Paranormal Romance Author Terry Spear is getting ready to release book 9 in The Heart of the Wolf series, A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing. Terry is here at Book Savvy Babe with an interview and a giveaway of this new release1 I read and reviewed this one, it’s really good and I rated it 4 stars! (Read my Review). Everyone help me welcome Terry Spear to Book Savvy Babe:
BSB: Terry, thank you for this interview! To start, tell us a little bit about A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing.
TS: Meara was looking for a mate in the first book about the Oregon Coast wolf pack in To Tempt the Wolf, run by her brother, Hunter Greymere and herself. But she gets him into a lot of trouble. She’s impulsive and looking for guys in all the wrong places. So when Hunter is off on a honeymoon with his mate, Meara is all for it. She’s going to fill up the rental cabins with all alpha bachelor males and discover, hopefully, a wolf that will be her perfect mate. Except US Navy SEAL team member, Finn Emerson, arrives on the scene, intending to protect her. And allowing her to spend time with a bunch of alpha males, anyone of whom might be the bad guy, isn’t going to happen.
The problem is Finn’s definitely NOT on the mate mart. So he’s totally messing up Meara’s plans to find a mate in two weeks before her brother returns. What’s a girl to do? Finn might not want a mate, but Meara sure tantalizes him in ways that he’s fighting. All that matters is protecting Meara and that means protecting her even from himself!
BSB: A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing is book 9 in the Heart of the Wolf series, how do you keep the stories fresh?
TS: My stories are character-driven, so since my characters are all their own people, that helps to keep them fresh. Finn Emerson, for instance, is a SEAL, yet he’s not Hunter. Sure, he’s had the same training, but everything he does will be based on his past life experiences. His will be different from Hunter’s. His interest in Meara will be different. Similar in that he wants to protect her like her brother would and keep the alpha males who might be interested in her who would be wrong for her away, yet his own interest in her is more from an alpha male perspective and definitely not brotherly.
Meara was the first female I cast who was against her brother mating with a woman who wasn’t a wolf. She was sassy, hard-headed, and did things her way, the consequences be damned. Although, she did feel remorse for nearly getting Hunter killed. She truly loves her brother. She’s the kind of person who doesn’t like moving. She gets settled and wants to stay put forever. I didn’t have a female like that in any of my other stories either. She also doesn’t recognize the issue she’s having with finding the right mate. As the story progresses, I have fun “seeing” the character as they finally truly see themselves. In each story, it will be different. The setting was the same as for To Tempt the Wolf, but it’s different also because it’s a different season, different conflicts, different personalities clashing while they deal with the conflict. And they end up moving to another location, a house that was actually for sale on the Oregon coast. I loved “using” it for the story. The new owners will never know it was once owned by a hot Navy SEAL…wolf.
BSB: How many books do you have planned for the Heart of the Wolf series? What can we look forward to next?
TS: Forever…well, as long as readers want to read them!
Up next is book 10, A Howl for a Highlander, which is Duncan’s story, youngest brother in the MacNeill Highland pack, Heart of the Highland Wolf. He’s the dark warrior of the bunch and has gone off to get their stolen funds back on the Grand Cayman Islands. But at once he’s distracted from his mission. A she-wolf is at the airport, unaccompanied. He tells himself that he would offer protection for any she-wolf alone, any age, but the woman is definitely mateable age and he’s interested. When he finds he’s without lodging, the tables are turned for a wolf who’s used to being the lord of the manor along with his brothers…and he’s about to beg her to share one of the bedrooms in her rental house. There’s a lot of significance to this scenario, but I don’t want to give it away for now! It’s set to hit stores in early 2013.
Then I’m working on Tom’s story, from the Silver Town wolf pack of Destiny of the Wolf, and I’ve begun Cearnach’s story, A Highland Wolf Wedding. He’s the next eldest brother in the Highland wolf pack, intending to go to an old girlfriend’s wedding, and the trouble only begins there.
But before both of those, I’ve also got a brand new jaguar shifters coming out! Savage Hunger, the first one, will be in stores in the October 2012!
BSB: Wow, there is so much to look forward to! I will definitely be watching for the jaguar shifters series… Anyhow, Who would you cast to play the main characters, Meara and Finn?
