I think in series

Meaning, it’s not very often I write a story where I don’t think “what happens next?”

Dark Elves. I finished with Salin and Diana and was still curious about the world (this was when I was doing the images, actually, before book one). Someone–who became a friend because of it–asked me about Salin’s sexy second in command, who I’d done one image of. Well, that sparked my mind and lo, Krael’s story developed. I couldn’t very well stop there, not whith Mr. Sexy Radin strutting around with his handsome apprentice. Not when I’d made up all sorts of rules and most of a mythology for my characters. Not when I was now really curious what would happen to the elves if…. It snowballed from there. True, there was a hiatus after book 3, but book 4 comes out November 13, 2007 and I’ve got at least 2 more elf books planned.

I wrote this story for Halloween anthology. The rules were that it had to be Halloween/Samhain themed and it had to have a werewolf in it. So I gave life to this character who’d been lurking in the back of my mind. And wasn’t Rudy just too damn adorable? And, y’know what, he had this mentor-guy who was super darkly sexy. This one was far more feline, so he got to be a werecat instead. How did they end up being a pair? I can only say that my m/m tendencies were sprouting. But they hadn’t asked for a m/m story, so I had to put a woman in it. Why not a witch? Well, that turned out to be a pretty cool story, imho. They got together and vanquished the bad guy. Except, that didn’t really end things, did it? What the hell happened to them now? Leashed 3 is my next project after I finish this short I’m writing and I don’t think the third book is going to be the last. Nor do I think that Spiritual Noelle is the only one of Meg’s sisters to get a story. Lots of them are talking to me.

I promised a yaoi-ish story to Loose Id. I gave my editor a choice. Did she want the fantasy world magical judgement story or did she want the rockstar and the hotel manager (and I’m pretty sure I put it almost exactly like that). She chose the rockstar. Johnnie took flight, dragging poor Tyler into the limelight with him (yeah, I don’t feel sorry for him either). Well, but Johnnie wasn’t a solo act. He had these guys in the band with him. Of course they were gorgeous. Of course they were interesting. I made them up on the spot when I did that first description of them in Heaven but they developed their own lives pretty darn quickly. Five books later–not including the storts–they’re all happpily fucking their cuddle bunnies and enjoying mega-stardom. Because I hesitate to spoil their HEA–because people have threatened me if I did!–I started looking to some other characters. There are a lot. There are even a few girls! O_O

Even in my few one-shots, I wonder. What happened to Ann and Skyler after Bye, Bye Skyler? What happened to Anne’s kids when they got to college? Are Ki and Aaron from Tech Support doing okay? What was the deal with Ki’s sister and parents? Fox is now on the run with Dragon, how’s she coping with life on the other side of the law? Is Kyle doing okay as part of Seth’s exciting life? yes, these questions occur to me and one day I might seriously take one of them and run with it.

And there are new characters abounding. I’ve signed contracts for two new books that are outside of any of my past projects and I’ve got a few more that are in various stages of completion, waiting for me to finish them and see if I can find them a home.

I think it stems from the fact that I’m character driven and a character’s life doesn’t tend to end at the end of the story. My characters become real people to me with a past and a future and I can’t help but wonder about that future after I’ve shown what I’d intended to show about them.

It is kind of weird sometimes, though. I’ve got all these new ideas for new worlds and new situations, but I can’t quite let go of the old ones and new ideas keep popping up in the old worlds. I’m NOT complaining about any of this, mind you! I’m quite thankful that the ideas are flowing. My biggest fear when I started this back in 2005 was running out of ideas. Maybe this is my brain in overdrive trying to convince me that I won’t. Not for a little while, at least *crosses fingers and toes*

Written by Jet Mykles

Jet is a writer of sexual fantasy with a firm belief that all men are at least partially gay, that vampires are just people with a liquid diet and shapeshifters live on every block.
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