Brynne Weaver Making ‘Ruinous Love’ Novels After ‘Scythe and Sparrow’

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00:00For those unfamiliar, these books are about serial killers who fall in love, but this one, Rose,

00:06she's kind of a little bit, let's say, less competent at serial killing at first. Doesn't

00:13always, you know, know what to do. What inspired you to kind of go that direction with her for this

00:19book? I felt like when I was writing the first book that she was a little bit chaotic and I

00:24thought it would be a fun, different kind of take on this serial killer theme that I was doing if

00:30she just wasn't very good at it. She really tries hard, you know, she puts her whole self into it,

00:39it just doesn't always pan out the way that she hoped. Yeah, and in a similar vein,

00:46Theon, am I saying that right? Yeah. He's kind of like the lowest key of the brothers in a way.

00:52Can you just talk a little bit about the inspiration for him?

00:56Yeah, so for him, I think with his two older brothers, they've played a significant role in

01:02really getting him to have this sort of perfect life. He's tried really hard to exceed expectations,

01:09he's also broken hearted, so he's run away to Nebraska, he's kind of been hiding a little bit.

01:15So I wanted to give him the chance to really come out of his shell, and Rose was the perfect

01:20opportunity to have that happen for him. And now that you're finished with the Ruinous

01:26Love Trilogy, what is next on the docket for you? So I just handed in the manuscript for the first

01:31book for my new series, which is also going to be published by the same publisher, and I'm already

01:36working on the second book. So it is another dark rom-com series, but also a bit more thrillery.

01:44And I can't really give too much away, but there is maybe a little bit of a window into what might

01:51be coming at the end of this book. And are you completely done with Ruinous Love? Will we ever

01:56get a spinoff novella or something of anyone? That's a good question. I never say no to

02:04anything. In some cases I think their stories are wrapped up, but in others I could see

02:10like a spinoff novella or something like that. So I definitely

02:14left the door open to exploring that in the future.