I don’t often promote things from NPR, but this is a good one about the popularity of werewolf fiction by Linton Weeks. Here’s a little quote to get you interested:

Werefiction provides readers with much-needed escapism, says Leila Taylor, co-owner of Creatures ‘n Crooks Bookshoppe in Richmond, Va.: “People are wanting to read something that doesn’t make them depressed and that has a little excitement in it.”

And, she adds, “When it comes to the whole werewolves, werecats, werepanthers thing, people are getting tired of the vampire scene.”

Now if I could just get a major publisher to pick up The Werewolf Saga …