Paranormal YA - Vampires, werewolves, angels, and all kinds...OH MY!

This forum is where those who are into the paranormal genre in YA, since it's so popular, may come and discuss which is more popular and what they might be writing about, or have opinions on the paranormal creatures they like.

Man, this is where I belong.

My agent sold my first book in August. It's about a vampire and a zombie falling in love.

My second book is about reapers.

My NaNo novel is about paranormal creatures in general but focuses on an incubus, fae, and angel as main characters.

I don't think I could write anything BUT paranormal. Paranormal is my life blood :p

Vampires here. So far I think mine shall be fairly traditional but they haven't really shown up yet so that may change. I like to keep everything up in the air.

I'm doing a novel based on Faustian works, so I've got demons in mine. I have a guardian angel involved as well as a side character. If I ever get it published and do a sequel, I'll be working vampires into the mix. I already have a cameo from Bram Stoker in my novel, so that should be fun if I ever get there.

I have angels, demons (in particular a sucubus), and nephilim in my novel. Since I got into writing paranormal genre with angels I haven't been able to imagine writing anything else.

I'm doing fairies. I'm not good at making interesting vampires :/ But I still love paranormal stuff. I don't know where fairies came from, but it's working for me so far!

Vampires and were-creatures in this one, with vampires being the main focus. I'm having a lot of fun with it. ^^

Mine is a sort of sci-fi ghost story mostly told from the ghost's point of view.

I have angels in mine and @ bohemiangrl316 I know what you mean when you say you can't imagine writing anything else. Mine is a trilogy but already I'm wanting even more. :D I used to write vampires and then tried werewolves on for size (a trilogy with only the first 2 written so far..lol) and now I'm at angels. I would try all the others sooner or later. :D

My angel character thumbs up with the use of angels. Though his particular world isn't a good one. xD

:D I'm a typical werewolf sorta girl, but I adore shifters as well. And kelpies. Kelpies make me drool :)

This year's Nano is soft sci-fi/paranormal romance between a girl who has to steal life energy "soul" from people to survive, and a cyborg-hound shapeshifter >3

Bohemiangirl - I hear ya! Angels are my paranormal choice - the fallen and the unfallen - and I'm loving it, though I'm not naming them as such - yet. I don't think. I also have a few mortal magician & witches. The whole thing is turning into a beautiful mess of the gothic uncanny and the fairy tale-esque, and that's because of my angels. They're neither good nor bad, can make moral choices (just like humans) and are the heroes of their own stories (just like humans). I like them, very much.

In literary terms, I still think angels as an imaginative source are untapped. They're an interesting meme - like the fae, actually - and are often used in their most conventional forms. But there's so much there to work with, thanks to Gnosticism and such like.

(I should add - I'm staying away from the angel novels until I've finished mine and edited it and done all of the innovation bit. I don't want to borrow other people's ideas, even by accident).

Am I the only one writing a guardian angel? I've seen oodles of fallen angels but can't recall any guardian angels that I've seen or read about as significant characters.

I'm pretty much keeping religion out of my story, and my angel character serves the human she chooses to protect of her own free will. God doesn't come into it and there's no mention of any angel hierarchy. I really just wanted the symbolism of having a counterpart to the main demon character in my story. It also gave me an excuse to write a really fun over the top sword duel between the two, stemming from an argument over ballroom dancing of all things.

Mine is about a tribe of Therians (shape-shifters) in the desert in Egypt. ^^ I'm pretty excited about it but also having slight trouble... Fighting desperately against YA cliches, of which there are many. It think the most cliche thing is that my MC doesn't think much of herself, though I think that that is realistic as well. She's 17, and at least from my experience there aren't many 17 year olds that are completely at peace with their body image. Her main issue with herself is her height (which is actually taken from myself, though she's self conscious because she's really short and for me, it's because I'm really tall.) There's nothing about high school, and I don't plan on any mention of true love, though there IS a romantic interest.

Mine is a creation of my own. I do have hell hounds and demons but my MC is a Rainbow Weaver. She is able to weave ancient spells that bring about both good and bad luck. I lost most of what I had already written when my laptop got destroyed by a can of soda so I have to start over but that's ok as I was not very happy with what I had so far. It is more in the genre of new adult than young adult. Also I am thinking of doing a love triangle however doing a big twist and have it be girl, girl, boy. And no not two girls after one boy but rather one girl and one boy after the MC. Since college is a big time for people to explore their sexuality having a bisexual character would fit in with that. The only problem is I don't want it to turn into it being all about that. I just want it to be a fact. I haven't fully decided yet as I know some people are still very homophobic

My main character has become a vampire (it's in her genes) at the age of 15 and just found out her teen-angst years and youthful good looks are going to last about 100 years. The problem I had getting started is that her grandmother (Mom didn't become a vamp and can't be in on the secret) arrived from France to teach her the ropes. I spent a few hours of the first few days of NaNo in the Google translator finding French phrases. I finally started a glossary of French terms that I tacked on to my outline. Granny is a couple of hundred years old and has control issues. My protag is a modern gal with a sassy mouth.

I'm writing my novel that's mainly surrounded on vampires and angels, but has vampire-hybrids, werewolves, were-panthers, anything that's Were, and mortals. It's set in a universe where the Underworld and the Mortal World coexist. My protagonist is a very beautiful vampire princess who must find out who's killing young girls (who are her cousins) from her two powerful families divided because her parents' divorce. There is romance in it, along with some butt-kicking action with guns and swords. The main love interest (no, he's not mortal but something different unlike any other) is the ultimate bad-boy and every girl's dreams. It's about story about a love that's dangerous and deadly, but destined to come true that not even the Gods can stop to prevent it.

I'm doing my book on a self-created paranormal creature- the Adamini (it means one with the earth in some language).

Basically, it's a group of about fourty kids with varying extremes of this power who can feel all the earth feels. Be that the sounds, the stomping of feet, the rainfall, the snowflakes, the cold, the warm, etc.

My story follows a girl with the highest extreme of the Adamini power.^.^ It's been really fun to write.

Werewolf freak here! My nano being part of a series has werewolves, vampires and warlocks. The protagonist is a werewolf but a sub-species called a Makulay Lycan - Makulay means colourful in Fillipino I think and Lycan is short for lycanthrope which means werewolf. Makulays have odd coloured fur, a stronger connection to their wolf side and emotional connections with people they love. My nano practically follows my MC as she discovers what she is, learns to survive and tries to stop a bunch of hunters from killing everything in the forest. It involves a vampire but mostly its just werewolves, makulays and humans. Warlocks are only mentioned which is sad because I like writing about my warlocks.

I'm writing about vampires, but they're completely different from the traditional kind- although not in the sparkly, oh-so-hot kind of way. Do you think people who are sick of the glorified versions of vampires these days be prejudiced against it?