So when I started thinking about what kind of character could be strong, kick-ass, and blatantly sexual while still being one of the good guys, I thought about the idea of a telepath who could drain a man’s life energy, but wasn’t aligned with the devil, and didn’t do him permanent harm.įrom there the idea started to grow. I’ve always thought the idea of telepathy was the neatest thing I could imagine. I’ve been a science fiction and fantasy fan since a teacher gave me one of Andre Norton’s books in 7th grade.
A woman gets raped once and her reputation is besmirched forever. Sheesh … Men in literature can be studs and leave a trail of broken hearts in their wake, and as long as they eventually settle down, it’s fine. For a woman to be blatantly sexual, she had to be working for the devil, or driven by heartbreak and disaster into a “life of dissolution and amorality”. Sometimes they were sorceresses or queens, but again they fit into the same old pigeon holes. Historically, women in literature are either wives, old maids, or harlots. The genre is full of assertive, strong, kick-ass women who stood on their own and didn’t apologize for being who they are.Īnother thing I found in urban fantasy was sexual women. I think that’s a large part of what drew me initially to urban fantasy books. An assertive, ambitious woman is called a lot of things, but few of them are complimentary. An unmarried woman is looked on with pity, as though she was defective. Women are senators, astronauts, and leaders of countries (though not in the U.S., which is one of the few countries which has never had a female head of state).īut until recently, women were considered property – either of their fathers or of their husbands. It’s very evident that women have the same intelligence as men. A patriarchal society with women as chattels absolutely repulses me. I’ve long had a problem with the morality in our country and in Western European history. Like me, I think she’s grown a little tired of vampires and shape shifters in all their permutations.
Wren recently asked me to write about how I got the idea for the unusual paranormal characters in my novels, The Succubus Gift and Succubus Unleashed.
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