A huge apology for this going up so late - I had this all ready to go but had an emergency come up at the last minute. Damn those best laid plans of mice and men!
Anyway, without further ado, today I am proud to have a special guest post from author R. E Butler, author of the novel The Tribe's Bride. A brief synopsis from Amazons is below.
When a university job interview goes south, Carrie Wade isn’t certain that she’ll ever find work in her field of ancient Native American Culture. Knowing the only job waiting for her is waitressing at a coffee-house, Carrie indulges in a post-disappointment shopping trip. An old necklace in an antique store window catches her eye and she immediately feels as if she cannot walk away without owning it. The very last thing she needs to do is squander her savings by investing in a necklace that may have, at one time, belonged to one of the tribes she studied…but she can’t help herself.
When she tries on the precious necklace at home, she passes out and wakes up in the tent of the necklace’s original owners, three Native American tribesmen from the late 1600s. Will she be able to get back home to the future or will she find out that the one place she was always meant to be was back in time as the tribe’s bride?
This novella contains m/f/m/m interaction, three handsome brothers that will do anything for each other and their woman, and a magical necklace that brings them all together.
I'm pleased to now introduce R.E. Butler, who has prepared a special talk about the inspirations behind her book. It's a very informative look into the creation of this book and I think you'll find it interesting.
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I’ve always been intrigued by Native Americans and cultures that use ceremonies as part of their way of life. A few months ago, I had been reading some time-travel books, but I had not read any about a modern woman being transported back to a Native America tribe. There’s a quote attributed to novelist Toni Morrison, “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” So the original inspiration for the book, The Tribe’s Bride, was to write what I hadn’t been able to find: take a modern woman and, with a little bit of magic, plunk her down in the 1600s with a Native American tribe and see what happens.
For the backdrop, I chose a remote, fictional mountain range and filled it with wildlife. I love the mountains. Even though I call the shore my home now, my family and I lived in California for several years and I could see the Coastal Mountains from my kitchen window. There’s something magical about mountains, knowing they’ve been around forever, so using one as the setting for the historical part of the book seemed like the best choice.
I wanted my heroine to be strong-willed and intelligent, and the heroes to be the sorts of men that readers could imagine being trapped in just such a scenario with. I wanted Carrie to be ambitious, sweet, friendly, and a little lonely. For the men, I knew I would have a group of three brothers who were separated from their tribe and looking at a lifetime of loneliness, which drove them to use a magical necklace to find their bride. I laid out a list of characteristics of what Carrie’s perfect husband would be like, and then chose the strongest ones to assign to the men. I built the men up, digging into their history to find out why they behaved the way they did. I love getting to know my characters and finding out their back-stories.
Everything about the book is fictional, from the name of the Native American tribe to the mountain range they call home. But what wasn’t fictional, were the details that went into creating the world they lived in. Even fictional stories need to be plausible, so I began to research climate, plants and animals from around that time, and with the help of my editor, I also found out some amazing things about what the people from that time period would know - everything from basic hygiene to making salt.
While my original inspiration came from wanting to create a book I was unable to find already written, slowly that idea morphed until I was writing the book because I wanted to know what happened to Carrie and the tribe. Could a woman from 2012 be happy back then? If you were going to be transported into a time when technology didn’t exist, what would you miss most? Carrie became a complex and amazing character, the brothers became worthy heroes, and I enjoyed writing every word of the story, and I hope my readers enjoy it, too!
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