What kind of shifter would I write about if I no longer created stories
about wolf or jaguar shapeshifters?
That’s a hard one to answer because I love creating stories about the wolves and
jaguars. I’m writing about cougars and also have one coming out about a polar
bear because the first shifter book I ever read was about a man cursed to be a
polar bear in EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, a Norwegian fairy
tale. Reading that book as a child, I had my first real experience about
shifters and loved the romance between the prince and the maid who married him.
The story was a fantasy, a wicked troll queen cursing him to be a polar bear by
day and a man at night. But mine will be perfectly plausible. Looking for a hot
polar bear to warm your heart?
Cougars are really different from jaguars, so it’s fun for me to write about two
unique big cats and how different the shifters are in their human form also.
Jaguars are mysterious, hard to document, protected. Cougars are hunted and have
seasons to thin their numbers. Jaguars are exotic big cats, whereas cougars are
not. Cougars have been known to attack humans; jaguars do not, for the most part.
I would like to write about a black bear/grizzly bear shifter because I’m from
the great bear state of California, and it was a prominent feature when I lived
there—the state flag, the state animal. I also create teddy bears, and it’s just
something I’d love to do.
There are certain animals I always have to see when I go to the zoo—the big cats
and the bears. Unfortunately, most zoos don’t have wolves, so I have to make a
special trip to a wolf center to see them also.
I also write a fae YA series where my dragon shifters and other fae are
well-loved. I have fun writing about the dragon shifters, though it would be
hard for me to see how they could fit into our contemporary world, like the
wolves and jaguars do, without readers raising both brows. For my fae, it’s
easy. They can be themselves in the fae plane of existence, and as the fae are
tricksters, coming to our world and showing off their dragon scales? Just a bit
of fun because everyone knows dragons don’t exist.
I’d love to do a historical wolf shifter story, something I plan to in the
future. I love historical books and since the wolf shifters had to start
somewhere, I think it would be fun.
In some South American legends, they had a dolphin who could shift into a man.
Owls and hawks have been in shifter stories. Snakes and serpents, and even a
ferret as a thief, but it’s harder for me to see these as sexy men.
What do you think? What kind of shifter would make you soar to the moon and back?
An alpha werewolf meets his match in this sizzling paranormal romance
from USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear
THERE'S A NEW WOLF PACK IN SILVER TERRITORY
Wolf shifter
and park ranger Eric Silver is committed to his job policing spectacular San
Isabel National Forest, and he's hot on the scent of some mysterious wolves who
are up to no good. When Eric's investigation leads him to cross paths with
forester Pepper Grayling, he's fascinated to learn this she-wolf is her pack's
leader-strong, independent, and definitely not looking for a mate.
AND THIS TIME THE LEADER'S A SHE...
With unknown dangers
on the prowl, Pepper is tempted to give in to her attraction to Eric and align
her pack with his. But Pepper's been pursued by many an alpha male out to take
over her pack and gain her hard-won territory-and Eric is a born leader. How
does Eric earn the trust of a she-wolf who's been betrayed so often in the past?
USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear has written over two
dozen paranormal romance novels and medieval Highland historical romances. In
2008 HEART
OF THE WOLF was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A
retired officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry also creates award-winning
teddy bears that have found homes all over the world and is raising two Havanese
puppies. She lives in Crawford, Texas.
That's a no brainer. If I want to soar to the moon and back. I'd have to be a Dragon Shifter. But I'd be happy to just be a Yuma Town Cougar or Silver Town Wolf. I love all your shifter stories though. I love the Jaguars, but I don't like the Amazon Jungles to much. To many slithering things. *laughing*
(Donna Fournier 11:38am May 5, 2016)
Personally, I'd like to read more non-warm-blooded shifters. How about a 6-foot dragonfly (larger than those during the Carboniferous and Permian periods)? Non-warm-blooded creatures tend to be viewed as aliens already so a shifter that is an insect or similar would have a different set of experiences.
(S Tieh 12:55pm May 6, 2016)
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