Wolf Majick Reviews would like to thank author Jill James for stopping by and saring for us her insight in regards to the shape shifters in her novel, Dangerous Shift......
I wanted my shapeshifters to be a little different. I love
wolf shifters, jungle cat shifters, I saw a book recently with a horse shifter,
all kinds of shifters are great. So, I wrote my shifters to gender-shift. Men
are told to embrace their feminine side. Women are told to act like a lady, but
think like a man. What is that were possible? What if you could embrace the yin
and yang of your body and mind?
In an early rendition of my chapter one I had a great line
from the Captain of the Shapeshifter Task Force. He is the only human in an
office of shapeshifters and he doesn’t hide his bigotry.
Original beginning to Dangerous Shift - 2007 - Jill James
“Damn loser recruit,” Captain Connors
muttered, as he sweltered in the alleyway, forced to endure the scents of
week-old Chow Mein coming from the Dumpster he leaned against.
A mingled odor of sweet citrus and
coconut strong enough to turn his stomach overpowered even the stench of the
restaurant refuse surrounding him as the hairs rose on his arms. It was one of them, had to be. Shapeshifters were the only species to give off
that cloying scent only a recruiter could detect. He inhaled the rancid fumes rising from the
pavement to clear the oversweet smell from his nostrils.
Connors stayed leaning, body tense,
as a gorgeous blonde strolled into the cramped, trash-filled alley like it was
a neighborhood park at lunchtime. Shifter females
were breath-taking, making you want, until you remembered what they were and
worried about going to bed with Sue Ann and waking up with Jim Bob. He pushed out from the metal at his back,
spit on the ground, and thought for the umpteenth time, God, he hated when they were female.
He inhaled deeply of her Shifter
scent, verifying she was what she appeared to be and said, “Nick or Nikki?”
She reached up and grasped her
breasts in two overflowing handfuls, looking him straight in the eye as she
uttered in sultry tones, “It seems it is Nikki today.”
His breath caught in a gasp as she
reached down and grabbed her crotch, his gaze forced to follow.
“Definitely Nikki.”
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Readers loved the
interaction but there was some confusion of how he could be the hero (he isn’t)
and hate her scent so much, so I rewrote the beginning with the hero and heroine
meeting but left in their human captain’s prejudices and misunderstandings of
the Shapeshifter race.
Be sure to stop by My review of Jill James novel Dangerous Shift, for a chance to win a free ebook copy and enter the tour wide giveaway for an Amazon Giftcard or a Print copy of the book
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