Gargoyles and Shifters and Demons, Oh My! with Karen Whiddon - giveaway!
Karen Whiddon writes the very successful Pack series for Silhouette Nocturne. Besides hot, her heroes and heroines are, for the most part, werewolves, though she's been throwing some other things that go bump in the night into the recent books as well. If you want to see what the Pack series is all about or just want a signed copy of a book you've already loved, just comment below for a chance to win DANCE OF THE WOLF, signed by the author.
Karen Whiddon:
The other day, someone asked my how writing my Silhouette Nocturnes was different than writing my Sihouette Romantic Suspense books. After all, they both have suspense, right? And love. True.
But writing shape-shifters and recently, vampires is different in many ways. First of all, though all my characters are people to me, these two species are not completely human. The shape-shifters, though they live alongside humans and pretend to be just like them, have a highly developed sense of smell, four-hundred times more powerful than that of a human. Not only that, but they must periodically change into their wolf self, and throughout my books, the shape-shifter is conscious of their wolf inside of them, waiting. Oftentimes, the wolf inside will react to outside stimuli in a very non-human way and must be controlled.
One of the most important issues my shifters have to deal with (these are love stories after all) is finding their mate. Wolves mate for life and my shifters often have no control over who they will choose as their mate. As sometimes happens, they fall in love with a human. How that human will react upon learning of the shifter's true nature often makes an interesting story.
Vampires on the other hand, are newcomers to my shape-shifter world. So far, I've included vamps in two pack books - both Nocturne Bites - ebooks, although one of these stories MATE OF THE WOLF, is included in the book MIDNIGHT CRAVINGS, out in April from Silhouette books. The other, RETURN OF THE WOLF, will be out as a Nocturne Bite in June.
Now though, I am working on a full length Nocturne and the heroine is actually a vampire. The hero is a shape-shifter. This has been challenging to me, the merging of the two paranormal cultures and making them able to co-exist in a completely human world. It's a lot of fun, actually.
The Perfect Soldier - Silhouette Romantic Suspense - April 2009
Midnight Cravings - Mate of the Wolf (Anthology) - April 2009
Return of the Wolf - Sihouette Nocturne Bites - June 2009
Wild Wolf - Silhouette Nocturne - July 2009