Thoughts on Witches

There are a lot of aspects that I love about witches. Not the funny hats or long pointed nose. Those are Halloween costumes. I find the hardcore aspects of what witches truly are. If you read books based around them then you would have seen some differences, like with any book. How could there not be. Each book must be unique in some small manner. One concept I find interesting is the elemental use to cast spells.

There’s one main difference in this area. Some stories go by there being four elements, wind, fire, earth, and water, and those are related to North, South, East, and West. I’m not sure which way Wicca considers, but from a writer’s perspective this is the most common. Now, me on the other hand, I base most of my witch paranormal romances around five elements. Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, and Spirit. I still use the directional aspect in one of my books, but spirit is the middle location for me. To me Spirit is the core of all magical spell. Now, this is not to say that in future stories I might stray from this concept, but this is my personal belief about Witches and the elemental concept.

Which way do you prefer it as a reader, or writer?

Audio Excerpt of Hidden Wolf

Today I'm giving you guys a audio reading of the Prologue of Hidden Wolf, Book 4 of Human-Skinned Wolves Series. Hope you enjoy it.

Take a Listen

Don't forget the book is up for pre-sale on Kindle and it goes live on Dec. 21, 2016.

Video Blog

Today I'm sharing the first video blog I done for this site. It states the reason behind the blog and gives a short insight into the idea behind the Human-Skinned Wolves Series.

If this takes off well then I might make a few more video blogs for YouTube.

Video Blog Link

Mythical Creature Post

Cerberus

Cerberus is a monstrous hound of the Underworld with three heads and a tail of a serpent with a main of various snakes.

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Find more interesting facts at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus

http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Cerberus/cerberus.html

These sites are ones that I enjoy learning facts about mythical creatures. Hope they interest you as much as they did me.

Shifter Thoughts

Shifters

What exactly is a Shifter? Some people classify anything that changes forms as a shifter. Then there are those who view werewolves as separate from others that shift into animals. A few even consider something or someone who can change into any form or shape one.

Those thoughts above make me think it depends on who you ask. Or from a writer’s perspective the story being written. Who knows if shifters or any of the supernatural begins we dream up is or has ever been true. What I do know is that for an amazing story to be built around a shifter theme the author has to create a plausible and interesting world and backstory for the story they are telling.

None of which is easy, but very doable. In order to accomplish it, a solid definition of the word Shifter has to be formed. After all, that is the base of the entire story. If it is not nailed down, then the story will easily fall apart. To avoid this when I start a new story that includes werewolves, shifters, vampires or any other supernatural being, I sit down and describe how they came to exist, any strengths, weakness, skills and anything else that comes to mind. Those ideas give me a solid foundation before I start to write.

There’s my thoughts on Shifters and how I develop the concept of a Shifter. Hope the small insights into my creative process helps you understand me a bit better.

Have a great week and remember,

Let your imagination soar when you read or write.

Julia

Coming Into Your Wolf

In the Human-Skinned Wolf Series you read about the Age of Consumption. It is where a fifteen year old boy joins with the wolf lurking under his skin. It is a confusing short period of time. I wanted to create an image that might represent such an important even.

Sneak Peak

My creativity was flowing like crazy the other day and the idea of the cover for the fifth book of the Human-Skinned Wolves Series came to me. It's not going to be ready for release until some time next year, but I thought it would be great to give people an extremely early sneak peak of what is to come.

Insight Into the Wolves of the Human-Skinned Wolves Series

As we all know, the legends behind the werewolves are subjected from one area to another. Just as much as each writer's inner workings of the werewolf world they create. This is why I thought that it would be nice to give people an insight into the wolves of the Human-Skinned Wolves Series by Julia Matthews. The fourth book of the series, Hidden Wolf is available for pre-sale on Kindle and will be releasing on Dec. 21, 2016. 

Mythical Creature Posts

I’m a person who loves Unicorns and dragons. They take me into a realm of fantasy, yet to me they fit into the world of the supernatural/paranormal, because they are strong and hold a purpose that makes me want to gather up my courage and strength to strive to make myself a better person.

In honor of that, I plan on making a post a week about a different Mythical Creature. Each post will include a site or two where you can find more in-depth details about the mythic aspect behind the creature.

Enjoy your day.

Shifter Desire

Have a questions for you guys today. Don’t worry I’m going to give you my answer as well.

What animal would you like to shift into?

Tough question I know it. For me at least. I’m not sure the best way to answer the question, because I believe it depends on the frame of mind I’m in. Most days, I think I would chose a leader of the wolf pack. Other words, I’d let the wolf take control and let it barrel through all the task I have for the day. On a rough and hard day, I’d chose a something large and strong, like a bear. Let the inner bear in me give me courage to keep pushing forward. On those down and out days, I’d have to say I want to shift into a Bald Headed Eagle and soar away from all the stress weighing me down.

Ramble

Okay, I’ve been hard at work with lots of different things lately and I’ve not had a chance to read much. Major thing for someone who use to read anywhere from 3-5 books per week. (1 or 2 may have been short stories.) Still, it the last month I’ve read a total of one novel, Christine Feehan’s Dark Carousel and a short story by a new author to me, Shifter Forever Protection by Elle Thorne. A wonderful paranormal romance story about a bear shifter. Have to say, I’ll be going back to read more from her. If things slow down in my life.

Anyone else read anything good they’d like to share?

What is a Shifters?

What exactly is a Shifter? Some people classify anything that changes forms as a shifter. Then there are those who view werewolves as separate from others that shift into animals. A few even consider something or someone who can change into any form or shape one.

Those thoughts above make me think  it depends on who you ask. Or from a writer’s perspective the story being written. Who knows if shifters or any of the supernatural begins we dream up is or has ever been true. What I do know is that for an amazing story to be built around a shifter theme the author has to create a plausible and interesting world and backstory for the story they are telling.

None of which is easy, but very doable. In order to accomplish it, a solid definition of the word Shifter has to be formed. After all, that is the base of the entire story. If it is not nailed down, then the story will easily fall apart. 

There’s my thoughts on Shifters.

Have a great week.

Julia

Welcome Post

Hi,

Wanted to send a huge welcome to everyone. This blog will consist of anything and everything related to the paranormal and supernatural world. I hope to discuss vast topics during these post. Some going from what exactly how I define paranormal and supernatural to my own/or other reviews of books, movies, and television shows. There may even be some promoting of paranormal/supernatural items.

There will be weekly post to begin with and as time progressing I'll increase them. My plan is to make the weekly post in the middle of each week.

Have a great day.

Favorite Book Series

As an avid reader among paranormal romance, both traditional and self-published authors, I thought it would be fun for my first post to be enlightening into myself a bit. So today, I'm going to let you in on what paranormal romance series is my favorite.

The Dark Series, by Christine Feehan.

I find all of Christine Feehan's book amazing, but there was something about Dark Prince the first book in the Dark Series that called to the depths of my soul. I'm not sure if it had to do with a gorgeous man existing in a colorless life or the poor attractive woman who tracked down the vilest of humans with the use of a psychic connection. Either case, Christine Feehan won me over by the first chapter of the book and I've read each one of them since. 

Incase, anyone has not read or not heard about the series I'm including the link to Christine Feehan's website. 

Christina Feehan