Plated Prisoner

Exactly.

Um, so if you know Raven Kennedy, she wrote like the Plated Prisoner.

Which I love.

Which I really love.

So good.

Dom and I have both started the Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy.

I have only read Guild.

Dom, what other ones did you read? Or did you just

I'm Raven Kennedy.

I'm the author of the Plated Prisoner series and now my new book, my new duology played by the Piper, which is The Sweetest Fiend.

So yeah, I'm really excited.

I am very, very excited about this one.

So many people love those.

So many writers are inspired by those characters in that story.

And then like my own Slade Ravager from Plated Prisoner, I love him.

I wanted to create a character where...

Today's episode is an interview with an author who has a brand-new book coming out right around the corner.

I'm chatting with none other than Raven Kennedy, the author of The Plated Prisoner series, as well as the upcoming release of The Sweetest Fiend, which is coming out on September 22nd.

In this episode, we will dive into some exciting background about this upcoming release, including plagues, romance, and which one of her characters would absolutely love to own a police scanner.

[laughs] A quick heads-up as we get started, this episode will be mostly spoiler-free for Raven's books and definitely spoiler-free for The Sweetest Fiend.

Like, I wanted to write something that had some deeper meanings, but in the safety still of, like, a fantasy world.

Okay.

So I knew I wanted to shift to, like, a darker fantasy, and that's where Plated Prisoner came in.

I wanted to write a story for women who had gone through anything like abuse or domestic violence, manipulation, just, uh, the hard, heavy topics, right? Everything from, like, trafficking, just, like, just dark stuff, and I was, like, terrified because I had now been known for these rom-coms.