I love dragons. Always have. They’re that mystical creature which can do anything, fly, breathe fire, capture pretty maidens, fight off knights, LOL. To me, Dragons do it all better: from finding love to battling evil. Why?

5. Dragons are fierce. Never get between a dragon and its treasure, especially if that treasure is its mate.

4. Dragons are fiery. Enough said

3. Dragons are resourceful. They’ll stomp the bad guy and save their mate, no matter what problems are thrown their way.

2. Dragons are saucy. Their acerbic wit, or snarkiness, can fillet anyone stubborn enough to butt heads with them.

1. Dragons are devoted. Once they find their mate, better watch out And like wolves, Dragons bond for life.

Dragons kick butt. They can go against anyone or anything, and survive.

Can you think of a few more things to love about our fire-breathing friends?

Blurb for Dragos 1: Burned

While modern parannormal romance and urban fantasy is filled with vampire hunters, I love the idea of an old-fashioned exorcist. My guest today, Tawny Stokes, is here to talk about how she gave a face-lift to the old trope. Comment and you could win a free copy of the THE DEMON WHISPERER.

Guest Post by Tawny Stokes

I love me some monsters. The more the merrier in my opinion. I’ve been reading monster fiction since I could read. My literary mainstay as a child was Stephen King, John Saul, Dean Koontz. Which probably says a lot about me and why I write what I write. Just about every book I’ve ever written has had a monster or two in it. Sometimes they are bad, and sometimes they are good. Sometimes they are the main character and sometimes they are the villain.

My lastest book the DEMON WHISPERER has a pretty good monster factor. Caden Butcher is an exorcist you see, he’s knee deep in the 3 Ds, demon, death and destruction. In this book he’s dealing with all kinds of stuff, like vengeful demons, the undead, and a rather malicious zombie named Uncle Eldon. It’s his girlfriend, Aspen’s, uncle. She’s a necromancer and she accidentlally rose him and can’t put him back. Oh, and Caden’s BFF is a charming demon named Dan, who looks a lot like Sid Vicious.

So here is my monster list:

Demon – both bad and good
Necromancer – good
Zombies – good and very very bad (Uncle Eldon)
Jinn – bad

Do you like monster fiction? What’s your favorite monster to read about?

I will give 3 copies (ebooks only) of my book Demon Whisperer, to commenters.

Bio: Tawny Stokes has always been a writer. From an early age, she’d spin tales of serial killers in love, vampires taking over the world, and sometimes about fluffy bunnies turned bunnicidal maniacs.  An honour student in high school, with a penchant for math and English, you’d never know it by the foot high blue Mohawk and Doc Martens, which often got her into trouble.  No longer a Mohawk wearer, Tawny still enjoys old school punk rock, trance, zombie movies, teen horror films, and fluffy bunnies.  She lives in Canada with her fantastical daughter, two cats, and spends most of her time creating new stories for teens.  Her current YA books are Static and Demon Whisperer.  www.tawnystokes.com
Tawny also writes adult paranormal/urban fantasy fiction under the name Vivi Anna, and is an aspiring screenwriter.

What if the monsters of ancient mythology still walked the earth…and what if you found out that you were one of them?

That’s the premise of my Mythica series for Harlequin Nocturne, each of which explores a world in which the gods still are among us and war can turn men into monsters.

We’ll get to the quiz in a minute, but first, let me plug my newest installment Dark Sins & Desert Sands–a story about a modern day minotaur who is determined to have revenge against those responsible for torturing him. In his quest, he falls in love with his beautiful but treacherous interrogator, a woman who has lost all her memories and is a riddle even to herself. It’s a story about two very battered and broken people finding redemption in one another. I hope you’ll love it as much as I do, but in the meantime, I hope you’ll have fun with this little quiz I made up.

Which Ancient Monster of Greek Mythology Are You?

I was a gorgon. Share your results!

This graphic tickles me because tonight I presented “Love, Monsters & Mythology: For Romance Writers” to my Maryland chapter. I think it went pretty well! I need to tweak some of the exercises to cater to beta heroes and to better help writers use mythology to bring out the themes in their writing, but it seems to have been a good start. A few folks told me that it got them back into the scenes they were writing and was helpful, so I’m feeling pretty great about that!