Emily Bex's Blog
August 31, 2021
December 7, 2020
Fall from Grace, Book 4, is OUT NOW!
Fall from Grace, Book 4 of the Medici Warrior series, is OUT NOW! Get it while the series is on sale...
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November 27, 2020
Signed Paperback Giveaway!
In celebration of the Book 4 release on Dec 7th, I'm giving away 3 SIGNED PAPERBACKS of Book 1, The Blood Covenant!
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November 20, 2020
Fall from Grace is up for preorder!
Fall from Grace, Book 4 of the Medici Warrior Series, is now up for preorder! Make sure you:
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and
- Add to your TBR: Fall from Grace
I can't wait for you to see what happens next!
-Preorder:https://books2read.com/u/mgzgG6
and
- Add to your TBR: Fall from Grace
I can't wait for you to see what happens next!
April 2, 2019
The Evolution of Shade
The evolution of Shade was a collaborative effort. My friend Joanna, who had been encouraging me to write, had been a fan fiction writer who worked with a group of other writers. She had a vision for this character of an Italian warrior vampire named Shade, but her writing group never saw a place for him in the stories they were developing. She suggested I use him as the protagonist, and together we started fleshing out his back story, which then became the jumping off point for the whole series.
I have a love of both travel and history, and had visited Italy several times. My favorite city in Italy is Florence. I was in love with the city, its architecture, and its history. The city of Florence had come into the peak of power during the Renaissance due to the rule of the Medici family. They were a very rich and powerful family, who ruled all of Tuscany. You can’t walk the streets of Florence today, and not see the impact of the Medici’s on every corner. The idea of having Shade as a member of that family would have automatically elevated him to one of power, wealth and royalty, and gave me a history I could tap into for his family.
I knew from the beginning that if I tackled a vampire story, I did not want to use traditional vampire lore. I didn’t want them to have died and returned as vampire, but rather, to be born vampire due to some mutation in their DNA. I would use the existing lore of silver bullets, stakes through the heart, and turning into bats as lore the vampires created about themselves as a means of protecting themselves against discovery by the mortal community.
I wanted the vampires to have a very human element to them, while wrestling with the aspects of their vampire nature. They still required blood to live, and their society could be a violent one, but at the same time, they felt love and compassion. I wanted the vampires to have choices about the paths they chose to live, struggling to hold on to their human nature, or succumbing to their vampire nature.
All of these elements fed into the creation of Shade, to make him “good”, but with a capacity for great violence. I tried to make him a powerful alpha male, a warrior king, ruling over a large coven, and yet vulnerable, and somewhat jaded with life.
I wanted his speech to reflect his Italian heritage, hence his use of Italian phrases throughout the books. I also wanted his speech to feel a bit more formal, as he was 500 years old, and he would carry some of his history and upbringing with him. He is someone who has had to constantly adapt to the changes and modernization of the world around him. He has been everywhere, seen everything, had everything. He has been in love, and been in lust, but never really let down all his barriers and let anyone in.
When he meets Kate, she changes everything.
I have a love of both travel and history, and had visited Italy several times. My favorite city in Italy is Florence. I was in love with the city, its architecture, and its history. The city of Florence had come into the peak of power during the Renaissance due to the rule of the Medici family. They were a very rich and powerful family, who ruled all of Tuscany. You can’t walk the streets of Florence today, and not see the impact of the Medici’s on every corner. The idea of having Shade as a member of that family would have automatically elevated him to one of power, wealth and royalty, and gave me a history I could tap into for his family.
I knew from the beginning that if I tackled a vampire story, I did not want to use traditional vampire lore. I didn’t want them to have died and returned as vampire, but rather, to be born vampire due to some mutation in their DNA. I would use the existing lore of silver bullets, stakes through the heart, and turning into bats as lore the vampires created about themselves as a means of protecting themselves against discovery by the mortal community.
I wanted the vampires to have a very human element to them, while wrestling with the aspects of their vampire nature. They still required blood to live, and their society could be a violent one, but at the same time, they felt love and compassion. I wanted the vampires to have choices about the paths they chose to live, struggling to hold on to their human nature, or succumbing to their vampire nature.
All of these elements fed into the creation of Shade, to make him “good”, but with a capacity for great violence. I tried to make him a powerful alpha male, a warrior king, ruling over a large coven, and yet vulnerable, and somewhat jaded with life.
I wanted his speech to reflect his Italian heritage, hence his use of Italian phrases throughout the books. I also wanted his speech to feel a bit more formal, as he was 500 years old, and he would carry some of his history and upbringing with him. He is someone who has had to constantly adapt to the changes and modernization of the world around him. He has been everywhere, seen everything, had everything. He has been in love, and been in lust, but never really let down all his barriers and let anyone in.
When he meets Kate, she changes everything.
