Flying High

I'm a timid driver. I’m a nervous flier, even on a commercial jet.  (This scenes with Raven's adventures in Mundane air travel in Raven's Wing are based on my own personal aversion.) You couldn't pay me enough to get on a small private aircraft.

With this background, you might be surprised that one of my childhood heroes was Amelia Earhart.

Part of the appeal, of course, was the mystique of her last flight and how she disappeared without a trace.  I was one of those kids who was all about myths, legends, and mysteries. Stonehenge. Nessie. UFOs. The Bermuda Triangle.

But Amelia (in my child-mind, we were always on a first-name basis), Amelia was far more to me than another mystery. She was a woman who did, a woman who dared. She ignored all those who said a woman's place was in the home, who said that women were inherently less capable, that real ladies don’t go adventuring. She set records. Congress awarded her a medal for her aerial courage and pioneering spirit.

I grew up in a very traditional Catholic family that believed in separate roles for men and women. I went to a Catholic school that tried to instill in me the feminine virtues of mild manners and modesty.

Amelia and women like her showed me another way to be. I galloped racehorses in high school. I handled birds of prey in college. I've shot a pistol and a longbow, and I've thrown javelin from the back of a moving horse. The unfortunately early onset if arthritis may have slowed me down a bit, but, damn, I had fun while I could.

And a tiny bit of Amelia's spirit lives on in my characters. Catherine Fairchild from my Werewolves and Gaslight series never listens to the people who would tell her what a lady can and can't do, either.

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Annie Nicholas

Annie Nicholas writes paranormal romance with a twist. She has courted vampires, hunted with shifters, and slain a dragon’s ego all with the might of her pen. Riding the wind of her imagination, she travels beyond the restraints of reality and shares them with anyone wanting to read her stories. Mother, daughter, and wife are some of the other hats she wears while hiking through the hills and dales of her adopted state of Vermont.

Annie writes for Samhain Publishing, Carina Press, and Lyrical Press.

Pia Blyton, a succubus, is unofficially engaged to one of the most powerful incubi in Lake City, Valerio Hunan.  She’s hesitant to set a date for a public party where Val will clasp his engagement bracelets on her wrists because his five wives still haven’t accepted her. It’s not a personal thing, her people don’t get jealous like mortals and most don’t believe in love, but because she has nothing to offer to their family. At twenty-five she has always lived with her parents, had never held a real job, or finished college. She doesn’t understand Val’s hurry.

Valerio keeps pushing Pia to set a date for their engagement. Doesn’t she understand that as long as it’s unofficial his wives could still annul the whole thing? So far they have indulged his affection for Pia to keep him happy but succubi can be fickle and he didn’t want to take any chances. Even worse, the packages of energy his wives ususally send him weren’t arriving. Were they out of their minds refusing to feed him?

Driven by hunger Val struggles to not kill his one true love. Pulling on her big girl pants, Pia has to figure out how to feed him without burning herself out.

Sinful Cravings

This is a fun, hot read. I wrote this series for exactly that purpose. It's pure escapism. I've always said I'd love to have Pia's problems. LOL

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