Monstrous Desires: Creating Compelling Non-Human Love Interests in Fantasy Romance

Your monster keeps turning out human. Here's how to fix it. You called him monstrous for three hundred pages, and then, somewhere near the first kiss, he quietly became a handsome man with a skin condition. The fangs turned to jewellery. The reader who came for a monster got a boyfriend in a costume, and she can tell. Monstrous Desires keeps the monster monstrous and makes him irresistible anyway. It's the complete, unflinching craft guide to the non-human love interest, built on one conviction the genre keeps forgetting: the difference isn't the problem to overcome. It's the whole reason she falls. Inside, you'll learn how to: - Design a body that's genuinely strange and genuinely wanted, anatomy and all- Write a mind that isn't human without making it impossible to love- Reinvent the vampire, shifter, fae, and orc, or invent a creature no reader has ever met- Handle the intimate scenes the shelf goes coy about, frankly and well, with consent doing real work- Give the monster and the human both a real arc and a love that's earned- Build the world, the danger, and the taboo that make it impossible to put down >Whether you're drafting your first orc romance or your tenth paranormal, this is everything you need to write the creature she'll never forget, without the cliches or the cringe. Scroll up and start building him.