If our publishing contract allowed for it, we’d put our work under a Creative Commons license, which would also allow free distribution of the e-text of the original work — but since it doesn’t, we cannot legally do that. However, we do encourage readers to use their local libraries to access the text of our current book and future other books if purchasing it isn’t an option for whatever reason.

We do ask that you do not screw around with our ability to earn our livings from writing, which means that you cannot ever sell any of the transformative works you’ve done based on our stuff.

We are also concerned with being sued and with keeping our ideas for the characters and universes we’ve created more or less “pure” in our brains — to that end we are not going to access any of the transformative works based on any open canon of our writing. Once we’ve closed the canon (officially stopped writing about the particular characters/universe), all bets are off!

(Basically we’re pretty selfish and so we’d like to encourage people to write Allie/Roxie — or Narnia/Roxie! Or Ryan/Harry Potter (their love is so full of adolescent angst!) — fanfic and put it up on the Archive of Our Own so we’ll be able to eventually read it!)

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One night six years ago, Allie and her friends got drunk and chanted a fake spell they made up… and accidentally opened a portal to Hell. Now it resides in the basement of the diner Allie runs, and it’s a pain in the ass — mystical crap is always coming out, and then it has to be killed. Demon guts get everywhere, stuff gets smashed up, there are salt circles and sigils all over the place… It gets tedious.

The up side is that Allie gets her own personal demon hunter guarding the Door and killing the demons: a sexy and mysterious, Stetson-wearing, snide-remark-making, dark-eyed demon hunter named Ryan.

But after six years of jibes and sexual tension, the Door disappears at the same time there’s a surge in demonic activity — and no one seems to know what’s going on. Not Narnia the bitchy psychic witch, or Roxie, a kickass demon hunter from the other side of town.

It’s not Allie’s idea for a team of demon hunters to find another Door and go into it to see if Hell is about to take over Earth, but she definitely wants in on that plan. After years of seeing the havoc a Door to Hell wreaks on the world, she’s ready to grow up, take responsibility for helping open a Door in the first place, and kick some demon butt.

Okay, and she’d also like some quality make out time with Ryan, and mortal peril is always a turn-on, right?

That’s the summary for Salt and Silver, a paranormal romance coming out in May ‘09 from Tor Books. This here blog is to discuss writing, research, sex, Salt and Silver, and anything else that comes to mind. Stick around awhile — stuff’s happening here.