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Until earlier this year, Karenna Colcroft was on an indefinite hiatus since around 2016.
Since a lot of readers don’t know much about me, I’m taking this opportunity to give you some info about who I am.
Everything below is true. Even the things that sound a little weird. I guess that’s a bonus fact: I’m weird. But if you follow me on Facebook, you already know that…
1. When I was too young to be in school, and therefore hadn’t learned how to write yet, I would arrange my stuffed animals into an audience and tell them stories. I don’t remember any of those stories. I do remember the first one I ever wrote, though, when I was in kindergarten: It was about a little girl named Maria who went to live with her uncle.
2. Even though I didn’t learn how to write until I was in kindergarten, I learned how to read when I was 2. My kindergarten teacher assigned me to read books she had around the classroom and either draw pictures or write stories based on them because she needed something to keep me occupied while she was teaching reading to the rest of the class.
3. I’m nonbinary. Specifically agender, which means that I do not identify with any gender, I’m just me. Even though I didn’t come to this realization until I was in my late 40s, I’ve always known on some level; I was about 4 years old the first time I said I didn’t want to be a girl but I wasn’t a boy so I didn’t know what I was.
4. I started writing erotic romance because a friend/mentor who was helping me cope with some trauma memories that had resurfaced challenged me to write something that “showed sex in a positive light.” I took the challenge, loved the result, and kept writing. (I’d been writing fiction for a very long time before that, but I hadn’t tried romance or erotic fiction until this.)
5. About a year after I started writing erotic fiction, another friend told me about a website where people posted erotic stories. I joined the site, started posting, and came in third in a competition in 2008 to see who could write the most stories in the most categories. One of those stories became my first published ebook, since that site is also where I found my first publisher.
6. In addition to writing romance and erotic romance, under various names, I’ve had a phonics-based reading and comprehension program published, as well as young adult fiction, children’s fiction, and metaphysical nonfiction.
7. My senior year of high school, I spent three weeks on a mini-exchange program in France. At that time, I was almost fluent in French. Unfortunately, after my sophomore year of college, I didn’t have the opportunity to take any more French classes or talk to anyone who knew French, so I lost most of what I’d learned. (I’m relearning it now.)
8. My werewolf romances, like my writing romance in general, were the result of challenges from friends. I’d resisted writing romances that included “standard” paranormal creatures like werewolves or vampires, but then in a group of writers I belonged to, someone was talking about a book they’d recently heard of and asked, “How could a werewolf be vegan?” I was bored that day, so I wrote a quick 1000-word scene to answer the question. A couple weeks later, an editor in the group asked for “scenes with hot men and whipped cream,” and I wrote a scene using my vegan werewolf. That gave birth to my novel Salad on the Side, which spawned the male/male romance Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat series and, since I loved my werewolves enough to want to give them more of an audience, the heterosexual romance novel Beta Test, which is now book 2 in my Real Werewolves True Mates series.
9. I have two kids, a son-in-law, and three grandsons. The kids and the son-in-law know what I write. The grandsons are way too young.
10. I’m really bad at thinking of enough interesting facts about myself to fill a top-10 list.
Real Werewolves True Mates
Book Two
Karenna Colcroft
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Vegan Wolf Productions
Date of Publication: November 10, 2022
ASIN: B0BKQLY5RN
ISBN: 978-1-958346-03-7
Page Count: 344
Word Count: 100,671
Cover Artist: Kim Ramsey-Winkler
Book Description:
Tareth McConnell has learned not to count on anyone other than herself. She definitely is NOT in the market for a relationship. But the first time she sees the man with the long braid on the subway, she’s drawn to him.
The first time Justin Ruel speaks to Tareth, he knows there’s something special about her. Something that calls to him as clearly as her beautiful voice. If he didn’t know better, he would swear she was his mate–but that’s impossible. Justin is the Beta of City Pack, the largest werewolf pack in the United States, and he absolutely cannot have a human mate.
