It's my pleasure to again have Bestselling author, Terry Spear, visiting with the first book in her new series about Jaguars! Savage Hunger made me purr in contentment. I'm looking forward to book 2, Jaguar Fever.
Have you ever been somewhere really different that you couldn't see enough of because you just didn't have the time, but you would
have liked to have just sat down and soaked up the essence of the place? Every
sensory detail from the way it looked, to smelled, the feel of the place, the
sounds there, even the way the air tastes?
I’m so excited to take you to the jungle, where I set this month’s
release, Savage Hunger and some of
the next story, Jaguar Fever (Aug
2013)!
I used to live across from one—not called a jungle on the
map, but what do mapmakers know when you live across the street from one and
can find all the neat jungle-like stuff right there!
The heat, the humidity, the giant mosquitoes, the poisonous
snakes—water moccasins, rattlesnakes, alligators, no-see-ums, snapping turtles,
feral pigs, tortoises, you name it, we had it. We explored the jungle-like
swamps when I was a kid seeking adventure and making up worlds as I went.
I never imagined I’d write about the Amazon or the
rainforest in Belize and draw on some of those “feelings” I’d experienced while
living in Florida. I read where one visitor to the Amazon said he never saw as
many venomous or harmless snakes in the Amazon as he did in Central Florida!
But no monkeys where I lived. Bears, yes. No cats, though in
the Everglades, the panther roams the swamps.
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My jungle was filled with the raucous sound of insects and
of birds calling to one another, the same as in the jungle in South and Central
America. One year, we had a flock of colorful parrots land in our tree! Just as
though we were living in the South American jungle. They rested there for a few
minutes, and then took off again on their migratory flight to somewhere else.
I've been to Busch Gardens in Florida. I've seen the parrot
shows, which are remarkable, and floated down a river on a glass bottom boat
filled with alligator, the boat moving under low hanging branches, one with a
snake coiled around a sturdy limb. The boatman brought us close so we could see
the massive snake. The branch was dripping with Spanish moss and I worried to
death the snake would fall off into the boat and we’d all have to jump into the
alligator-filled river. I made reference to such an idea when Kat, the heroine
of Savage Hunger, was thinking about what would happen if she shifted into a
jaguar on a river boat and all the people made a hasty retreat into the
caiman-filled water. See where I get my ideas from? Real life!
It was NOT a Disney excursion either where the snakes, and
alligators, and pirates are pretend.
Oh, sure, you say—but did you ever see a water moccasin or a
rattlesnake where you lived? My father once pulled a minnow bucket from our
canal, intending to go fishing with his buddies. No minnows were inside, but he
did one cottonmouth with venomous fangs curled up inside the bucket.
Cottonmouth is another name for water moccasin. And a rattlesnake? A couple of
boys came pounding on our door, showed us the five-foot long rattlesnake they’d
killed in our front yard and asked if they could keep it.
I guess they figured since it was on our property, it was
ours. We figured they’d killed it, it was THEIRS, and by all means, take it
AWAY!
Those are just a few experiences from my “jungle” growing
up.
- What about you? Are you prepared to take a wild trip to the jungle?
Thanks so much, Sia, for having me here today, and one lucky
person that answers my question will have a chance to win a copy of Savage Hunger.US/Canada Addresses Only.
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SAVAGE HUNGER
As a jaguar he is graceful and gorgeous...
Speedy and stealthy...
Fierce, independent, and wild...
As a man he is passionate and powerful...
Willful and wonderful...
And he'll stop at nothing to protect
what's his...
The Amazon jungle holds many dangers, as
Kathleen McKnight well knows after her mission to bring down a drug cartel goes
horribly wrong, leaving her the only survivor on her team. Determined to find
the mysterious man who saved her, she returns to the jungle a year later only
to find it holds more secrets than she could have ever imagined.
Since saving
Kathleen, jaguar shifter Connor Anderson hasn't been able to get her out of his
mind. When she returns to the jungle to seek him out, he only knows one thing:
that he must claim her for his own.
Terry
Spear has written a
couple of dozen paranormal romance novels and two medieval Highland historical
romances. Her first werewolf romance, Heart
of the Wolf, was named a 2008 Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the
Year, and her subsequent titles have garnered high praise and hit the USA Today bestseller list. A retired
officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry lives in Crawford, Texas, where she is
working on her next werewolf romance and continuing her new series about
shapeshifting jaguars. For more information, please visit www.terryspear.com, or follow her on Twitter, @TerrySpear. She is also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/terry.spear .
