Blog Tour: The Blood Prince by Josie Jaffrey

Last year I discovered Josie Jaffrey, an independent author who has written a vampire series. I have loved The Sovereign Series thus far and look forward to its completion. I thought I would connect with Josie and ask her a few things I was curious about.

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The Blood Prince, the third in the Sovereign series, is being released 20 February. Can you summarise the story up until now in a few sentences?

In the last city on Earth, a race of vampiric Nobles rules over the remnants of humanity. Julia, a human server, has caught the attention of two Nobles: one who loves her, and another who has rather darker feelings. Meanwhile, a Noble named Cam is trying to save the city by bringing back its old king and queen, but the monarchs are more interested in finding their missing son than in ruling their subjects. Both Julia and Cam are looking for a way to liberate humanity, and that’s where The Blood Prince starts.

Without giving anything away, what can we look forward to in reading The Blood Prince?
There’s action, romantic tension, betrayal and an awful lot of zombies. As the book is the last in the Sovereign trilogy, it brings together all the threads from the previous books into a big, bloody climax.

I have enjoyed reading your story up until now Josie. And one needs to wonder – why vampires? What sparked your interest in writing stories about them?

I’ve always loved vampires. I was a huge Buffy fan, following every season as they came out, and I eventually ended up reading a lot of vampire paranormal romance stories. However, there was nothing that EXACTLY hit the spot for the kind of vampires I was looking for. I wanted them scary, and I couldn’t understand why all the books I read had worlds in which vampires were present, but not in charge. That made no sense to me. If they were as strong and powerful as all that, I thought that surely they’d take over the world. That was my starting point for the Solis Invicti series, which led naturally into its sequel series, the Sovereign trilogy.

One thing I am always curious about is a person’s writing process. What is yours? Are you one who plans? Or do you build the story as you go along?

I spend months or even years thinking idly about a story before writing much down, but after that I usually take a week to write out a rough plan for where the story is going. That might only be a sentence for each chapter, or I might have entire scenes in my head that I want to play out in a particular way. Parts of the story always suggest themselves as I go along, and I end up drawing in all sorts of details I never imagined would be in the story. I often simply design the characters, then wind them up and see where they go. Frequently, I have to stop and replan a novel when I get a third of the way through, because I realise that it’s suddenly going in a completely different direction. I try to go with the flow rather than fight that!

What can readers expect after The Blood Prince?

I’m going to be writing more in the world of the Silver, but not for a little while. I’m thinking about doing some prequel murder mystery stories set before the Solis Invicti series, so that’ll probably be the next thing I write in this world.

In the meantime, I’m busy working on projects that I hope to get published traditionally. Some of those are YA and some adult. The next thing I’m writing is a fantasy trilogy with a serial killer as the main character, which is something a little different, but still on-brand for me, I feel!

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I wish Josie luck with her future plans. If you want to learn a little more about the third book in The Sovereign Series, head on over to the other blogs on the book tour to read some reviews.

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