Paranormal Romance Programming
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Friday Panels
- (PR) Kicking ass in high heels: These days women can kick ass, save the world, and still have time to fall in love. But why are they still doing it in hot pants and high heels? Can heroines be a size 18 and still be beautiful?
Saturday Panels
- (PR) Star Crossed Lovers - They Don't Just Happen in YA - Discuss the adults who find true love and the demons/werewolves/vampires/fairies/evil governments they must battle in order to be together.
- (PR) More of a Man - The Bunny is fond of saying, "I'll get married when I find a man who is more of a man than I am." As women become stronger and more independent IRL, how does that affect our heroes in paranormal romance? What is "manly" these days?
- (PR) The History and Future of Paranormal Romance - The days of your mother hiding her "trashy" paperbacks in the desk drawer are over. Let's talk about the evolution of Paranormal Romance and how it made its way to the mainstream!
- (PR) Things that go Bump and Grind in the Night: Do werewolves understand foreplay? Are vampires really that kinky, or after 1,000 years, they're "been there, tried that position?" NC-17 Discussion on the fun and naughty side of romance. No Children Allowed
Sunday Panels
- (PR) Rapunzel Syndrome - Can you have a strong female character and still be rescued by a man? Rapunzel needed a prince, but the prince needed Rapunzel. Can you have romance with both hero and heroine on equal footing or does there always have to be a damsel in distress?
- (PR) Vampires and Werewolves: Why They Make The Best Bad Boys -- Vampires and Werewolves are a staple in Paranormal Romance. Gush over our favorites and talk about why we will always love the tall, dark, and handsome.
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Featured Author:
author of "The Sentinel Wars" series.
 A lot of authors knew they wanted to write books from the time they were little. Their heads were full of fanciful stories that they yearned to commit to paper with a passion that only grew as they did. They spent hours reading fiction, voraciously absorbing every kind of story they could get their hands on. Shannon was not one of them.
When she was little, she wanted to be a daddy. When she learned the anatomical improbability of that happening, she decided instead to become what her dad was: an Industrial Engineer. So that’s what she did. She never once changed majors or veered from her path. After she graduated, she went to work for a big telecom company earning a steady paycheck while her husband pursued his dream to become a published author.
For those of you who might not know, Shannon's husband is Jim Butcher, fantasy and sci-fi author extraordinaire. She learned to write in an effort to help him improve his own work and as soon as she discovered that writing was more a learned skill than a natural talent she knew she had to give it a try. She couldn’t resist the challenge of taking the pieces of a story apart and putting them back together again. It’s the kind of puzzle that made her want to be an engineer to begin with – to learn how things work and why. She thought she’d write the same kind of thing Jim did, but then she picked up her first romance in 1998 and was hooked. Somehow, stories about how two people come to love each other made everything else seem shallow in comparison. Maybe it was just her hormones talking, but whatever it was, it was loud, so she listened and she started writing romances. She wrote great heaping piles of suckfulness – like most new writers – but eventually her work sucked less and hopefully that trend will continue as she learns more. Heaven knows she have a great teacher. (Thanks, Jim.)
A family of geeks to the core, the Butchers live in Independence, Missouri, with their son and a dog who is only one four-foot stick away from being a dust mop. |
