Guest Post with author Sherry Gloag

Thank you for inviting me to visit with you today and to talk about the first two published books in my royal siblings, The Gasquet Princes, four book series.

When I started writing From Now Until Forever, published by Astraea Press, all I knew about it was that it should have a royal hero. I couldn’t ‘see’ my heroine, nor for that matter my hero, so I went for broke and started freewriting.

Melanie, my heroine turned up right away, and indicated this would be a short story geared towards an online site I’d submitted to in the past. I was given a scene through her eyes – well I was given a tiny snippet of scene, let’s be honest about it. All I knew, some guy with blond hair was getting shot at.

Not a lot to go on, but hey, I thought my word target was a tad over a thousand words, surely I’d get something. I did, but according to the ‘crit’ group I belong to while it captured their attention it wasn’t enough, they wanted more!

So I tried again and took it up to five thousand words, submitted it to a publisher looking for content for their anthology. At the same time a friend read it for me and said ‘she wanted it’ if the story was rejected. It was. So I went back to my friend, Kate, who promptly told me, ‘Good, but you have to extend it to fifteen thousand words.’

Gulp! That was so scary. Then before I knew it the story was coming at me so fast I had trouble keeping up with it. Bad guys shooting at good guys, royal siblings, who I didn’t realise at this time would demand their own stories, escape vehicles so absurd I truly couldn’t see how they’d work. Plots within plots and a pace I’d never experienced in my writing before.

I loved every minute of it, and was mentally exhausted when it was finished and fully ready for publication. :-)

A few days after From Now Until Forever was published, the eldest royal sibling, Henri, my hero in His Chosen Bride demanded his own story, so now I was faced with a single stand alone story that suddenly morphed into the first book of a four book series.

Where Melanie, the heroine of From Now Until Forever is feisty, strong and self-reliant, Monica my heroine in His Chosen Bride is so different I didn’t recognise her as Henri’s potential bride to begin with. There are no car chases in His Chosen Bride, published earlier this year, but there is mystery and mysticism. The hero, Henri, does not set out to defy his royal parents, but finds himself in unknown territory when his father, the king, pulls the rug out from under Henri’s very secure and familiar routine.

Trust is a theme that runs through both books, and many events happen that shatters the trust between the heroes and their heroines.

All have to face that ‘Ah-ha’ moment and look deep within themselves to discover what really matters to them in life.

All four characters have to dig deep before they can grow, and all four a tested to their limits before they can reach their personal HEA, happy ever after.

Currently I am working on the next two books in the series, tentatively called Royal Intentions and The Playboy Prince.

Sherry will giving away the following prizes: 

* One randomly drawn commenter at every stop will win a hand-crafted book thong. 
* One randomly drawn commenter during the tour will win a hand-crafted selenite penden
* The host with the most comments (excluding Sherry's and the host's) will win a hand-crafted selenite pendent 

The tour dates can be found here: http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2012/05/virtual-book-tour-gasquet-princes.html

About the author

Multi-published author, Sherry Gloag is a transplanted Scot now living in the beautiful coastal countryside of Norfolk, England.  She considers the surrounding countryside as extension of her own garden, to which she escapes when she needs "thinking time" and solitude to work out the plots for her next novel. While out walking she enjoys talking to her characters, as long as there are no other walkers close by.

Apart from writing, Sherry enjoys gardening, walking, reading and cheerfully admits her books tend to take over most of the shelf and floor space in her workroom-cum-office.  She also finds crystal craft work therapeutic.

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Buy Links for “From Now Until Forever”: 
http://www.astraeapress.com/#ecwid:category=662245&mode=product&product=7105194 http://www.amazon.com/From-Now-Until-Forever-ebook/dp/B006GYAV44/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322854797&sr=1-1-spell
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/sherry-gloag-from-now-until-forever?keyword=sherry+gloag+from+now+until+forever&store=book

Buy Links for “His Chosen Bride”:
http://www.astraeapress.com/#ecwid:category=662245&mode=product&product=9472803