Welcome Guest Bloggers Lena Matthews & Liz Andrews

Hi all, It’s Lena Matthews and Liz Andrews coming to guest blog with the Divas of the Dark. When we first received an invitation to blog we weren’t so sure if we’d fit in. Then it occurred to us, we both act like Divas and one of us is Dark. Eureka!!! We were made for this blog. So thanks to other wonderful Divas for the invite.



We dipped our toes into the paranormal pool a year ago January with our release of Myth of Moonlight with Ellora’s Cave, and promptly decided the water was mighty fine. So fine in fact we followed up with Shadow of Moonlight in September and are currently writing Guardian of Moonlight, the third story in our Werewolf series.

Was it as easy as that? One day write story, the next publish a story and then everyone lived happily ever after. HELL NO. Writing a paranormal story turned out to actually be....wait for it...work.

We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into when we decided to write the first book in the Moonlight series. Paranormals should be easy, we thought. World building, peshah. It’s our world we can do whatever we want in it. Man, were we wrong.

Paranormals are probably the hardest stories to write because when you build a world you need to incorporate elements you may never need. But if you forget them, guaranteed you will need them eventually. We discovered, much to our chagrin, we needed make rules for our world and then stick to them.

Looking back on it now it was actually kind of funny when our editor asked us how the Were government worked. We both scratched our heads in bemusement. The government?? How the hell did we know...wait...we wrote it...right.

To add to our problems we decided to have an ongoing mystery weaved through all the stories in the series. Thankfully, this has proved to be one of the favorite elements of readers and one of the hardest to incorporate. We have to stay consistent and remember stuff. We can’t remember which one of us is Liz and which one of us is Lena half the time, how are we ever going to remember who is framing who?

Despite all the drama (mainly from us) we are very proud of the world (as shaky as it is) that we’ve created. And even prouder to announce that Ellora’s Cave has put the first two stories of the Moonlight series into a one yummy bound book entitled Myths and Shadows.

So to all the readers out there, what elements are your favorites in paranormals? What do you like about the worlds authors have built? Let us know what you think. If you post you’ll be entered into a drawing for one free download or one free print copy of one of our books.

Peace and Blessings,

Lena Matthews
When you crave something more
www.lenamatthews.com

and

Liz Andrews
Beyond romance, beyond fantasy, beyond your wildest dreams
www.lizandrews.net