Chris Marie Green
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(view spoiler)[Right now, "Chris Marie Green" is working on the second full-length Lilly Meratoliage book (there's a prequel novelette called "The Girl with No Name" in the KICKING IT anthology and an urban fantasy romance called SHADOWS TILL SUNRISE, which is the official first book in the new series).
Lilly was a villain in the second/London trilogy of the Vampire Babylon series. She was a bad, bad girl, but she's been through some life-changing times. In a novella I wrote named "Raising the Darkness" (which is in the MONSTER HUNTERS collection), she started on a path to redemption. After that story, she met a white bayou witch who used a pair of charmed boots to heal Lilly. Unfortunately, those boots heal at a cost--they drain her of memories every sunrise, so Lilly wakes up with amnesia. Still, she's currently chasing down bad guys in the New Orleans area with the help of a sexy psychic.
I came up with the idea of the boots while I was in New Orleans, on a tour. I'd been invited to write a novelette for the KICKING IT anthology, and I was looking for a premise. The one element we had to have in the story was a pair of shoes that would play an important part. When the tour guide told a story about people being buried alive I, at first, was going to use that trope for Lilly, somehow including the boots. Then I came upon the idea of boots made of bayou vines, which would be alive and charmed. Since the novelette wouldn't have a high word count, I decided that having her wake up with amnesia would do away with the need to dump a lot of back story up front, LOL. It all worked out. (hide spoiler)]
Lilly was a villain in the second/London trilogy of the Vampire Babylon series. She was a bad, bad girl, but she's been through some life-changing times. In a novella I wrote named "Raising the Darkness" (which is in the MONSTER HUNTERS collection), she started on a path to redemption. After that story, she met a white bayou witch who used a pair of charmed boots to heal Lilly. Unfortunately, those boots heal at a cost--they drain her of memories every sunrise, so Lilly wakes up with amnesia. Still, she's currently chasing down bad guys in the New Orleans area with the help of a sexy psychic.
I came up with the idea of the boots while I was in New Orleans, on a tour. I'd been invited to write a novelette for the KICKING IT anthology, and I was looking for a premise. The one element we had to have in the story was a pair of shoes that would play an important part. When the tour guide told a story about people being buried alive I, at first, was going to use that trope for Lilly, somehow including the boots. Then I came upon the idea of boots made of bayou vines, which would be alive and charmed. Since the novelette wouldn't have a high word count, I decided that having her wake up with amnesia would do away with the need to dump a lot of back story up front, LOL. It all worked out. (hide spoiler)]
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