The Story Behind the Story: The Twin Cities Series

Drew Avera is a big Jim Butcher fan and he loves how each of his books continues on a very big arc, while each book has its own arc. That takes a lot of talent to pull off and Drew started to wonder how he could do something similar without having to publish twenty books in a series when he already have several series titles that he was working on. The idea he came up with was to not do the series alone, but rather to enlist the help of writer friends he’d made along the way.

That’s where I came in. Drew approached and several other author. We started with a core group of people who brainstormed together with over a thousand emails on how to build the world we called The Realms. I’m pretty sure had I not deleted a bulk of those emails then gmail would have crashed. What came from those initial story ideas were stories set in the same world, using some of the same characters, while writing from the point of view of each individual author’s main character(s). Does it sound confusing? Trust me when I say we had a lot of details to work out.

The Twin Cities Series takes place in the American Twin Cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis). In between those cities, and in other spiritually significant areas, are doorways leading to The Realms. That place is ruled by creatures of myth, currently a vampire known as The Raven, a maniacal character with a god complex. The Realms will take on the image of the ruler and is in a constant state of change as rulers come and go. Currently, it is very gothic and dark, but if an Egyptian god of myth were to rule then The Realms will look like ancient Egypt.

All in all, The Twin Cities Series is an urban fantasy series told from multiple points of view about a world writhing in chaos. Things are about to change in The Realms and with change comes a whole new regime.

You can find the books in the series below

Shifting in The Realms by Theresa Snyder http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I5AST5U

​Shifting Agony & Ecstasy by Theresa Snyder http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NTNN4J4
Shifting Places by Theresa Snyder http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010QGLPN8/

​Mr. Grimm by Drew Avera http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HWI0990

​The Raven by Drew Avera http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I214OAQ
Injustice by Drew Avera http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LPFRZTI/

​Magpie & Jynx by J.B. Cameron http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K4FCU6S
Magpie & Jynx (Lost and Fallen) by J.B. Cameron http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0135LYRRW/

​The Sirens are Singing by Kedrick Rue http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PZQROB2
The Siren is Silent by Kedrick Rue http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0196XBOW4/