Creature feature: 3 of my favourites

Writing scifi and fantasy, I need to come up with creatures to haunt my worlds and hunt my characters. But there is a lot of inspiration in the animals of our real world. Here are three great animals to base book beasties on.

Cephalopods

Mostly octopuses, but squid too.

Why do I love them? Well, the Kraken, for one. But seriously…

First they’re smarter than I expected them to be. I still remember the wow when I heard the story of the octopus that would go over to the tank next door to snac...