October is Shifters & Weres Month at ParanormalCravings.com. Surf over to check out book trailers, free reads, author interviews, character interviews, book giveaways and more.
I’ll be headed there myself this Friday, October 25th for a fun interview with Jackson Dowd, the main character from Werecat: The Rearing.
Yes Werecats!
Throughout LGBT Pride month there will be lots of contests and giveaways for Werecat: The Rearing.
The first is hosted by LGBT book blogger Elisa Rolle. Just drop a comment at her blog to answer the question: if you could be any kind of animal shapeshifter, what would you be?
Elisa will randomly pick a winner on Monday, June 3rd.
(Please post at her site hyperlinked above with your answer, not on my site!)
My answer: as if it was any surprise, I would be a werecat. A werejaguar specifically, or maybe a were-Bengal Tiger. 
My insanely happy news–that I’ve been holding in until it became official–is that my paranormal fantasy novella WERECAT has sold to Vagabondage Press. The anticipated release date is March 2013!!
Earlier in the year, I dropped some hints about the story as it was in progress. There are rounds of editing and proofreading to undergo, in addition to developing promotional materials. The few words I can say for now is that WERECAT is about a young man’s wild Spring Break in Montréal that launches a terrifying and erotic journey into the world of feline shapeshifters.
More to come as marketing rolls out. I am highly honored to have this project picked up by Vagabondage Press, which publishes high quality, unusual stories from underrepresented points of view. You can check out their offerings here.
Alex the Werecat by Anna Rosenrot
So andrewjpeterswrites.com has been looking more like andrewjpeterssleeps.com lately, but truly, I have been doing a lot of writing off-line. Over 30K words in fact. It’s a project that was inspired in part by Allison Moon’s tasty werewolf series TALES OF THE PACK.
Lesbian werewolves: meet gay werecats.
Some of my friends have been quick to point out the comic possibilities of such a theme: high strung, fastidious queens who perch above the world throwing shade at their “inferiors.” I’m not taking it from that angle, for better or for worse. The series that’s coming together is dark and sexy and aims to explore what might really happen if man and feline could be merged. Some of you have seen my posts on my beloved tiger-striped tabby Chloë. I’m fascinated by cat psychology, as well as human psychology, so I hope to delve into those aspects, while keeping the tone gothic, humid and romantic.
Werewolf stories have a pretty big fandom, but who likes werecats? The literature is rather sparse. A Barnes & Noble search of “werecats” turns up fifteen titles, three of which are studies of an array of demonic creatures – vampires, werewolves and the like. Jami Lynn Saunders has a werecat horror series that comprises four of the other titles. The rest are paranormal romance (Sally Bosco’s WERECAT CHRONICLES for example) from a female heterosexual point of view.
Werecat films are few and far between. The only one that has some notoriety, from thirty years ago, is CAT PEOPLE, with Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell and a title song by David Bowie.
Poster from the 1982 movie
Then of course, there are the comics and RPGs. Thundercats tends to be the major reference when I tell people I’m writing a werecat story. (Regrettably).
