In this fourth in Spear’s series, Private Eye Cameron MacPherson and Faith O’Mallery are both on quests that lead them into the world of magical wolves…
Cameron arrives in the Canadian Arctic to search for his partners in his P.I. business who are late returning from a hunting trip. Faith is there to discover what her father had seen in the same area years earlier that had made him lose touch with reality—man-wolves, he called them.
The two tumble into an icy world of enemies bent on destroying the lupus garou kind. As they turn into lupus garou themselves, and bond with the pack that only they can rescue from destruction, Cameron and Faith find their soul mates in each other.
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Most have probably heard of branding—at least when it comes to products. McDonalds’ golden arches, Wendy’s little girl with pigtails, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the Energizer bunny. They’re gimmicks, not related to the actual product, that help buyers remember them.
In the past, I was known as the bear lady, which has nothing to do with my books, but with the fact I make award-winning teddy bears that have been featured in magazines and found homes all over the world. Many still know me as such, just in a different sphere.
As writers, we’re told we have to brand our image. Not all writers have a gimmicky branding though, as it truly relates to what we write. When we are known by this image for what we write, we’ve done it successfully.
For a while now, I’ve been getting emails from fans with information about wolves. A former writing student sent me news clippings about red wolves. Facebook and Myspace friends have shared new stories with me in the event I hadn’t heard. Others have told me on guest blogs that when they see anything about wolves, they think of me. A fan who has become a good friend sends me information about wolves in her neck of the wilderness and one of these days I’m going to have to set a story there. And my co-workers always set aside books for me at the library when they reference wolves.
I’ve been branded!!!
I’ve truly enjoyed hearing from everyone about wolves, and love that fans think of me when they see anything about the magnificent animals. I’ve been asked by other bloggers to blog about different aspects of werewolf mythology also, and that’s been really fun and exciting to be asked, because my characters are werewolves after all!
So why would I want my wolves to be so realistic, and not like the original werewolf horror tales? Many Native American tribes revered wolves because of the way they hunted together as a pack, kept their family units together, and remained committed and loyal. But many more peoples across the world saw wolves as a predator that ate their livestock or the animals humans hunted, and so wolves were seen as the worst kind of predator. And exterminated in many locales.
I’d read Jack London’s tales, Call of the Wild and White Fang, and in one of the sections I read, the story was told in the wolf pup’s point of view. I was touched by the notion that wolves were people too. Well, not really, but if you’ve ever had a dog, you know what I mean. So a person was a wolf part of the time, and when he was a wolf, he would be all wolf, only with his human thought processes. Yet, I didn’t want the werewolf to be totally separate from his wolf half while in human form. So he still thinks like a wolf.
Best of both worlds.
So I’ve branded my way right into a cozy wolf den, which suits me fine. Who could resist a loyal, committed, family-oriented hunky wolf anyway?
If you could brand yourself, what would you be known for?
Thanks so much for having me at Romance Reader at Heart!
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Thank you for visiting us, Ms Spear!
And we have a giveaway, courtesy of the fine folks at Sourcebooks–there will be a drawing for two copies of Legend of the White Wolf. (Giveaway limited to residents of the US and Canada) To learn more about Ms Spear’s work, visit her website.






















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