Werewolf Week: Interview with Erzabet Bishop

Tell us a bit about yourself.

Hi everyone. I’m Erzabet Bishop and I write all manner of erotic romance. I’ve always been a writer, but it hasn’t been until the last few years that a hobby has become my passion. By day (and night as the schedule demands) I am a bookstore manager, dog mom to a pack of fur-babies and wife to a wonderfully supportive husband. He brings me chocolate covered raisins so I can write. How can you not love a man who does that? And he watches werewolf movies with me. Double score.

How long have you been a werewolf fan?

Forever. I remember sneaking into the living room when my parents weren’t looking to try to catch some late night monster movies. I even have a werewolf bust in my monster themed office upstairs.

What was the first werewolf movie you ever saw or the first werewolf story you ever read?

Oh wow. I can remember the old black and white Lon Chaney werewolf movies from when I was a kid. I think my first book had to have been Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King. I remember the part where the wolf is holding the housewife and she holds him like a lover even as he leans down to tear out her throat. That hooked me-bad.

What’s your favorite thing about werewolves?

The pure visceral power. They are animal and man in one awe inspiring being. They are a part of  nature and apart from it at the same time.

Do you think werewolves are frightening?

Yes. But you have to respect their strength and love them for it.

If you could become a werewolf, would you?

Yes.

Do you prefer werewolves who possess the physical qualities of both human and wolf (for example Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man) or do you prefer werewolves who resemble a regular wolf (for example Peter Rumancek from Hemlock Grove)?

I love them both for different reasons. Some stories lend themselves well to one or the other. In Wicked for You, I have both hybrid wolves that are bipedal and natural type wolves.

Do you prefer werewolves as mindless beasts or as creatures able to think like humans?

I like it better when they think like a combination of the wolf nature and their human side-they are dual natured and in my stories I try to portray that.

What is your favorite werewolf book or short story?

Oh that’s tough. Give me all of them. Lol. I love Celia Kyle and Mina Carter shifter books. Some of theirs are wolves. I also love the Black Hills Wolves series from Decadent Publishing. Those guys are hotties.

Why did you decide to write a werewolf story (or series)?

The voices of the characters just won’t pipe down. Lol. Howling all the time…No, seriously. Carrick, the new Alpha of the Westmore pack needed to make things right and reclaim his sister and mate and I needed to tell the story. There is more to come. A series if you will.

I also have a wonderful story coming out in a top secret project this spring that involves a pack of werewolves and ménage. I hope you’ll follow my Amazon page so you don’t miss anything.

Would you tell us about your latest werewolf story?

Yes. Wicked for You is the story of Carrick, who with his father, goes to take down an alpha gone wrong. In the story he encounters his mate, captured with his sister and frees them at a great cost. Then he loses track of his mate, searching for her in a Cinderella style story of found love.

Does your character enjoy being a werewolf?

Most of the time. Until he had to face an army of gold digging wolf girls who wanted to be his mate because of his alpha status. (Poor Carrick.)

Is your werewolf character the protagonist or antagonist of your story?

Protagonist.

Is your werewolf involved in a romance? If so, how does his/her lover feel about him/her being a werewolf?

Yes. He has to find a mate during the Gathering or risk being taken out as Alpha of the pack. His lady love has been in hiding but has come back due to pack law. When they connect, its fireworks.

What’s the biggest problem faced by your werewolf?

In Wicked for You, it is finding his mate. As the series progresses, his security company will encounter all manner of difficulty when the hybrid wolves created by the last alpha and pack politics rear their ugly heads. I have a spin-off of this series in a new gargoyle ménage coming soon from All Romance called Heart’s Protector. Carrick has brought on some gargoyles to help with security and well…let’s just say there is love in the um…wings. *snort*

Please share a favorite quote from your werewolf.

A gasp sounded from the shadows and Jess emerged with another young woman in tow. Her face blurred from a partial shift, a single whisker protruded from her tear streaked face. The scent of cinnamon and blood wafted toward him. She had been wounded. Her anger blazed through her tears and as her eyes connected with his, a stirring rose inside him.

Protect.

The feeling rocketed through him like a bolt of lightning.

Mine.

Carrick staggered back, struck by the sudden visceral emotion that infused both wolf and man.

Mate.

Who was she? Why had he not scented her before at any of the pack functions? It didn’t matter. He put his hand up to grasp the metal bar. Electric shocks slid along his skin as her fingers slid over his for the briefest of seconds.

“You…” she whispered. “I…”

“I’ll get you out.” He brushed his thumb over her finger and shivered at the energy between them. She was his. His wolf wholeheartedly agreed, running in circles and yipping. His cock stirred to life and he shook himself. Not now. They had to survive this first. The beast threatened the woman destined to be his mate. His wolf howled inside of him, clawing and scraping to get out. His eyes followed the sharp tang of blood and narrowed down on a bite wound on her shoulder.

The bastards had tried to force a mating on her. It was just a question of which one had done it.

What is your favorite werewolf movie/show?

Hands down, it has to be Wolf with Jack Nicholson. God I love that movie.

