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Star Light, Star Bright....Interstellar Interview with Deborah Cooke

Bestselling author Deborah Cooke is a knitter and that's plain to see in her wonderfully constructed novels whose characters jump off the page. Judges (as well as readers) have taken note and awarded her the Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence and Greater Detroit RWA Booksellers’ Best Awards as well as a Romance Reviews Today Award. She’s also been a finalist/nominee for Romantic Times Awards (including a Career Achievement Award), the HOLT Medallion, Publisher’s Weekly Quill Award, the Windy City RWA Choice Award, a Affaire de Coeur Award, the Write Touch, National Readers’ Choice Awards, and several FF&P PRISMs.

I never expected to meet Claire Delacroix in the flesh on my first trip to the New Jersey Chapter's Put Your Heart in a Book Conference. But there she was next to my friend Virginia Kantra, and I got to meet her! Isn't it fabulous how women and writers can come together in a crisis like those imposed by travel delays and hotel booking errors? To say the least I was floating on air and super thrilled when I also got her latest book as a favor.

Then one day I was cruising the aisle of Barnes and Noble and a man leapt out at me. Not literally of course. But the moment I saw Quinn from KISS OF FATE, I knew I had to have that book! Of course, I’d never heard of the author but decided to give the book a shot because it was right up my alley (and no, not just because of the eye candy). Of course that eye candy also had me asking for a postcard on Deborah’s blog. When she said yes, I was super ecstatic. When I decided to check her out a little more to ask her about doing a Star Light Interview you’ll never guess what I found out…or as readers, maybe you will. I discovered Deborah Cooke was Claire Delacroix and Claire Cross. Imagine that! So as they say the rest is history! (And yes, Quinn was as yummy as I thought he’d be!!)

Why did you decide to foray into paranormal romance instead of sticking to historicals?

Well, the funny thing is that I often included fantasy (or paranormal) elements in my historicals. People seem to forget that part! ENCHANTED is a medieval romance with a shapeshifter hero who was cursed to become a wolf; A MAGICIAN’S QUEST is a medieval romance with a shapeshifter hero who became a panther; THE SORCERESS is a medieval romance with a heroine who has precognitive dreams. I wrote time travels in the late 90’s under the name Claire Cross (ONCE UPON A KISS; THE LAST HIGHLANDER; LOVE POTION #9; THE MOONSTONE) and often included woo woo elements in subplots of other books. “The Jewels of Kinfairlie” trilogy, for example, has a secondary character named Darg, who is a spriggan (a kind of fairy) who only one of the siblings can see.

What is new about this series is the balance – the fantasy elements in the world of the Pyr are much more dominant than the fantasy elements in those previous books. We enter the world of the Pyr, instead of having it be a detail, and that’s a lot of fun for me.

How do you think writing award-winning historicals has enriched your paranormals?

Having written a lot of romances makes it easy to balance internal and external conflicts, to pace the book well, to balance dialogue and ensure that sexual tension increases – all of those are basic skills that all writers hone over time, but I do think that having written historicals does help with worldbuilding.

One of the things imperative to a good historical is a strong sense of time and place. I think that historical writers learn a lot more about worldbuilding and about putting the reader into a specific location than is always necessary in contemporaries. That’s because we have a shared experience of contemporary settings, I can say “corporate office foyer” to you or “fast food court” and we each will conjure similar mental images of what that space looks like, smells like, feels like. That works for some extent with medieval settings like “dungeon” because of our shared experiences of movies, but might not work for “street in Paris”. The medieval experience of an urban street is much more pungent than ours and that’s fun to share with readers. There are also the details of social history – as an historical writer, I’m used to thinking of the logistics of, for example, providing a wedding feast. How do you feed 300 people more or less simultaneously, with one firesplace and no refrigerator and no transportation of foodstuffs over distance? What do you feed them, if you’re in Scotland? Or if you’re in Italy? How does it differ?

All of that translates into a habit of thinking about the facts of the world and how they mesh together, as well as making those details vivid to readers, without slowing the pace of the book.

What brainstorm led you to the concept of the Pyr and their origins? Are they or their mythos built upon real places or people?

I’ve always had a fascination with dragons, and it seems ideal to me that a shapeshifter hero should become a dragon. Dragons are gorgeous, powerful, and there are a lot of really great stories about them. Since one of my favourite things is blending the stories in my fictional world with stories from our own world, I literally have a treasure hoard at my fingertips here. I like taking concepts and twisting them a bit – What kind of hoard would a modern dragon have? How would he secure his lair? What would make a dragon vulnerable? What would be his most precious treasure of all? - Answering those kind of questions is a lot of fun.

There are a number of differing traditions about dragons, which is interesting too. In the east, they are the guardians of the four elements, so I played with that, giving each of the Pyr an innate affinity with one element. It just seemed natural to me that part of the power of the firestorm would be bringing four elements into union – one element that came naturally to the Pyr and one element that came naturally to his mate, then one each that they had to work for a bit. I love the idea of love healing, and of a romantic union being more than the sum of the parts, so both Pyr and mate grow into stronger people over the course of each book.

Will your Dragonfire series include novels about all of the Pyr/Slayers or a few key figures?

The first three books feature (in order) Quinn, Donovan and Erik, and each book steps a little further into the world of the Pyr. There will be three more - NAL and I have agreed upon Dragonfire #4 - #6 (titles and publication dates TBD). I know who those heroes are, but I’m not telling just yet! Beyond that, I do have a plan, but will share it with you as it’s contracted.

If you could have a firestorm with any Pyr, who would the lucky dragon be?

Whichever one I’m writing right now! I have a bad habit of falling in love with my heroes, and the one currently under my fingertips (!) is always my current fave. So, right now, it’s Dragonfire #4’s hero. (And you thought you could get me to give it away.) He’s dark and tormented, but honorable deep down inside, which is just so sexy. Yum.

What elemental power of the Pyr would you choose? How would you use your ability?

I’d love to be able to breathe fire, as well as to command it to do my will. I visited an artisan blacksmith to research Quinn’s occupation and it fascinated me. I really like how Quinn can use fire not only to heal, but to create art, so he finds creative power in what could be perceived as destructive. That tension between destruction and creation is interesting – of course, I’d use my power over fire to save the world and help the Pyr!

I’m sure you signed a slew of KISS OF FIRE and KISS OF FURY at Nationals in San Francisco, but where else can lucky readers/writers meet you?

I do have a signing coming up at Bakka-Phoenix Books in Toronto in October. You can find details about my schedule on my Claire Cross website, on the Where’s Claire page (http://www.clairecross.com/where.html) or watch for announcements on my blog, Alive & Knitting (http://www.delacroix.net/blog)

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One lucky winner will also win a signed copy of the latest novel in the Dragonfire series, KISS OF FURY! So ask those burning questions or show Deborah/Claire how much you love her books!







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