Karenna Colcroft has a new MM paranormal romance out, Real Werewolves Don't Eat Meat book five: Tempeh for Two. And there's a giveaway.
Tobias Rogan never wanted to be a leader. But in the past several months, he’s gone from a quiet life as Alpha of the smallest pack in the United States to ruling the entire Northeast Region. With his mate, Kyle Slidell, by his side, Tobias is adjusting to his new normal.
But now, with the future of the entire werewolf world at stake, Tobias must step further out of his comfort zone. The Anax, ruler of all werewolves in the United States, is no longer competent to rule. Only Tobias is dominant enough to defeat the Anax. And when Kyle’s life hangs in the balance, Tobias must choose: Challenge the Anax to claim the rank, or allow the Anax to declare war.
Warnings: Mentions past child abuse and sexual assault; depicts PTSD; some homophobia.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Kyle Slidell didn't move to Boston expecting to be changed into a werewolf. But that's what happened. He can't control whether he shifts at the full moon, but he can damn sure continue being vegan--even in wolf form.
Tobias Rogan, Alpha of Boston North Pack, never expected to fall in love with anyone, let alone a man. A male Alpha is not supposed to have a male partner. But when he meets Kyle, he's immediately attracted. And after Kyle is changed, Tobias realizes the truth: Kyle is not only his partner, but his mate.
The werewolf world isn't a simple place, and Kyle and Tobias are thrown into the middle of conflict within and among the packs of the United States--a conflict that extends all the way to the top of the werewolf hierarchy. Can they and their love survive what they face?
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Guest Post with Author Karenna Colcroft
The Story Continues…
In 2010, I created a character named Kyle Slidell.
The world’s only(?) gay vegan werewolf. Kyle came about because of a question
posed in an online group of writers and editors I belonged to, in answer to
which I wrote a 1000-word scene depicting how a werewolf could be vegan.
(Answer: He was vegan before he was changed, and he’s stubborn as hell.)
Kyle expanded to another scene with the Alpha of
the pack who took him in after he was changed, Tobias Rogan. Kyle and Tobias,
as it turned out, are mates. And the scene I wrote with the two of them
together, which came about due to a writing challenge in the same online group,
in turn grew into a novel, Salad on the Side, which was first released
in June 2011.
That novel grew into a series, because readers
seemed to really like Kyle and Tobias, and to be honest, so did I. The series,
Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat, was originally published between 2011-2014. The
five books in the series follow Kyle and Tobias throughout, with books 1-3
being from Kyle’s point of view, and books 4 and 5 being from Tobias’s because
readers and my editor asked for Tobias’s point of view.
By 2016, due to personal life issues and major
author burnout, I’d pulled all of my books from that publisher. That included
Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat. For a few years, I toyed with the idea of
self-publishing those books, because I wanted to delve back into Kyle and
Tobias’s world, but I never quite managed to bring myself to do it.
That was, until the summer of 2021, when out of
boredom, I started reading the Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat series. I hadn’t
looked at the books since pulling them off the market five years earlier, and I
was surprised at how good they were. (Admittedly, I am a bit biased, but five
years’ distance made it a little easier to have an objective view of them.) I
decided the time was right to bring Kyle and Tobias back into the world.
That took some doing. Having been written years—in
two cases, over a decade!—earlier, there were some aspects of the books that
needed to be changed or updated. Technology was the most obvious; in the
original, Tobias, who is stated to work in tech, had a flip phone! But tech
wasn’t the only thing I wanted to change. I also re-edited the books, changed
some minor details, and in Salad on the Side, smoothed over some minor
plot bumps that had been created by the fact that Salad was initially
meant to be a one-off, not the first book of a series.
I also expanded two of the books. The first of
those two, Hummus on Rye, is book 3 of the series, and back in the day
I’d written a heterosexual romance which was a companion to Hummus. That
book, Beta Block, included some major plot points that had a bearing on
the rest of the Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat series. I’d gotten complaints
about that when the books were originally published since readers of RWDEM
weren’t as likely to read hetero romance. In rereleasing the books, I was able
to expand Hummus on Rye to include the relevant parts of Beta Block,
rewritten into Kyle’s point of view. That resulted in about 10,000 words of
content entirely new to Hummus on Rye.
The other book I expanded was the one I’m
promoting now, Tempeh for Two, which is book 5 of the series. A few
things I’ve written in the past couple of years had a bearing on the plot and
characters of Tempeh for Two, so I revised Tempeh to incorporate
those. I did the same kind of updating I’ve done on the previous four books.
But, most noticeably, I wrote an entire new ending
for Tempeh for Two. This book was originally written as the final-final
book in Kyle and Tobias’s story. There were to be no more books with these
characters. And therefore, the original version of Tempeh for Two ended
with a projection-to-the-future epilogue that summed up Tobias and Kyle’s life
after the events of the book. It was a happy—and probably not very
realistic—ending to the saga.
While I was working on updating the five books of
the series, the characters started whispering to me again. There was more to
the story. More things to happen after the events of Tempeh for Two. The
epilogue wasn’t going to work anymore.
So I wrote an entire new last chapter. In the new
version of Tempeh for Two, while the last chapter (Chapter Thirteen)
touches on a couple of things that were mentioned in the original epilogue, it
continues the book’s story in more detail. Kyle and Tobias’s future after the
events of the book is no longer mentioned at all… because their future will be
detailed in future books.
Tempeh for Two, like the rest of the series, can be read
as a standalone, but it helps to have some knowledge of the events of the
previous books. The ending of the book is an ending, but it’s an open one. And
Kyle and Tobias’s story will continue in July 2024 with the release of the
first brand-new Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat novel since 2014, Take Some
Tahini.
Just because an author thinks a story has ended
doesn’t mean the characters agree!
Author Bio
Karenna Colcroft lives just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in love with the city since childhood, though she has yet to encounter any werewolves, vampires, or other paranormal beings in her travels. At least none that she knows of.
Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who splits time between the home she shares with her husband and the one she shares with her committed partner. She also has two adult children and three “bonus” kids, four grandchildren, and two and a half cats. (Half in terms of time the cat lives with her, not in terms of the cat itself…)
Author Website: https://karennacolcroft.com
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