Wicked for You

by Erzabet Bishop

Blurb:

True love awaits. Passion burns bright…

Carrick is an Alpha werewolf preparing for the annual Pack Gathering. Pack law dictates he must have a mate by his thirty-sixth year or forfeit his rule. But what if he’s already found her and lost her in a swirl of cinnamon-scented dreams? Can this Alpha brave a sea of single wolfy females to find the one woman who enchanted his heart?

She’s a kitty girl, in a wolfy world…

Sage is the curvy owner of the Hot Whips Café. Bound by pack law, even as an adopted cat, she must attend the Gathering for the Alpha to select a new mate. Heading to a wolf ball isn’t high on her list of fun activities, but damned if she can’t get the image of a certain amber-eyed wolf out of her head.

Release date: February 1, 2016

Publisher: All Romance

Tags:

Shifter, cat shifter, wolf shifter, m/f, abuse recovery, infamous, monster movies, series, tattoo, coffee shop, cinnamon, erotic romance, novella, alpha, big beautiful woman, bonding, business owner, cafe, cats, cisgender, erotic, felines, heterosexual, infamous, mating bond, paranormal, paranormal romance, rubenesque, shifter romance, shifters, shifters / cats, shifters / felines, shifters / wolves, werewolf romance, wolves

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Excerpt:

Carrick stood with his back to his second in command, his wolf pacing beneath his skin. He wanted to break the double doors open and bound into the woods rather than face the torment waiting for him in the grounds outside. Women. Hundreds of single wolfy females. All vying for the privilege of putting his cock and balls into their handbags like some godforsaken trophy.

Fuck.

Ever year he’d dodged the bullet, but this year one of the hungry piranha circling his house would become his mate.

Double fuck. He’d been through this before. He already had one. He just needed to find her, but the elders wouldn’t listen.

“You have to make a choice, Alpha.” Reid crossed the room and stood in front of him, blocking his view.

Carrick growled and spun away. “I’ll find her.”

Reid’s lips flattened, his dark eyes flashing in his anger. “You know the rules. Thirty-six is the last year an Alpha can rule without a mate by his side. The pack needs an Alpha female to be whole.”

“The pack is stronger than it’s been, or are you forgetting how I got here?”

Reid swallowed and backed up a step. “No. Justin was a horrible Alpha. You were right to destroy him. He was wrong for the Westmore Pack. Evil.”

And the bastard had been. He’d abused his power as Alpha to enslave his pack rather than uplift it. The amount of victims he’d unearthed in the days that followed would disturb him for the rest of his days. He could still see the faces of the women Justin had taken against their will and the shivering form of his sister and the strange girl who stood up to a monster.

Hers was the face that haunted his dreams. Her need reached out to him and made him into who he needed to be to overcome a near impossible situation. He had been up against a being far superior in strength but what he lacked in brawn, he’d more than made up for in sheer bullheadedness. And the electricity he felt when he touched her. His wolf recognized his mate and so did he. Now all that remained was to find her. It wasn’t like he hadn’t been looking. No one knew her name and, with her face partially shifted, her image was only a fleeting ghost in his mind.

“You’re damned right.” Carrick leaned back against his desk and rubbed the bridge of his nose. His father would be proud of the work he’d done. He’d turned the Westmore Estate from a near financial ruin to a lucrative operation centered on the newly formed security company owned by him and his second, Reid. Where people had once feared shifters for their propensity for violence because of Justin and his henchmen, he’d turned the tide and people paid for their protection. Handsomely. So much so that when the media had heard about the weekend’s festivities, he’d been dubbed the Ultimate Bachelor.

 

It made him fucking nauseous.

The one person he needed to find and he couldn’t and it made him crazy. Now, in a matter of a few days, he would either have to relinquish his role as Alpha or marry a gold digging piece of arm candy. The closest person he’d found was a barista at the coffee place he frequented but she didn’t look anything like the girl in his dreams. And now whenever she saw him coming, she hightailed it for the hills.

But she had popped a whisker.

Just like his goddess.

Jesus. He was losing his shit. Completely.

About the author:

Erzabet Bishop is an award winning author who loves to write naughty stories. She is the author of Lipstick, Crave, The Science of Lust, Wicked for You, Arcane Imaginarium: Spirit Board, Holidays in Hell, Mallory’s Mark (upcoming 2016),The Devil’s Due (upcoming 2016), Charity Benshaw’s Enchanted Paddle Emporium (upcoming 2016), Sigil Fire, Glitter Lust (upcoming 2016), Written on Skin, Club Beam, Pomegranate, A Red Dress for Christmas, The Black Magic Café, Fantasies in Red, Sweet Seductions: The Erzabet Bishop Collection, Holiday Cruise, Fetish Fair, Temptation Resorts: Jess, Temptation Resorts: Marnie, Taming the Beast, The Erotic Pagans Series: Beltane Fires, Samhain Shadows and Yuletide Temptation along with being a contributor to many anthologies. Erzabet has been a finalist in the GCLS awards for 2014 and 2015, winning the Goldie for her spot in two anthologies. She has been nominated for the Golden Flogger Award for Crave. She lives in Texas with her husband, furry children and can often be found lurking in local bookstores. She loves to bake, make naughty crochet projects and watch monster movies. When she isn’t writing, she loves to review music and books.

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