Happy Monday, Paranormal Unbound Readers! Today, we welcome fantasy author J. A. Garland to the Paranormal Unbound blog. She has noticed a trend in her genre and she’s here to hold it up to the light, give it a little shake, and see what we all think. Are you ready, dear readers? Take it away, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Meet Mina Vaughn and sample her Kink with a Wink
At Paranormal Unbound, we are all about books that hop outside the genre box and flip up their skirts to show us their cool bare vampire asses, and so I am thrilled to welcome Mina Vaughn to our blog today. A mutual friend introduced me to Mina online and then I was delighted to literally bump into her … Continue reading
The Revelation Ratio—some thoughts about plotting
There is a sweet spot of revelation in writing—the perfect amount to reveal about your character and the world you’re building—so the reader feels oriented to the world while also curious to learn more. But like so many sweet spots in life, it often proves elusive! When I am writing, I think of it as … Continue reading
Subtext in Paranormal Tropes: A Conversation with Jami Gold
Hello, ParaUnbounders! Today we’re talking about a subject I just love to chat about so I was thrilled when I asked if Jami Gold wanted to be a guest on here and I asked her what topic, and she said, subtext! Jami is one of my Beta reading buddies and she runs a great blog … Continue reading
AJ & Suzanne talk Southern paranormal with RT Book Reviews
AJ & Suzanne talk Southern paranormal with RT Book Reviews Unbounders Suzanne Johnson and AJ Larrieu (plus fantastic UF author Faith Hunter) chatted with Romantic Times Book Reviews about what it means to write stories set in the South. Check it out! Continue reading
Suzanne Johnson’s Elysian Fields: Paranormal Love Zentangle
Release day is a funny thing for most authors–we’re fairly quiet, introverted people who suddenly feel the need to run all over the cyber-universe waving our hands and screaming “buy my new book!” So I did a lot of running around and screaming yesterday as ELYSIAN FIELDS made its debut, a bouncing 340-page baby filled … Continue reading
Prince of Thorns
I’ve had this book hanging around for a while and only just got around to reading it. I bought it because, hey, it has a cool title! And I like revenge stories. And the first page didn’t bore me to death. Yay! That’s a sadly rare win in the bookstore for me. I like this … Continue reading
The Awesomeness of Genre Fiction Communities: A Conversation with DaVinciKittie of GraveTells
Today, I’m thrilled to welcome DaViniciKittie (aka DVK), the proprietress of GraveTells News & Reviews, to Paranormal Unbound! GraveTells is a review site for the sorts of books we love at Paranormal Unbound. Paranormal romance (PNR) and urban fantasy (UF) feature large, but DVK and her team review all sorts of genre fiction. The site … Continue reading
South of Surrender by Laura Kaye
Look out world–sexy gods on the loose! And Laura Kaye serves them up in a sizzling blend of romance, sibling/family drama, and Greek mythology. South of Surrender, the third book in Kaye’s Hearts of the Anemoi series, stars Chrysander Notos, Supreme God of the South Wind and Summer, and one of four brothers-slash-deities controlling the … Continue reading
Genre Talk: Is there room anymore for steampunk minus the magic?
I’m one of those that defines the paranormal genre as more than just creature fiction–anything that is outside of our normal world fits the bill for me, though I know some disagree, and that’s okay. Being the analyzer that I am, when I set out to write my steampunk romance a year ago, I bought … Continue reading