TS: New talent. I’m always for the underdog… or underwolf! I believe in giving new people a chance to succeed.
BSB: Out of all of your books, which character is the most like you?
TS: All of them and none of them. LOL Some things I’ve experienced, crawling through narrow tunnels, caves, rappelling, shooting weapons, and being in a car accident. I’ve never bitten anyone that I recall. LOL! But to a certain extent, I’ll have life experiences I draw on, and others I don’t. When a reader says I’ve written a particular scene realistically, like Lelandi’s fear of narrow spaces and the small tunnel she was traversing, that definitely was me in Destiny of the Wolf. I can climb a mountain like a goat, but looking down or rappelling, or skiing down, or riding a gondola, terrifying. Maybe because of the dangerous circumstances I’ve found myself in, like the time the ski lift bounced my husband and I out of our seats because the guy operating the lift didn’t stop the seat from hitting us so hard and we were hanging perilously maybe fifteen feet off the snow packed ground. Probably higher. They had to stop the lift and get us off the ski lift. Another time I lost my ski on the lift. LOL Another time, my ski went through an exposed tree root. Do you know tree roots don’t get out of your way if your ski goes through them? I was lucky I didn’t break my leg. So not liking heights and enclosed spaces I have in common with my heroines. 
BSB: Um, if I was you, I would probably avoid the ski lifts, or s What is your take on “Insta-Love” or love at first sight in romance books? (believable, no way, might work, etc?)
TS: Actually, I know several people where this happened to them, and they are still happily married ever after. So I do believe it! It does happen in real life!
For one couple it happened this way: he was bending over something on a hiking trail, she was with another group hiking and was looking elsewhere, and tripped over him. They ended up on the ground in a pile of legs and arms and bodies, sounds perfectly unbelievably romantic, right? And have been married for 38 years.
My mom sat in a lecture given by my dad when she was in the Army and he was in the AF stationed in a satellite unit on the Army post in south Texas. She was in love. But he had eyes for someone else. So when he met my mom at the post office where she worked and he was picking up a package from Seattle, Washington, she mentioned she was from Portland, Oregon, well, that was it. No one was from the west coast in Texas. So within 3 months after a whirlwind romance they were married for 46 years before my dad succumbed to cancer.
A friend of mine found his wife when they were with other couples and had gone to an eating and drinking place, the theme, a library. Now, their parents were very religious and didn’t believe in any drinking, so they always said they met in the library. But after a few months of dating, they were married and are still happily married.
Another friend was a high school English teacher, he a journalist with the newspaper when they met each other with separate groups of friends. She has a really funny sarcastic wit and was trying to tell him to get lost. He loved it and pursued her until they married. They’re both the funniest characters I know and love each other dearly.
So love at first sight? Absolutely!
BSB: As an author with many books released, I’m sure you have gotten a wide variety of reviews. How do you handle negative reviews?
TS: Negative reviews can make an author self-doubt him or herself. I have to remind myself that we all have opinions and that’s all it is. Just like when we read books or watch movies for enjoyment. Some we’ll thoroughly love and some we won’t. It’s just a matter of opinion.
BSB: Just For Fun, I always like to play a little game of Would You Rather in my interviews. Please have fun with the questions and explain your answers.
Would You Rather: stay up all night babysitting a crying baby or an irritating family member?
TS: Oh, I’ll stay up all night taking care of a baby anytime. When I was babysitting for my first family at the age of 13, the baby was fussy, was sick, and the parents were at a New Year’s party. I wanted them to enjoy themselves. I sat up with the baby rocking it until they got home at about 2 in the morning, and I’m not a night person. The baby was fine as long as I cuddled him and rocked him. And the parents had a nice time. When I had babies of my own, I was always there for them also. That’s why they cry. The need someone. I think I would have made a good wolf in a pack!
Would You Rather: be bitten by a radioactive spider or be turned into a vampire?
TS: This is just too simple. I’ve seen what a bite by a fiddleback spider can do to a body, kills all the tissue from the center of the poisonous bite outward. Sometimes people have to have skin grafts. And that’s not even for a radioactive spider. So give me a vampire any day! Well, as long as he’s one of my vampires that are hot and sexy, not cold and dead. I want to hear his heart beating as fast as mine when…well, when things really heat up between us. Yum.
