Interview With Laken Cane:
1.) Tell us a little about yourself.
LC: Hi Sandee and everyone! Thanks so much
for having me. I'm a writer living in small town Southern Ohio. I write the Rune
Alexander series. I have an overly long bio on my website at www.lakencane.com and
you can find out more about me and read lots of updates on my very active
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/laken.cane.3. I love new friends!
2.) When did you start to write?
LC: When I was a child. It's the thing I love
most. And even back when I used a typewriter or a pencil to write things no one
would ever see, back when I never imagined I'd be published, I did it anyway. I
had to. It's what I do.
3.) What Genre’s do you write?
LC: Urban Fantasy and Paranormal
4.) Have you ever thought about writing in a different
genre?
LC: I used to write erotic paranormal romance
for publishers such as Loose Id, Ellora’s Cave, and Liquid Silver Books, but I
have pretty much retired that pseudonym and now write only Urban Fantasy under
Laken Cane. It’s where my heart is.
5.) Can you tell us a little about your new project?
LC: New Regime is the 5th book in the Rune
Alexander series, and it’s available for preorder at Amazon. This series is a
dark, addictive—so I’ve been told—urban fantasy about a group of
amazing, loyal people led by a damaged but very special woman. Law enforcement
with a twist--and it has everything. Romance, suspense, horror, humor. Okay,
not a lot of humor, but it's there at times. Gunnar the Ghoul is usually
guaranteed to make you smile.
6.) Do you have any new releases coming out anytime soon?
If yes what is the title and when can we expect it?
LC: New Regime will be released on October
18th, 2014! I'm very excited. http://amzn.to/1qYDVAI
7.) What are you currently reading? What was the last book
you read?
LC: I'm just starting to read Jim Butcher's
Dresden Files series. The last book I read was Stephen King's Desperation.
8.) Who are some of your favorite authors?
LC: Stephen King, Robert R. McCammon
9.) Can you tell us about your newest book that you have
released?
LC: Obsidian Wings is book 4 in the Rune
Alexander series, and it continues the story of Shiv Crew as they try to defeat
the evil they face every day—
Gruesome murders begin to pop up in River
County, and Rune is introduced to the bird shifters--to one bird in particular,
a woman named Cree Stark.
When she gets a whiff of the shifters' scents
where COS had been executing a grisly sacrifice, Rune begins to suspect the
birds know more about the slayers--and the twins--than they're willing to
admit.
Nothing is more important to Shiv Crew than
finding Levi and Denim, but when Lex psychically connects with the twins, it
isn't good news she brings back.
As always, COS is at the center of it all. The
world is beginning to look at the church differently, thanks to the tireless
work of Bill Rice and others like him. The humans' acceptance is turning to
fear.
And what people fear, they hate.
What the slayers are planning next will
either finish them for good or give them everything they've ever wanted--Karin
Love and unchallenged power.
Rune and the crew race against time to save
River County from the biggest monster they've faced yet. If they fail, the
church will be closer than ever to their dream of creating an Otherless world.
In Obsidian Wings, Rune hides a devastating
physical weakness, makes an important choice in her love life, and gains a new
understanding that will help her face the future. No matter what happens, their
world is changing.
The crew is growing.
And so is Rune Alexander.
http://amzn.to/1u41ZEj
10.) Which of your books you written is your favorite?
LC: I think Strange Trouble, mainly because
it was so emotional for me. Parts of it were quite hard to write.
Favorite Character?
LC: That's like naming a favorite child! I
can't do it. I love them all equally. ;) I do have a huge soft spot for Gunnar
the Ghoul. He adds so much to the books. And Ellis. Love his sweetness. The
men, Raze, Jack, Owen, Z, the berserker, the twins Levi and Denim. So much to
love about those guys! And there's Lex, the little blind Other who is one of the
strongest of them all. And Rune...she's the most complex character I've ever written.
RAPID FIRE:
1.) Favorite Color:
I don't do well with favorites, so I'm just
going to say purple and leave it at that. :)
2.) Favorite Singer:
I can't get enough of Amy Lee's beautiful
voice.
3.) Favorite Season
Fall
4.) Favorite Food:
Coffee ;)
5.) Favorite Animal:
Dogs
Indie
Author Books
Author
of the Week: Laken Cane Spotlight
Shiv Crew (Rune Alexander Book 1)
Publication Date: August 26, 2013
Rune Alexander wants to get through her days doing her job, which
is protecting the humans against the myriad of supernatural creatures, known as
Others, who exist uneasily in a human's world. But she is unstable and damaged.
She realizes how broken she is even as she continues to submit to the
unspeakable things her lover does to her, craving desperately the strange peace
she finds in the aftermath.
When she discovers things are not as they seem and a faceless human is
torturing the supernatural groups in her city, she and her crew must break the
rules and begin to protect the Others from the humans.
But as the darkness inside her becomes stronger and she ends up on the wrong
side of a battle she must not lose, who will save Rune from herself?
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Blood and Bite (Rune Alexander Book 2)
Publication Date: October 10, 2013
The crew is back in BOOK
TWO of the Rune Alexander series.
Rune and the crew--some of them a little healthier, some of them a little more
battered--take on new monsters and unbelievable surprises in Blood and Bite.
While Rune is keeping her promise to Ellis and trying to get her mind fixed,
the berserker goes away to take care of some business--mysterious business he
doesn't share with Shiv Crew.
