Fallen Angel Reviews would like to welcome the writing team of Stella and Audra Price. Welcome, and thanks for chatting with us today.

I'd like to start by asking what brought the two of you together as writers, other than the whole sister thing ?

Audra: Well we first started writing together in a RPG forum; it gave us something to do together while we were so far apart. We had only been playing a few months when Stella, being the stickler for the rules that she is, was pretty much banned. All for reasons that weren’t entirely fair. By then of course we had been bitten by the bug, we had to write, develop our characters. Doing anything else wasn't an option. So we created our own place for them to live, set our own rules. We pretty much had the whole nature of the Eververse plotted out in a few weeks. At that point we had the whole Eververse and the town Shadow Heights as our playground. Things just kind of evolved from there.

Can you tell us a little bit about yourselves?

Stella: Us? Well we are in our 20’s, I’m older. We have a lot of the same tastes, we like wine and chocolate, *laugh* there really isn’t much to us collectively. Audra is now a college graduate, so that’s cool, and in the past five years I went to college, and was a tour manager for rock bands, I was the more worldy one… or the more flighty one. Take your pick. *grins*

How do you write? Logistically I mean, does one do the dialog and the other the background?

Stella: It’s not as hard as everyone thinks. Yes, we live apart, and yes it’s a pain in the tookus with the time difference, but it’s pretty easy with the IM. Each of us is a character, and we play that character, like role playing. We do the dialog on the IM and work out the details from our characters POV on Word, and then send it to each other. The dialog is both of us, speaking as the character, so we never have a scripted set. I could be thinking one thing and they say another. It’s really like life, you have to compensate for what’s done and said… and I think it makes it a bit more real.

I know that there's a story behind your first submission, can you share it with us?

Stella: *laughs* we have a few stories truth be told, but mostly we started sending out Sugar and Sin to publishers because an author friend told us we should. She had read some of our stuff, and well, she liked it, thought others would like it too. We were rejected clean off by about six publishers for one reason or another. We found homes for our short stories and smaller series before someone even considered our main books.

The two of you have created your own universe, Eververse; can you give us a guided tour?

Stella: Guided tour? Lord this is a doozy. Well Eververse started as a RPG writers collaborative game that still exists today at www.shadowheights.com. Think of it as our world, everything is the same, it’s just that there’s the supernatural undercurrent. Demons and witches, psychics, Weresnakes , dragons and cats, the odd vamp or two, Fey, genies, they are all real and very much alive, and have their own stories to tell. And none of them are what you would classically consider good guys. They are good, but it’s just not the acceptable kinda good. Eververse has a lot of residents, and pretty much all of our series and books reside here, within the parameters of the world. Demons are always behind the scenes shaping things to their ends, witches are always on the prowl for power, Fey hideout from everyone, same as the dragons. They live their lives same as you and have hardships the same as well.

How do you figure out names, both for your characters and your books? When do they gel? after? during? both?

Audra: We each individually name our characters, the characters that we have. So Stella’s characters get introduced to me as the finished product. Sometimes they just come with a name, you get a character in your head and a name instantly comes to you. It depends on how pushy they are, sometimes you have to really work to know them. I had to look at renaming a character once, thankfully in the end we didn’t have to change it. We both spent hours looking through baby naming web sites, and none of possibilities we came up with seemed to suit. As for the books themselves, we normally come up with their names half way through them or at least closer to the end.

Who's your favorite character in the Eververse?

Audra: Today it has to be Cash, my Demon prince. He’s been good recently, so I can say that without much doubt. Although my favourite always changes and I’m rather fond of Stella’s ice demon, Oscar.

Stella: I do love them all, I mean each of them has me for different reasons, but Drake is my favorite. He’s sexy, completely insane and a brutal sadist… and his book is so damn hot... but you’ll have to wait for it, it's #5 in the series. Though you can get a Drake fix in the Eververse anthology we have out with Lulu right now.

You currently have three books out, Bargain by Starlight, Wishes, and Beyond the Vision of Dreams. Can you give us a quick look into these books?

