{"id":1938,"date":"2018-02-05T01:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2018-02-02T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T01:35:57","slug":"interview-with-n-j-walters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2018\/02\/05\/interview-with-n-j-walters-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with N.J. Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell us a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is N.J. and I\u2019m a romance writer. I\u2019ve been writing full time for 13 years now and I love it. I\u2019m so grateful every single day that I get to tell my stories for a living. I\u2019ve published about 90 books in that time in various romance genres\u2014contemporary, fantasy, m\u00e9nage a trois, vampire, werewolf, and paranormal. These past five years or so it\u2019s been almost all paranormal. What can I say, I love fur and fangs.<\/p>\n

Is one of your main characters a supernatural creature that is traditionally considered “evil?” If yes, how does this character break that traditional stereotype?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicodemus Wilde, the hero of Drakon\u2019s Past, is a drakon\u2014the 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.<\/p>\n

In this story, the Knights of the Dragon are the bad guys. They\u2019re 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\u2019ve never been able to duplicate it in a lab.<\/p>\n

Nic is just a guy who loves his brothers, likes to gamble on occasion, and collects antiques. He\u2019s willing to live and let live, but the Knights won\u2019t let him.<\/p>\n

What do you think are the heroic qualities your villain\/antihero\/supernatural creature possesses?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s lived for about four thousand years and there is nothing he won\u2019t do to protect his family.<\/p>\n

Who is one of your favorite fictional antiheroes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are so many. I love an antihero. One of my favorites is Kaleb Krychek from Nalini Singh\u2019s Heart of Obsidian. He\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

What is one of your favorite paranormal creatures and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a tough one. I\u2019ve written a vampire series that I love (Dalakis Passion), but I really love the shifters. I\u2019ve done a couple of werewolf series (Legacy and Salvation Pack) and one series with multi-shifters (Hades\u2019 Carnival). Right now, I\u2019m focusing on my drakons, but I am feeling the pull back toward werewolves. Who knows what I\u2019ll work on next. I never do until the characters speak to me.<\/p>\n

Drakon\u2019s Past<\/strong>
\nBlood of the Drakon, Book 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Nic hasn\u2019t survived for four thousand years by letting his guard down, and he doesn\u2019t 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\u2019ll ever have what his brothers have, because it seems she\u2019s involved with the secret society of hunters who have been hunting and capturing his kind for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n

Buy Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazon: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0786R7LSM\/<\/a>
\nEntangled: https:\/\/entangledpublishing.com\/drakon-s-past.html<\/a>
\nB&N: https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/drakons-past-nj-walters\/1127620047?ean=9781640634695<\/a>
\niBooks: https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/drakons-past\/id1324091386<\/a>
\nKobo: https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/drakon-s-past<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2014all vie for her attention. It\u2019s a tough life, but someone\u2019s got to live it.<\/p>\n

Visit me at:<\/strong>
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.njwalters.com<\/a>
\nBlog: http:\/\/www.njwalters.blogspot.com<\/a>
\nNewsletter Group: https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/awakeningdesires\/info<\/a>
\nFacebook Author Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/N.J.WaltersAuthor<\/a>
\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/njwaltersauthor<\/a>
\nGoodreads: http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/NJWalters<\/a>
\nAmazon: http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/njwalters<\/a>
\nBookBub: https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/n-j-walters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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