What he brings back with him knocks the wind out of Rune and makes her question
everything she thought she knew about Strad Matheson.
But the worst is yet to come.
With a mad vampire master she must destroy, a child she must save, and
unimaginable screams from a past she has to ignore, Rune has her hands full.
But there is always something new and terrible waiting in River
County--waiting, it seems, just for her. Because just when she thinks she can't
possibly handle one more terrible thing, she discovers a shocking truth about
herself, her blood, and her bite.
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Strange Trouble (Rune Alexander Book 3)
Publication Date: February 4, 2014
Strange Trouble is BOOK
THREE in the Rune Alexander series
A baby necromancer calls her mother from the grave, starting a zombie
infestation Rune and the crew are not prepared to handle.
But as always, they jump headlong into battle--a battle that will lead into
some of the darkest moments of Rune's life. Moments that will shatter her
tenuous grip on sanity and make her long for the man whose abuse allowed her to
function.
And when she falls, the berserker is there to catch her. To bring her back. To
give her what she needs.
The zombies are just the beginning. Worse even than the zombies is what comes
after--a nightmare witch named Damascus, a horrific decision, and death.
Always, death.
As she is given another jagged piece to the puzzle of her past,
Rune knows that despite its best attempts, life doesn't have the ability to
destroy her--though she offers it all the help it might need.
With Strad Matheson and the crew behind her, Rune will stride through hell,
horror, and the endless, black despair of her own mind to show the monsters why
Shiv Crew is the scariest group of warriors they will ever face...
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Obsidian Wings (Rune Alexander Book 4)
Publication Date: May 10, 2014
Obsidian Wings is BOOK FOUR in the Rune
Alexander series. I recommend you read them in order.
Gruesome murders begin to pop up in River County, and Rune is introduced to the
bird shifters--to one bird in particular, a woman named Cree Stark.
When she gets a whiff of the shifters' scents where COS had been
executing a grisly sacrifice, Rune begins to suspect the birds know more about
the slayers--and the twins--than they're willing to admit.
Nothing is more important to Shiv Crew than finding Levi and Denim, but when
Lex psychically connects with the twins, it isn't good news she brings back.
As always, COS is at the center of it all.
The world is beginning to look at the church differently, thanks to the
tireless work of Bill Rice and others like him. The humans' acceptance is
turning to fear.
And what people fear, they hate.
What the slayers are planning next will either finish them for good or give
them everything they've ever wanted--Karin Love and unchallenged power.
Rune and the crew race against time to save River County from the biggest
monster they've faced yet. If they fail, the church will be closer than
ever to their dream of creating an Otherless world.
In Obsidian Wings, Rune hides a devastating physical weakness, makes an important
choice in her love life, and gains a new understanding that will help her face
the future.
No matter what happens, their world is changing.
The crew is growing.
And so is Rune Alexander.
Buy Links:
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New Regime (Rune Alexander Book 5)
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Publication Date: October 18, 2014
Rune and her people have been taken under the mysterious wing of
the Annex, an agency that works toward Other equality.
But with the new regime comes changes and some monstrous enemies the Annex
seems to have brought with it.
The crew finds themselves up against a group called the Shop, whose leader
cares only about his lab and the monsters he creates there.
But he hasn't been able to build monsters he can use or sell...until now.
Now Rune must follow a path of horror that leads from a little werefox named
Megan to a town full of evil in Reverence, Kentucky, and find a way to defeat
something worse than blades or guns or bombs.
Magic.
She can't use her claws on magic.
Can she?
In book five of the Rune Alexander series, Rune must deal with not only the
monsters, but the escalating tension between the berserker and Owen, flashbacks
from the COS attack, and the fear that she's losing Levi to the chasm of
darkness started by Karin Love and deepened by the slayers.
She and her crew will fight with everything they've got to defeat the evil,
even if some of that darkness lives inside each one of them.
Because they're Shiv Crew, and that is what they do.
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Author Bio:
I live in Ohio and I write urban fantasy. Laken Cane is a new
pseudonym for me--I also write erotic paranormal romance for publishers like
Loose Id, Ellora's Cave, and Liquid Silver Books under a different pen name.
Shiv Crew is my first book
as Laken, and I've never been as satisfied writing as I am with this series. I
have a sort of end game planned for the crew, but I have no idea how many books
it will take to get there. I'm having too much fun with them to think about
ending them!
I do have plans to bring in
a new character for one book, just so she can eventually get her own series
when (or maybe before) the Rune Alexander series ends. That's the plan.
Besides writing--when I have
time to do something other than write or read--I play the heck out of my
Playstation 4, my Nintendo 3DS XL, and occasionally I find time to play my Xbox
360 or Wii U. Yes. I have a sickness.
I also drink coffee. Lots
and lots of coffee. But I have been trying to dilute all that coffee with some
green tea. Decaf green tea. That makes up for all the caffeinated black coffee,
right? Yeah. That's what I thought.
What quirks do I have? Hmmm.
The word "quirks" makes it sound so cute. I don't swallow pills. I
chew them. Yes, I chew them. Tylenol, vitamins, doesn't matter. Even if I crush
it and put it in ice cream first, I still chew. I chew ice cream. For some
reason, people seem to think that's weird. I don't get it.
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Wow, Sandra. Thank you so much! <3
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