I don't know what it is, but a lot of popular paranormal and/or fantasy I've tried to read has been disappointing on several levels, or just flat-out boring.
I've had an idea for a while that I fear might be seen as a Sookie Stackhouse rip-off (because I would place it in SC since, hey, write what you know) and it has vampires and weres. However, my big deal about vampires is that I don't believe they're supposed to be these cuddly emo beings who just need a good shag love. Oh sure, they can be sexy as hell, and I know what my kinks are about vampires as I picture them, but people seem to construe being a sexual being with being romantic, and that's not it. They ought to be fucking scary too, not just fucking. (There was a book whose blurb I read recently about a vampire who lost his twu luv some centuries before and the premise of the book was, "Can he overcome his loss?" I put the book back down before it burned me, because seriously. All powerful being capable of bedding any woman he wants who needs to drink blood to live is going to mope for centuries over one woman and learn to love another?)
But alas, I may never write it since I think by now a good number of readers would go, "Oh, look, another vampire novel" and just move on. Not that I think my idea of an elf and an anthropomorphic wolf in a high fantasy novel will appeal to many either, but at least that has the potential for some originality. Now to get my damn muses to work when I want them to and not the other way around.
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Date: 2011-08-30 01:28 pm (UTC)I've had an idea for a while that I fear might be seen as a Sookie Stackhouse rip-off (because I would place it in SC since, hey, write what you know) and it has vampires and weres. However, my big deal about vampires is that I don't believe they're supposed to be these cuddly emo beings who just need
a good shaglove. Oh sure, they can be sexy as hell, and I know what my kinks are about vampires as I picture them, but people seem to construe being a sexual being with being romantic, and that's not it. They ought to be fucking scary too, not just fucking. (There was a book whose blurb I read recently about a vampire who lost his twu luv some centuries before and the premise of the book was, "Can he overcome his loss?" I put the book back down before it burned me, because seriously. All powerful being capable of bedding any woman he wants who needs to drink blood to live is going to mope for centuries over one woman and learn to love another?)But alas, I may never write it since I think by now a good number of readers would go, "Oh, look, another vampire novel" and just move on. Not that I think my idea of an elf and an anthropomorphic wolf in a high fantasy novel will appeal to many either, but at least that has the potential for some originality. Now to get my damn muses to work when I want them to and not the other way around.