[Blood of Anteros Blog Tour] Creating Chemistry by Georgia Cates

Today, Georgia Cates, author of the Blood of Anteros stops by my blog for the Blood of Anteros Blog Tour!

About Georgia

I am a wife, mother of two daughters and a labor and delivery nurse. I have recently added Paranormal Romance Writer to my list of things to keep be busy, but I am ecstatic to release my debut novel, Blood of Anteros, the first book inThe Vampire Agápe Series.

Like others that enjoy a great story of paranormal romance, I am easily bored by the tale of an obtainable, ordinary romance and was inspired to create The Vampire Agápe Series. When I am not tied up with my family or delivering babies, I am working feverishly on the second book in The Vampire Agápe Series.

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Creating Chemistry

Thank you for having me as a guest today. My name is Georgia Cates and I’m the author of Blood of Anteros, Blood Jewel and Going Under. Today, I’m going to talk a little about what constitutes romantic chemistry between characters.

Characters can be very similar in nature and love the same things, but that doesn’t make for interesting fictional chemistry. “Conflict. Push and Pull. Desire and Obstacle.” Do you hear what I’m screaming? Call it what you like, but these are the basics that make romantic chemistry pop.

There’s always an underlying attraction beyond the hurdle the hero and heroine must jump. They may believe they hate one another, but the reader knows better and we can’t wait for the characters to realize it. It’s what we crave, what we need and we’re just plain pissed when the characters are too ignorant to see what we see, but that’s what excites us. It’s why we read and root for our characters to fall in love.

For me, the best chemistry is the unwanted kind...the friendship that somehow turns into more, enemies finding themselves not hating one another as much as they thought or falling for the bad boy when you know you should choose the good guy. There’s very little I enjoy more than a relationship with unwanted chemistry. What can I say? It’s my guilty pleasure.

Whether I’m reading or writing, my choices in heroes tend to lean more toward the bad boy side. Not everyone would call my bad boy characters “bad” so maybe the word “troubled” is a more suitable term. I love a tortured hero and who could be a better match for him than a heroine that can make it all better. Of course, that’s not what he wants, but I don’t care because I want my chemistry. I want her to have the power to save him from himself.

Romantic chemistry is attraction that the hero and heroine can’t ignore, hard as they may try. The harder they try, the more the readers enjoy the chase but in the end, we want characters that will “fix” one another and find happiness. Otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

About Blood of Anteros

Blood of Anteros (The Vampire Agápe #1)

by Georgia Cates

Cruel circumstances turned Curry Brennan into the wretched monster he hates and refuses to accept, but when an expected turn of events releases him from the bond of his obsessive maker, he returns to the home he knew 161 years earlier and finds the return of happiness and joy in something he didn’t know existed. Puzzled by his growing attraction to Chansey Leclaire, a human, he is unable to resist the captivating relationship that threatens to reveal his existence as a vampire. He eventually discovers the reason he was destined to find what he didn’t know he searched for and is faced with the cruel realization that the living and the immortal undead will always be separated by one thing. Eternity.