Every time I do an interview, someone invariably asks what inspires me. My rather glib answer is usually: “I am inspired by everything, because that way, everything is tax deductible”. *grin*
In the case of the Tide Lords, however, there are a few other non-deductible of sources of inspiration I can pinpoint, and some of them are songs.
I was reminded of this when I dragged Meat Loaf’s 1977 overwrought Bat Out of Hell album off the pile the other day and found myself singing along with the epic (did Meat Loaf do anything other than epic?) Paradise by the Dashboard Light, which the Amazon staff reviewer refers to as a “breathless nookie-quest”.
Nookie-quests notwithstanding, the lyrics from the very end of that rather long and really quite absurd song, always struck a chord with me…
I couldn’t take it any longer, lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my God and on my mother’s grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you to the end of time!
So now I’m praying for the end of time, to hurry up and arrive
’Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don’t think that I can really survive
I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I’m praying for the end of time
It’s all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you
I always thought the idea of being stuck with someone you can’t stand until the end of time because of a thoughtless promise was, besides being quite a scary notion, fodder for a really interesting plot.
As a consequence, much of the series deals with the shifting relationships between my immortals and how they deal with the idea of being stuck with each other until the end of time.
And I’m pretty sure that means my remastered copy of Bat out of Hell is now tax deductible, too 
Jennifer Fallon has completed her guest-starring role with Supanova – so if you want to hear more about her in the next six months, watch this space or visit her website: www.jenniferfallon.com
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