A warm welcome to author Julia Talbot joining us today to talk about her upcoming release: “Jaguar and Grizzly”.
Hey y’all!
I’m Julia Talbot, and I’m here to talk about the second book in my Apex Investigations series, called Jaguar and Grizzly. (Book one is called Fox and Wolf and is up on Kindle Unlimited right now, nudge nudge, wink wink.)
I love shifters. Okay, if you know me at all, you know this. Wolves, foxes, bears, and cats. All the things! When I set out to write another “mixed shifters caught up in a situation” series, to quote an editor, I decided I loved the idea of a bunch of apex predators making a family of oddballs together. The boss is a big old wolf names Mick. The medic is a black bear named Kit, and there’s a cougar named James who does tech. Rey is a fox who gathers intel. Brock’s is the Jaguar who’s all black ops, and Dylan is a former cop who’s also a werewolf. When Gizzy Locke joins the team, he has a lot of history with Brock from their mercenary days, and things are a little explosive.
I also had a great deal of fun picking the bad guys in this series, since pretty much everyone is a shifter. Crocodiles fill book one. Jaguar and Grizzly has bad wolves, cult members, and breaking and entering weasels.
I adore matching up shifters to their jobs. What about their animal nature makes them good at their job? What about being a wolf makes Mick a people person or not, depending on the day? Same way with the bad guys? Are they really that bad, or are they being coerced into their evil?
And how do you get hyenas to join a cult anyway…
Oops, that might be coming in book three.
I also love to match shifters up with where their animals come from. Jaguar Brock has been in the States a long time, but he’s originally from Brazil. Man, all that fact checking on Brazilian Portuguese was exhausting. Why do the boys keep doing this to me?
Anyway, I hope you’ll check out Jaguar and Grizzly when it comes out August 27, 2019. It’s available for preorder here! And it will be up for preorder on Kobo and Nook as well. Then it will go KU on August 28!
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Julia Talbot
Blurb: A client with a cheating wife, a warehouse of cult members, and someone with a deadly vendetta—just a day’s work for Apex Investigations. Or is it?
Bear shifter “Grizz” Locke is ex-military and ready for PI work, which if not exactly safe seems less likely to get him killed on a daily basis. The added bonus of teaming up with former lover, Brock, a jaguar shifter, is all the incentive Grizz needs.
Brock can be a grumpy kitty, but has found a home and family at Apex. And now as luck would have it, he has a chance to rekindle his romance with Grizz. They might even rebuild their mate bond, severed years ago—as long as they don’t manage to get killed first.
When an enemy targets the Apex team, Brock and Locke will fight with all they have to protect their own. To enjoy life and love as fate intended, they will have to find out who wants them dead before someone at the agency pays the ultimate price.
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Julia Talbot lives in the great Southwest, where there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and potatoes to the best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia is a hybrid author, published by small presses as well as publishing indie. She believes that everyone deserves a happy ending, so she writes about love without limits, where boys love boys, girls love girls, and boys and girls get together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal characters are involved.
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