Sure. “Wishes” is our first Djinn Story, its out with Phaze. It’s about Nicodemeus Marsh, a Djinn, and A human woman Janey Duvall. It’s one of those that, we have heard, pushes some of the sexual limits. Marsh is very intense, hell I don’t like writing with him. So Marsh is sent in to deal with Janey, who won’t send some assassins to help out an exiled demon prince (who is actually Cash from the Eververse books, using his topside Alias, Sean Taylor). Marsh’s brand of dealing with the lovely Janey is simple. He’s a Djinn, and Djinn grant wishes, but only after they have sealed the deal with sex before hand. Janey doesn’t know she’s doing any kind of deal, and well... It goes from there. There a few surprises, but all in all it’s a pretty good story.

Bargain by Starlight is our prequel short story for the Eververse series. It’s our one and only story with Cobblestone Press. Dimitri, a prince of the Conglacio Demons (Ice demons) resides in Russia and is a pimp. He’s got his eyes on a hooker in his territory, who he gives a choice to, to become his companion and start over. There’s some conflict with Drake (my favorite) and it leaves it open for another book, which there is. You get to revisit Snow and Dimitri in Eververse Book two, and see what has happened since Bargain.

Beyond the Vision of Dreams is our big deal shifter series. Most deal in wolves, we deal in snakes. No not creepy icky snakes, Trust me, once you read it you won’t think snakes are icky one bit. So in this story, the first in the series, Remy Crane has been dreaming of a girl every night for a week and he freaks out when she shows up at the Weresnake compound. There’s a quick attraction between the two and after a trying day at work for Remy, he comes home, and thinking he’s dreaming once again, has a very erotic encounter with Chrissy, the girl from his dreams. It’s only after he wakes up the next morning and realizes that it was indeed real that he decided that the new addition to the Knossos West Compound is going to be his mate. It’s a sweet story and you get to meet some of the others in the compound, ones that have stories down the line.

You also have a book forthcoming from Forbidden Publications entitled Sugar and Sin. First of all I have to comment on the gorgeous cover, can you tell us the inspiration behind the cover?

Stella: Well actually the cover is a backside representation of Astrid, the book’s heroine. She’s got five stars tattooed on her back, in homage to her goddess, Ishtar. We think each book is going to be a representation of the heroine of each book in some way. We just love the cover though; it couldn’t have been done better.

Could you also give us a peek into Sugar and Sin?

Sure. Sugar and Sin is the first book in the Eververse novels. It intros a lot of the other characters from later books and in truth, is the reason why we started subbing out to publishers in the first place. The story is about a witch, Astrid, and her half teleport demon lover, Fallon. They have spent the last year apart and when Fallon’s birthday comes back around, Astrid attempts reconciliation. Fallon, all for it, can’t go back to her till after he and his partner, who are international thieves and hitmen, retrieve a spell scroll from a woman thought to have stolen it. Little do they know that the woman is Astrid’s best friend, and when they track her to a mansion in Shadow Heights Ny, All hell is going to break loose. So that’s the main love story line in the book, but there’s the beginning of the underlying story current of Cassiel, the demon Prince that Astrid is friends with, getting back to the Demon Realm, the Afterverse. Astrid and Fallon agree ! to help cash in his bid to get back to his home plane of existence, as payment for him helping them with a few things. Cassiel, however, who calls himself Cash, has plans for Astrid, and those plans involve her becoming his sorceress…

Do you have any other books in the works?

Stella: Lots! *LOL* We have just finished book two for Marsh and Janey and book two for Eververse, currently titled Silk and Steel. The we have our Dragons series in the works for MGP, the next Snake book is already finished and at Forbidden, We have a story called Lady Luck as a WIP, our Ghosts series, a story for the forthcoming Cursed Objects series (with a few other awesome authors), our water races series, our Fallen series, a few stand alones and the second Ifrit series story.

Is there anything you'd like to add?

Stella: thanks a lot for letting us hangout. This was too cool, and the most fun interview we have done to date. Be sure to check out our Webby and our group. Ooh yeah and if you’re the myspacin' type, some of the characters have profiles. You can check out our Author profile and you’ll find Arcady, Marsh, Drake, Cash, Astrid, Dimitri and Remy on our top friends list. Add them, they are a hoot!

Thanks again for taking the time to speak with Fallen Angel Reviews. If you'd like to learn more about these talented sisters, check out their website.

Interviewed by: Serena