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Vampires, Werewolves, and Selkies, Oh, My!
They’re bad—really, really bad. Vampires are notoriously hot, but let’s face it; they’re cold as corpses and more enticed by our hemorrhaging O negative than our carefully arranged cleavage. That brings me to our flea-bitten, collared friends—werewolves! They are almost man’s best friend, but would tear us apart in a pant. The much more elusive selkie might seem like a safer bet, but don’t be fooled. With the first glimpse of his pearly white skin, we’ll be following our gorgeous executioner happily to a watery grave. Yes, the common denominator here is death. D-E-A-T-H. Ladies, have we all lost our minds? Oh, yeah!
I’ve been racking my neurotic author’s brain trying to figure out the attraction. I’ve decided that deep inside of us, somewhere between our uvula and our appendix, there’s an itty bitty female ingredient that’s responsible for all the irrational love. It’s sort of like DNA but much more dangerous. It’s that tiny part of us that won’t openly admit out loud that we actually like (insert whisper) bad boys. Take one of these cocky dudes, throw in some immortality or super human strength, and voila, we’ve got ourselves the perfect man! The fact that we may or may not survive the first kiss is a bonus like his multi-million dollar inheritance.
By definition insanity means extreme folly or unreasonableness. Let’s examine those things we should not find enduring:
1. His lack of regard for commandment number six: Thou shalt not kill. I’m confident we would all feel much more outraged if Mr. Paranormal Man didn’t look so hot in his grungy jeans.
2. Mr. Paranormal Man is much too secretive. We would become irate if our human men disappeared for days at a time without any explanation, but with our super guy, we are charmed by the possibilities of the unknown. Where is he? Is he ripping out the throat of a South American nun or picking flowers in Tibet? Hmmm, I wonder.
3. With Mr. Paranormal Man, you will never ever have a “white picket fence” normal type relationship. But that’s part of the attraction, isn’t it? Vampires showing up at the door at all hours of the night, or demon battles in the backyard simply help keep the love alive.
4. Mr. Paranormal Man doesn’t have a clue how to have a “real” relationship. He will stalk us to the point of obsession, and mandate where we can and cannot go, but this is downright cute in the paranormal world. After all, his dark brooding eyes make us go weak in the knees.
5. Our babies will not be human. Gone are the dreams of having a perfect pink cherub to hold against our breast. For Mr. Paranormal man, we’d gladly give birth to a fanged or furry demon.
Krista has been writing since she was nine-years-old when she scribbled out her first adolescent work entitled Merish, the completely illogical but heartfelt story of a girl who was part mermaid, part fish. As a young mother, Krista added to her repertoire some middle grade readers and picture books she’s wary of mentioning.
In 2004, Krista began an intensive four year period working part-time as a critical care nurse while homeschooling her four children. During this hectic time, courses of writing were taught and learned, and rules of syntax were scolded to memory. Ironically this period of study equipped Krista with the tools she needed to enter the next phase of her writing experience. Now equipped with the mysteries of the comma, Krista was ready to tackle a much bigger project—a full fledged novel.
After the kids were enrolled in public school in 2009, it occurred to Krista that there is an insatiable audience of women and girls who want to read books filled with stories about true love. Convinced that there was an unfulfilled audience waiting for what Krista loves to write—romance, she sat down in the family’s dungeon, a.k.a. the basement, and began to furiously type. In no time, her first novel was drying on crisp white paper. Krista currently resides in Midlothian, Virginia with her husband, four daughters, and an eccentric cat with an attachment to the family’s socks.
In 2004, Krista began an intensive four year period working part-time as a critical care nurse while homeschooling her four children. During this hectic time, courses of writing were taught and learned, and rules of syntax were scolded to memory. Ironically this period of study equipped Krista with the tools she needed to enter the next phase of her writing experience. Now equipped with the mysteries of the comma, Krista was ready to tackle a much bigger project—a full fledged novel.
After the kids were enrolled in public school in 2009, it occurred to Krista that there is an insatiable audience of women and girls who want to read books filled with stories about true love. Convinced that there was an unfulfilled audience waiting for what Krista loves to write—romance, she sat down in the family’s dungeon, a.k.a. the basement, and began to furiously type. In no time, her first novel was drying on crisp white paper. Krista currently resides in Midlothian, Virginia with her husband, four daughters, and an eccentric cat with an attachment to the family’s socks.
She continues to write obsessively every chance she can get.
The Lure of Shapinsay
Excerpt: A hand slid over my mouth and stifled my scream before I was even fully awake. When my eyes sprung open, I was ready to be filled with the image of a most ghastly villain, but instead it was forewarned magick that filled my eyes, and I was filled with awe. A man in the lightest sense of the word, loomed over me with eyes so wide and feral, I thought he might howl to the moon. His words came out rough and breathy. “If you make a sound, I’ll snap your scrawny neck.”
Ever since Kait Swanney could remember, the old crones of the village have been warning her to stay away from the selkies. They claim that like sirens of old, the seal men creep from the inky waters, shed their skins, and entice women to their deaths beneath the North Sea. But avoiding an encounter becomes impossible when Kait is spotted at the water’s edge, moments after the murder of a half-selkie infant. Unexpectedly, Kait is awoken by a beautiful, naked selkie man seeking revenge. After she declares her innocence, the intruder darts into the night, but not before inadvertently bewitching her with an overpowering lure.
Kait obsesses over a reunion deep beneath the bay and risks her own life to be reunited with her selkie. But when she lands the dangerous lover, the chaos that follows leaves Kait little time to wonder—is it love setting her on fire or has she simply been lured?
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TToria♥
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