*Cue spooky music* While you’re reading this I am not at my computer. I am in the lovely town of Akron Ohio for Ellora’s Cave Romanticon and presently signing books … hopefully. I do have visions of people lobbing things at me. ;-) LOL! *end spooky music*
This month, October (which btw is my favourite month) the theme is HERE BE DRAGONS, WEREWOLVES AND MORE. What a perfect theme for the spookiest month of the year. I am a Halloween junkie. It’s also the month I got married. I wanted a Halloween themed wedding but I was vetoed. Anyways I digress.
I love shifters. I’ve read many of them. My favourite shifters being Katie MacAlister’s dragons in her Aisling Grey series. I heart Drake.
I love shifters so much, but I’ve never written one. Until recently.
I just subbed it to my editor so I can’t say much other than it involves Mounties and hot shifters. *grin*
I know I was totally entranced by shifting creatures when I saw The Last Unicorn, though she wasn’t a true shifter … she was just transformed. A couple years later I saw the movie Lady Hawke. Does anyone remember Lady Hawke and I thought WOW what a great tragic love story and how they are separated by their shift. She’s a hawk by day and he’s a wolf by night.
Shifting has been around for quite some time too. I mean look at that rascally God Zeus well he’s the KING of shifters.
Let’s take a look at some of what he’s shifted into to seduce women:
• Artemis (a woman)
• Bull
• Swan
• Golden Shower
In the classic King Arthur legends Uther Pendragon transformed into Gorlois to lay with Gorlois’ wife Lady Igraine.
Shape shifters have been ingrained in our legends since we sat around the fires and told stories through song and dance and I have to wonder what is our fascination with them.
What do you like about shifters? What is your favourite type of shifter?
Have a spooktacular October.
3 comments:
Shifter stories (although mine will be published in December) have always been difficult for me to suspend disbelief. I have read a few where the world-building is so incredible that you just fall right into it! I like how shifting is a physical manifestation of the character's primal nature, especially in Alpha males. What better way to show it off?
Ladyhawke--I loved that film! Haven't seen it in years, though. Hmmm, I can feel a net search coming on...
I have to second Ladyhawke as an awesome shifter movie--something it's rarely recognized to be.
I think I like feline shifters more than any other, but they get the shaft when it comes to movies and such. I think there's something just sleekier and perhaps therefore more feminine to the power, that I want to see explored more.
My favorite shifters to read about are all of the offerings in White Wolf's World of Darkness. Yes, my Geek is showing. *grin*
~X
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