Babel Clash

A Calliope/Simon throw down, huh?  Somehow I think it would be a draw.  Simon is too chivalrous to hit a girl and Callie, well, she wouldn’t want to break a nail…just kidding.  She’d probably want to hook up with Simon rather than give him a right hook to the face.

I like what Morgan is implying, though.  I think we gotta get these characters chilling in a book together.  My sex-addled heroine and Anton’s hero who can’t touch anything without having a psychic orgasm, oops, I meant to say psychic ‘flash’ - sorry about that.  Yeah, these two could get in a mess of trouble.  Although, I really think Callie would drive Simon crazy.  She’d question his every move and harass him about his choice in women - and I think that would drive any guy nuts.

One thing that’s nice about both Anton’s books and my own are that neither of them are your ‘traditional’ Urban Fantasy offerings.  I get worn out from all the rough werewolf sex and, please, someone needs to give the poor vampires a break from all the sexy, scantily clad human (or half-human) ladies with ambiguous (and possibly deadly) motives who won’t stop chasing them around.  I like a good blood-letting as well as the next guy, but it does get same-y, same-y after a while, ya know?

You’ll find aspects of that world in our books, but you’ll also find a lot of humor, too.  Simon is a super funny guy and the fact that he’s a guy, period, makes him rather unique in the Urban Fantasy cannon.  Callie is unique in her own way, too.  She doesn’t deal with vamps or werewolves in season, but instead hangs out with mythological characters and goes on crazy quests - with lots of chick-lit absurdity thrown-in for good measure.

(My God, I love it when I do spell check and the little message pops on saying ‘no misspellings’!!)

Anton and I are offering a welcome segue way from the norm - check out our strange worlds for a little fun and relaxation - then you can go back, happy and itching, for a little werewolf on vampire on fey on witch action.

Go Supernatural Sex, ho!

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