Hey guys! Virginia Nelson is joining us today and offered up a character interview from her Sekhmet's Guardians series. I have read her character interviews before and they are soo much fun! I hope you enjoy as much as I did!
It’s a little before 8 in the morning when I walk into the
Guardian’s handout. I pour myself a cup coffee when Gabriel and Raphael walk in.
“That stuff will put hair on your
chest,” says the Guardian’s leader, Gabriel.
I laugh but finishing filling my cup.
“Don’t pay any attention to him,
V; he’s always grumpy this time of day.”
Don’t I know it! So are the two of you ready
for this? Momma Chaos doesn’t wait forever.
“Ready
as we’ll ever be,” says Raphael.
They both take a chair, cross their legs and wait on me to
finish. I park myself on the loveseat and pull out my steno pad which has the
questions I want to ask them on it.
V: Gabriel, why don’t you start off by telling us how your
life has changed in the past couple of years?
G: Well for starters, two plus years ago, I like my
brethren here was single. Now all that has changed… It all started when we
decided to least our Lake Michigan estate to
the British band the Immortals. Alice,
the lead singer’s lifemate planned on staying her while they went on tour. She
invited her best friend to come for a visit to keep her company.
Gabe takes a deep breath and repositions his long legs
before continuing.
G: I met Jennifer for the first time the night of their welcome to the U.S. Tour party.
R: Gabe, I wouldn’t call that a meeting.
Gabe laughs.
G: You’re right – it wasn’t a meeting… more like a
collision course. Jennifer wanted nothing to do with me.
R: You can say that again!
G: Watch it!
Raphael relaxes after Gabe laughs. I can tell Raphael loves
antagonizing Gabriel but is watching his words carefully.
G: Anyway as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted.
Jennifer wasn’t too enthusiastic with my presence.
R: Maybe if you hadn’t drooled all over her…
Gabe cuts his eyes at Raphael again. I’m not sure if he’s
teasing or serious at this point.
G: Cut the crap, will you? … I’m trying to tell a story
here.
Raphael holds up his hands in self defense.
V: Ok guys, enough will the teasing. I’ve got an interview
to do… please.
G/R in unison, “Sorry V.”
V: Ok so I got it, Jennifer wasn’t too enthralled with you.
Don’t know why, I find you rather handsome and intriguing. Who wouldn’t want to
spend an eternity in your arms or by your side?
Raphael whispers under his breath: “Jennifer.” This time
I’m the one who cuts her eyes to Raphael.
G: Thanks V, but ya know I can be a bit intimidating.
V: Really, I never would have known… Could it be your size?
What are you now 6’8” and 275-280 pounds and Jennifer is what 4’ 11”, a hundred
pounds soaking wet?
G: So anyway, to make a very long story short, it took us a
while to get it together. We just had some things to work out.
V: Oh yeah, like what?
R: Like a husband. (he snickers)
G: Yeah, bring up the asshole, why don’t you?
R: Hey, it’s an interview.
V: Ok guys this isn’t getting us anywhere. Raphael you want
to tell me what you had to do with Jennifer and Gabriel getting together?
R: I’d be happy to. You see I was the catalyst in their
relationship. I’m Gabe’s best friend as you know and I was becoming quite close
to Jen… especially since she wanted nothing to do with him. Anyway, Jen and I
spent a lot of time together, which actually put Gabe in touch with his inner
self. Gabe had been alone for so long he didn’t even know how to court a woman.
I had to give him instructions on that more than once. I’m happy to say it all
worked out for both of them in the long run.
V: But what about you? I seem to remember you were quite
taken by Jennifer yourself. Didn’t that leave you out in the cold?
R: For a while, but I came to love Jennifer as the sister I
never had. I always knew I needed to protect her… just didn’t know why. And I’m
happy to report I’m no longer out in the cold. I’ve found what I was looking
for.
V: Really, and who is that?
R: Jennifer’s sister, Jessica.
V: Really and how did all that come about. I don’ remember
anyone mentioning Jennifer’s sister in Eternal Lovers.
R: Your right V, no one including Jennifer knew she had a
sister for quite some time. That little fact comes about in book two of the
series, Eternal Nights, which is due to be released on May 1st.
V: So the second book is about you and your eternal quest
for love?
R: Right again. Of course there is a whole lot more in that
book. For example, Set’s Legions pull off some pretty nasty stuff… so much so
we had to reactivate our recruitment policy. The grounds are now inhabited by
two hundred recruits in addition to all of us.
G: Don’t forget to mention that Ronan finds love and one of
Set’s members turns against them.
R: I was just getting to that.
V: Ok guys, you’re doing it again. Tell you what, I’m going
to call it quits here and shoot what I have over to Momma Chaos and send along a
couple of snippets of both books. That
should give her readers a good look into the series. You two can finish your
bickering without me.
SNIPPET from ETERNAL LOVERS
She stomped up to Raphael, grabbed hold of his hand,
pulling him into the other room.
