A warm welcome to author M.D. Grimm joining us today to talk about new release “On Wings of Passion”, book two in the On Wings Sage.
Good day! M.D. Grimm here to promote my newest release “On Wings of Passion.” I want to give a big thanks to Love Bytes for hosting me today.
“On Wings of Passion” is the prequel to my surprisingly popular story “On Wings of Thunder.” It tells the story of the great dragon Asagoroth and his first angel love, Roland. I greatly enjoyed writing this story. It’s probably the fastest I’ve written a story in a very long time.
Dragons have been an obsession since I was in middle school. It started when I read The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. I have always enjoyed mythological and folklore creatures but for whatever reason dragons hit me differently than all the others. I don’t know if it’s their strength, ferocity, or hoarding abilities… *smirk*. They are my happy place. Due to that I am very picky on how they are depicted.
To me, dragons are grand. Larger than life. Immense and cosmic. For a very long time I’ve wanted to write a story with a dragon but none of the scenarios and plots were large enough in my mind to warrant having such a titanic creature in them. I created and discarded many ideas before one picture changed everything.
The awesome artwork is by Treijim on DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/treijim/art/Black-Dragon-72201933
I can’t say how long that was my desktop picture, and how long I stared at it as a story slowly began to build. Then one day I had Asagoroth and Trystan’s story. It felt right. I could make Asagoroth as grand as he should be and it fit with the world I created. Before humans. Before recorded history. Before everything.
No art since has influenced me as much, and I doubt any will.
To me, dragons are in a category all their own. However, that being said, I have definitely read more grounded stories with dragons that I enjoy. I just can’t see myself writing a dragon story without it being epic in some way.
I even wrote a college paper about St. George and the dragon that my professor enjoyed, and my final senior project in high school tried to answer the question “Did dragons once exist?” Well, they let me get away with it both times and I was thrilled! Any chance I get to merge my passion with academia makes me one happy camper!
The truly fun thing about “On Wings of Passion” was revisiting Asagoroth before the bitterness of imprisonment changed him. There were other dragons in Roland’s time so Asagoroth was one of many. He wasn’t even the biggest or strongest. However, he was the most cunning. He used brains as often as he used brawn, which is what made him great. He was determined to rule the three realms because, as he tells Roland, he is dragon and that’s what dragons do—they fight and conquer or they die. There is no in-between.
Then Roland came along and changed his mind simply by being who he was.
Roland craves passion (hence the title). He hasn’t bound himself to anyone because no one incites his passion the way his art does. Angels should only care about contentment but Roland doesn’t want to settle. I enjoyed showing similarities between him and Trystan while at the same time emphasizing their differences. They might have the same life essence but their upbringings couldn’t be more dissimilar.
The title of the first book came rather easily – “on wings of thunder” came from a poem that I found on goggle one day in high school. I have no idea as to its origin but it fit so well with the theme and events of the book that I couldn’t resist. So when I decided to write a prequel I agonized over the name. I knew I wanted “On Wings” something. I tossed around so many ideas and themes that I finally gave up, wrote the darn thing, then it clicked. Passion.
And that’s what these books have been for me—a passion. Asagoroth is a fascinating character with different sensibilities. He is a dragon, after all, so his thought processes would be noticeably different from angels, humans, and even demons. I dove into that a bit more with this book, trying to fill in the gaps that “Thunder” might have left. I never planned to write a prequel or sequels to “Thunder” but, apparently, it is extremely hard for me to write stand-alones.
I hope to eventually write two sequels after “On Wings of Thunder” to continue Asagoroth and Trystan’s story. Perhaps in a year or two.
Right now I am working on three series concurrently plus a fantasy trilogy I hope to submit next year. I have way too many stories buzzing around in my brain.
Thank you for joining me and I hope you’ll check out my story!
May dragons guard your dreams,
M.D. Grimm
BLURB:
Every story has a beginning….
Dragons. Angels fear them and demons follow them. Formidable beasts of incredible power, they fight each other to the death for dominance. But dwindling dragon numbers cause alarm among the angelic ranks. Surely when the dragons have finished killing each other, the victors will search elsewhere for conquest… maybe even the Upper Realm.
Roland, an angelic artist of significant talent, doesn’t know what to believe. Part of him longs to see a dragon in person, and his peaceful life of contentment is wearing thin. He wants passion, desire, adventure, and love. He gets more than he bargained for when he and his sister are ambushed and captured by demons, and they bring him to a creature who surpasses Roland’s wildest imaginings.
But the mighty dragon Asagoroth is not all that he seems. Something sparks between him and Roland. Something neither anticipated. Something that will shake the cosmos to its core.
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M.D. Grimm has wanted to write stories since second grade (kind of young to make life decisions, but whatever) and nothing has changed since then (well, plenty of things, actually, but not that!). Thankfully, she has indulgent parents who let her dream, but also made sure she understood she’d need a steady job to pay the bills (they never let her forget it!). After graduating from the University of Oregon and majoring in English (let’s be honest: useless degree what else was she going to do it with it?), she started on her writing career and couldn’t be happier. Working by day and writing by night (or any spare time she can carve out), she enjoys embarking on romantic quests and daring adventures (living vicariously, you could say) and creating characters that always triumph against the villain (or else what’s the point?), finding their soul mate in the process.
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