on Oct 13th, 2009 So, I’m sitting here sipping my hot apple cider (what? Not all writers drink coffee. I don’t. Tastes like I imagine battery acid does. Blech. But, I digress…), and I’m thinking about our topic of things that bite. I don’t write a lot of vampires. I have some in Big Girls Don’t Die. And I have a vampire secondary character in my upcoming Kensington Aphrodisia novel, Every Witch Way, but I tend to go with other paranormal beasties that bite.
Shape-shifters, baby.
Awww, yeah.
To me, there’s just something schmexy about a guy who’s half-wild and in touch with his animal instincts. Really in touch. And he’s got the fangs to prove it.
In most of my books, the fangs may flash a bit when he’s excited or pissed off, but no one gets bitten until it’s mating time. So, biting isn’t just a fun sexual fetish, but a serious mark-you-as-mine-for-life kind of endeavor.
And that’s just hot to me, because, really, that just takes alpha male claiming to a whole new level. An extra yummy level. I mean, think about it, you now have this big, sexy beastie as yours and yours alone (unless we’re talking threesome, in which case the sexy awesomeness just become exponential) forever and ever and ever.
In some of my books, the girl is a shifter, too, so she gets to sink her fangs in and mark him as hers. Like…forget the wedding band, you can take those off, let’s go big or go home. Let’s make it permanent.
Sure, it’s primitive, but really…we are talking people who are in touch with their primal side. A little biting and scratching in bed, some fangs and claws, never hurt anyone, right?
In honor of my beasties that bite, I’m giving away an advanced copy of my new shifter book, UNTAMED, to one lucky commenter on this post. I’ll draw a winner next Monday and post here to announce who won!
AND THE WINNER IS: Lyoness2009
Thanks so much for entering, everyone!
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I love it when your guys bite! ;)
by R.G. Alexander October 13th, 2009 at 10:31 amI love to bite, and I like to be bitten. However, to be bitten, it has to be done right. You can’t just walk up to me while I’m standing outside of a bar and bite my neck.
Wait. That actually did happen. Sex was hot.
Anyway, what was I saying?
by Feisty October 13th, 2009 at 10:34 amI love it when my guy bites…just sayin’…*G*
Oh-BTW-shameless prom opp:
by Eden Bradley October 13th, 2009 at 10:36 amI’m reading at the monthly In The Flesh Reading at Hustler Hollywood tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 14th at 8:00 PM. I’ll be there with authors James Buchanan and Stan Kent. Free bakery goodies, free goody bags from Hustler if you wear the hottest shoes, book signing, and more! Good clean fun in Hollywood!
Here’s the addy:
Hustler Hollywood
8920 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA
Hope to see you there!
I love when they bite usually after some serious debate on one or both their parts.
by jennifer mathis October 13th, 2009 at 10:48 amThe biting as a marking thing can be really, really hot… depending on how it’s written!
by Chris October 13th, 2009 at 11:06 amAs a biiig fan of shapeshifters and their primal instincts I can honestly say biting is HOT :D
by Ilona October 13th, 2009 at 11:13 amI write shifter tales, so hell yeah, I think it’s hot. I love being bitten and seriously, what’s not to like about a guy (or gal for that matter) that’s a little untamed. hehe.
by Chris October 13th, 2009 at 12:21 pmBiting…hmmm. Must now turn off mom instinct to put everyone in time out and lecture on proper etiquette of biting our food only. Give me a sec….
OK, ready. Biting…yum. Been known to do that, quite a bit, so I’m told. ;) It’s not something I usually THINK about, ya know? Yes, please, in books if well written. I agree that it speaks to the primal in us all. If you can’t get primal during sex, when can you?
by JonettaC October 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pmI’m a biter too Jonetta lol
by R.G. Alexander October 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pmI can’t seem to help it-the hubby is…yummy. ;)
I am also a biter.
I love shapeshifter stories!
by Estella October 13th, 2009 at 2:27 pmLove your post Crystal! and your shifters are awesome! Biting really adds that extra level to these types of stories!
and… it can be verra verra sexy ;).
by Pam S October 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pmCompletely agree with you on the biting thing. Love me some fangs!
by RachieG October 13th, 2009 at 6:24 pmBites can be most awesome. Some nails, oh yeah.
by Natasha A. October 13th, 2009 at 6:41 pmUgh, I hate coffee. Your drink sounds much better.
Who doesn’t like a bite every once in a while?
by Lyoness2009 October 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pmOh Yeah! Love the bite!
by annalisa October 13th, 2009 at 11:18 pmHi Crystal,
Well 1st I must have my “battery acid” in the morning or I’m not fit for company. 2nd oh yeah, Biting is the ultimate, especially when the skin is so sensitive. 3rd even better when its the Alpha Mating Mark. The anticipation when your reading & then wham. Yes!
Can’t wait for ‘Untamed’ I have the 27th hi-lighted it red.
Best wishes,
by Susan October 15th, 2009 at 6:33 amSusan
Shifters are so much fun! Werewolves have been around for a long time of course, but now there are so many more, all kinds of cat shifters, dragon shifters, you name it. I guess I had never thought much about other shifters until I started the Sookie Stackhouse series many moons ago. Charlaine Harris opened up my eyes to a whole new world. I thought it would be really cool to have a tiger shifter for a boyfriend, he could definitely keep you warm on a cold night. lol
I think if I could choose what kind of shifter to be myself, I would be a black jaguar. They are sleek gorgeous creatures.
Deidre
by Deidre October 16th, 2009 at 7:40 pmI love reading shifter and vampire stories and the mating bite always caps off some wonderfully erotic sex. Love that.
by Cathy M October 16th, 2009 at 7:46 pmA little biting and scratching in bed, some fangs and claws, never hurt anyone, right?
here, here!
by Jo K October 17th, 2009 at 10:01 amNothing says loving like a bite on the… button. Ok! I suck at rhyme but you know what I mean.
Fallon H.
by Fallon Hadley October 18th, 2009 at 1:48 pmI’m definitely a big fan of shifters and their mating bites. There is definitely something exceedingly sexy about having a physical reminder of a forever commitment that cannot be lost or removed.
by Karin October 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pmAnd the winner is: Lyoness2009
Thanks so much for entering, everyone!
by Crystal Jordan October 19th, 2009 at 9:08 amcongrats.
by jennifer mathis October 19th, 2009 at 9:11 amCongrats Lyoness2009!
Fallon H.
by fallon hadley October 19th, 2009 at 9:36 amI love shifter books. There’s just something about an alpha male. lol
by Amy s. October 20th, 2009 at 12:04 pmCongrats Lyoness2009!
by Amy s. October 20th, 2009 at 12:20 pmI do love reading about the mating bite in shifter books. I think it’s so sexy, putting your own brand on someone you love.
by Amy s. October 20th, 2009 at 12:21 pm