A Chip in His Shoulder by L.A. Witt

L.A. Witt Literary Nymphs Author Interview

What would you like new fans to know about you?

 I can balance a ladder on my chin while mixing a martini and reciting Shakespearean sonnets.

In your fantasy world who or what would you be?

 Well, I haven’t yet settled on a title, but I’m definitely leaning toward Grand Poobah of the Universe.

Do you have a favorite quote?

 Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. (no idea who originally said it)

What can we look forward to in the future from you?

 A sequel to my cyberpunk/vampire story. Additional books in the Tooth & Claw series, which is my vamp/were ménage series. More kink. More transgender and genderqueer characters. Steampunk. Cyberpunk. Really, it could be anything.

Where can we find your website?

 Under the sink behind the dishwasher detergent.  If it’s not there, it’s http://www.loriawitt.com/

My October 30 release, A Chip in His Shoulder from Riptide Publishing is available for pre-order at: http://riptidepublishing.com/titles/chip-his-shoulder

Here's a blurb:

“Contract killer” is a fitting job for a vampire, and it suits Liam just fine. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gutter, killing to survive. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him.

Liam’s ex-lover Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix—and its greatest threat. Horrified by people less man than machine and the exploitation of Gutter factory workers, he’d rather destroy Cybernetix than inherit it . . . if his father doesn’t destroy him first.

Years of anger and a heap of mods have kept Daniel and Liam apart. When Liam is hired to slaughter a man in his glass Sky tower, he walks right into a Daniel-shaped trap. Daniel’s father has betrayed them both, and only by working together can Daniel and Liam survive the coming day. They have no reason to trust each other, but as the dawn looms, a bargain that began with the simple urge to live soon reminds them of the love they once shared. Can they find each other again, or will the Cybernetix assassins find them first?