Do you think using Canadian cities as a setting, or Canadian characters as a focus, impacted the marketability of your books? I'm working on a UF novel, but I'm hesitant to make the setting in Canada since 95% of UF take place in the U.S. and I'm looking a

While writing Bitten, I was told, repeatedly, to make Elena American and get rid of the Toronto settings. Told, I might add, by instructors and other writers—not by folks who wanted to buy the book. I decided the Canadian content was important to me so I’d leave it, but if someone said “Change this and we’ll publish you” I’d reconsider. No one ever said that. It was a non-issue and continues to be a non-issue. I set a lot of my scenes in the US, but there are other reasons for that, namely a bigger population to more believably support things like werewolves and serial killers :)