Lori Devoti, Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Author

First Amazon Ink is coming this month! And I’ve had a couple of great reviews for it.

4.5 Stars!“Gifted Devoti adds urban fantasy to her growing list of genres with the launch of a gritty first-person series featuring modern-day Amazons. Secrets and stubbornness impact all the major players in this dark drama/murder mystery. If this book is any indication, Devoti has a brilliant future ahead in this genre!” —Jill M. Smith, Romantic Times Magazine

And…from Publisher’s Weekly…

This intriguing series from urban fantasist Devoti (Dark Crusade) marks Juno’s first outing as a Pocket imprint. A group of Amazon women in present-day America closely guard their extraordinary powers and only interact with men for breeding. Melanippe, who left the Amazons 10 years ago to raise her daughter, runs a Madison, Wis., tattoo parlor and nurses a grudge against the priestess she believes killed her infant son. When two Amazon women are slain and dumped on Mel’s doorstep, their tribe immediately suspect her of the killing. Mel soon wonders who poses the greatest threat to her adolescent daughter: the unknown murderer, the rigidly controlling Amazons or disturbingly attractive and magically skilled tattoo artist Peter Arpada. Mel can be a frustrating sleuth, jumping to conclusions and ignoring obvious clues, but Devoti’s fascinating mix of myth and reality will keep readers engaged.

I’m excited for Mel’s story to be out and about. I hope you all enjoy it.

On other fronts, I’m teaching a class at Romance Diva’s this month (the 11th) on writing dialogue. If any of you are writers, check it out–the price is right…FREE! I love playing with dialogue; by the end of class I want everyone else to too.

Writing wise, I’m working on Amazon Queen, the second book in the Amazon Ink series. I’ve just started my research for that, so early in the process. Then I’ve contracted to write another Bite (short story) for Silhouette Nocturne (a detective story with werewolves and vampires) and another full length Nocturne. This book will be something new for me. I’ve been asked to keep the plot a little quiet, but it isn’t going to be part of the Unbound world and it will have a werewolf hero.

For those of you looking for more in the Unbound world, I have two more books in that series coming next year. Both are follow ups to Dark Crusade – one is Marina (elf princess) and Raf’s (hellhound) story. The other is Amma (witch) and Joarr’s (dragon) story. If you read Dark Crusade you know both Marina and Amma take a little uh…redemption to make them into romance heroines, but I think I pulled it off.

That’s about it for now. I’m also attending WisCon in Madison at the end of this month. If you’re going, look for me!

Lori

Major apologies to anyone who sent something to me in the months of December or January. My life got a bit away from me–it was Antarctic cold, I was in a deadline craze and we had a disturbing development with the health of one of our dogs. In other words, I never went to the P.O. Box; I missed the renewal notice, and the cut me off. Any mail in the box was sent back to sender.
Again, apologies.
If you did send me something, the box is back up and running–same #. So, either resend, or email me with whatever it was you had requested and I will send it out on my own dime.
I was a bad, bad author.

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