...and the good guy isn't cooperating either.

by Shiloh Walker

So you've got a book in your head.

Seems to be a pretty good one. A little different, interesting characters...all in all, it seems like a book you might like to read if you found it in a bookstore.

So you start writing it down.

You meet the heroine.

You meet the hero.

You meet the bad guy.

You meet the important secondaries, think you've got a handle on where the plot is going.

Then the bad guy decides to dig in his heels.

He doesn't want to be the bad guy.

Never mind the fact that it's going to throw your plot to hell. Never mind the fact that you already know how you're going to kill him. Never mind the fact that you don't plan to write a story for him. Because he has other plans. He wants to start infringing on the good guy's territory (the heroine, naturally) and when he can't have the heroine, you get a look inside his heart and see how much he needs his own heroine.

Then the good guy starts murmuring sympathetically. Even though it's not in the book, he's telling you all these things that you don't want to hear, because you don't want to write a book for the bad guy that was supposed to the villain and he wouldn't let you.

Come on, people! Is this my book or not?

Sigh. Since it's happened twice this year, I guess I know the answer to that.

Of course it's not my book.

It's theirs.

And if you wanna figure out which bad guy decided he wasn't going to be a bad guy...you'll have the read the book and find out. ;)

Through the Veil

Releases June 3, 2008
ISBN 9780425222478
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Found wandering in a field as a child, Lee Ross was given a name by the state and placed in a foster home-without anyone realizing she wasn't entirely human. All her life, she's tried to dismiss the odd dreams that have plagued her, dreams of monsters creeping through the night and a man, fighting demons by her side. But the bruises she wakes up with are all too real to ignore

Then the man from dreams appears in the flesh. His name is Kalen and he insists that her destiny lies in his world, the world of her dreams. To save their people, he must convince Lee to give everything she knows, follow her heart and cross into the Under Realm, even though once she does, she'll never be able to return.

Excerpt ~ Veil Scavenger Hunt

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