BSB: Well, when you put the spider thing that way, the vampire sounds pretty tame in comparison, LOL. Thanks for being here Terry!
A SEAL IN WOLF’S CLOTHING BY TERRY SPEAR – IN STORES MARCH 2012
Her instincts tell her he’s dangerous…
While her overprotective brother’s away, Meara Greymere’s planning to play—and it wouldn’t hurt to find herself a mate in the process. The last thing she needs is one of his SEAL buddies spoiling her fun, even if the guy is the hottest one she’s ever seen…
His powers of persuasion are impossible to resist…
Finn Emerson is a battle-hardened Navy SEAL and alpha wolf. He’s a little overqualified for baby-sitting, but feisty Meara is attracting trouble like a magnet…
As the only responsible alpha male in the vicinity, Finn is going to have to protect this intriguing woman from a horde of questionable men, and definitely from himself…
Experience the sensual, action-packed, critically acclaimed world of Terry Spear, author of a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry Spear has written over a dozen paranormal romance novels and two medieval Highland historical romances. An award-winning author, Terry’s Heart of the Wolf was named a Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year in 2008. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry Spear is a librarian by day and spends every spare moment writing paranormal romance as well as historical and true life stories for both teen and adult audiences. Spear lives in Crawford, Texas, where she is working on new paranormal romances! For more information, please visit http://www.terryspear.com/.
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Sourcebooks is generously offering a giveaway of 2 Print Copies of A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing to 2 lucky winners! Since the publisher is sponsoring this contest, the giveaway is open to US/CAN only, and you must be at least 18 years old to enter. Contest open through midnight March 8.
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March 2, 2012 at 12:37 am
Omg i love Terry Spear’s book series!!! I have a couple of her books and I so have to catch up on collecting and reading them!!! I really do love her writing style!!
Thanks for the great giveaway!!
March 2, 2012 at 4:32 am
Thanks so much to Book Savvy Babe for having me here today! I’m in New Orleans at the Futuristic, Fantasy and Paranormal conference! We’re going to a ghost bar one night and on a vampire tour another. Off to search for French Quarter cuisine for this morning. Hmm, wonder if I should write about a Cajun wolf???
March 2, 2012 at 4:33 am
Thanks so much, Sarah!!! I’m thrilled you’re loving the series, and yes, if you’ve only read two, you have a few to catch up on. But that’s the fun!!!
Thanks again, and enjoy!!!
March 2, 2012 at 8:43 am
Navy Seals Rock, they’re almost as cool as the Marines. LOL (my brother is a Nam Vet) Mixing Seals and Were’s adds just another layer of dangerous to them that will make almost any book hit light speed and I’d love to win a copy of Terry’s book to add to my growing library
March 4, 2012 at 4:48 am
Nora-Adrienne, I so agree! My friends whole family were in the marines. I thought it was about time that the weres joined forces with the military! And any of the forces would have worked.
Guys in uniform are buff and hot! 
March 2, 2012 at 8:59 am
Hi! Thanks for this chance! Great interview!
I would LOVE to be bitten by a vampire!!!! (don’t care about sexy spiderman!) Anyway I hate spider….they are so disgusting with they hairy, too long, legs! Just thinking about it and I got chills down my spine!!! LOL And I agree with you Terry, don’t want a sparkling, cold vampire! Gimme one from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, I’ll do the rest!
March 4, 2012 at 4:49 am
Yeah,Prosperine, no hairy spiders or sparkling cold dead vampires for me either! Thanks!!
March 2, 2012 at 9:05 am
Great interview. I can’t wait to read the books. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
March 4, 2012 at 4:50 am
You’re welcome, Deanna!
March 2, 2012 at 2:00 pm
I like what Terry said about negative review … it’s so true! We are all entitled to opinions. I’m a musician and really had to come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like my music, and that I should focus on those who do like it because they make me want to keep making it!
Awesome interview.
March 4, 2012 at 4:51 am
So true, Kristilyn. My Son-In-Law is a musician also, and he was saying the same thing!
