Uniclarification

I just got the oddest question, but maybe, given the current state of paranormal romance, it’s not so odd. After all, most paranormal romance books are about vampires and werewolves in love, or demons and selkies and angels and fey and ringwraiths and who knows what all else in love with people or part people or varieties of humanoid-like entities which may or may not be mortal…

Which is not to say that I don’t love me some of that. I adore C.L. Wilson’s Tairen Soul series, which is about an immortal fey warrior king who can shift into the form of a flying, fire breathing cat. If you’d like to talk to Wilson about her incredible, New York Times bestselling series, check out the Romantic Times Forum this week.

But that’s not the kind of book I’ve written.

Just so we’re all perfectly clear: no unicorn plays the part of romantic interest in RAMPANT, my killer unicorn book. They are not unicorn-people. They are not unicorn-shifters. They are not were-unicorns. They are unicorns. Beasts, as they call them in the Land of Narnia. When they procreate, they do so with other unicorns. People are food. Not food that they meet in bio class and decide to marry and turn into a unicorn 2000 pages, a cliff-diving incident, and a trip to Italy later. Food.

The book centers around a human (not a part human or a were-human or an undead human or a human who is in any way, shape, or form, part unicorn), Astrid Llewelyn, who is by birthright a unicorn hunter. She doesn’t like unicorns *that way.* In fact, she’s not a fan of unicorns at all. Nor does she meet a unicorn with a soul and have a desperate doomed star-crossed love affair with him. (Though I’m sure a unicorn would, if given the chance, eat all her friends most gleefully. So that’s a little like Angel, I guess.)

So, just wanted to make that clear, for anyone who wondered why that nice Diana girl was going from writing about snarky Ivy Leaguers to cryptozoological bestiality — I’m not. I love the unicorns, I just don’t *love* the unicorns. Capice?

Glad I was able to clear that up.

P.S. There is plenty of human/human romance in Rampant. What can I say? I’m conventional like that.

P.P.S. If you want a great story where the unicorn does turn into a person and is part of a romance, check out Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (pictured above). It’s a classic.