Margaret L. Carter, Revisited
about it. You mentioned that you might work together on a sequel.
The plot for WILD SORCERESS (published by Amber Quill) was my husband's idea. He wrote the first draft, while I offered suggestions and did the revising and editing. Aetria, a young sorceress having trouble controlling her powers, has just returned from a period of seclusion to be retrained. As the leader of a regiment of sorcerers in her country's army, she can't allow anyone to suspect that the "cure" didn't work; her "wild" talent still exists. She discovers a traitor among the army's senior officers, meets her long-lost twin sister, and receives help from the "imaginary" dragon friend she has known inside her mind since childhood. The first draft of the sequel is almost finished. My husband is much better at plotting than I am, so he's doing the groundwork again.
You have a series of stories loosely based on Fairy Tales. Why did you choose to write about Fairy Tales?
Well, I can't claim to have a series. Ellora's Cave invited its authors to try writing stories in a fairy tale line they planned to create. I proposed a Rapunzel tale, and the editors accepted my proposal. My lifelong passion for vampires inspired me to turn Rapunzel's lover into a vampire. My only other work that could be called fairy-tale-inspired is DRAGON'S TRIBUTE, also from Ellora's Cave. I started with the familiar scenario of a virgin being sacrificed to a dragon and played around with it.
Your first novel was a werewolf novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST. I understand it now has a new publisher. Tell us about that.
Set in Annapolis, where I live, it's about a young woman whose brother and sister were slaughtered one night about a year previously, apparently by a feral dog. The heroine gradually discovers that lycanthropy runs in her family, and she has inherited it. The original publisher, an excellent small press called Design Image Group, specializing in horror and mystery, recently decided to close down its book publishing division. As soon as the rights to SHADOW OF THE BEAST reverted to me, I submitted it to Amber Quill, which accepted it for re-release. That gave me the opportunity to make a few minor changes, mainly restoring some brief scenes I had cut and decided would improve the story, after all. By the way, the heroine's psychologist in SHADOW OF THE BEAST is
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