I know I keep saying this, but these characters keep surprising me.

I had Rain down as a fluffy do-gooder type, maybe with a bit of an anti-establishment edge in a hippie kind of way, and damn if she didn’t turn out to be an ex-gang member who once cut another woman’s face with a broken bottle.

I really should stop stereotyping people. Even the people in my head.

Writing this book is turning out to be like herding lynxes. In the best possible way.

I’ve started on the werewolf, Windknower. His story hasn’t caught fire yet, but it will. It will.

That leaves only the two least interesting characters of all. I mean, surely a statistician and a very serious religious guy have lived boring lives.

I’m so looking forward to finding out how I’m wrong about that.

Mike Reeves-McMillan

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Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.