Goodreads asked Krys Rayne:

How do you get inspired to write?

Krys Rayne Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to write. I watched Robin Hood: Prince of thieves and I was in love with Kevin Costner's character. So I ended up watching it at least a dozen times and wrote it out, almost word for word. After that, I created my own fan fiction of The Juror, a movie with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin (who I also feel in love with at an early age). I think I got bored with that one and just threw it out. After all, I think I was around 10 years old.

When I was around 14, I read my first romance, Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas. She was my favorite, favorite author and I gobbled up all of her books. At that time I was really interested in British History, esp the 19th century. Another favorite was Gaelen Foley. After I read Suddenly You, I was like, I want to "be" that author one day. I want to write for a living!

I started a historical romance with paranormal elements after I read Kathryn Smith's Brotherhood of Blood series. I hadn't realized there were actual books with vampires in Regency England! How cool was that?? So between 16-17 I started my very first bookie book. I had an English teacher who would help with some of the editing and she said it reminded her a little of Jayne Eyre. After I graduated from school, I continued with the story then... I lost the manuscript.

I was lost for a little bit after that then I started reading Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series and found out she had several fan fiction groups on Yahoo. I made some friends, we wrote stories together and then everyone went their own ways. I wrote fan fiction on other sites then created my own on FaceBook which was called TFInc. I really enjoyed it then got burned out so I quit.

But I got the writing bug again and decided to take a couple characters from TFInc and create a novel. Now, the characters have evolved over time and so they are now different from their original counterparts and so the rest is history.

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