Please welcome Heather Grothaus!
I had the good fortune to meet Heather at a book signing in a nearby town. I found her to be one of the nicest people I've ever met.
I'd already read her first book, THE WARRIOR and I couldn't believe it was a debut book! I was very impressed with it and I can honestly say I enjoyed every minute of that book. Now Heather has a second book out, THE CHAMPION, which I am reading now and I believe I am enjoying it every bit as much as her first one.
If you haven't tried Heathers books, run, don't walk to the store and snag them both. I am sure you will enjoy them as much as I do!
And now without further ado..... Heather's blog.
I Believe in Ghosts
I love the paranormal. Spells and full moons and witches and ghosts and prophetic dreams and…you get the idea. I’m a sucker for an abandoned house, things that go bump in the night, and the shivers you get while reading a Stephen King novel alone in a quiet house. It might seem odd to some that I chose to write historical romance instead of horror, but since I cut my literary teeth on Woodiwiss, there was no helping it. I equally love tales of knights and their ladies. Passionate romances that take your breath, and unforgettable happily-ever-afters.
So it was completely natural for me to incorporate paranormal aspects into my stories, even before I knew there was such a thing as “paranormal romance.” The heroine of my first novel, THE WARRIOR, is a witch, albeit a reluctant one at first. That story was so fun to write, it became the first book in my Medieval Warriors trilogy. The second book, THE CHAMPION, features a mischievous ghost. The third book, THE HIGHLANDER has—well, you’ll just have to wait until next year to find out! My books are historical romances with magic sprinkled in as an everyday fact-of-life. That’s because life, to me, is filled with a kind of mysterious magic as real as the birds in the tree outside my office window. I believe in déjà vu and near-death experiences. The power of prayer, the significance of a spoken blessing or a holy relic. A lot of things that can today be explained by science were still mysteries in medieval times, and that gives me freedom to let my characters play with things like ghosts and witches. Perhaps by doing that, I can persuade readers who don’t believe in the paranormal to consider that maybe—just maybe—those things are possible, even if only for the duration of one small romance novel. Even if they don’t believe, I hope they are entertained, and that they fall in love right along with the hero and heroine.
I’ll still believe in ghosts, anyway.
