Ask the Author: Kari Gregg
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Kari Gregg
So glad you like Heart Stone! And the answer is yes. After my current project is off my desk, the plan is to do acts 3 & 4 (working titles: Handfasted and Return) and release both at the same time to wrap up the series in one fell swoop. :-)
Kari Gregg
Hi, Steph! So sorry you couldn't find Dead Cannibals! It will be reissued in the fall for Halloween. :-)
Kari Gregg
It's in-progress. I generally work on stories in tandem, 2-3 books at the same time, and I'm actively working New Beginnings with a shifter one as we speak. I'm just slower and still not up to my old speed. So yes, it's coming and yes, should be soon. :-)
Kari Gregg
I'm working on Act Two: New Beginnings now. I;d intended to keep working through chemo because the side effects were really very minor for me, but then chemo brain hit and seriously fucked up my head, LOL. Lots of short-term memory problems, but what hamstrung me for work was word-dropping. That (word-dropping) still slays me, especially when I'm tired, but at this point, I've figured out a work-around to get to whatever word I can't remember.
Anyhoo, you should see Act 2 in the next month, two at the most. I'd say a month, full stop, but I'm in radiation now -- I'm almost at the end of this slog, thank you sweet baby Jesus! -- and I don't know yet how badly the fatigue truck will flatten me. If that gets bad, it's more likely to be 2 months than 1. But New Beginnings is coming, I swear. :-)
Anyhoo, you should see Act 2 in the next month, two at the most. I'd say a month, full stop, but I'm in radiation now -- I'm almost at the end of this slog, thank you sweet baby Jesus! -- and I don't know yet how badly the fatigue truck will flatten me. If that gets bad, it's more likely to be 2 months than 1. But New Beginnings is coming, I swear. :-)
Kari Gregg
The only sequel I'm actively working is the one for Safe Travels, Act One of For Whom the Heart Stone Burns. I'd planned on putting out a prequel for I, Omega in 2015, but that was before I got sick. Also before seasonal allergy crud flattened me the past few weeks. I'm on the mend now, though, finally back at work, but I lost weeks I hadn't counted on losing. (Dammit.) As for Tame...Probably not. I am playing around with short stories/novelettes as I'm writing Heart Stone, just to get my squirrelies out, but I haven't dabbled in Tame-related stuff, at least not so far. I might put out one or two of the shorts I've been messing with when either Act Two or Act Three of Heart Stone rolls out. I generally don't bother with shorts much, but some of these are kinda wow, y'know? Hate to keep that trapped on my hard drive. Maybe, maybe not. The big focus for me, for now, has to be Heart Stone, though. Everything else, I'm playing by ear.
Kari Gregg
I'm glad you liked Liv, Mitch, and Sammy!
While I *did* eventually wrestle those rights back from Noble, thereby FINALLY making that sequel possible...I haven't worked in menage (or written a heroine) in almost five years. I really don't know when or if I'll ever return to that. I can only say doing so isn't active and on deck now.
While I *did* eventually wrestle those rights back from Noble, thereby FINALLY making that sequel possible...I haven't worked in menage (or written a heroine) in almost five years. I really don't know when or if I'll ever return to that. I can only say doing so isn't active and on deck now.
Kari Gregg
I hadn't planned any, no. Sorry!
Kari Gregg
Sorry, real life has been kicking my ass for the last little while, didn't notice this question until just now. I planned a sequel for ITR, yes, but that's not on my docket for 2015. As it stands right now, 2015 will be another shifter story already in production, a pair of fae novellas bundled together as a twofer, the IO prequel, then a project of which I've been referring in my head as my shifter opus (because Massive Beastly Long SOBing Thing is too many syllables, LOL), and POSSIBLY a riff on time travel more on par with otherworld travel. That last is still in development and I'm beginning to think it'll have to run a very long (novel plus) length too so IF that project is ready to go (big IF), it probably won't be ready to trot until 2016. Anyway, my sequel energies for the time being will be squarely focused on delivering the IO prequel. Sorry! :(
Kari Gregg
Noah's the baby (and an oops, although that was one of those development thangs that never had a logical reason to make it on-page) so all his sibs are older than he is, his sister (the eldest of them all) significantly older by many years. Can't recall if I ever pinned that down in text, but she's closer in age to Trudy, who (as I vaguely recall -- sorry, don't have my prelims file open atm) was 30. One of the brothers was much closer to Noah, though. Much. So they aren't ALL drastically older than he is.
