Missy the Werecat
Book One
P. G. Allison
Genre: New Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Date of Publication: Dec 6, 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1494334260
ASIN: B00H2WPGDA
Number of pages: 400
Word Count: 105,000
Book Description:
When puberty brings on her first Shift, Missy goes into the mountains for two years until finally learning to Change back. She can Change from fully human in one instant to a mountain lion in the next.
Everyone assumes her two year disappearance was because she’d been kidnapped by a sexual predator that she managed to kill. She keeps her werecat nature a secret. There is no pack, no pride of other werecats and no alpha. She’s a girl with fantastic abilities growing up and learning to do great things in today’s world, amongst humans. She only has her instincts to guide her and those drive her to train herself to extremes. She must control those instincts; dampening the wild predator is often necessary.
Her raging hormones and enhanced senses require very strong controls; she explores what happens when those controls are relaxed.
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Excerpt:
Prologue
Imagine a world where werecats at one time did indeed exist, but became extinct eons ago. Then, because their recessive genes managed to survive and get passed on -- thanks to some rare unions with humans -- DNA with these special werecat genes continued down through the ages, further evolving and being inherited by a very small number of descendants. And finally, imagine that two of these very unique individuals -- each one in a billion -- would meet, fall in love and become parents. While three of their four children would be normal humans, one -- their daughter Missy -- would be very special. She would be a werecat.
And thus, Missy the werecat was born in today’s era. She’s not exactly the same as those ancestor werecats, but she does have many special abilities -- not the least of which is being able to transform, with a great shimmer of light and burst of energy, into another form. She can Change from being fully human in one instant to being a cat animal in the next. In her cat form, she has the same body mass as in her human form and fully retains her human intellect and memory. And, in either form, she has all the instincts and abilities of a wild, predatory mountain lion.
Eventually, she will learn how to Change forms back and forth, and how to manage and control her special abilities. Her genetic anomaly, combined with some evolution along the way, brings her cat endowments into her human form: speed, strength, agility, and enhanced senses of smell, hearing, taste and sight. She is also gifted with rapid healing and is immune to disease. As Missy will gradually learn about herself, she will go from being a girl with great skills to a grown woman with truly fantastic powers.
About the Author:
P. G. Allison has always loved stories about female characters with special powers (Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Bionic Woman, Batgirl) along with stories about witches and werewolves. The Missy the Werecat Series has no pack, no pride of other werecats and no alpha; Missy is a girl with fantastic abilities doing great things in today's world, amongst humans. Future books in this Paranormal, New Adult, Urban Fantasy series are planned where Missy will go on to West Point and eventually serve in the Special Forces.
Interview
Where are you from?
North
of Boston, Massachusetts.
Tell us your latest news?
I’ve
written about a third of Book V, the next Missy book.
When and why did you begin writing?
I started
writing Missy the Werecat to see if indeed I could actually write; once I
started writing her story, ideas kept coming and I kept writing. The story evolved and after I’d written a
hundred thousand words, I knew I had a novel.
I edited the story several times and then sent out a number of query
letters to see if any agents were interested.
None were, so I decided to self-publish on Amazon.
I
began writing the middle of 2013 and published Dec 6, 2013.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
Well,
I was always able to write for my various jobs over the years but this was my
first attempt at writing a novel.
What inspired you to write your first book?
I've
read LOTS of fantasy books about vampires, witches and werewolves and I really
enjoy the genre but it always seems the focus is all about the supernaturals,
with their interactions with humans almost nonexistent; humans are merely
"prey or food" for vampires or else people to hide from and avoid for
werewolves. Also, the werewolf books are
all about the packs and the alphas.
What
I wanted to write was a book where: "There is no pack, no pride of other
werecats and no alpha". Missy has
enhanced senses, abilities and powers (which increase in later books) but she's
interacting with normal humans. I also
liked starting her off completely alone, making her have to cope for two years
after suddenly being forced to become a wild predator while retaining her human
intellect. What would living like that
do to a person? Then, when she finally
learns to be human again, what would she be like? Returning to "normal" life yet still
having all her enhanced senses and predatory nature? She retains all the instincts and reactions of
a mountain lion but these are now carried over to her human life and must be
controlled. (Hence all the extreme
training and exercise she seeks). I
thought trying to write such a fantasy might be fun ... and, it was! I'm enjoying what I've created and it seems most
of my readers seem to "get" what I'm doing and enjoy Missy as well.
Completely
unrealistic for a young girl to behave the way she does? Yep! Of
course! It's a FANTASY !!! Is she arrogant? Well, if you had all those enhanced abilities
and powers, which you worked hard to keep hidden ... would YOU be arrogant? Hard to be humble when you know you can easily
overpower everyone around you. At the
same time, I've tried to have Missy be willing to protect her friends and loved
ones, stand up to any bully and bravely risk herself in doing so. Does she make mistakes? Yes. Is
she perfect? No. It's been fun and I do hope readers can
continue to enjoy her story. I've now published
Book IV, Missy's Misadventure, and am writing Book V.
Do you have a specific writing style?
Not
really.
How did you come up with the title?
Each
title in this series just seemed logical.
Is there a message in your novel that you want
readers to grasp?
Not
really.
How much of the book is realistic?
Not
really.
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events
in your own life?
Not
really.
What books have most influenced your life most?
I enjoy all of the following
authors, who write the kinds of stories I enjoy and I read everything they
write: Kelley Armstrong, Jennifer Lynn
Barnes, Patricia Briggs, Rachel Caine, Sierra Dean, Jennifer Estep, Diana
Gabaldon, Kim Harrison, Faith Hunter, Chloe Neill, Nalini Singh, Carrie Vaughn,
Rachel Vincent and Eileen Wilks.
If you had to choose, which writer would you
consider a mentor?
Not
really.
What book are you reading now?
Are there any new authors that have grasped your
interest?
Not
really.
What are your current projects?
Book
V in the Missy the Werecat Series.
What would you like my readers to know?
My
favorite thing about writing is not knowing, when I start writing things, just where the story will end up going. As I try to
work through each situation which my characters find themselves getting into,
possible scenarios and dialog will evolve and the result will often go places
I’d never dreamed of. Then, of course, I
go back and re-write and edit and re-write some more, but the storyline has
emerged and it’s fun to see just what has happened.
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