feature author S.K. Ryder is a software developer by day, a scribe by night and answers to Susan any time. She writes the type of stories she loves to read: heartpounding adventures full of supernatural mysteries and relationships between strong, compelling characters. Though she calls South Florida home, she has also lived in Germany and Canada and has traveled widely, usually in the hot pursuit of wild and scenic nature. When not debugging code, complicating her characters’ lives or plotting her next rafting adventure down the Grand Canyon, she can be found beach combing, scuba diving, sailing or just hanging out with a good book. When push comes to shove, she can also bake a halfway decent cake and stand on her head, though not at the same time.
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Please welcome S.K. Ryder Uncaged: I really loved the Dark Destinies series, and am a bit bummed that it’s over, what do you have coming up next that you can tell us about? Don’t be bummed. I have good news. I thought I was done after wrapping up everybody’s story at the end of book 3 (Dark Child of Forever), but I forgot to check with my vampire hero, Dominic. He had another story to tell, this one about how he first meets his sire, Kambyses, and the circumstances that make him who he is when Cassidy moves into his life in Dark Heart of the Sun. It was supposed to be a short story. It ended up being a novella. Entitled Dark Awakening, it’s currently with an editor, and I anticipate a release date in December or January. If more characters pipe up down the road, there may be others in this series, but for now I’m getting back to my first love—sci-fi fantasy (with the prerequisite romantic elements, of course). That’s the genre that first inspired me to write, and it’s been calling to me again. There will be travel in space and time, a big dose of mysticism, and a heroine who is forced to question everything she knows about how the universe works. No dates on that yet, but my mailing list subscribers will be the first to know when any of the above become available. Uncaged: Where did you get the inspiration for Dark Destinies? Short answer: Dominic.
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