Please welcome to Love Bytes author Rory Ni Coileain, who is with us here today on their blog tour of Wolf, Becoming.
Glad to have you here today, Rory!
Author Name: Rory Ni Coileain
Book Name: Wolf, Becoming
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Pages or Words: 28,871 words
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Maria Fanning
Blurb:
Volyk learns very young that he has to hide what he is—oboroten’, shape-shifter—after his father is killed and skinned by a hunter, and the pack that takes in his pregnant mother is hostile to his kind. When Volyk is ordered to fight the pack’s beta to prove his fitness, but instead obeys his hormones and tries to mount him, he’s declared an abomination and forced to flee.
Ilya, too, hides a secret. Being young and gay in modern Russia is dangerous, and he knows it. But the truth eventually gets out, and his brothers lure him into the forest to kill him. They’re stopped by Volyk, who hides the mortally wounded Ilya in his den. The only way to heal the human is to turn him into an oboroten’.
Unfortunately, Ilya’s gentle nature is ill suited to the life of a wolf. But when Volyk’s old pack returns, seeking to take away Volyk’s magickal den, Ilya will have to embrace – truly become – the wolf Volyk made him, to save both his mate’s life and his own.
Categories: Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, M/M Romance, Paranormal, Romance, Wolf Shifter
Today I’m very lucky to be interviewing Rory Ni Coileain, author of WOLF, BECOMING. Hi, Rory, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
How do you develop your plots and characters?
They actually tend to develop each other. Sometimes the story idea will come to me first, and I need to figure out who can tell that story. Other times, I’ll have a character vividly in my mind, and I’ll have to sit down with him and get him to explain to me what story he’s all on fire to tell.
Who doesn’t love a good hero? Tell us about your protagonist. Was there a real life inspiration behind them?
Well, since I don’t know any real-life born-wolf shapeshifters, I think I’ll go with Ilya on this one *winks* Ilya’s name came from my first TV crush, Illya Kuryakin of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” And his general physical appearance did, too. But his personality was all his own.
What real-life inspirations do you use when world building?
Folk tales, fairy tales, myths. For places, I use places I’ve lived, places I’ve visited, places I have good friends who can give me a real feel for what it’s like to live there.
Did you learn anything from this book and what was it?
The only prisons we can’t escape are the ones we build for ourselves.
It’s your last meal on earth. What do you choose?
Umm, nectar and ambrosia? Seriously, I’d probably go with a slab of medium-rare prime rib, a baked potato done just right and drowning in butter and sour cream, chocolate mousse for dessert, and plenty of Guinness to wash it all down with, so that when then came to get me afterward, I could excuse myself to visit the ladies’ room and escape out the window.
And the angel said unto them, be not afraid…
Ilya was not afraid. Enraptured, yes. Entranced. But not afraid. He had been ready for death when he closed his eyes in the wolf’s embrace. Instead, he was whole, and awake, and in the arms of a man more handsome than any angel. Volyk’s long thick hair was the brown and gray of the wolf’s pelt, his cheekbones angular, his lips full. And his eyes were the same beautiful fiery amber as the wolf’s.
Maybe he had only dreamed the wolf. Or maybe he was still dreaming. Surely he had done nothing in his life to earn the gift this moment would be if it were real.
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Rory Ni Coileain majored in creative writing, back when Respectable Colleges didn’t offer such a major. She had to design it herself, at a university which boasted one professor willing to teach creative writing: a British surrealist who went nuts over students writing dancing bananas in the snow, but did not take well to high fantasy. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen, she sent off her first short story to an anthology that was being assembled by an author she idolized, and received one of those rejection letters that puts therapists’ kids through college. For the next thirty years or so she found other things to do, such as going to law school, ballet dancing (at more or less the same time), volunteering as a lawyer with Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and nightclub singing, until her stories started whispering to her. Currently, she’s a lawyer and a legal editor; the proud mother of a budding filmmaker; and is busily wedding her love of myth and legend to her passion for m/m romance. She is a three-time Rainbow Award finalist.
Where to find the author:
Twitter: @RoryNi
Facebook Author Group (Rory’s Three Rs)
Tour Dates & Stops:
24-Feb: Bonkers About Books, Havan Fellows, Nautical Star Books, Mikky’s World of Books, MM Good Book Reviews
25-Feb: Man2ManTastic, Full Moon Dreaming, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, Jessie G. Books, Open Skye Book Reviews
26-Feb: Divine Magazine, Elaine White, Hearts on Fire
29-Feb: Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Book Lovers 4Ever, BFD Book Blog
1-Mar: Alpha Book Club, My Fiction Nook, Inked Rainbow Reads, Bayou Book Junkie
2-Mar: Prism Book Alliance, Happily Ever Chapter, Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Molly Lolly
Rafflecopter Prize: $10 Amazon Gift Card
I wish you lots of success! Sounds great!!
Good luck with the release!
Congrats on the new book and best of luck with the release =)
Woot, more Ilya and Volyk! Congrats on the new release Rory. 🙂