PG Forte
PG Forte inhabits a world only slightly less strange
than the ones she creates. Filled with serendipity, coincidence, love at first
sight and dreams come true…it also bears an uncanny resemblance to Berkeley,
California.
She wrote her first
serialized story when she was still in her teens. The sexy, ongoing adventure
tales were very popular at her oh-so-proper, all girls, Catholic High School,
where they helped to liven up otherwise dull classes. Even if her teachers didn’t always think so.
Scent of the Roses
Scent of the Roses, the
first book in my Oberon series, is also my first published romance. Authors talk a
lot about ‘books of the heart’ and Scent has definitely been that for me.
The story began as a
single sentence that popped into my head while I was
driving along Route 80 one day on my way back to Berkeley from San
Rafael. "Scout Patterson had been running away from home for twenty
years."
Who was Scout? Why was she running? It would take me several years and nine very long books to answer those questions!
The series is set in the fictional town of Oberon, California—a place that combines everything I
love about my adopted home state. The town became so real to me that, even now,
I will sometimes find myself in one of the places I "borrowed" for
Oberon and will experience a moment of disorientation as real-life and my
fictional world collide. I’ve been so enamored of the town that I’ve
warned my daughter that when I’m old and senile I will probably believe I live
there. She’s agreed to play along with me.
There’s something magical about the tiny coast town of Oberon,
California…
When a slumber party
prank goes awry, magical forces are unleashed that will forever alter the lives
of four teenaged girls. Twenty years later, Scout Patterson has finally
returned to Oberon in search of answers. What she finds instead are lies and
betrayal…and a second chance at her first love.
But Scout’s homecoming
is marred by a series of deadly attacks, and officer Nick Greco must rush to
solve an all-but-forgotten crime or risk losing her again—this time for good.
It's so funny how inspiration can suddenly hit you. Love finding new authors so thank you for that. :)
ReplyDeleteDo you have any other series?
Hi Steph. Thank YOU. :) Actually, yes. I also have a vampire series (Children of Night). I have four books out with that now, with the 5th due out in January. have a 3 part contemporary series (LA Love Lessons) that may or may not get two more books. And then I have several other books that are all meant to be the start of their own series. So many books, so little time. lol!
ReplyDeleteHow'd you come up with the cover?
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm so glad you asked that. This is actually the second set of covers for these books. And while I loved the original covers, when we re-released the series a few years back, my publisher decided we should have a new look. The new covers were the result of A LOT of discussion. I wanted something clean and eye-catching but that would also work to brand the entire series. As I said, we went through a lot of different ideas, but once we hit on the crystal ball motif, it just seemed right. I actually designed the backs and spines for the print covers myself. (and, yes, I'm stupid proud of that fact!) you can see those here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-oikIU8Io
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