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Bad Moon Rising PRINT Anthology and talking about Sequels

I’m really excited about my first print release with Samhain, which is the Midsummer Night’s Steam anthology that features my first Samhain novella, Bad Moon Rising. I received my author copies in the mail last week and my reaction (a loud shriek of delight) scared the daylights out of my entire family :) But how can I not be excited? Isn’t it every author’s dream to see their name in print and hold a physical copy of their book in their hands?

So along with my excitement over this print release, I’m also pretty excited about the sequel I’m writing for Heat of the Moment, my current release. When I first wrote Heat, a sexy threesome featuring two Navy SEALs, I knew I had to give one of my SEAL’s, Carson, his own story. The idea nagged in the back of my mind, demanding to be written, and yet for some reason I couldn’t think of what to do with the poor guy.

And then I’m lying in bed last week, can’t sleep because I’d just written thirty pages of another story and was too wired, and all of a sudden, the sequel idea flies into my brain. It’s three in the morning, and instead of forcing myself to sleep, I get up, grab a notebook and write an outline for Carson’s story.

For anyone who’s read Heat of the Moment and wants a tiny spoiler, let’s just say that Carson is going to find himself pursuing an older woman who wants nothing to do with a bad boy SEAL….

But this brings me to my question for all the readers out there. How do you feel about sequels? I’m a huge fan of authors with ongoing series (Christine Feehan, Suzanne Brockmann, to name a few) and every time they have a new release, I’m preordering the he$! out of that baby, dying to get my hands on it. Is it just me? Or is everyone else as crazy about series/sequels/trilogies/recurring characters as I am?