I tried looking up on local Singaporean printers and they were all expensive. Then came the decision for me to look for a print publisher. Wolf was first released as an ebook under Lyrical Press. I wanted to see a heroine that didn’t fit the current UF/paranormal trend: a mother with children, Chinese, and – yes – a wolf. I wanted to see something different from the US/white/European shifter types – I wanted to see something I could easily resonate with.

It had been a personal challenge to write about Chinese wolves and I was deeply satisfied to see my dream took form and become real. Chinese wolves in the form of humans, mingling with the human population. What should I talk about? That it’s about wolves in Singapore. Nerine who edited Wolf and encouraged me a lot has given me the opportunity to talk about. At the moment, I am still marvelling at how things have turned out and damn it, I have a print book. But Wolf At The Door is finally out in paperback form. The journey has been long, complicated and at times, frustrating. J Damask makes me believe in fairy tales again. What made her writing stand out from the others in the slush pile? Beautiful story-telling and a wonderfully realised non-Western setting written in an authentic Asian voice. And I'm sure you'll agree that the cover art is absolutely stunning. But today I'm handing over to her as she talks about getting her debut title, Wolf at the Door, into print. She recently celebrated the release of Heart of Fire, the third in her series of adventures of Jan Xu.

Miss Damask has since gone on to carve a wonder-filled career writing about her wolf shifters of Singapore. J Damask is one of the authors of whom I have very fond memories of my time editing at Lyrical Press.

Wolf At The Door by J. Damask