Release day was a weird experience for me. I was camping at Steamboat Lake, Colorado and my Internet access was intermittent at best.
I started this book at the end of March last year. I had a contract on October 5, 2014. I went live on Amazon.com on July 20, 2015. It's been an amazing journey.
My series is about Olivia. She begins as a twenty-something with serious self-esteem issues. She lets herself be used by her boyfriend because deep down she doesn't think she deserves anything better. The book is an action/adventure story but the heart of the story is Olivia's growth from doormat to hero.
Yes, there is explicit content in the book. I write Olivia's story as she experiences it - good and bad. If you don't see how low she's been, you can't quite appreciate how much she grows. She swears (not as much as I do). Sometimes she makes bad decisions. She's not perfect by any means and she really needs to learn to duck. If they had frequent flyer cards for hospital visits she'd have earned a trip to Hawaii by now.
This is near the beginning of the book. Olivia decided to play a prank on another member of the group she doesn't get along with - a man that has a reputation for bullying and harassing other women in the camping group.
An excerpt:
It felt like I’d barely closed my eyes when I heard motorcycles and loud diesel engines pulling in just down the road. You could
smell the rolling coal from here. I
burrowed deeper under the covers, warm against Kat, and tried to ignore the noise and
go back to sleep. Between the engines and the loud voices in the middle of the night,
I knew it must be Derek and his group. I’d nearly succeeded in going back to sleep
when I heard jangling cowbells, one group after the other,
and a lot of bellowed curses.
“Oh bloody hell, Kat. I forgot about the cowbells. They’re going to kill me. Wendy is going to kill me.” I pulled
the pillow over my head and squeezed
my eyes closed.
“Oh my god. Is that what you were doing over in their camp today? Really? Cowbells?”
“It was a plan. It was a good plan,
even. It would
have been a better plan if
they’d shown up Friday afternoon like they usually do.”
What's next:
My husband, Bryan Fields, is also a writer. His third book, Dragon's Luck, released the same day with Forging Day. We share a world though our stories are somewhat offset in time. His fourth book, currently under construction, begins when Forging Day begins. Both series are independent, but if you read both(which I highly recommend) you'll run into some familiar names and places between the two.
I've finished the next three books in Olivia's journey. I'm working on the fifth. Family Values in up next - probably this winter. It deals a lot with relationships in between fighting the bad guys - once they figure out who they are and what they're actually up to. California Dreaming and then Dungeon Raiders were fun to write. I'm a World of Warcraft player. Imagine if the newest casino on the Las Vegas Strip was based on a game called Warblade. I know I'd go there. California Dreaming and Dungeon Raiders move Olivia away from her home in Colorado to Las Vegas and Southern California. Of course when you're a certified trouble-magnet, adventure is sure to follow.
Links:
http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Luck-Dragonbound-Bryan-Fields-ebook/dp/B0127ESOFY/
