Why
I write Paranormal Romance
I’d been writing short
stories and poetry for several years and doing well enough but something was
missing. I’ve always felt the ‘paranormal challenged’ needed love too just like
everyone else and that’s when I started writing romances with things that go bump
in the night. Yes, I was that girl who
thought that Dracula was the greatest love story of all time way better than
those two teenagers Romeo and Juliet’s story. They died end of the book, but
Dracula died on a daily basis, and kept coming back for more while searching
for his lady love. Who doesn’t like a guy with staying power.
There’s something about
a bad boy with a broken heart that draws us in and if they’re several centuries
old and have a thing for fresh blood all the better. Or how about a ghost with
unfinished business that needs to find love so he or she can cross over or live
again? And one of my favorites are the angels that fall for humans as we know
sometimes it takes a human to save an angel.
There is a mystique to
the flesh by day fur by night guy who’s looking for a howling good time, or
blood drinking dude who doesn’t care if you’re positive or negative, they’ll
love you anyway. How about a guy with a pair of big white wings? They can fly
you to the moon and back and leave a sigh on your lips. Paranormals stir a
primal desire in us that makes you want to rub that belly, donate to your local
Red Cross, and say your prayers to catch their attention.
My first book, a
novella, was about a Halfling (half fairy half human) who fell for a Great
Dragon, then a handsome Wizard, and finally settled down with an everyday
human.
The idea of paranormal
romances was stuck in my head. The possibilities were endless, shifters, weres,
ghost, angels, and blood drinkers to name a few. I read authors like Charlaine
Harris, Lynsay Sands, and Kerrelyn Sparks and found out there were vamps, who
might be brooding, but they also had a sense of humor out in the world. Undead
and funny to boot, my kind of heroes! Laurell K. Hamilton and Kim Harrison
added a slew of hot guy paranormals to my list of reading! My writing was about
to take a turn for the hot, sexy, tall, dark, and funny!
I read, pondered on
these new types of paranormals and vamps, what could I do that was different? One
night I dreamed about a new breed of biters. I dreamed about them the next
night and the next each night it was like I was learning more about these
people, and they were wanting me to tell their story. After several nights of dreams,
I woke up one morning and started outlining a book. When I finished, there were
ten legal sized pages filled front and back. An author friend looked over the
pages and informed me I didn’t have one book I had at least seven novels
waiting to come to life. My Tarczals were born.
I believe we read and
write paranormals because they take us outside of ourselves in a way that gives
us a bigger ‘what if’ to our romances. Instead of a love in the present-day
world, or a love that last decades, with a paranormal we have centuries and who
doesn’t want true love to last that long? I would if I could with my guy.
I love HEAs and wish
more people could have that in their lives, that’s why I write romance and why
I write paranormal romances that just kicks that HEA up a notch.
J.
Paulette Forshey, is an award-winning author who lives in a small Ohio town
with her husband, and a rescue Papillon. Her mornings belong to her writing,
her days are spent loving her eight grandbabies, and her nights belong to her
husband, the inspiration for her heroes.
You can find her at: www.jpauletteforshey.com
Twitter @ForsheyJ
THE TARCZAL ALLIANCE by J. Paulette Forshey
“A woman with a legendary past. A vampire with a
broken heart. Their love could change the world.”
Logan Kincaid was
trying to find the spy in his company when she
walked in, - long blond hair, longer legs, and intelligent green eyes – damn,
all his weaknesses rolled into one. He’d lived for 445 yrs. believing the Blood
Witches and T’yhiéls of his
vampiric childhood were nothing but myths until one walked into his life and
all hell broke loose.
Allyson Weston needed a scholarship to continue her career, and she
wanted her abusive ex out of her life. Allyson got both and more when she found
out the benefactor of the scholarship’s bite was worse than his bark and her ex
was found dead in her driveway.
The Tarczal Alliance is available at Amazon
6 comments:
Welcome, Paulette. Happy to have you join us.
You're so right - there's just something extra that makes paranormal romances rock! Great post. :)
I'm intrigued!! Thanks for visiting, Paulette, and giving us something new to love in the paranormal universe!
Your post is a wonderful, unique way to look at paranormal romance! P.S. I love Kim Harrison's books!
Thank you Diane and everyone else! I enjoyed all your wonderful comments! Hope to see more of you on my FB page would love to spend more time with all of you!
Great post, J Paulette! Thanks for sharing your love for and insight into our paranormal universe!
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