Karen Moning Exclusive Audio News – JZB POV

Karen Moning Exclusive Audio on FeverJZB POV

Ever since I began writing the FEVER series, fans have been begging for a glimpse inside JZB’s head. I don’t find it a comfortable place to be.  Or maybe it’s too comfortable. Things are simple in there: there’s what you can live with, and what you won’t live without. And there’s no price too high for either. Of all my characters, JZB is the closest to a true sociopath by the terms we define one, yet has the most impeccable system of ethics of all the personalities in the FEVER world. His ethical structure is flawless. It doesn’t contradict itself. There’s  beauty in that. Trust derives from consistency. Barrons is a consistent man. He’s also the most uncomplicatedly sexual man I’ve written.  Sex is where Barrons dumps emotion, not that he’d ever let you see it, but it’s there in his hands on your skin and it’s why sex with him is so good. Remote and controlled out of bed, he’s pure passion in it.  

Last year, JZB was nominated for an Alpha Male contest and I have absolutely no clue why I said that if he won, I’d write a sex scene from his point of view. None.  I think I must have been temporarily possessed by V’lane who was pissed off that he wasn’t in the contest, and hoped I’d screw it up and make Barrons look less awesome and hot and epic than he is. 

Once I shared the scene via my Facebook page, I began getting deluged with emails asking me to ask my audiobook narrators, Phil Gigante and Natalie Ross (Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever) to professionally record it. Ever interested in obliging the fans–especially if it means I get to hear Barrons having sex!– I approached them about it. They have very busy schedules, but were finally able to clear time to go into the studio together and get it done.   

The Alpha Alternative download includes a scorching hot 30-minute audio recording of the sex scene I wrote from Jericho Barrons’ point of view, plus a PDF download of the text for your eReaders and computers. Because there were significant costs involved in putting this together, that range from studio time, to narrator fees, ecommerce fees, website fees, bank fees, blah-blah, I must charge for it. I give away a great deal for free but when it takes time, labor and money to make something available, I have to charge, or I won’t be able to continue doing similar things in the future.  The response will set the tone.  If people are respectful of copyright, and this is profitable financially, I’ll keep trying new things. If the work is pirated, I won’t. 

Email me and let me know what you think. Phil and Natalie totally nailed the scene! Not much makes me squirm.  This did 🙂

The Alpha Alternative
 $1.99
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Karen Moning – Upcoming

If you check below, Sandy posted a detailed description about the upcoming release of Into the Dreaming.  Below, direct from Moning’s own site is her latest listing of what we can look forward to in 2012 and beyond.

INTO THE DREAMING
April 24, 2012
Special Hardcover edition with bonus material (re-release of original novella plus more)

FEVER MOON: The Fear Dorcha
July 10, 2012
Full color, 150+ page graphic novel featuring Mac and Barrons in an original all-new FEVER story

ICED: A Dani O’Malley Novel
October 30, 2012
Book 1

BURNED: A Dani O’Malley Novel
To be announced
Book 2

FLAYED: A Dani O’Malley Novel
To be announced
Book 3

In case you missed this post from Moning, a couple of months ago when she announced her return to the Fever world, TRC is happy to post this again for your review:

I’m currently working on a trilogy that features Dani, Christian MacKeltar, Ryodan, and the mysterious ‘Dancer,’ set primarily in Fever-Dublin. Each installment in the trilogy is a stand-alone mystery, however there are larger plot arcs unfolding in the background.  Where Mac was introspective and her story could feel somewhat esoteric, Dani is down and dirty in the streets. Lots of details, lots of action. There’s a different feel to the two series, totally different vantage points. I’m having a blast writing it.

For those of you who have been worrying—the trilogy is not YA.  If I had to categorize it, I would say it straddles the line between YA and adult uneasily. I don’t pull any punches. It may be controversial in some ways.  But whose teen years weren’t? LOL! Many of the questions I left unanswered in the FEVER series are addressed in this new series.

Exciting news: I’ve agreed to write two more books after that. Once the new trilogy is complete, I’m returning to the core story begun in the FEVER series, and will resume writing about Mac, Barrons, V’lane, Cruce, the Unseelie king, the concubine, the Song of Making.

All in all, there are five more books coming about the Fever World!

Because I know you guys, I know this is going to make some of you as nervous as it makes you excited.  Trust me.  I’m making no compromises with the characters or the story. It’s all unfolding exactly as it should, true to itself-which means, it’s a sometimes rocky road.  Dark times ahead, guys. But I write it all with genuine love for the characters, the world, and you the reader

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