Well, I wanted a free story on my blog, partly as a peace offering to my readers because I was so late getting Shattered done, and partly to help get new readers interested in the series. But I also wanted to delve into Dom a bit more deeply. You see, the Dominance series is tough writing for two reasons. The first, and most obvious reason, is that it's written solely from Gabriel's point of view. We don't get into Dom's head at all, and this makes it hard for the reader (or the writer!) to know exactly what drives him. I felt that I needed to get a bit more of a grip on what made Dom tick before I wrote the big emotional ending scene in Shattered.
Secondly, the really weird thing about Dominance is that it has exactly two dramatis personae. Only two people ever appear on stage-- Dom and Gabriel-- and I intend to finish out the series this way. Gabriel's girlfriend Kerryn is mentioned repeatedly throughout the series, but we never actually see her. Nowhere (I think) is a line of dialogue uttered by anyone but Dom or Gabriel. This is an odd and insular way to set up what will eventually be around a 80,000-word tale, but it's how the story seemed to want to be told.
Originally I had the idea of rewriting the first part of Supplicant from Dom's point of view. But I realized that since the book was in KDP Select, and thus had to be exclusive to Amazon, they probably wouldn't care for that. So I abandoned that idea and wrote a prequel instead.
This worked out for the best, because Innocence allows me to expand Dom and Gabriel's world a bit. We've already met Sandy, Dom's assistant, and in Innocent we're going to meet the lovely Kerryn. With any luck we'll get a little more insight into her relationship with Dom, and find out what may have precipitated Dom's big blowup with her that set the plot of Dominance rolling. I don't think Kerryn is nearly as sweet and innocent as Gabriel wanted to believe, and I suspect Dom figured that out a lot sooner than Gabriel did:-).
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