![]() ![]() Given that everyone at Roc had a whole lot more experience selling books than I did (this was my first sale, after all), I took their advice and made the change. ![]() ![]() The publisher had a concern that seeing a female name on the book cover might result in some readers passing the series by based on assumptions of what it would probably contain, so they asked me if I minded using a gender-neutral acronym. Urban fantasy tends to skew toward female protagonists (which is pretty awesome, actually), and lately has had a lot of crossover with paranormal romance, which this most definitely wasn’t. That’s the elevator pitch.Ī: Well, the books are told from the first-person point of view of Fortitude, who is a guy. ![]() Despite his reluctance, he gets pulled into the family business, and ends up partnered with a foxy kitsune shapeshifter, and they fight crime. Special thanks to Penguin (Ace/Roc/DAW) publicist Nita Basu for helping to facilitate this interview.įor readers who aren’t familiar with the books in the Generation V / Fortitude Scott series, would you mind providing your hook for the series?Ī: Sure! Slacker millennial with a degree in film theory which leads to a series of dispiriting minimum wage jobs is also a vampire, and a vegetarian. ML Brennan was kind enough to take time out of her schedule to take part in this e-mail interview with Rob Bedford. ![]()
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