Dear Readers,

My Favorite Part of Paranormal Romance...

...is the characters.  Whether I’m reading them or writing them, it’s the characters who draw me in more than the setting or even the plot. What I love most about paranormal characters is how REAL they are. I know that sounds unusual, given the unusual plots of paranormals. But, like real people, these characters are flawed. They are not black or white but many shades of gray. They wrestle with doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Other genres, particularly in romance novels, seem to have that clear-cut hero who is moral and admirable and brave.  Paranormal heroes are often in doubt – are they good or bad? The hero or the villain?  Maybe that’s what makes them so interesting and so exciting – to read and write.  The reader – and sometimes the writer – have no idea what this character is going to do next.  It’s so much fun to write a hero who doesn’t have to be nice or polite or particularly heroic. Because they are flawed characters, they’re very human...even if they’re not human at all...like the heroes in my upcoming October Bite and the novella I wrote for the Holiday with a Vampire anthology that will be out in December.

Thanks!

Lisa Childs