From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for Crave, and for your character Grace?Visit Tracy Wolff's website.
A: I never figured I’d write a vampire series because I didn’t want to even attempt it unless I thought I had an original take on vamps.
But when Jaxon’s world came to me (much of which will be revealed in books two and three of the series), I knew I had something a little different and that I wanted to run with it. And since I am blessed to have a publisher who is determined to bring vampires back, I got lucky enough to be able to write Crave.
Then Grace and Flint started talking to me in the back of my head and the story just kind of poured out.
As for coming up with Grace, she just started talking to me one day as I was thinking about who I wanted my heroine for this book to be. I didn’t know much about her, but she just had this witty, slightly sarcastic voice that hooked me the second I started to write her.
And, if I’m honest, I have to admit there’s a lot of me in Grace, probably more so than with any other character I’ve ever written—life experience (though I’ve never dated a hot vampire, sadly) and...[read on]
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