At the moment I’m so happy to welcome Karenna Colcroft to Joyfully Jay. Karenna has come to speak to us about her newest launch, Take Some Tahini. She has additionally introduced alongside an important giveaway. Please be part of me in giving her an enormous welcome!
The Story Continues
In 2010, I sat down and wrote a novel a few vegan who was become a werewolf, met his true mate, and was so cussed he continued not consuming meat even in wolf kind. I assumed Salad on the Aspect can be a one-off novel, however after Salad on the Aspect was accepted by a writer (it was printed in 2011), my editor and readers appreciated it a lot I used to be requested to proceed it right into a sequence, which turned often known as Actual Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat.
I plotted out a five-book sequence, as a result of 5 books appeared like an affordable quantity for a sequence that adopted the identical characters all through. I didn’t wish to write about different werewolves; I needed to proceed writing about Kyle Slidell, the vegan werewolf, and his mate Tobias Rogan, the reluctant Alpha who prefers to be submissive within the bed room. So the sequence adopted the 2 of them, although on my editor’s suggestion, books 4 and 5 switched to being narrated by Tobias fairly than Kyle.
Regardless of the considerably humorous titles, all referencing vegan meals, the tales didn’t change into comedies. There’s battle and combating inside the werewolf world, a plot to destroy Tobias, and finally the elimination of a senile Anax (ruler of all werewolves inside a rustic) who’s attempting to both take over or destroy the werewolf world as a complete.
That final bit occurred in e book 5, Tempeh for Two, which was the final e book of the sequence. Once I initially wrote it, I used to be starting to burn out on writing on the whole, and whereas I nonetheless cherished my vegan werewolf and his mate, I used to be able to be finished writing about them. Tempeh for Two was launched in 2014. Because of the aforementioned burnout and poor gross sales, it and all of my different books with that writer have been pulled from the market in 2016.
Someplace alongside the road, as my psychological well being started to enhance, I began fascinated with rereleasing the Actual Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat sequence. However the time was by no means fairly proper for it. I wasn’t prepared to begin writing once more, and even to have a look at my previous books and revise them.
That was, till the summer time of 2021. My child, on break from veterinary faculty, was staying with us for the summer time, and that meant I wasn’t in a position to do my traditional binge-watching psychological distraction. Out of boredom, I began rereading the Actual Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat books—and I fell in love with the tales and characters over again. I made a decision it was time to rerelease them.
I selected, as a part of the revision and re-editing of the books, to replace them to the current day. I additionally wound up increasing two of the books. Ebook 3, Hummus on Rye, was expanded to incorporate plot factors from a heterosexual romance novel I wrote again in 2013, which was finished as a companion to Hummus on Rye. The plot factors from that novel closely influence Actual Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat, and I remembered that some readers have been very sad about that since that they had no need to learn a heterosexual romance. I mounted that for the rerelease by making these plot factors a part of Hummus on Rye.
I additionally expanded Tempeh for Two, which initially ended with a distant-future epilogue giving an outline of Tobias and Kyle’s life after the occasions of the novel. As I labored on the revisions and rewrites of the beforehand printed books, I’d begun to understand that Tobias and Kyle’s story didn’t really finish the place I assumed it did. There was extra so as to add. And the characters have been being fairly loud and insistent that I add it.
So I did. Take Some Tahini picks up the place Tempeh for Two left off, starting solely a few weeks after the occasions of that e book. We see how Tobias and Kyle regulate to the brand new werewolf world order. They take a highway journey collectively, each to fulfill with the Anax of Canada to resolve some conflicts and to attempt to rebuild their relationship. New characters are launched, two of whom spin off right into a e book of their very own, which will likely be out in October.
Diving again into Kyle and Tobias’s world was superb. These are two of my favourite characters (don’t inform the others!), and I enormously loved having the ability to proceed their story. Take Some Tahini is the primary brand-new Actual Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat novel in over a decade, and I hope readers get pleasure from it as a lot as I cherished writing it.
Blurb
Tobias Rogan by no means needed to be a frontrunner. However right here he’s, the Anax of the USA, ruler of all werewolves within the nation. Solely two weeks after profitable the rank in a problem combat towards his senile predecessor, Tobias and his mate Kyle are nonetheless adjusting to their new actuality when a frantic name alerts Tobias to the bloodbath of almost half the wolves in a pack in North Dakota–together with the pack’s Alpha and Beta.
An investigation reveals that the wolves liable for the assault are from Canada. Tobias reaches out to Silas Creighton, Anax of Canada, and finds somebody like-minded in wanting peace between the wolves of the 2 international locations. At Silas’s invitation, Tobias and his mate Kyle, together with their new guard Quinn Boucher, sole survivor of the North Dakota bloodbath, journey to Nova Scotia to place an finish to the battle between the American and Canadian werewolves. However not all wolves are all in favour of peace–and never all need Tobias to outlive the journey.
Warnings: violence, gun violence, dialogue of previous sexual abuse, homophobia
Collection Blurb:
Kyle Slidell didn’t transfer to Boston anticipating to be become a werewolf. However that’s what occurred. He can’t management whether or not he shifts on the full moon, however he can rattling certain proceed being vegan–even in wolf kind.
Tobias Rogan, Alpha of Boston North Pack, by no means anticipated to fall in love with anybody, not to mention a person. A male Alpha isn’t speculated to have a male companion. However when he meets Kyle, he’s instantly attracted. And after Kyle is modified, Tobias realizes the reality: Kyle isn’t solely his companion, however his mate.
The werewolf world isn’t a easy place, and Kyle and Tobias are thrown into the center of battle inside and among the many packs of the USA–a battle that extends all the way in which to the highest of the werewolf hierarchy. Can they and their love survive what they face?
Purchase Hyperlink: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D81GBJDN
Bio
Karenna Colcroft lives simply north of Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in love with town since childhood, although she has but to come across any werewolves, vampires, or different paranormal beings in her travels. At the least none that she is aware of of.
Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who lives in Massachusetts together with her husband. She additionally has two grownup youngsters and three “bonus” children, 4 grandchildren, and two and a half cats. (Half by way of time the cat lives together with her, not by way of the cat itself…)
Giveaway
Karenna is freely giving a $10 Amazon reward card with this tour:
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