The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group - Hardcover

Dear Amazon Readers:

In The Reformed Vampire Support Group, I took the glamour out of vampires, portraying them as sickly, pathetic, farcical characters without a lot of energy or enthusiasm. I thought it would make for a funny book. And I was tired of people with power. I’m more interested in characters who aren’t glamorous or powerful—because I’m not glamorous or powerful myself.

The only people with any vim and vigor in that story weren’t vampires. One was an elderly mother and the other was a werewolf. The werewolf, Reuben, had a kind of cameo role, but he made a big impression on me. He was restless and troubled and slightly dangerous, and I felt that he deserved more attention than he got. That’s why I decided to write a sequel that would concentrate more on werewolves than on vampires. After all, people generally prefer dogs to bats. So why have vampires traditionally come off as more alluring and interesting than werewolves?

The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group is my attempt to explore more fully the world of werewolves, who suffer not from a contagious blood disease (like vampires) but from an inherited genetic condition. Since this condition manifests itself at puberty, I was also able to look at what happens when teenage boys start running in packs. I had fun doing that. And I enjoyed meeting up with Reuben again, as well as many of those sickly vampires who’d populated the first book.

I hope you’ll feel the same way I do and get a kick out of revisiting characters who take all the mystique out of the paranormal. In fact, I hope you enjoy this book more than the first. The action in the sequel is a little more chaotic, because the characters have a lot more fizz—and because some of them are flat-out crazy. But at least they don’t spend most of their time watching TV and puking in bathrooms, like the poor old vampires!

If you enjoy The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group enough, I might even write one more, and make this series a trilogy! But I’ll have to see how my readers react to this book first...