Welcome Guest Blogger Seressia Glass

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An author friend of mine recently asked me for an interview: Of the interracial, contemporary, and paranormal romances that you've written, which genre is your favorite? I told her that I love all the stories and genres that I write in equally because at the end of the day, my stories will still be 90% about the romance, if not more.

Sorry Dyanne, I lied.

I love paranormal romance. This love is deeply rooted in some of my favorite childhood experiences. I grew up reading comics, fantasy and science fiction. (Did you know that A Wrinkle in Time was rejected 26 times as being too different? I love that story!) I also watched every incarnation of Superfriends that I could, including the Wonder Twins and that stupid space monkey. Anyone remember Land of the Lost? Anyway, stories of the fantastical have been part of my life since I discovered the joy of reading all those years ago.

My first prose attempts were fantasies (aside from one autobiography of a piece of bubble gum.) Then sometime in my teens I discovered romance. I don't remember what the first one was, other than it was probably a historical, a subgenre which in itself is a bit of fantasy to me. I continued to read historicals while working my way to being published in contemporary romance.

Then I discovered paranormals. More specifically, Forever and the Night by Linda Lael Miller. I quickly began reading every paranormal I could get my hands on, even after I sold my contemporary single titles. In fact, my first paranormal didn't come until seven years after my first contemporary, a little novella about a black female werewolf and a djinn in an anthology called Vegas Bites.

Why paranormals? Because they combine the best of both worlds. The provide the true other-worldliness and in the best cases, terrific world-building that fantasy and science fiction deliver. And of course, they also deliver the promise that romance novels offer.

On a personal note, writing paranormals allow me to provide extra seasonings to established genres. In Vegas Bites, the core family are werewolves given their Were gifts after they escaped from a plantation in Louisiana . So much history to mine there, history that defines their characters and conflicts. In my first single title, Dream of Shadows, the women of the family have psychic gifts that have been handed down since the first of their line was given her gifts by an African goddess. In writing paranormals, I get to indulge my fascination with Egyptian and Nubian history, African folktales, and more. With paranormal romances, you may know how the love story ends, but everything in between is wide open. You get to ask yourself, What if? and the answers are endless.

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