
But when a series of deadly attacks happen at the Summit, Gemma realizes that a powerful enemy wants to tear all the royals down off their thrones-and that they just might succeed. My heroine, Gemma Ripley, is trying to get to the bottom of a dangerous plot against her kingdom, and she journeys to a trade Summit to get answers. JE: Tear Down the Throne is book #2 in my Gargoyle Queen adult epic fantasy series. Q: Tell us about your latest release, Tear Down the Throne. Instead of spinning straw into gold, I am taking all these disparate words and ideas and transforming Sometimes, I feel like I am Rumpelstiltskin. It’s just a lot of fun for me as an author.īut it’s also really challenging for me as an author. Her magic/powers, and the world that she lives in. JE: I love origin stories, so I always enjoy writing the first book in a new series and creating my heroine, Q: Which of your books was the most challenging and which one was the most fun to write? I’ve always loved anything with a lot of action, adventure, danger, romance, and magic, and those are the kinds of books that I write today. Movies and TV shows – things like the Wonder Woman show with Lynda Carter, the Batman show withĪdam West, the original Star Wars movies, the Marvel movies, etc.

JE: I’ve always loved reading fantasy/paranormal books, along with watching fantasy/paranormal Q: How did you get into the urban fantasy and paranormal romance genres? I wrote seven books over the course of about seven years before I sold Karma Girl and was first published. But I had been bitten by the writing bug, so I wrote another book … and another book … and so on.

It was a very, very bad epic fantasy book that will never see the light of day. JE: I wrote my first book one summer during college. Q: When did you get started in writing stories?

It came out in 2007 and is the first book in my Bigtime superheroes paranormal romance series.

JE: Karma Girl was my first published book.
