Interviews with the characters we know and love, with a little help from the authors that wrote them.
In this case some paranormal romantasy from Karen MC Compostine
Name (and title if appropriate):
Mr. Norge Bakhår, businessman, entrepreneur and muscular man with a mysterious past.
Written by:
Books you appear in (links welcome)
Book 1 of The Hardening Cycle: A Paranormal Urban Fantasy (Romantasy) with Gorgeous Sexy Vampires and Hot Alpha Werewolves and Hot Beta Werewolves (in Book 2)
A Romantic Urban Fantasy Novel by Karen McCompostine (Mrs.)
Strapline:
Warm Up Your Hand, Please, Cnut: It’s Chilly When You’re Dead
In no more than 5 words explain your ambitions:
The defeat of Cnut Vanking.
Favourite place and why?
I live the life of an international jet-setting entrepreneur with my own business; Merkin Fur Products. However, I will always hanker for my homeland of Scandinavia in Sweden, even though I have not lived there for centuries many years.
I have been endowed with a special weapon and have been complimented upon its various qualities many times when in the company of a special lady friend.
If you’re referring to fighting then I need no weapon. I am my own, lethal, weapon, which makes me very deadly indeed, even though no permit is required. My bare hands and teeth (I have a meticulous dental care regimen I follow assiduously, which is why my breath smells so good) are all I need to defeat my foe.
I am older than I look and this means I have enjoyed many more moments than the typical multi-millionaire businessman. In more recent years, I would say I took great satisfaction in learning to play the ukelele and forming my Country and Western band Carnivore by Moonlight.
Because I’m a very confident and goal-oriented kind of person, it is only a matter of time before chart success beckons. I’m most proud of our song “If You’re Gonna Play in Stockholm (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band).”
That would be Cnut Vanking, the mysterious Swede who currently works at The Razzle Hotel as a professional wine chooser (this is one up from a sommelier, which is just typical of the way Vanking carries on). Our enmity as enemies goes back an unfeasibly long time. As for why, let’s just say that we had a disagreement over which was more compatible with modern life. To be a carnivore or a v… a ve… a veg… Ach, I cannot even bring myself to write the vile word on my MacBuk Gas laptop! I am describing the lifestyle where people are MORE than just vegetarian. As in, much more – unnecessarily so!
I’m Team Carnivore, by the way. In case you were wondering.
Tell me about your childhood:
Cnut and I were childhood friends in Scandinavia in Sweden. We both loved Swedish pine trees and Swedish snow, the Swedish mountains and the Swedish sea. And goats, although you can find them anywhere, not that that’s important but it was to us then, even though it isn’t to me now. I’ve never liked goats except back then, when I did, until there was an unfortunate incident I do not wish to reflect upon in detail – after which, I did not. Looking back on things now, I had a complicated childhood.
Where would you be now if you had made better choices?
I have always made excellent choices, and I refute the implication lurking in this question that they have been otherwise.
Just remember, Karen, that I am the hero of this series!
I would say if you’re reading Cute Cnut: The Hardening for Cnut Vanking and that dreadful woman Stella, who’s always lusting after him, you’re missing the point. I know for a fact books 2 & 3 haven’t been written yet, so just wait. I’m pretty sure Karen McCompostine will soon realise Norge Bakhår is the more hirsute and compelling character, so start your Carnivore by Moonlight fan club now. Then you can tell all your friends you were ahead of the curve!
