Southern Fried Chicas

I stink at talking about my books. They are 1.) romances 2.) fantasies 3.) have shape shifter alpha male heroes …okay, that’s all I have. So, when I saw the announcement that I would be talking about Wild Hunt, my initial reaction was Crap, what am I going to say?

I really was hoping to blog about either something Southern fried –being from the Ozarks I totally get beauty of anything Southern fried, or chica which is half of one of my favorite endearments for my daughter. (The other half being bonita.)

But then it hit me…I won’t blog about the book, how I wrote it, blah, blah. I’ll blog about the beings in it and which you and I would most want to be.

So, here are the choices…

1.) Hellhound:  hellhounds are shape shifters (human to massive dog with a hellish addiction to blood lust). The males are very alpha. No female hellhounds appear in Wild Hunt, but I have a Bite coming out this fall that features one. The females are survivors.

2.) Valkyries: The heroine of Wild Hunt is a Valkyrie. In my world, Valkyries pretty much stay in Valhalla

these days, and they don’t necessarily love it. They have gone from the days of glory as warriors to just serving the spirits of fallen warriors. But they do come with some cool gear–flying horses and feathered capes that also give them the ability to fly. They also are perfectly capable of kicking butt.

3.) Norn: Norn are the fates of Norse Myth. In my world, they can read rune stones and cards. They can also speak to animals if they are in contact with some part of the animal. This talent comes in handy for my one Norn character in Wild Hunt when she and a hellhound both want the same thing–They also deliver a child’s fate to him/her at birth.

4.) Witches:  You probably can figure this one out for yourself. One thing that is somewhat unique about my witches is they can store power. So when magical things happen around them, like a hellhound shifting from canine to human, they soak up the power to use later. Then they get to blow things to bits–always fun.

5.) The ErlKing: The ErlKing runs the Wild Hunt a hunt where a pack of hellhounds in spectral hound form hunt down beings and steal their souls. There is only one ErlKing at any given time. I don’t go into his history a lot in the book, but the way I see him is a bit like Tim Allen in the Santa Clause…except major scary and wearing a helmet made from a boar’s head. In my mind the ErlKing was at one time a normal man, elf, whatever, then he somehow got hold of the horn and called up the hunt. That act made him into the ErlKing. He lost his soul to the hunt. Now he is the hunt, and he has some major powers, not the least being the ability to control a pack of hellhounds with the curl of his pinky.

And that is it, no humans, elves, trolls or giants in this book.

So, which one would you want to be? Which do you think would be most useful in modern life? I’m leaning toward Norn because I just think it would be cool, and because I think of them as being kind of catlike. But there are certainly days that shifting into a hellhound would be darn useful.

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