I also enjoy writing the paranormal because I like including that element of story beyond and enhancing the romance. I adore the fascinating characters who inhabit the paranormal worlds, the look into alternative lives and societies, and the unique surprises delving into the paranormal provides. Yet, first and foremost, we are drawn to the romance genre. Paranormal romances are at their heart, romances, with all the emotion and heroic character and life-affirmation that defines the genre. I lost all intelligence a decade ago.
All reading demands a suspension of belief.
It involves the skill of a writer to paint a picture with words, a picture of a different time, or place, or character. If the writer is skillful enough, if the reader is open, she is transported to the unique world of the novel. The paranormal writer uses those very same words, only her world is also filled with telekinesis or selkies or space ship captains or ghosts. We all have distinct preferences in reading. Then, I caught myself, realizing I d never read one, didn t even know what some of them were about.