March 2, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I absolutely love and adore Terry and her books! Her writing just touches me, and her attitude towards life is just inspiring. I’ve never heard a negative or unkind word from her, and she writes books that enrich my reading life more than I can ever manage to tell her!
Thank you so much for such a wonderful and entertaining interview! It was different, and not the same old boring thing. I loved it!
March 4, 2012 at 4:56 am
Gena, thanks so much!!! I’ve been so busy with teaching workshops at the FF&P conference and visiting, that I’ve had a hard time getting to drop by and say hi!
I’ve posted some pictures on my blog of some of the sites in New Orleans! http://terry-spear.blogspot.com/2012/03/its-time-to-have-beignets-one-last-time.html
Thanks again for all your lovely comments!
March 2, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Great interview. I love wolves and can’t wait to read this one. Thanks for the chance.
mythic021@gmail.com
March 4, 2012 at 4:57 am
Thanks, Vanessa! I hope you get a chance to read it!
March 2, 2012 at 2:50 pm
I’ve seen this book on Goodreads, sounds like it might be a great read
March 4, 2012 at 4:58 am
Thanks, Krystal! It’s really a great read. I read it myself several times and can vouch for it!
March 2, 2012 at 3:41 pm
I would rather be turned into a vampire than bitten by a radioactive spider
March 2, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I would rather be turned into a vampire. I can’t help but think they are sexy and would like to live forever.
March 2, 2012 at 5:51 pm
GREAT interview! OMG…this sounds like a REALLY rocking series! I know this is #9 in the series…but I still JUST gotta have it! I think I can catch up! FAB/SMEXY cover too, btw! Thx for the giveaway op!
barbbattaglia @ yahoo.com
March 4, 2012 at 4:59 am
Barbara, yes! I can’t believe it’s already book 9! I have already turned in book 10 also, and the first jaguar shifter book is coming in October, Savage Hunger!
March 2, 2012 at 7:05 pm
I gotta admit that the shifter stories always are just so much more than an average paranormal romance. The fierce love and loyalty gets me every time.
March 4, 2012 at 4:59 am
I so agree, Lisa!
March 2, 2012 at 7:16 pm
I really enjoy Terry’s books and most especially her The Heart of the Wolf series. Having experienced Terry’s wolves I am really excited to read about her brand new jaguar shifters! I am sure the reception of those stories will go over very well:)
yadkny@hotmail.com
March 4, 2012 at 5:01 am
Hi, Yadira! Thanks so much!! I hope there won’t be any cat and dog fights!
It’s fun writing both of the series now! Thanks for loving the wolves!
March 2, 2012 at 7:22 pm
The book cover is super sexy. Terry, how did you come up with the idea for the book? Will this be a series?
Thanks for the chance to win.
March 4, 2012 at 5:04 am
Hi, Julianne, thanks! The cover is gorgeous!!! When I wrote To Tempt the Wolf, I had fun with making Hunter a Navy SEAL. My editor said it would be fun if he was part of a whole wolf SEAL team. So I kept thinking about it, and fans were asking to see his twin sister’s story, and then I had it! Many are asking to see Bjornolf and some of the other SEALs stories, so I hope to write more in the SEAL wolf series.
March 2, 2012 at 8:12 pm
I think it’s wonderful that you’ve met before who have experience insta-love. I believe instant attraction is more common but with love anything is possible. In paranormal it’s even more so.
March 4, 2012 at 5:06 am
I so agree, Na!
March 2, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Great interview. And with my horrible fear of spiders I would have to go with turning into a vampire.
March 3, 2012 at 1:34 am
Fantastic blog post. This is my first time hearing about this series and obviously I have a few books to get caught up on but they definitely sound like my kind of read! Thank you for the chance to win one.
March 4, 2012 at 5:07 am
You’re welcome, Rose! Good luck and I hope you love the series!
March 3, 2012 at 9:47 am
I love romance stories involving SEALs and to be a wolf too? Bonus!! Thanks for the giveaway.
March 4, 2012 at 5:08 am
Having Finn close at hand is definitely a bonus, Tina!
March 3, 2012 at 9:50 am
okay i now have the heebie jeebies from that spider thing.. YUCK!!
awesome interview.. cant wait to see those jaguars! big cats are my ultimate fav shifters!!
