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Submitted by natalestenzel on Tue, 2008-08-12 12:34.

The Druid Made Me Do It
I never really set out to write these stories as a series. One funny paranormal romance -- I would have thought -- would be enough weirdness for the market to stand from one weird author named Natale Stenzel. But then . . .
Okay, we’ll start at the beginning. First there was Pandora’s Box. That was the secret pleasure I wrote in the belief that New York would never buy it, so I wrote it exactly the way I wanted it. ‘Exactly the way I wanted it,’ however, just happened to include an ending that begged for another story based on my secondary characters. That was kind of risky, right? I’d leave readers hanging if book number two never came out to satisfy questions. But that didn’t matter to me. As I said, I’d written this story to please myself. Ah, but then the unexpected happened and I sold it. Even more unexpectedly, my new editor let me keep that ending. And so we birthed The Druid Made Me Do It. (And by the way, as a reward for toughing it out through this blog post, I’ll be giving away to a commenter one free copy of Pandora’s Box, the story that started this whole mess in the first place. You know, the prequel.)
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