As for the group of friends that now surround Gentry and Toby, this is not the last you’ll see of them. Later this year, one of them is even featured as a main character, so I hope you enjoyed getting to know Ridgely, Warner, Jackson, and Dominic. The three that haven’t met their mates yet are on my list of names to write about. I’d love to learn who their other halves are and explore their relationships.
If you’ve had a chance to read Gentry and Toby yet, I’m sure you’re already interested in what is ahead for the D’Vaire series. It’s nearly impossible to believe, but the thirtieth book will be out in July. When I started this journey years ago, I never could imagine that people would still be interested in my D’Vaires after so many books, but I’m so grateful that you are!
So, book thirty is two new characters to the series. It is a matebond with a combination we’ve seen before in the series. One is a shifter, and the other a sorcerer. What makes these guys so different from the first couple with a similar race combo is that they’re from a government in direct opposition to the Council of Sorcery and Shifters. Tomorrow in my readers’ group, I’ll share a picture hint and later in the day, reveal the name of the book along with the blurb.
I recently wrapped up the thirty-fifth D’Vaire book, and although I wanted to take a break to recharge my batteries, it was impossible. Long before there were D’Vaires, there was another series, though it wasn’t MM. For years, I procrastinated by telling myself I was researching every aspect of my characters. The stories were contemporaries and featured two families who’d grown close. There were dozens of couples, and two side characters were a gay couple.
Those two guys have yet to be written, but I definitely want to do their story justice someday when they’re ready again. Without that couple and my fascination with them, I wouldn’t have read an MM book, let alone written one. After I started reading MM, I lost interest in the book series I’d filled a thick binder to overflowing with details, calendars, and everything else you can possibly imagine. The D’Vaires were born, and the rest was history.
From that bunch were eventually two gay couples I knew had to fit in somewhere in D’Vaire, though I didn’t immediately know how. One of those characters finally made his first appearance in a cameo in Grymmie’s book that'll be released later this year. There were two other MF couples that were the foundation of that series that I thought I’d write, even though it’s far from my genre.
But I realized in the past year or so, I probably wouldn’t get around to it. I enjoy what I do far too much to explore starting fresh with something else, and so I took one of those MF couples and put them in as side characters at D’Vaire. Again, this happens in the upcoming Lich Reaper’s Lament. As for the first MF couple that essentially convinced me I could be a writer someday, their story was altered in my mind. Something about it was off, and I realized it should be explored more deeply.
You can probably guess what happened next. At the root of their story was something I desperately wanted to tell, and I could do that if I could re-imagine the characters as MM. I wasn’t sure it would work or how to make them the shifters they begged to be, but I was content to have them as side characters if it wasn’t possible to change them completely. I refused to just replace the female’s name and write a story that wasn’t really MM. So, I set it aside months ago and let them decide their future. I was set to coax a reluctant dragon to get his ass in gear for the next book, when two new—but one of them familiar to me—characters rushed into my brain. Where they were once regular humans, one is now a hybrid and the other a full shifter.
Their struggles are different, it's an MM, and the plot is far more developed and complex than the seeds of the story I had all those years ago. They are so excited that I cut short my break to dive into writing their book. For the last novel, I drastically reduced my outline to give myself a sense of freedom, which I thought it worked really well in keeping me as interested on the last day of writing as I was on the first. I copied that approach for this story, and it’s working great so far. The process is moving fast as I'm already over a quarter of the way done! In a few weeks, I’ll figure out my release schedule for next year and get that set with my editor. I’ll share more about that in the coming months!
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