<span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal">THE FUTURE (AND PAST) OF THE ARCANE SOCIETY by Jayne Ann Krentz (a.k.a.) Jayne Castle and Amanda Quick</span>
Let’s welcome back best selling author Jayne Ann Krentz! One woman, three different names. Jayne Ann Krentz currently writes romantic-suspense with a psychic edge in three different worlds under three different names: Jayne Castle (futuristics), Jayne Ann Krentz (contemporaries) and Amanda Quick (historicals). She’s taken the romance series to an exciting new level by crossing sub-genres. It’s a series yet each book stands alone. Check out the video on the home page (and more on the video page) where Jayne talks about the thread that is uniquely woven throughout each book - The Arcane Society.
Her current release is <span style="font-weight: bold">Dark Light</span> - <span style="font-style: italic">Reporter Sierra McIntyre’s stories on Crystal City’s ghost-hunters – and their mysterious guild – have earned her tabloid a bit of respect. And they’ve allowed her to clothe her dust-bunny companion, Elvis, in rock star style.
It helps that Sierra has mega-rez intuition, especially when she interviews Ghost Hunter Guild boss John Fontana about the disappearances of retired, homeless hunters. She doesn’t want to trust the physically and psychically powerful man but the attraction between them is very high-rez.
To uncover the conspiracy within his own organization, Fontana proposes a marriage of convenience. Although it’s purely a business arrangement, there’s nothing pure about the attraction that sizzles between them.</span>
You can also check out
http://www.romancenovel.tv/wordpress/2008/09/06/romance-novel-tv-book-review-dark-light-by-jayne-castle/ of Dark Light.
<span style="font-weight: bold">THE FUTURE (AND PAST) OF THE ARCANE SOCIETY</span>
I’m thrilled to be here at romancenovel.tv! Those of you who know me are aware that I write romantic-suspense with a strong psychic twist in three different worlds and under three different pen names: Jayne Ann Krentz (contemporary), Amanda Quick (historical) and Jayne Castle (futuristic).
A while back I decided to link all of my worlds — past, present and future — into a series: The Arcane Society Novels. I envisioned the Arcane Society as a secretive organization of psychics that starts in Victorian times and continues through to the modern era. The first book in the series is SECOND SIGHT (under my Amanda Quick name). The next couple of titles, WHITE LIES and SIZZLE AND BURN (under my Krentz name) are contemporaries. Then comes another historical, THE THIRD CIRCLE (Quick).
The books stand on their own and can be read in any sequence but they all involve heroes and heroines who are, in one way or another, connected to the Arcane Society.
Which brings me to DARK LIGHT.
After readers told me that they loved the whole ArcaneThrid Society thing I decided to Sizzletake it into the future. Yes, there was a tiny, passing reference to the Society in my Jayne Castle title, SILVER MASTER, but in the new book, DARK LIGHT, you will meet for the first time a heroine who is a full member of the futuristic version of the Arcane Society. You’ll also find out why the Society is still keeping a very low profile. I hope those of you who follow the series will get a kick out of Sierra McIntyre and her dust-bunny pal, Elvis.
But all of this has made me think about how so many of us are drawn to linked titles. Most of us are hooked on not just one series but several of them by various authors. And it isn’t just the romance genre. I follow a number of series in the mystery and suspense genres as well as in romance.
<span style="font-weight: bold">So what is it with a series? What is the appeal? And which ones do you read?</span>
Sincerely,
Jayne Castle
(aka Jayne Ann Krentz and Amanda Quick)
http://www.romancenovel.tv/wordpress/2008/09/09/the-future-and-past-of-the-arcane-society-by-jayne-ann-krentz-aka-jayne-castle-and-amanda-quick/