Yesterday, I finished the first draft of my paranormal romance A CERTAIN DARKNESS!

ACD began back in January as fanfic. The idea came from a weird, dark recess of my brain that combined a fairly well-known “neo-noir supernatural fiction” series and That Scene from the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice. I tried to ignore, I really did, but it wouldn’t leave me alone, so I wrote a chapter.

And then another.

Four chapters in, and it was so AU that only occasional mentions of the main characters connected it to the TV series. At that point – and with the original Volker being insistent – I decided to scratch off the serial numbers and write a novel.

Seven months and 67 thousand words later, said novel is complete. Unedited and unpolished, but complete. I might have had a little cry.

Because over the writing of ACD, I fell in love with Lenore and with Volker. I fell in love with their love story, and I’m so thrilled to have got to the end. To be one step closer to sharing them with the world.