The Next Big Thing Redux

One of my favorite blog hops is The Next Big Thing. I did this awhile back for The Seven Keys of Alaesha and I am super excited to have been tagged again by the wonderful and talented Diane Capri. Even though my own Next Big Thing is still several months from release, I'm thrilled to bring you a little preview.

1. What is the title of the work?

The current working title is The Iron Locket. Some other title ideas include Faery Hunter or Faery Blood. I am leaning heavily toward Faery Hunter, though it seems a little plain.

2. Where did the idea for the book come from?

I started out wanting to write a paranormal romance. Since vampires and werewolves have been done to death, I wanted to focus on faeries. It was just going to be a generic human hunts faeries, human meets 'special' faery, human falls in love with faery. But as I was reading through Froud and Lee's Faeries, I came across a tiny little bit of myth that claimed that King Arthur was buried in a hill in the land of Faery, awaiting the day when he would be called upon again in a time of need. That got the ball rolling, so now King Arthur and twelve of his most faithful knights must come to the aid of the four queens of Faery, all the while protecting and falling in love with Aiofe Callaghan, a young woman whose family has been tasked by Titania, Queen of the South, to exterminate faeries who escape to the human world with the intent of causing chaos.