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May 29, 2021 12:14 am
Struggling to pay the rent makes witches relatable
Kit Melbourne and Susan Stillwater: Both broke AF
One of the tropes of vampires is that they are all ludicrously wealthy and live in castles. But whenever I think about this trope, I think about those ads for financial planners that ask if you’re going to outlive your retirement savings.
We’ve heard stories about people who made that one big lucky deal and became set for life. Maybe they were a child star, or cashed out tech stock accrued in the 1990s, or won the lottery. But how many of those people do you actually know?
Okay, so compare those with the people you know who seem perpetually in debt no matter how much money they make. Or people who work harder than anyone you know and never seem to get ahead. Maybe you are one of those people.
There’s a value in having your main characters be rich in that it solves a lot of problems and lets readers indulge in that fantasy life. Lots of us fantasize about not having to worry about money. Money can solve SO MANY PROBLEMS. But if you’re writing a novel, problems=plot. If my heroes can’t just make things happen by writing a check, it forces them to get creative. Lucky for me (as a writer) it's easier to make a person suddenly poor than it is to invent kryptonite or some reason why the plot-resolving transporter technology isn't working in this planet's atmosphere.
Kit starts out realy poor in Witch's Jewel, and Susan is constantly struggling for money in the entire Alternate Susan series. I think that's something most of us can relate to. Today I was eating a bowl of Lucky Charms (a breakfast cereal which is somehow even less wholesome than a powdered-sugar donut) and I marveled that I'm at a point in my life where I am not only allowed to eat the entire box myself, but I can afford to replace it when it's gone. The ten-year-old-me would have found this magical.
I’m a kick-butt tracker. The best in the business.
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A wolf trying to mend her heart from a devastating loss …
When a chance encounter puts her in the path of a possible romantic interest, does she dare let the flicker of heat inside her erupt into something more?
Interworld Agency Book One
Catherine's partner has been missing for three months. Jack is the rookie agent sent to fill in the role. It's a match made in the Underworld.
Gratuitous cat picture
Hades is afraid of strangers, but he seems okay with Zinko using him as a dakimakura