by Martha Carr
My original very short scene (seen in the beginning of the book, Feared by Hell, The Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone) was waiting for me to get back to it. However, I needed to finish my Paranormal Space Opera The Kurtherian Gambit, and so it took until April 6, 2018 for me to finally release my first Oriceran book.
For the last couple of months I’ve been prepping Brownstone, and Martha and I have been talking about what’s next for Leira and company. We kept chatting, and we thought of every option for the series including:
•Stop Leira’s stories.
•Continue Leira in the same set of stories (our original arc), even though we knew more now and the character was obviously changing.
•Change the arcs for Leira and head in a new direction.
Compounding our hesitance to continue Leira as she stood was that she was changing. The Leira we envisioned in the beginning wasn’t the Leira we were telling about in book 07.
When we added in all our collaborations with our other Oriceran authors (including Abby-Lynn Knorr, SM Boyce, Sarah Noffke, and Flint Maxwell) to the canon, the story had changed.
It was at this time that Feared by Hell (Brownstone) was ready to share with Martha.
It was my turn to put into the Oriceran Universe the grit I enjoy in the urban fantasy stories I like to read. I had no idea if the story would resonate or fall flat on its face.
I needed the world to be different than the existing timeline stories. We didn’t talk about bounty hunters like the one in my story, so I had to jump some time. Martha and I elected to go forward twenty years.
I like my characters to have each other’s backs, but there is a lot of room to see why there could be some friction between them.
Enter Shay... A woman with a past she doesn’t want to divulge working with a man who upsets her world view, making her think twice about herself. She goes so far as to convince herself that Brownstone has a certain sexual preference so that her world view is safe.
Regardless of what Brownstone feels about her beliefs.
It ended up to be a great ass-kicking series that will make you smile and at times cry, “Oh, Shay, NO!” (Or perhaps, “Oh, Brownstone, NO!”)
That takes us back to Leira.
As Martha and I discussed Leira’s future, we realized our character had had enough. That the people in charge of laws and rules bent justice in a way Leira couldn’t accept any longer. When we came to that conclusion, her path forward became the basis for how the Bounty System Brownstone is part of was created.
It seems so obvious to me in hindsight.
Martha and I have now laid out the arc for the four books in Leira’s story where she tears down walls, rewriting what the word “justice” means in her life and forever changing Earth and Oriceran moving forward in the future.
I hope you join us for Leira 2.0 – when Justice is a dish best served hot.
I HAVE TO TOUCH THE UPGRADES
Martha sent me a picture of her house that was still under construction last week. Along with that, she tells me every few days, “You are going to have to touch every upgrade when you come visit the first time.”
I am a little creeped out.
I mean, every upgrade? I’d understand if she told me she wanted to show me every upgrade, because that makes sense. I’d want to be the proud papa of a new home and show my parents or friends everything we did with the house.
But touch it?
I think Martha is fucking with me, but I can’t be sure. She is crafty; that “Aw shucks” exterior hides a devious mind. Yeah, that must be it. She is fucking with me…
Isn’t she?
DAMMIT, CARR!
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
Other series in the Oriceran Universe:
SCHOOL OF NECESSARY MAGIC
SCHOOL OF NECESSARY MAGIC: RAINE CAMPBELL
ALISON BROWNSTONE
THE DANIEL CODEX SERIES
THE LEIRA CHRONICLES
I FEAR NO EVIL
FEDERAL AGENTS OF MAGIC
THE UNBELIEVABLE MR. BROWNSTONE
REWRITING JUSTICE
THE KACY CHRONICLES
MIDWEST MAGIC CHRONICLES
SOUL STONE MAGE
THE FAIRHAVEN CHRONICLES
OTHER BOOKS BY JUDITH BERENS
OTHER BOOKS BY MARTHA CARR
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