First post!

Hey everyone! This is Fair Winds and this blog is dedicated to my werewolf fantasy piece named Alpha's Dance.

I don't have much to say about this story except that I do appreciate those of you who read. I'd like a few more of you to do so, but I'm not going to beg. This story is mostly just a guilty pleasure and something to refresh me after working so hard on Willa.

There are a few things that I feel I should note right away, though.

This is my first M-rated story.

Begin tangent:

I've said in the past that I think lemons are for people who really aren't very good writers but want readers and know that sex sells. Sex sells big. Even badly written sex.

Now, I'm not saying that Alpha's Dance is going to have a lemon in it. In fact, the chances of that are so far below one percent that they're not even worth mentioning. I just can't bring myself to do it. Sex in books and movies is just this really pathetic way of getting attention--kind of like how emo kids slit their wrists. Sex is rarely if EVER plot relevant unless it has to do with something like rape (and then who the hell wants to read about that exactly?) and in fact, in a lot of cases, it takes away from or just plain RUINS the story. If the couple has sex and you're only halfway through the book, most writers lean towards a lot of relationship conflict that either gets lost in or totally swallows up the whole plot. So, what I'm saying is that sex is a black hole.

Anyways, I digress. In Alpha's Dance, the theme of a woman being weaker and therefore inferior sort of lends itself to sexual themes. Later on in the plot, one of Seath's purposes is going to highlight how sex is treated among wolves and how very little choice a woman has in this matter. This isn't really supposed to be commentary on real life as much as it is on OTHER werewolf stories. Ever notice that there's a lot of rape and abuse in the werewolf genre that is passed off as love? Yeah, that's not happening here. Eris is going to deal with this like she will every other situation: with a lot of defiance and, if need be, a lot of stabbing.

End tangent.

So, despite all of the above, really the M rating is for the gore and violence that's going to take place in later chapters as well as some language and some sexual themes. No full out sex here, peeps. Sorry.

Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope to hear from you in the comments and reviews.