My, oh my.

I must admit to a recent obsession with motorcyles. It might have something to do with the most recent novel I finished. Okay, guilty as charged. Cops and bikers, specifically.

Motorcycles are one thing,but add a fine man on them.

Look left. Pick your jaw off the floor.

Say hello to Scott Caan on a motorcycle.

Need I say more?

Sleek Chrome

This is a 1967 Shovelhead - one of the inspirations

for my current manuscript about a cop and biker. Need I say more?

From bikers to necromancers

This evening I sent out a manuscript for the first time. Go free my pretty into the scary world! So that means my attention must turn from cops and bikers to the paranormal! I can concentrate on finishing the edits to a manuscript with a necromancer in a contemporary setting. What is necromancy you may ask? In simplistic terms, it's someone involved with magic, life, and death. But, as we all know, nothing interesting is simple and it's much more deliciously complicated than that. For this novel, I enjoyed exploring what has typically been cast as a "dark" character and flipping the stereotype on it's head.

Inspiration: Motorcycles

I've been neck deep in writing and editing for the past little while, but I can most certainly share with you one thing. That is the inspiration for my most recent work, which I've just finish editing this weekend.

Motorcycles - All sleek chrome and powerful machines.

There's an entire culture built around them, tattoos and all. A culture that traditionally hasn't been associated with m/m. Thus the appeal for me as a writer to incorporate motorcycles, tattoos, and the men that go with them in a realistic fashion. I've found it a great setting for a contemporary sci-fic work.

Let me just say I got some raised eyebrows when I asked someone with a motorcycle about how stable they are...

Passion

I love this quote by Joss Whedon about PASSION:


“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.” (Joss Whedon)

Non-lycanthrope Shapeshifters: love-life

Don't get me wrong, I love werewolves. They're some of my favourite shapeshifters. Lots of possibilites, and as we all know, probably the most well known and popular shapeshifters in today's pop culture.

That being said, these days I've been very interested in non-lycanthrope shapeshifters. Specifically, how could they be adapted to a romance novel?

I'm not just talking about humans who shift into other animal forms. There's a plethoria of shapeshifters in mythology that have a lot of potential. Even if you think about the love stories we know, some contain shapeshifters that we don't necessarily classify as shapshifters. I'm thinking about Beauty and the Beast, namely the Beast.


A shapeshifter who I could speculate (in fiction, that is) has an active lovelife is Proteus, ancient Greek sea-god and son of Poseidon. In his seal form, he had a harem of female seals. Now, if all of those ladies were shapeshifters, too... well, Proteus could be a very tired man.

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