About Shifter School

She’s gonna get them all killed.

So they locked her away.

Laylea has been hiding her entire life. She’s never been to school. She’s never had a friend her own age. She’s never known anyone else like her.

All that is about to change. In a world hidden from wyrdos and humans alike, shifters are still recovering from a vicious plot to destroy them all. They have two laws they live by now:

1) Hide

2) Protect the children at all costs.

Laylea has just broken rule number one.

But she’s only fourteen. So they’re sending her to school. Where she’s going to learn . . .

Anyplace can be a prison. The Lincoln Park Shifter School is not your grandma’s uber-secret, underground academy.

Quick Q&A with Gwendolyn

RB: How do you name your characters?

GD: People often ask me how I come up with names for my characters. I often ask people if I can use their names for my dragons. (Great conversation starter.) I collect interesting names wherever I hear them. The manager of my new dentist’s office is Atifa. I hear a name like that and my mind starts racing. I see a husky in my head. She’ll probably end up as a large gray wolf living at the Montana Shifter Collective in one of my future WereHuman or Shifter School books.

Unfortunately, it usually works the other way. A character appears in the story and then I have to name them. I only expected Laylea to make one good friend in the Lincoln Park Shifter School. So, when the rich boy panther shifter showed up, I had to find a name for him.

Here’s how it happened.

FIRST: I was working my emcee job at Universal Studios. Our down escalator was broken so everyone was having to schlep down the stairs. An older woman was struggling with a baby stroller. The stairs were too crowded for me to get up to her. The best I could do from my microphone was ask people to be kind and move more slowly. But people kept streaming by her with no concern for her safety. Until a couple blocked the stairway. The woman took the stroller from the grandmother and carried it down. The man stayed with the grandmother and helped her down at a safe speed. Nobody behind them could shove past that guy. When they got down to me, I watched them reunite the grandmother with her family. Then I called the couple over and escorted them to the front of the line. I asked them their names. They were Anita and Darian Luke from Nigeria.

SECOND: I knew that I was planning to release Shifter School in mid-March. I was thinking Pi day because I LOVE Pi Day. And I’m a big nerd.

THIRD: I am the worst aunt ever. My sister’s kids are all very sporty. Her eldest just had to choose between a football or baseball scholarship. Her girls are stars on the high school softball, basketball, and lacrosse teams. I am not so sporty. I am a cyclist, but mostly a commuter cyclist. I don’t race. Unless a car tries to cut me off. I have always despaired of finding anything in common with my nieces and nephews.

Until my sister’s youngest became a Fantasy Fan! Yes! I was so excited! He read my epic fantasy, Hardt’s Tale, and loved it. He asked for an Audible membership for Christmas!

His name is Oscar.

His birthday is Pi Day.

Thus was born, Oscar Luke, panther shifter.

Enjoy this Excerpt of Shifter School

She ran from the dorm before they started laughing again. Laylea left her pod open. She didn’t care. Everything she owned was either on her neck or in school storage. She’d never had friends before, she didn’t need them now. She shoved through the little crowd at the curtains and didn’t look into any of the faces gathered outside the girls’ door. She couldn’t have seen them through her tears anyway.

She wanted to shift and run. A good long run through the city would feel good. Her mind would have to focus on cars, pedestrians, uneven sidewalks, shop doors, guard dogs, and dangerous litter. She’d have no room in her head for all her worries. She wouldn’t be able to think about how KC and Oscar hated her for nearly getting them killed, how if she’d run when Oscar wanted to, he wouldn’t have been here to get hurt. Her mind would be focused on her own survival rather than concerns for Oscar’s mom, the kids in ST, and her family’s safety now that she’d spilled all their secrets in front of Jase Batka.

But she couldn’t shift because she was defective. It took her eleven years to figure out she even could shift and now she was going to die without ever figuring out how. Or why.

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About Gwendolyn Druyor

Gwendolyn Druyor was born at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station Hospital, North Kingston, RI. The ID bracelet wrapped three times around her little wrist. She could swim before she could walk and read before she started school.

She has traveled the world telling stories. After a year in Amsterdam writing and performing sketch comedy at Boom Chicago, she toured North America with Shenandoah Shakespeare and with the incredible educational show Sex Signals. From Paris, FR to William’s Bay, WI, you’ll find her gypsy life reflected in her books. If you met her on the road, read her closely, you may find yourself in there.

For now, Gwendolyn lives in Hollywood with her Irish Jack Russell, Josh Lyman Zyrga, who is still pouting over the fact that she didn’t put him on the cover of WereHuman.

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26Mar2018