You know what’s tough? There are some parts of any story that transcend genre, and they are the bits you absolutely have to nail. Just invent a cool new way of travelling almost instantly – melting down to the very droplets in the air, with the aid of a very cool, very small blue fish.Īnd then the bad news. If your action takes place between the deepest part of the ocean floor and small town USA and your characters need to whizz quickly between the two? No problems. If the whole sex-with-a-tail thing is just way too mind-bending – voila! No tails. You know what I love about fantasy? You don’t just get to break the rules, you get to write your own. I had lots of feedback from critique partners and other readers, and it helped shape what worked and what didn’t. And, like most paths less travelled, I had to learn some things along the way. So fantasy was kind of an untrod road for me. Then she said something like: Erhh…you know mermaids aren’t real, right? I mean, I you had those pyjamas back when you were seven, but… I said something like: No, don’t be silly, you know I don’t write fantasy. I told my sister: I’m writing a mermaid book. Rania, my deep sea mermaid living incognito as a small town cop, hammered at my brain.
For me, this time, and this character, it had to be fantasy. I’m far too nice to say the word whore, but I never really met a genre I didn’t like. Like Mae West said: “Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.” Me? I’m an omnivore, in reading and in writing. And maybe even save her own ass while she's at it.įish out of Water is Stephanie Plum meets Splash, and the first book in a trilogy about Aegira, an underwater kingdom based on the historical Norse legend of Aegir.Please welcome fellow Escape author Ros Baxter to the ‘Writing Wednesday’ segment of the blog today! Ros is the author of Fish Out Of Water (Escape Publishing) and co-author of Sister Pact (Harper Collins). Now, if she can just steal a corpse, get a crazy Aegiran priest off her case, work out who the hell's trying to kill her, and stop sleeping with the fishes, she might be able to unravel the mysteries. Heading home to Aegira for a family wedding, Rania has a sinking feeling that's got nothing to do with hydroporting seven miles under the sea and everything to do with the crazy situation. Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum meets Splash in a sexy, smart–talking debut about a mermaid in a desert, a city under water, and the secret that no one is supposed to uncover.ĭirtwater's straight–talking Deputy Sheriff Rania Aqualina has a lot on her plate: a nicotine addiction that's a serious liability for a mermaid, a soldier–of–fortune ex who's hooked on her Mum's brownies, a gorgeous, naked stranger in her shower, and a mysterious dead blonde with a fish tattoo on Main Street.
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