Hello to those of you coming here from CyCon, and welcome! And another shout-out to those of you who recently subscribed to my blog.
When I wrote the first book in the Free Wolves series, I realized I wanted a way for my shifters to be part of today’s world. Of course, I wasn’t planning for Wolves’ Pawn to be part of a series. I thought I was writing a standalone story, so I didn’t plan for a long-range universe.
Then I plopped my wolf shifter pack in the middle of a state that has no wolves and created another challenge for myself. How did they maintain some pieces of pack structure while living in a modern society?
My answer was for the pack to run it’s own company and have a small village for the members to live in. Pack members weren’t obliged to stay there, although many chose to. This set up conflicts with other packs who didn’t adopt modern ways or were business competitors.
In turn, that let me to creating a “council” for the packs with a strong alpha as its leader, with the purpose of negotiating terms between packs to keep the peace. It also led to the formation of a loose opposition group, for shifters who didn’t want to play by pack rules. Thus was born the Free Wolves and a book series.
But one goal all the characters have is protecting the knowledge of their abilities from getting out to the mainstream population. Sure, a few normal humans are aware of the shifters’ special abilities, but on the whole, it’s a closely guarded secret. Don’t look now, but that computer geek who lives down the street just might be a wolf in his/her “other” form.
Now let’s go find out what Timothy Bateson, author of “Shadows Over Seattle” has to say. Timothy Bateson
For those of you not familiar with OWS CyCon- it’s a 3 day event, a cyber convention for books. It was started in 2013 and has grown each year. There are booths for each author, divided by genre. The main website is here OWS CYCON. Go take a look! I have booths in both the urban fantasy and mystery groups.
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