Stephen Woodworth

Greetings, fans of the supernatural! I'm Stephen Woodworth, author of the New York Times bestseller THROUGH VIOLET EYES and the Violet Series of psychic suspense novels and the Gothic thriller FRAULEIN FRANKENSTEIN. Whether you are a reader of my previous books or a curious newcomer, I welcome your interest in my writing. I've wanted to tell stories almost from the time I learned to read to give other people the thrill of excitement and adventure that books have always given me. I am very excited to have had readers like you nominate FRAULEIN FRANKENSTEIN for publication via Amazon's Kindle Scout program. I've always loved FRANKENSTEIN, but the Mary Shelley novel and most adaptations of the story don't do much with the monster's mate—she usually gets killed off. I thought it would be great for her to survive and become the heroine of her own paranormal romance, and so FRAULEIN FRANKENSTEIN was born! In the process of writing the book, I researched the real-life Castle Frankenstein and the fascinating era in which the novel took place: Napoleon had just been defeated, Beethoven was composing his symphonies, and scientists had made astounding discoveries about electricity and medicine that Shelley incorporated in her story. If you like a good monster story as much as I do, I hope you'll give FRAULEIN FRANKENSTEIN a try--a perfect read for the Halloween season and beyond! I'd love to hear what you think. For more information about the book and my other writing, please join me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/stephen.woodworth2 and follow my blog at www.stephenwoodworth.wordpress.com. If you enjoy FRAULEIN FRANKENSTEIN, I hope you will also try my Violet Series of spooky paranormal thrillers. The idea for THROUGH VIOLET EYES, the first book in the series, occurred to me after watching far too many true-crime TV shows. Inevitably, whenever these shows depict an unsolved murder case, the host will come on at the end and, in a grim, hard-boiled baritone, say something like "The only people who will ever really know what happened on that fateful night are the killer... and the victims." And I got to wondering: What if a detective could interview a murder's ultimate witness? Indeed, what if this became standard procedure, and victims could even accuse their killers in court? Could someone still get away with murder in such a world? Would the dead be any more reliable than a living witness? Or would they merely add their own prejudices, misconceptions, and hidden agendas to a homicide investigation? From such speculation were born the Violets, a group of violet-eyed mediums, rare genetic anomalies who are prized by society for their abilities yet shunned as freakish reminders of human mortality. As I started writing, I began to contemplate the dramatic possibilities offered by a world in which the door between the living and the dead is left open. Here is an alternate reality in which one could buy a freshly painted Picasso or a CD of a symphony that Beethoven composed from beyond the grave. A place where the dead can guide avaricious archaeologists to hunt for hidden treasure. A world in which, for a price, one can make amends with estranged family members who have passed on. I hope that, through the Violet novels, you will enjoy exploring this world as much as I have.