Part #2 of our chat with author @kait_ballenger LUV: Can you tell us about your two series, the Rogue Brotherhood and Seven Range Shifters, and your most recent book. What is the appeal of writing connected books? What are the challenges? Kait: Of course! The Seven Range Shifters is my six-book completed paranormal romance series about a pack of wolf shifters called The Grey Wolves, who are cowboys by day, wolf shifters by night. All six books are interconnected standalones with a different couple each book and lots of fun reoccurring secondary characters. The stories take place in the gorgeous wilds of Montana on the Grey Wolf ranch, Wolf Pack Run, where the pack hides away from humanity within plain sight. Think Paramount’s Yellowstone, but with romance and wolf shifters. Writing that series was so much fun. The Rogue Brotherhood is my latest series, which I’m currently working on, and while it’s a very different premise, it takes places in the same fictional universe as the Seven Range Shifters. Like the Seven Range Shifter series, there will be multiple interconnected standalones, but this time the focus is on the humans and the paranormal creatures they hunt. The Rogue Brotherhood is an elite clandestine organization of human hunters, who fight to protect humanity from the more vicious paranormal creatures who lurk in the dark. Think Sam and Dean from Supernatural, but with way more romance. The first book, which is my most recent release, Rogue Wolf Hunter, is about a half-breed human hunter named Jace McCannon, who’s just returned from Montana to his hometown of Rochester, New York. He’s on the hunt for a rogue wolf killing innocents in Rochester when a twist of fate causes him to join forces with Frankie Amato, Rochester’s local female packmaster and his sworn enemy. It’s enemies to lovers, forbidden romance, and a whole lot of dark, sexy, dangerous fun. I think the appeal of writing two series in the same fictional universe is that there is a little something for everyone. Veteran readers get to enjoy all the small crossover details from a series they already love, but in a fresh new way, and for new readers, they get a new entry point where they won’t have any trouble following along --and hopefully might be enticed to go back and read the older titles, if they want. The challenge, particularly in writing a connected paranormal universe, is in keeping the worldbuilding rules consistent, but I’d like to think I’ve done an okay job. ☺

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-06-13 19:00:08 UTC