As their connection grows and they begin to act on their attraction, Justin hides the truth from Tareth. But when a series of attacks on members of the two Boston werewolf packs occurs, Tareth’s life is endangered. To protect her, Justin has no choice but to tell her what he is–even if it means losing her forever.
Excerpt:
She knew Justin
wasn’t anything like Max. He didn’t seem at all fazed by his discovery.
If anything,
he’d been amused. She hadn’t seen that at first. To her, the situation had been
anything but amusing. It wasn’t until he’d threatened to leave that she’d realized
she was overreacting.
At least we got
the arguing out of the way on the first date. Maybe that means our relationship
will be smooth sailing from now on.
That wasn’t
exactly a logical thought either, but it made her feel better.
She rummaged
through the pile of menus and mail on her kitchen table until she found menus
for the three nearest Chinese restaurants. Justin could decide which one he
wanted to order from, since he was insisting on paying. For once, she was
grateful for the clutter. Having to search for the menus gave her a little more
time to calm down and think rationally.
When she
returned to the living room, Justin was at the window looking out at the
street.
“You have a
great neighborhood here,” he said without turning around.
“It is pretty
nice.” She’d entered the room quietly, or so she thought. How had he known she
was back?
He turned and
smiled at her. “I just wanted to tell you how great today has been so far.
I’m glad we’re
continuing the date. To be honest, I didn’t want to leave yet.”
“To be honest, I
don’t know if I’m going to want you to leave at all. At least not until
morning.”
The words seemed
to drop out of her mouth without consulting with her brain. Of course she’d
considered spending the night with him. She would have had to have been dead
not to be attracted to him. And despite the way she’d reacted to his finding
her toy, a tiny part of her found it arousing that he knew she’d used it on
herself. Maybe he even knew that she’d been fantasizing about him.
No matter what
her libido and body wanted, she hadn’t intended to let him know that she might
let him stay. They’d agreed to come back to her place and kiss. Maybe more.
She’d laid down her ground rules at the beginning. First date, no sex.
Neither of them had said anything about his staying the night, but that was
exactly what she’d just suggested.
She bit her lip
and managed to look him in the eye. He smiled, and something in his eyes let
her know that she could say anything she wanted to him and he would be fine
with it.
“I don’t want to
leave either,” he said softly. “I’ve already told you I want you. It doesn’t
have to happen tonight. If it does, I’m not going to complain about it, and I’m
not going to think any less of you.”
It was an odd
thing to say. Not something Tareth had ever heard from a guy. And it was exactly
what she needed to hear.
“I won’t think
less of you either,” she said, trying to make a joke of it.
“Good.” He held
out his hand. “Let’s take a look at those menus. Lunch was way too long ago.”
They chose a
restaurant and placed their order, then sat on the couch again to wait. Justin
held her hand, and for several minutes they sat there together in silence, as
they had on the boat. The silence now was just as comfortable as it had been
then.
Justin’s touch
was just as much a fuel for desire as it had been earlier.
A writer since childhood, Karenna Colcroft delved into the world of romantic fiction in 2009 and brought numerous novels, novellas, and short stories into the world until 2016, when various circumstances combined to enforce a hiatus. Now Karenna is resurrecting herself and some of her previously-published books along with new books set in the same universe.
Karenna lives just north of Boston and has been in love with the city since childhood, though she has yet to encounter any werewolves, vampires, or other paranormal beings in her travels. (At least none that she knows of.) Though since in her non-writing life, under another name, she offers services as a channel and energy healing practitioner, it could be said that she herself is a paranormal being. The jury’s still out on that.
Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who splits time between the home she shares with her husband and the one she shares with her committed partner. She also has two adult children and a bonus son, three grandchildren, and two and a half cats. (Half in terms of time the cat lives with her, not in terms of the cat itself…)
Thanks for hosting me!
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ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting book. I like the cover and excerpt.
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