Tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is N.J. and I’m a romance writer. I’ve been writing full time for 13 years now and I love it. I’m so grateful every single day that I get to tell my stories for a living. I’ve published about 90 books in that time in various romance genres—contemporary, fantasy, ménage a trois, vampire, werewolf, and paranormal. These past five years or so it’s been almost all paranormal. What can I say, I love fur and fangs.
Is one of your main characters a supernatural creature that is traditionally considered “evil?” If yes, how does this character break that traditional stereotype?
Nicodemus Wilde, the hero of Drakon’s Past, is a drakon—the son of a pure-blooded dragon and a human woman. Now in a lot of fairytales the dragon (or drakon) is the villain, slain by the human knight with his sword.
In this story, the Knights of the Dragon are the bad guys. They’re an international group of powerful men and women who want to capture all drakons and use them for their blood, which cures all disease and prolongs human life. Their problem is the blood has to be fresh as it loses potency quickly and they’ve never been able to duplicate it in a lab.
Nic is just a guy who loves his brothers, likes to gamble on occasion, and collects antiques. He’s willing to live and let live, but the Knights won’t let him.
What do you think are the heroic qualities your villain/antihero/supernatural creature possesses?
The one thing Nic understands is loyalty. After being betrayed by his own mother, he found his half-brothers (same dragon father but different human mothers). He’s lived for about four thousand years and there is nothing he won’t do to protect his family.
Who is one of your favorite fictional antiheroes?
There are so many. I love an antihero. One of my favorites is Kaleb Krychek from Nalini Singh’s Heart of Obsidian. He’s ruthless and powerful and focused. Most see him as emotionless and manipulative. But beneath it all is a powerful love that will literally rock the world.
What is one of your favorite paranormal creatures and why?
That’s a tough one. I’ve written a vampire series that I love (Dalakis Passion), but I really love the shifters. I’ve done a couple of werewolf series (Legacy and Salvation Pack) and one series with multi-shifters (Hades’ Carnival). Right now, I’m focusing on my drakons, but I am feeling the pull back toward werewolves. Who knows what I’ll work on next. I never do until the characters speak to me.
Drakon’s Past
Blood of the Drakon, Book 4
Constance Owens has a gift for finding unique items in the most unlikely places, which comes in handy since she buys and sells artifacts and antiques for a living. When she purchases a set of four dragon statues, she has no idea just how unique they are, or that finding them will thrust her into a world of secret societies, men who think nothing of kidnapping and murder to get what they want, and dragon shifters.
Nic hasn’t survived for four thousand years by letting his guard down, and he doesn’t trust anyone except his drakon brothers. The loneliness haunting him has been getting worse since all his brothers have found their mates. And when he finds the woman his drakon recognizes instantly as his fated mate, he doubts he’ll ever have what his brothers have, because it seems she’s involved with the secret society of hunters who have been hunting and capturing his kind for hundreds of years.
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N.J. Walters is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has always been a voracious reader, and now she spends her days writing novels of her own. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, time-travelers, seductive handymen, and next-door neighbors with smoldering good looks—all vie for her attention. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to live it.
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