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Guest - Megan Morgan
Good morning! How are you on this cold, snowy (here at least) November day? Yep, I'm bundled up when I go outside and I'm bundled up when I'm working inside. It's too soon for the snow and cold but Mother Nature doesn't have a complaint department and I can be crabby when it comes to weather, lol. At any rate, we have author Megan Morgan visiting us today with a terrific post on scary things. Enjoy!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scary Is the New Sexy
Once upon a time in the old, olden days (like, fifty years
ago) the link between the paranormal and sex wasn't as strong as it is today.
Entertainment intended to scare and horrify rarely titillated as well. Horror
was created to shock, to repulse, to make the hairs on the back of your neck
stand up and keep you awake at night. Nosferatu, with his deformed alien
otherness, was a far cry from our modern sexy vampires who sweep the hapless
village virgin off in a whirlwind of passionate discovery. Likewise, The Blob
wasn't a tantalizing, hunky shifter looking for his true mate. Even the Bride
of Frankenstein wasn't so much a love story as a tale of tragedy and horror.
Monsters used to scare us because of their lack of humanity—after all, they
lacked one of humanity's most fundamental values: no one could love a monster,
not even another monster.
Until today, when everybody loves a monster, and monsters
can love.
Our screens are now full of TV shows and movies about
sexy, sensual, otherworldly creatures: The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, True
Blood, the Underworld movies. The monsters of yesterday who made our skin crawl
are now misunderstood hunks and vixens looking for acceptance and love—and more
often than not, finding it. Where the idea of fangs in your throat used to make
your blood run cold, it now sets your pants on fire.
Thus the emergence of paranormal romance, that wild child
of the romance world, the one that breaks formulas and bends the rules as only
creatures from the fringes can. I hear every other week it's going out of style,
or not being acquired/selling anymore, only to see a fresh batch of vampires
and werewolves pop up, ravishing their chosen mates. Readers love it.
Paranormal romance authors love it. We're not going anywhere. Supposedly horror
went out of style years ago too, but fans are still demanding a steady supply.
Why is that? Because in addition to love, humans crave
being scared. We like a thrill, something that sends our pulse racing, the idea
that there might be something out there that can't be explained. We like
mystery and magic. We like to believe there's something more exciting than this
boring day-to-day, that if we leave our window open at night a sexy vampire
will sweep in and make us his eternal lover; that if we get lost in the woods
we'll acquire a hunky werewolf instead of just poison ivy.
Mixing love and scares is appealing. Monsters aren't
mundane. They live in an unpredictable and exciting world, where you might live
forever or gain superhuman powers. Likewise, we imagine they love as
outrageously as they live—passionate, intense, desperate and devoted. They want
to be understood and accepted and crave a tender touch from the only human who
can love them the way they are. They want to be saved and transformed, but
they're still dangerous. We like a little danger, because danger is sexy. If
it's true women like bad boys, then vampires, werewolves, and shifters are bad
boys with all the glamour and none of the realistic 'bad' of the real world,
like a meth lab and six warrants in the next state over.
He might suck your blood, but he won't steal your purse.
At the core of romance are fantasy and escapism, and a
suspension of disbelief. Romance is meant to take us to a world of passion and
thrills, where things always work out and the sex is mind-blowing. Adding the
paranormal gives it another layer of un-reality we desperately need in a world
that is unpredictable and scary in ways that aren't fun at all. The hero
battles the darkness he knows all too well, the heroine spreads her literal
wings, but neither are trying to remortgage the house or survive an audit.
Better to fight actual dragons than the dragons we deal with outside the page.
Scary is sexy now. Probably, it always was sexy, though
the learned and stoic authors of the past didn't want to admit that—unless you're
Bram Stoker, and even he was trying to pass on a tale of morality and humanity
rather than a story of love and passion. Both terror and lust make you tingle
and set your heart pounding. Nothing is wrong with craving something out of
this world. Also, we see the humanity in monsters better now—the real monsters,
out here in the real world, are the ones we actually, actively fear instead.
So go ahead and leave your window open. Metaphorically,
anyway—you don't want the mosquitoes getting in. Those buggers will suck you
dry.
THE WICKED CITY
She's got a voice
to die for…
Whatever June Coffin says, goes—literally. And it’s not
just because she’s a chain smoking rebel. As a Siren, June has the ability to
force people to obey any command she voices. But in a world where those with
supernatural powers quickly become lab rats for science, she’d rather look out
for herself than fight on the front lines…until her similarly gifted twin
brother, Jason, is captured by Chicago’s Institute of Supernatural Research.
To save Jason, June has no choice but to enter a hidden
world of conspiracy, murder—and strange bedfellows—including a widowed
paranormal advocate whose memory June accidentally erased, and a fiery
paranormal separatist leader. Soon the lines between attraction and strategic
alliance become blurred. But in a city exploding with paranormal crossfire, and
her brother’s life at stake, June will have to face her inner demons and
finally take a stand.
Available March 3, 2015. Pre-order at Kensington Books:
About Megan:
Megan Morgan is a paranormal romance, erotica, and urban
fantasy author from Cleveland, Ohio. Bartender by day and purveyor of things
that go bump at night, she likes her fiction scary and sexy. She’s a member of
the RWA and trying to turn writing into her day job, so she can be on the other
side of the bar for a change. Currently published with House of Erotica and
Muse It Up, she is also the author of a three-book urban fantasy series coming
in March 2015 from Lyrical Press/Kensington Books.
Website: http://www.meganmorganauthor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/morgan_romance
Email: meganmorganauthor@gmail.com
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