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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Today I would like to introduce to you L.K. Rigel the author behind an extraordinarily hybrid series: the Apocalypto series. It has sci-fi, romance, apocalypse, shapeshifters, gods and many other things making it a unique mix. I was curious to ask L.K. how come that as a woman she chose to write a sci-fi novel. What appealed to her in the genre, why does she like it?

L.K. was kind enough to stop by and answer my question and even offered her whole Apocalypto series to one lucky commentator, so please give a warm welcome to L.K!

First, thank you, Stella, for inviting me to write this post. I'd love to talk about how I ended up writing in the sci-fi romance genre.

From the time I was young my reading had a glom style. I started off devouring all fairy tales and moved on to tales of Greek gods and goddesses. In high school I was caught up in family sagas and great sweeping historical stuff by writers like Michener and Ferber and Uris.

After that stint with sci-fi, I moved on to Danielle Steel of all things! I wonder if it was the romance I was looking for? Still, I was always drawn back to sci-fi and fantasy, but I must have romance with it.

Space Junque is definitely science fiction but with a twist. It's a prequel to Bleeder, the first novel in a paranormal series set on an earth where some people don't have souls. There are shapeshifters, giant predatory birds, and mutated humans who can see souls. Human fertility is rare, and therefore fertile women have a lot of power. The gods truly exist. They don't like human beings very much, and resent it that humans are necessary to their own existence.

Space Junque explains the beginnings of how this mundane world became that fantastical world. As I said, it starts as science fiction, but halfway into the story, things change. Gods and shapeshifters appear, and the characters realize nothing will ever be the same.

Originally, I had intended Space Junque as a stand-alone prequel to Bleeder. But I fell in love with Char and Jake -- and Durga, who actually appears in Bleeder. Luckily, readers want to know more about them too.

In Spiderwork, the sequel to the prequel, Char and Jake meet new challenges to say the least. Durga is older. As the goddess Asherah's "chosen one," Durga has a lot of responsibility in the new world order, but she finds it hard to concentrate when the prince of Luxor shows up on the scene. As for genre, it's pretty much post-apocalyptic paranormal with some sci-fi elements.

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