While at times regret can simply be a precipitant of nostalgia, a cousin of wistfulness, it can also lead to obsession and terror. Regret is an emotion that is infinite in its variety, from deciding one would have been better off choosing a different meal at a restaurant to endlessly questioning whether one should have embarked on a certain career or a relationship. In fact, it's a cleansing of my author's palate!' I like to immerse myself in a certain world, do my job, and then go to the other one and come back. I will say, I don't like jumping back and forth too much. Still, it's like a completely different stage set in my head.

the BDB Legacy books, the train tracks are certainly closer, and there is overlap in terms of settings, people (the Brothers function as trainers in that series, so you see a lot of them and their mates), and problems ( lessers, Lassiter and biological limitations). The people in it are more 'real' and the situations that affect them and stir their emotions are closer to things that might actually happen in readers' lives. With the Bourbon Kings, the world is refined, genteel, elegant and rooted in Southern traditions, settings and mores. The Black Dagger Brotherhood and Black Dagger Legacy books are dark and gritty, with slang, pop culture references and violence, danger, sex and cursing. The 'vibe' of the two series is completely different. For example, no one in the Bourbon Kings series believes vampires exist, knows what lessers are, or has fallen in love with someone of a different species. There is no confusion because each world is unique. When it's time to switch, I simply hop over to the other one. When I'm drafting a manuscript or copyediting, I'm solidly in one world, with those people, those events. 'I love writing multiple series and find it easy because each one has a different train track in my head.

Since Ward's two series are so different, we wondered how she keeps on track, and she ran with the metaphor: (Our review of The Angels' Share, the second Bourbon Kings novel, is below.) Ward (the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, the Bourbon King series), whose novels have more than 15 million copies in print in 25 countries.

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