Do the books have to be read in order? i have one or two but have been waiting for them all.. can i just dive in anywhere?
March 4, 2012 at 5:09 am
Hi, Alaina! You don’t have to read them in order, but I would read To Tempt the Wolf, book 3, before A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing because it’s the first story about Hunter and his pack.
March 6, 2012 at 1:50 pm
awesome thank you!!
March 3, 2012 at 11:50 am
Everyone keeps telling me to try these books and I have yet to bite, but now I really am intrigued! Count me in!
March 4, 2012 at 5:09 am
Good luck, Kris!
March 4, 2012 at 5:11 am
I’ve got to run! Having beignets with some authors and other FF&P writers, then a book signing. Might be heading out of New Orleans before I have a chance to comment….but I shall return!
March 3, 2012 at 1:45 pm
I agree with Terry – I would definitely stay up all night with a crying baby over an irritating family member any day of the week! Baby’s can’t help but cry, but family members can definitely try not to be irritating!! I can’t wait to read this book! I was lucky enough to review a copy of one of Terry’s books through NetGalley a couple months ago and I fell in love with her writing! Thanks for the giveaway:)
March 6, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Here! Here! Julie! Agree! Hope you love Finn and Meara’s story!
March 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Great interview. I don’t do spiders at all either. I love reading about seals and adding weres to it is a bonus. Thanks for the chance to win in your giveaway.
March 6, 2012 at 4:49 pm
My mother killed the spiders in the house because my dad wouldn’t do it. LOL
I don’t blame you!
March 3, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Hi Terry I realy enjoyed this interview.Your wolves are fantastic and always keep me riveted Ill never get tired of this series .
March 6, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Thanks so much, Wanda! I just got in from giving workshops in New Orleans and found I had to give a marketing sheet on both A Highland Wolf Wedding for the spring of 2013, woohoo! And one for the 2nd jaguar book coming out sometime then too.
So it’s been hectic!
March 3, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Great interview.You have a lot coming up Terry.Looking forward to your new jaguar series.I think I would pick the vampire over the spider though
A SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing sounds really good and the cover is wow!
March 3, 2012 at 4:33 pm
The tweet in the form is wrong and I used it…oops..here’s the right link for my tweet
https://twitter.com/#!/elaing8/status/176102678647148546
March 6, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Thanks, Elaing! One of the things that’s fun is when we send in our marketing sheet is to comment on what we think might work well on the cover. I had to say that everyone loved Finn’s abs!
March 4, 2012 at 10:25 am
I haven’t read anything by you yet. But the book sounds delightful. Thanks for taking the time to stop in and chat with us. I am looking forward to reading this one. It sounds like its a great shifter series.
Mary
March 6, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Thanks, Mary! Hope you give them a chance!!!
March 4, 2012 at 12:18 pm
I enjoyed the interview. This sounds like a great series. Are there other genres you would like to write in?
March 6, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Hi, Bn100! I actually write vampire romantic suspense, comedy romance, Highland medieval romance, and time travel western romance, YA paranormal, and straight fantasy romance.
I love to read a variety of kinds of stories myself. 
March 4, 2012 at 8:33 pm
Omg I love all of the stories about how the different couples met. It just goes to show that fate sometimes makes as great matchmaker.
I can’t wait to read the new book. A paranormal romance with military heroes sounds like something I will love. Congratulations on the new release!
March 6, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Thanks so much, Stacie! I so agree about fate and how you never know how or when someone might meet Mr. Right and it is just right!
Hope you love the story! 
March 5, 2012 at 3:24 pm
I’ve been wanting to read a Terry Spear book since I did a search this week on authors who write about paranormal / military. This would be a great introduction to her books. I especially love series authors. Hope to win. Thanks for the chance.
March 6, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Thanks, Losttime4me! Just got in from a trip to New Orleans, so trying to play catch up…and get the marketing stuff to my publisher for the next couple of books in the series!
Hope you have a chance to win one of the books! Men in uniform are hot!
March 7, 2012 at 8:59 pm
I really want to read this book. I have heard great things about the author’s other books. Thank you for the interview an giveaway!