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In my last blog post I talked about some of our writers. Specifically, who gets what when I have an idea. Or rather when I have an idea which requires sex scenes in the story. In this post I want to talk about who gets what when I have an idea which requires supernatural scenes.

My got to writers when I want supernatural scenes and characters are:

Wilhelmina “Willie” Folsom

Lillian St. Chyr

Anna Smythe

Each of these writer/authors bring a different flare to the use of supernatural characters and themes. Lilly has the ability to either be sublime in her writings or overt. She can handle stories where the supernatural bits in them are slowly leaked to the reader. The Final Fix of Fem Stone is a perfect example. You are concentrating on the thriller aspect of the book when it slowly dawns on you there are elements in the story such as ghosts.

Her ability to blend the supernatural into a story is impressive. She thinks in the supernatural. If I sat down with all my authors and we looked at a simple normal scene and asked them what comes to mind, Lilly will always come up with some sort of supernatural story. One adapted to the scene. Not the scene itself.

It is this ability to maintain the normal inside a supernatural story which has led me to turn over control of a book I am in love with. It’s titled Gargoyle . A hard story based around a young man in the early 1600’s. A young man born to wealth and privilege.

The story is centered around the mind sets of the wealthy of the period and their subjects. In this story one of those subjects is a witch who seeks revenge on the main character and turns him into a gargoyle. One who must suffer the sins of his descendants forever in an unending punishment.

It is a story of twists and turns. Not your normal supernatural book. I think it will be much better. Right now, Lilly is doing the research for the time frames the story takes place in. Designing the plot around the settings and the mind sets of each era in the never ending life of a sin eater. 

Such research and subtlety are right up Lilly’s alley. I look forward to the collaboration.

Now if I want something to slam you in the face, it’s Willie I ask to join in. Wilhelmina Folsom is a supernatural junkie. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, faeries, wizards, warlocks, and the ever present shape shifters are what she thrives on.

When I needed to add a supernatural element to The Trouble in Nunya and its sequels, I turned to Willie. What a Godsend. She was able to join in with not one, but two people already working on a project and blend in seamlessly. We worked chapter by chapter. Looked at the elements we wanted to show in each section.

I used Allison’s uncanny ability to demonstrate the mind of a woman from childhood to old age to write the main characters. Allison can look through the eyes of her characters and put that on paper. Willie added the supernatural. Created the characters and their abilities. Wove them into the story in such a manner you didn’t realize it was her.

I enjoy the way Willie thinks. She thinks in a grand scale. Thinks outside the box. She knows the genre of supernatural is a well paved highway. All the ideas have been claimed by someone. Vampires by Anne Rice for example. Anne Rice has crafted the blueprint for the modern day vampire used inside a story.

Which got me to thinking. What can we do with a vampire that is different? I asked Willie one morning and her answer was priceless. She told me most women think of vampires as sexual gods. Men and women who ooze sexuality. Who make sex the greatest thing a human mortal can ever experience. She asked me what if this is a lie? Vampires are dead meat. They’re cold. Their hearts don’t work. If their hearts don’t pump blood, then how can they have sex? It tickled me. We sat down and devised a series of lighthearted stories she will be coming out with called The Adventures of a Physic Detective. In between her work on the second in the Cheyenne Dances in Moonbeams series titled The Rescue of Rhonda .

I am so looking forward to these novella length stories of The Adventures of a Physic Detective . They center around a young woman who has physic abilities. A sassy ornery young woman who has bills she can’t pay and family issues and earns her living in L.A. as a private detective. One who works both sides of the street. Normal cases where she uses her physic ability to close the normal and supernatural cases.

They are tongue-in-cheek style humor creations where the characters are not what we have come to expect in supernatural readings. They are way more fun.

Which leads me to Anna Smythe. Her first book, Love Letters , is centered around the idea of what happens when a couple is parted. In this case, by space itself. She took the idea and crafted a heart wrenching love story from the premise. One which brings to light the way people feel and it stays the same even in the future.

Anna can craft Syfy stories with ease. She can do the same thing with supernatural themes. Only for Anna there must be something personal to the stories. Love, heart ache, revenge, and some deep emotional journey the character must follow. For her, the rest is secondary. However, she knows how to move through what she terms as secondary in a manner which leaves you wanting more.

She uses the main characters flaws and needs wrapped inside a different world to craft her stories. Look for more from Anna inside the series of short stories titled Ordinary to the Extraordinary as well as a series I have asked her to pen which blends science fiction with fantasy and the supernatural titled The Five Coronas . A military based set of stories. Anna was an Army officer at one point on her life.

I’m Ross, The Editor-in-Chief at The Pyrateheart Press and I’m out.