As for series work, probably not. I wrote this one as a stand-alone. Most everything I do is. Not that this book or that one couldn't be expanded and explored more. I just lack the patience and discipline for series work. Especially when it comes to shifters. There are so, soooooooooo many shifter mythos that can be developed, an embarrassment of creative riches just waiting to be tapped. I could literally come up with dozens of shifter stories and never revisit the same mythos twice. So much lovely shiny. Countless ways to play with traditional shifter tropes and sometimes nudge those tropes into skidding a bit sideways. I'm playing with the destined mate trope in shifter fic right now, actually. Utterly delicious. OMG.
For me, the story most worth pursuing is the one I can honestly say I've never seen done the way I want before (which can be good or horrifically bad, depending, LOL), but if I've already visited that world once, I've seen something like I want before, no? Series work is a writer's bread and butter, so I've been told, but my brain is just wired all wrong for that. Noah was special to me. I loved him. But I love Wyatt...and Jamie...and the respective worlds each of them live in. I've told Noah's story. He doesn't need me anymore. Wyatt and Jamie, though, do. If that makes any sense.
As for series work, probably not. I wrote this one as a stand-alone. Most everything I do is. Not that this book or that one couldn't be expanded and explored more. I just lack the patience and discipline for series work. Especially when it comes to shifters. There are so, soooooooooo many shifter mythos that can be developed, an embarrassment of creative riches just waiting to be tapped. I could literally come up with dozens of shifter stories and never revisit the same mythos twice. So much lovely shiny. Countless ways to play with traditional shifter tropes and sometimes nudge those tropes into skidding a bit sideways. I'm playing with the destined mate trope in shifter fic right now, actually. Utterly delicious. OMG.
For me, the story most worth pursuing is the one I can honestly say I've never seen done the way I want before (which can be good or horrifically bad, depending, LOL), but if I've already visited that world once, I've seen something like I want before, no? Series work is a writer's bread and butter, so I've been told, but my brain is just wired all wrong for that. Noah was special to me. I loved him. But I love Wyatt...and Jamie...and the respective worlds each of them live in. I've told Noah's story. He doesn't need me anymore. Wyatt and Jamie, though, do. If that makes any sense.
Kari Gregg
I try to never say never, no telling when & where creative lightning will strike, but a sequel's extremely doubtful for that one. Sorry! :(
Kari Gregg
I'd stalled on one...until last fall, when a couple readers suggested a prequel to IO on my website's Contact/Q&A page. THAT got my mental wheels unjammed and turning again. There was a bit of a stumble between then & now on whether or not that project would move forward and a project I was working in the meantime (which I should be able to announce soon) was also shifters. I'd already gone from Pretty Poison (shifters) to the new shifter story...Honestly, I couldn't face diving right back into another shifter story, even if it was just revisiting a world I'd already built. 3 shifter worlds that close together is the secret to a psychotic break, right? LOL. But yeah, that prequel's going to happen. Maybe after I finish the current non-shifter project. Unless (God help me) something else gets all jacked up, I should have the IO prequel in 2015.
So...a sequel, probably not. At least not anytime soon. That's still jammed up in my head. But a prequel? That, I'm rather excited about. :-)
So...a sequel, probably not. At least not anytime soon. That's still jammed up in my head. But a prequel? That, I'm rather excited about. :-)
Kari Gregg
Another book is planned, Black Friday, but I'm not actively working it at this time. :(
Kari Gregg
Sorry! I didn't see this question until just this minute. Eep.
I had planned a sequel to ITR called Black Friday, but I'm not writing it or any other story at the moment. Frankly, my ADD spiraled completely out of control this summer and I'm still struggling to get on top of it.
I had planned a sequel to ITR called Black Friday, but I'm not writing it or any other story at the moment. Frankly, my ADD spiraled completely out of control this summer and I'm still struggling to get on top of it.
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