Workshop Description:
It’s hard enough for boy to meet girl, girl to meet boy, or even boy to meet boy or girl to meet girl, as the case may be, and then fall in love.
We have Romeo and Juliette and the Hatfields and McCoys as examples of lovers from warring families falling in love. It definitely didn’t work out well for Shakespeare’s young lovers. I’m not sure where it was for the lovers in the 19th century family wars along the West Virginia-Kentucky border as two McCoy women wed Hatfield men and four McCoy men wed Hatfield women. But even when the in-laws want to kill each other, it isn’t as tricky as being a shapeshifter or magic user who finds true love in the opposite camp.
That’s what this 4-week workshop concentrates on: love between the…er…species. Humans can fall in love with werebeings, with vampires, elves, a member of the Fae, or…well, even one of the old gods! Percy Jackson’s parents were certainly from different camps.
We’ll talk about what sort of shapeshifter hero or heroine to use, what you want to keep or change in the legend (after all, it’s werewolves that belong to the old European peasant legends, not werebears, weretigers, etc.), and whether to have them get involved with a full human or with another type of shifter, or an alchemist, or a wizard, or something else entirely!
These folks have got more problems to overcome than your average romantic couple. And they usually are falling in love or dealing with the relationship while other story elements are causing them headaches. These aren’t just love stories, they tend to be action-adventure and even mystery/suspense tales.
Join me for a write on the really wild side where we play matchmaker to things that don’t really exist.
Or do they?
Instructor Bio:
Beth Daniels never intended to write stories with either shapeshifters or magic users. She was writing romantic suspense, romantic comedy, and historical romance as Beth Henderson and doing very well at it as the 20th century closed down. But in the 21st century the market took some real twists. The first time she picked up an urban fantasy story to read it was supposed to be as a palate cleanser. Instead, it turned into a new market for her as J.B. Dane where she spins The Raven Tales. When looking for someplace interested in Old West stories when that historical market fell from favor, she became Nied Darnell to write Steampunk and then Dieselpunk and Gaslamp Fantasy. In the closing months of 2021, she mixed romance and cozy mystery with a downsized paranormal element under her Beth Henderson pseudonym for a short series, Whichur-Wolfe Detection. If nothing else, she can definitely say she is currently in love with paranormal characters—particularly those that are born from her pen. Visit her at www.4TaleTellers.com under all her names.