About the Author
Larissa Ione, an Air Force veteran, has been a meteorologist, EMT, and professional dog trainer, often all at the same time. Yet she never gave up on writing fiction, and is lucky enough to now write full-time, which is a blessing given her husband’s military career. She lives a nomadic lifestyle with her U.S. Coast Guard husband and son, though she considers the Pacific Northwest home. An animal lover to an extreme, she adopts any kind of animal she finds, and has been known to nurse back to health anything from mice to baby owls. For more about Larissa’s books and writing life, and to read an excerpt from her next Demonica novel, feel free to visit her Web site: www.LarissaIone.com.
Dear Reader,
If you enjoyed PLEASURE UNBOUND, I invite you to visit my Web site, where you can read the first chapter of SHADOW LOVER, the next book in the Demonica series. SHADOW LOVER is Shade’s story, and he has one hell of an adventure ahead of him! While you’re at my Web site, you can also access my contact page, learn about my other works, and sign up for my newsletter and Writeminded reader’s group for fun extras and chances to win contest prizes. Feel free to stop by at www.LarissaIone.com and be sure to say hi!
Larissa Ione
THE DISH
Where authors give you the inside scoop!
From the desk of Larissa Ione
Dear Reader,
Growing up, I wanted to be both an author and a doctor. Too bad I suffered from an unfortunate tendency to pass out at the sight of blood. For some reason, doctors fainting in emergency situations is frowned upon. Go figure.
So I concentrated on my first love, writing, but I never got over my fascination with emergency medicine. A few years ago, I swallowed my squeamishness and earned an Emergency Medical Technician certification in order to help me accurately portray the medical heroes and heroines I love so much.
Something else I love is the paranormal, so when I decided to follow my heart and write dark supernatural tales, I still couldn’t let go of those hot doctors and paramedics. I wanted them to play a large role in my paranormal novels, but how? How could I combine medicine and the paranormal?
The answer came to me while watching an episode of Angel, when my favorite broody vamp got hurt. My poor baby! He needed medical attention, stat. But really, where could demons, vampires, and werewolves go for help?
To a demon ER, of course!
PLEASURE UNBOUND (on sale now), the first in a series of novels set in and around an underworld hospital, is the result of both my interests and my addiction to TV shows such as ER, Grey’s Anatomy, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and okay, maybe my fangirl crushes on George Clooney, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsters, and Joss Whedon).
In PLEASURE UNBOUND, you’ll meet Tayla, a tough, street-savvy demon slayer who lands in demon hospital under the care of a sexy incubus surgeon named Eidolon. When a sinister plot forces them to work together in order to learn the truth behind a rash of killings that threatens both demons and slayers, Tayla and Eidolon find that the biggest danger of all is to their hearts.
I hope your visit to Underworld General proves to be the most pleasant trip to a hospital you’ve ever experienced. Happy reading!
Sincerely,
www.LarissaIone.com
From the desk of Wendy Markham
Dear Reader,
When I wrote THE NINE MONTH PLAN five years ago, I never dreamed the book would kick off a series. Then I began hearing from readers who could relate to the loud, loving, laughing Chickalini family and wanted to know whether Nina’s siblings would find their own happy endings.
In my latest novel, THAT’S AMORE (on sale now), Ralphie—now a newly orphaned adult in the wake of his father’s passing—must come to terms with a broken engagement, the upcoming sale of the only home he’s ever known, and an unwanted attraction to a woman who’s all wrong for him. What he doesn’t know is that Daria Marshall’s presence in his life may not be entirely accidental. Daria can see dead people—including a sad-eyed spirit who seems to have led her right to the Chickalini doorstep.
Writing this latest installment was like coming home . . . and not just because I’m so familiar with these characters and their cozy, more-shabby- than-chic Queens rowhouse. The thing is, now that I’m a married mom living in the New York City suburbs, I frequently find myself nostalgic for my own small-town youth almost five hundred miles away—and for the loving extended family that is never far from my thoughts.