“Ah… Ah… Jennifer, where are we going?”
Looking around, she realized she had drug Raphael to
the one room, now empty of furniture, set aside for dancing. They were standing
in the center of the room with couples dancing all around them. She reached up
and put both of her hands around Raphael’s neck and demanded, “Dance with me.”
Puzzled as he must have been, he placed his hands on
the small of her back and began swaying with her to the music. She laid her
head against his chest. God, it felt good
being so close to him–safe.
“You know all you had to do was ask. I’d never turn down a lady in distress. I’m
flattered but curious as to what brought all this on?”
“I guess I’m just over reacting, but there was a guy
in there…” She motioned with her head towards the other room. “...who was giving me the creeps.
Evidently, he was staring at me while I was playing backgammon with Alice; well at least
that’s what Marie said.”
“Jennifer, I’m sure you are use to having men stare at
you. You are a beautiful woman. I believe I told you earlier you look
enchantingly beautiful tonight.”
She blushed. Raphael
could charm anyone.
“It wasn’t just that he was staring at me. I left the
room and went to get a drink and the next thing I knew he was leaning into me.
He had me pinned against the bar. Lord, I swear he was sniffing my hair. I
don’t know if he’s drunk, high or what but he really scared the living
daylights out of me.”
“Oh I see… and now you want the security guard and all
this time I thought it was my charm that held you captive? I thought maybe you
missed me… So what did this would be stalker look like?”
“Yes, no, hell I don’t know, all I could think of was
finding you.”
“Jennifer, what did he look like, I’ll go find him and
have a few words with him. If he’s drunk or on drugs, I’ll escort him out of
here. I can’t have one of Alice’s
guests being all upset. Now can I?”
Racing through her memory she tried to picture him in
her mind. She couldn’t tell Raphael that he was a delectable yet scary looking
hunk with the most intriguing eyes she had ever seen, could she?
“He’s dark haired, yeah black hair, really tall,
taller than you, oh yeah, and he’s wearing a black suit with a black shirt and
of all things sunglasses. He came to the party with four girls. I think maybe
he’s a pimp? Hell, I don’t know what I think.”
SNIPPET FROM BOOK TWO – ETERNAL NIGHTS
Gabe stood in the doorway, leaning against the
door frame while watching several of them pace back and forth like caged
beasts. Two other men stood opposite one another, fangs bared and squaring off
at each other. He sensed their high emotions. What the hell is going on? These
seasoned soldiers shouldn’t be acting like this. He’d never had a problem
with any of them before.
He cleared his throat. “Gentleman, you want to
take it down a notch.”
The two who were facing off at each other looked
over at him. Then one quickly snapped back at him, “It’s none of your damn
business!” The other one flipped him off.
The others in the room gathered around the two
that were facing off, anticipating a fight about to break out. The way they
were acting, they didn’t care who fought whom, they were itching for some kind
of action.
Gabriel walked up to the man who had spouted off
to him and bared his own fangs.
“You, sit now!”
Then he shoved him into a nearby chair.
He turned to the other man and pointed at another
chair; far enough away from the first man so they couldn’t reach one another,
“You, over there!”
“In fact, every one of you fuckers, sit down! And
someone tell me what the hell is going on in here!”
Gabriel’s voice echoed through the walls and
throughout the tunnel system. The eleven men in the room all looked at each
other in disbelief. About that time five more guards, hearing Gabriel, came
running into the room. The aggression on the five entering the room said they
were ready for a brawl. Lance who also heard him from his office came running
in behind the five men. He pushed his way through the crowd blocking the door
and asked Gabriel what was going on.
BIO:
Being a Native American woman and a Scorpio, author V.S. Nelson has
always had a fondness for history, mythology, the occult, and the unexplained
events which have occurred on this world we call home. It was no wonder she
found herself writing a paranormal series.
Raised on authors like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne and
coming from a long line of oral storytellers, Ms. Nelson work has been defined
as innovative and fresh. She will take you by the hand and lead you into the
depths of her imagination as if you are sitting next to her on the couch one
minute and alive within her fantasy world the next.
She has always enjoyed reading stories with strong
relationships and happy-ever-after-endings and it is reflected in her work. Even
her commercial fiction, Sins of a Man,
the Memoirs of a Mafia Hit Man, is layered with romantic elements. I’ve heard
her say she is in love with love more than once and that too is echoed in her
stories.
Landing in Arizona,
after an exciting teaching career, which took her to the Middle East for
several years, she lives in Arizona
where she spends most of her time making love to her computer while writing,
editing or researching, seven to ten hours a day. The days she’s not writing,
you will find her with her critique partners, attending or presenting a
workshop or at a RWA (Romance Writers of America) meeting. She’s extremely
active in three RWA chapters in addition to her other associations.
She enjoys hearing from readers, fans and people with
similar interests. They are more than welcome to contact her through her
website http://www.authorvsnelson.com
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