Tag: elephant shifter

I was recently featured on the blog of author Carol Van Natta in a post about interracial paranormal romance books. Carol wrote a wonderful post about why we don’t see more interracial romance books, and especially those with people of color on the covers. I’m honored to be featured along with eight other PNR books. Please go check them out!

When I wrote Pride of Africa, I wasn’t trying to be groundbreaking or even different. I’d recently come across a lot of PNR books in which the human form of a character didn’t match their animal, and this bothered me. If a shifter is an African lion, it seemed to me that the human should also be African. So I wrote a series in which the human characters matched their animals, starting with a lion.

While my next series doesn’t feature any interracial romance, my new series, Paris Harem, does. I created Martin Diop, the Senegalese elephant shifter, precisely because African elephants are my favorite animal in the world, and I didn’t get to include them in the Hotel Safari series. (Instead, there’s a Thai elephant shifter in Thai Rebound.) I had a lot of fun writing Martin and his romance with Catherine Malraux.

Please share your favorite interracial paranormal romance in the comments!