I asked, you answered, and now we can see what everyone said! As the chart shows, there were 311 responses, which included quite a few write-in nominations!
Graph of Results
Shifters Broken Down by Number
All or multiples – 6
All felines – 2
Any bears, even koalas – 1
Brown bear – 1
Corvid – 1
Dingo – 1
Direwolf -1
Dolphin – 1
Dragon – 87
Griffin or Phoenix – 3
Grizzly bear – 56
Hedgehog – 1
Hellhound – 1
Kodiak bear – 1
Lion – 8
Mountain lion – 18
Mystical creatures (e.g. unicorns) – 1
Panther – 27
Polar bear – 16
Sabertooth tiger – 1
Tiger – 16
Wolf – 61
If this doesn’t add up to 311, well…there’s a reason I’m an author and not a math teacher. 😉
Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey! <3 I don’t know what this means for future paranormal romance novels, except I’m guessing maybe quite a few of you (87) might be interested in seeing a dragon shifter character again at some point. Keira Blackwood and I wrote them into the Spellbound Shifters: Dragons Entwined series, as well as into our standalone reverse harem romance, Hope Reclaimed.
I also have plans for more wolves, bears, and big cats, and I will definitely consider others!