I was playing Vampire: the Masquerade, Live Action version with a group of players that met on weekends to role play our vampire characters. I took the offer and Loose Id published Gothic City Lights this last June! Yeah!!! Oh, um, so the answer is, for real? About 4 years ago.ĮJ: What brought you to the paranormal genre?īrindle: This is going to sound very geeky. I sent it to 4 publishers and received 1 request for more, 2 rejections and 1 offer. My test readers were established writers, so I trusted in them and tried this time with publishers. Got several nibbles, but ultimately no offers. To exercise what I had learned from other authors and a year later, it was finished. It was to prove to myself I was publishable. My muse fed me the premise for Gothic City Lights 2 years ago, so I took that on next.

So I hit the author forums and found out many of my mistakes. *sniffle* But I knew then, I had more to learn about writing. I started with re-writing that paranormal I started way back when. For christmas, I went out and bought me a laptop and started writing every day on my lunch break at work. I love to write but always let real life get in the way. Then when I turned 40 (4 years ago) I decided, screw it. Then about 10 years ago, started another one, a paranormal, didn't finish. īrindle: I started a novel about 20 years ago for a creative writing class in college. Please welcome today's guest author Brindle Chase! Brindle is the author of That One Night In Vegas, Gothic City Lights, Diva-licious, My Snow White, and The Grass Is Always Greener.

Temptation by Tina deCoux