I wrote Lupe and Dana Naked in School right after completing another NIS story -- the most angsty teen novel I've ever written. Yes, even more angst than the Triad NIS. No, still more than that -- a couple buckets more. That it had angst wasn't surprising, as it's pretty much baked into the premise of the NIS Program (along with a default Coercion tag), but by the time I was done I was tired of the stuff. So, so tired. So I turned around and wrote the fluffiest, most glitter-swirled NIS story I could, decorated with sequins and frosting and a cloud of romantic little hearts. There may have been a glue gun involved, too. But not confetti -- had to draw the line somewhere.
I was also tired of YA novels about angsty werewolves. So I stuck a woof in as well.
This is another traditional NIS story, with first-person narration and chapters-by-day. What can I say -- I like that format. It lets me play around with the premise without having to worry about the structure.
(FWIW, that first NIS story, I can't repost here because of age-based content restrictions -- it leans heavily into the question of how young is too young for sex and for the Program.)