So, I suppose you can say that I have been lucky when it comes to reviewing books. The ones I have been lucky enough to have the honor of reading and reviewing, well, simply put, ROCK! And once more I have been graced with another talented author showcasing on The Draven Witch Series blog. The author is John Hundley and the book is The Draculata Nest A Red Wolf Novel. Also, know that with this blog post is a giveaway...the first 10 Kindle or Nook readers who read about it and post about it on The Red Wolf wall facebook page will receive a copy of this kick ass book. Be sure to leave your email with your comment on the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Red-Wolf-Novels/333240960021545
I must say that The Draculata Nest kept me intrigued from the first page. Clifford Crane is a regular man who is given the gift of being a red wolf(lycan). The book is based around him and the challenges he is going through, especially after meeting Danielle. I don't want to keep going and give it all away because at this point I might because its just so damn good. It's like when you have one of those really good secrets and wiggling around in your chair cause you know and no one else does....yeah, its like that. I know its a damn good book and you have to put it on your must reads!! The Draculata Nest will take you on a ride of pure fantasy filled waves of adventure and then knock your socks off with action. But enough of me running my mouth, let's hear from the man himself. Introducing John Hundley:
I think I wanted to be a writer from the time I learned to read. I grew up an avid reader of science fiction. I was always writing short stories about other worlds, and I graduated college with the dream of a post graduate degree and eventually heading up a science fiction department at some university.
But life intervened, and I never made it to grad school. Marriage, kids, and other responsibilities dominated my life and my dreams of writing faded into the background. Every few years I would try to launch a writing idea, but it would always die before it got off the ground.
When I discovered Stephen King and Dean Koontz, my reading tastes began to gravitate to the paranormal. After watching True Blood, I sought out the Charlaine Harris novels and began browsing that section of the bookstore. I discovered Patricia Briggs and Richelle Mead (Georgina Kincaid might be my favorite female character in all of English literature). I’m a sucker for heroines, and my favorite character in my own Red Wolf novels is Nicole Black, who I intended to kill off early in the first book until she kind of took over and refused to die.
Several years ago, when the economy went south, I found myself without a job and with a golden opportunity. I went back to school. I purchased a netbook for classes. I had time on my hands and a writing tool that I carried with me wherever I went. That dream I had buried so many decades before burst from its coffin, clawed its way to the surface, and began to walk the earth again – admittedly trailing bits of rotted flesh and humus with it.
I just started writing about a paranormal version of a character I’d played with back in my sci-fi days, a runt-of-the-litter product of a failed breeding program for human charisma. But, this time the guy was a werewolf, because, well, I like werewolves. I gave him some characters to interact with, and I experienced something I’d heard other writers talk about but I’d never believe: the characters took on a life of their own. Soon I had constructed the universe of the Red Wolf of Prophecy.
Fans of Patricia Briggs will recognize elements of her wolves in the Red Wolf Novels. It’s not a coincidence. I admit it. I ripped off the concept of the omega wolf from her Alpha and Omega series (which I love, by the way), and it was the question I asked myself, what would a male omega be like, that forms the basis for the Clifford Crane character.
In the Red Wolf universe, vampires were created in prehistoric times by the Fae to destroy the human race, which threatened to suck the magic from the world. Werewolves were created by a rogue faction of the Fae that believed mankind should survive, and the vampires and wolves have been at war ever since. But the vampires are winning, because the wolf pack structure does not allow them to adapt to a changing world. The omega wolves could be the evolutionary key to breaking out of the restrictive alpha-dominated pack structure, if it’s not too late. Clifford Crane is the first male omega, a charismatic wolf that even pack alphas will follow, but he’s not so sure he wants to lead.
The Draculata Nest is the first of the Red Wolf series. The second book, The Dragon of Doughton Park, is scheduled for completion in late spring or early summer of 2012. A third book, Red Wolf Rising, is in its conceptual phase.
http://www.amazon.com/Draculata-Nest-Wolf-Novel-ebook/dp/B006DOTBCU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324526432&sr=1-1 is the link to the kindle version of the book.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/the-draculata-nest?keyword=the+draculata+nest&store=allproducts is the link to the Barnes and Noble version for the Nook reader.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Red-Wolf-Novels/333240960021545 is the link to my Facebook page. It is still in its infancy and I am struggling to learn how to use it, but it’s there.
A website, redwolfofprophecy.com, is only in its conceptual stages.
I hope everyone enjoyed meeting this amazing author and run out and get his book...and don't forget about the contest!!!!
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