by Lisa Dale
What wasn’t a surprise with my writing is that over the years my love of science and how things work has always managed to make it into my various novels. Whether they were paranormals, romance, or suspense, the science geek in me always found a way to research and try something new in each novel.
Of course, this is more true for SINS OF THE FLESH (on sale now) than for any of my other novels. With SINS OF THE FLESH (and the rest of the upcoming books in the SINS series), I let the science nerd out of the closet and delved into some of my favorite subjects in college—genetics, immunology, and biology. I also got to use some of the interesting developments that have been going on over the years since I graduated.
Interesting things like the GFPs (green fluorescent proteins) that make Caterina glow—the ones whose creators were acknowledged with the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Did you know that scientists have developed cats that glow in the dark? GFPs let them trace and mark where genes are going!
There are lots of other factual instances in SINS OF THE FLESH based on new developments in gene therapy as well as my own musings on where splicing human and nonhuman genes may take us in the future.
Tossed in with all that science are some of the things that I love most when I write—a determined heroine who is not afraid to fight her own battles and a hero who is strong enough to embrace the love of family and a special woman.
Mix all those parts together and I hope you will find yourself hooked on the world I’ve created for the SINS series!
Wishing you all the best and much edge-of-seat reading,
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