Your Questions About The Prince’s Slave
You can find teasers, of varying raciness, here as well as a few “what’s this about anyway?”-type posts.
The Prince’s Slave is an erotic retelling of Beauty and the Beast that also has a few real world points to make. It’s not another paean to oversized, pulsing wallets but if you’re into that, then you’ll like this, too. There’s intrigue, romance, plenty of sex and, for those who are wondering, it’s quite a bit more fast-paced than my other books. It’s also set in the present day. No more lectures on medieval history! My plan is to get that out of my system with The Black Prince and after that, perhaps write one or two more books set in the middle ages. But not for awhile; I have other projects in mind.
Indeed, I have my next seven or so books planned out. No clue how long all that is going to take me–and yes, I will finish The Black Prince Trilogy before moving on to something else. I actually started what would become The Prince’s Slave after finishing The Demon of Darkling Reach and writing, oh, about the first twenty or so thousand words of The White Queen. At which point I realized that I profoundly needed a break, and to work on something else. So I wrote about sixty or seventy thousand words of The Prince’s Slave, after which point I wrote I Look Like This Because I’m A Writer, before returning to The White Queen. I’d already completely finished the manuscript for A Dictionary of Fools before I even started The Demon of Darkling Reach, although that’s not being published until next month.
As a writer, you make certain decisions about what’s most important to publish, and in what order. Which is an entirely separate process from what to write. The first is a business decision; the second, a creative one. Yes, one does need to pay attention to one’s fans; but, at the same time, one of the reasons I’m able to keep up the writing volume I am is that I make sure to always work on something that inspires me.
As I (finally) begin to turn my writing attention toward The Black Prince, which I anticipate beginning in the weeks between now and Thanksgiving, I’m beginning to think that there’s so much going on in the last book that it may be divided into two parts…
But don’t worry: both of them will be released at the same time!
