actually
Raife’s son – Raife from book one). But I loved
making Bridgit a warrior-in-training.
How often do you meet the man you love by being forced to fight him?
Great scene, but I’m not an action writer, and you can probably tell.
Blood Reign, I think, is my favorite.
I loved Sibyl and Raife – but Raife’s son,
Griff, might even be hotter.
And I adore
Bridgit as a character.
She was a blast
to write.
SASSE: I would like to thank you for the
time to sit and chat. Keep up the excellent writing work! What is next for you
that readers can expect?
Selena: I am working on two more in the
Divine Vampires series. Blood of Angels
and Kiss of Angels are out now. And I
have a new release, Step Beast that just came out. And if you haven’t picked it up yet, Highland
Wolf Pact is on sale for $0.99!
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