The album has such a raw feel to it and just brought this gritty world to life in my mind…this series about these women who are queens who couldn’t be more removed from nobility. My entire Wicked Wallflowers series was inspired by the Lumineers’ album Cleopatra. As I wrote, there was so much emotion driving that scene, and it was so cathartic.Īll of the scenes with Gertrude and Edwin and her menagerie of animals was just so fun! There’s one particular scene with ten cats, and I just smiled the whole while I wrote it!Ĭan you list some things that inspired this book? And for me it was so important to get the moment father and son truly reconnect right. And then the father who is a shell of a person after he’d lost all that mattered most to him-his family.

A child whose done horrible, dangerous things. I’d felt this deep connection to both of them in previous books: Stephen was this angry young boy. The story centers around Edwin trying to reconnect with Stephen, the son who’d been kidnapped years earlier. What was the most difficult scene to write? It was just a reminder that two people can grow up together and share similar experiences and still become entirely different people. We learn in the previous books in my Wicked Wallflowers series that Gertrude is partially blind, and we know a great deal about her family history and background…and yet her story was entirely different from her siblings’ background. Gertrude proved the greater surprise for me. With each glimpse I had of them, I was more and more intrigued by who they were, and how they’d become the people they did. I’d spent time with Gertrude and Edwin in the previous books in the story where they were secondary characters. How did you ‘get to know’ your main characters? Did they ever surprise you? All of this is part of Gertrude and Edwin’s journey. My books tend to be full of emotion my heroes and heroines multi-layered. The Bluestocking definitely showcases my writing style. Would you say this book showcases your writing style or is it a departure for you? Gertrude Killoran, the heroine, is the illegitimate daughter of the man who ruined Edwin’s life. He’s been consumed with hatred for the family he holds responsible for destroying his family.

After his son was kidnapped and his wife killed in a fire, Edwin, the Marquess of Maddock became known as 'the Mad Marquess'. The Bluestocking is the story of an unlikely couple. Thanks for being here today! To start off, can you please tell us a little bit about your current project?

The Vixen by Christi Caldwell