Now I enjoy a good romance as well as the next person, but I do have to admit I prefer mine on the paranormal or the fantasy or the sci-fi side of things. I read to escape and I like to leave reality well behind. That’s not to say I don’t like contemporary romance as well, I do, but if you put two books in front of me I’m going to pick up the one with the werewolf on the front first :).
I’ve always been the same. When I was small I started with fairytales, then books like The Hobbit (I can trace my desire to write back to that book) and in my teens I found authors like David Eddings and Anne McCaffery. However, it wasn’t really until my twenties I started reading romance. Fanfiction (fiction written by fans about fictional universes they do not own, e.g. Harry Potter), slash to be precise (which means male/male fiction) started me off down that road and I do usually read gay romance.
When I write in the romance genre I usually also decide to write male/male or menage. I’m not exactly sure what attracts me to the genre because the love is just as deep in male/female as in male/male and the sex is just as spicy most of the time in both when it’s erotica, it’s just something I like to read and write.
I do love a romance where there’s some neck nibbling going on. That’s why I write it as well. My series The Soul Reader Series is a romance over several books between a vampire, Michael, and John, a human who sells himself to vampires for blood and sex. There’s a twist in there as well (revealed in the first book), but which I won’t mention here because I don’t want to spoil anyone. The series is a set of shorter books which are free (#1 and #3) and novellas which are bargain priced (#2) with more to follow soon. There is no way I’m stopping writing them, I’m having way too much fun with Michael and John.
As I mentioned I also love fantasy and sci-fi. Give me dragons or space ships and I’m a very happy camper. I enjoy fiction that takes the characters out of what I consider the norm. I write and read slash fanfiction in the Harry Potter universe, for example, because although the romance in the books was sweet, it wasn’t who I wanted to see together. A good romance in space is also wonderful and I will ship Han/Leia until my dying day :).
This rather explains my other erotic romance series (which only consists of one book at the moment, but the second is almost ready :)). This series is called The Dark Reflections Series and is all about Tristan, an actor, who is either going insane or is transported to an alternative dimension where the movies he’s staring in are real. These films just happen to contain superheroes and supervillains so Tristan isn’t really equipped to deal with it all. Poor Tristan, I do enjoy placing characters in situations they have absolutely no way of coping with :).
So those are the sort of romances I enjoyed reading. What are your favourite romance sub-genres? Are any of you vampire fans too?
The Soul Reader Series
John McElroy knows that at best he can be called a male escort and at worst a whore. He sells his blood to vampire clients and it’s a full service industry; what the client wants the clients gets whether it be sex or just a meal. John survives using the acting skills he picked up in his old life before he knew some people came with fangs. He keeps his emotions remote, but then he meets Michael Cooper, a vampire who changes everything.
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“Me, Myself and I” is a sci-fi novelette (~15.5Kwds), with a heavy side of male/male romance.
This is the first story in the Dark Reflections Series, the second title will follow soon.
Natasha Duncan-Drake
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