I have several stories with Demanding Romance. I write about hot men…sweat-slicked muscular men. Hard bodies to match hardened attitudes. Thick thighs, defined abs and tight asses. Yes, I love beautiful men that have sex a bit on the gritty side. Whether dark and edgy BDSM or stranger encounters in erotic locations, I want the spark to be instant, the sex to be intense, but yet at the end of the story, I want my readers to have become invested right along with the characters. I write short stories mostly because the day job takes up so much of my time. This way I can feed my writer soul. And I won’t deny I like hot, graphic sex in my stories. Goes back to how much I like men.
My last release was Trix with Julian Dane, but since you learned about that story yesterday, I’ll tell you about my last single author release In His Bed.
Jude Park has everything he’s worked hard to achieve. But something is still missing. He can’t move forward with his life without finding out if there is something more for him in Salt Lake City. Maybe he’s chasing a dream--a wet dream--but he has to see Rob Aspen.
Rob isn’t misreading the signals. But Jude is a temptation he shouldn’t want. Tell that to his body. Jude is hot, hard and hungry for cock. His tight ass and ripped body have Rob thinking reckless thoughts. How could he contemplating sex with his best friend’s son?
Excerpt:
Rob laughed. “So you want to hook me up?” What in the hell was he doing? Sweat trickled along Rob’s back and his nuts were pulsing beneath his swelling erection. Jude had changed from twink to hot college grad and Rob was more interested than he should be on just what Jude’s education included.
Damn, he did know. He’d been dancing around an unwelcomed attraction. Karen had noticed Jude’s crush a few years ago. Rob hadn’t been concerned. Jude was just discovering and accepting his sexuality. Naturally, he’d gravitate toward a man secure in his orientation. Hell, Rob sort of got off on Jude. The kid had been Rob’s shadow from the day he came out to Karen until he’d left for the university.
Jude wasn’t a kid anymore…and Rob wasn’t misreading the signals. Rob could see the maturity in Jude’s confident posture and hot fucking body. Jude’s sandy blond hair was cut close on the sides and left a bit longer on top. A faux hawk Rob wanted to fist his hands in as he ate Jude’s luscious lips. However, teasing…wanting…even thinking thoughts of Jude was playing with fire. Temptation he couldn’t touch, yet he hadn’t heeded his own good sense. He’d cracked the door with emails and late night phone calls.
“Rob?”
“Yeah, sorry.” He shook his head, shaking off thoughts of hard, hungry-for-cock college boys—Jude—with tight asses and ripped bodies. “I don’t think any of your friends are going to be interested.”
Jude clamped his teeth into his bottom lip. His intense blue-eyed gaze raked down Rob, leaving a sizzling awareness in its wake. “That wasn’t what I meant.”
Heat simmered in Rob’s chest. In a slow stretch, his cock hardened and his balls tightened. But he couldn’t want this, couldn’t risk destroying the two people who meant the most to him. “I’m flattered—”
“I was thinking we could hit the bars.”
Rob nearly choked on his breath. “The bars?”
“Yeah, this week. I’m home, need to hookup with old friends, and wouldn’t mind meeting a few new ones.” He set his beer on the counter. “I don’t know about you, but I need to get laid. Celibacy is for religious and ugly people.” He started out of the kitchen, leaving Rob speechless. “So are you still set up in the spare bedroom or are you in my room?”
Every fucking word out of Jude’s mouth had his dick jumping and his heart racing. “Your room?” Rob nearly swallowed his tongue. “No, not your room. I’m across the hall in the spare.”
“Great, then I’ll know where to find you if I have an emergency.”
“Huh?” Rob’s brain had short-circuited with talk of Jude’s room. He couldn’t squash the image of Jude in his bed.
“Resuscitation,” Jude said as he grabbed his duffel. “If you head to bed, I’ll see you in the morning.” He started up the stairs to the bedrooms.
Rob raked his fingers through his hair. Shit. Shit. Shit. Bars, hook-ups, and getting laid? What the fuck had happened to Jude? They weren’t pals, and didn’t party together. They weren’t like that. Sure, some of the emails lately had changed in tone, become…stimulating. Now Jude had all but asked for mouth to mouth. Christ that thought had him hot and aching all over.
He glanced at the now vacant stairs. Jude had changed, but so had he. His feelings weren’t easy. They were complicated and intense and considering doing anything with Jude was impossible. Light spilled out from his open bedroom door. Rob kept the room across the hall. He lived an hour south and worked five minutes from Karen’s house. When he was on call, staying here was more convenient.
But not with Jude home. Not with the forbidden sensations rioting through his body. Rob could admit, deep down, where only he knew, he wanted Jude, wanted to top him, cramming him full of cock. Not always. There was a time when Jude was simply Karen’s boy and he’d been blessed to have a hand in watching him mature into an intelligent handsome young man. Then he’d gone away to school. When he returned on that first break, Rob’s saw the man—not the boy. Horrified, he’d buried his needs, swallowed the lust and focused on friendship. Not that it helped. He’d still wanted to fuck his best friend’s kid. He’d felt like a fucking perv. A growl rolled from his chest. Now, in a few hours, Jude had uncovered that dirty little secret. It was a game. And Jude was playing. Question was, would Rob?
A few minutes later, Rob checked the doors, shut off the lights and headed upstairs. The door to Jude’s room was ajar. Only a dim light filtered from within. He paused, wanting to turn away, but desperate for a glimpse. A shiver of apprehension crawled over his flesh. His breathing grew shallow. His bare feet froze to the floor.
In the reflection of the mirror, he watched Jude strip out of his shirt. Hard lines carved his corded abdominals. Saliva flooded Rob’s mouth and his dick jerked. Simmering heat in his balls boiled over and his cock head began to leak within his jeans. Jude had filled out. Gone was the twenty-ish twink replaced by strong shoulders and a dusting of hair across the contoured planes of his pectorals. More slightly curled hair trailed down his flat tempting stomach and swirled around his navel. Rob would dampen those hairs with his kisses and dip the tip of his tongue into the small recesses as he tasted lower on course to Jude’s cock. His belt was unbuckled and the black band of Jude’s underwear peeked out from the undone button of his jeans.
Rob quietly shifted his stance, cupped his dick and pressed into his palm to ease the ache. But the heat in his groin smoldered. His hands trembled. Rampant beats of his heart droned out the voice in his head that should be telling him to turn away rather than feed into the fantasy. But lust controlled him, claimed him and his eyes slid closed.
Rob’s mind filled with the image of Jude dropping to his knees and parting those full wide lips. Rob could almost feel the head of his cock pillowed against Jude’s hot, wet tongue. A shudder ripped through him and his breathing grew heavy. Suddenly he realized he was stroking his shaft through the denim of his jeans. His eyes snapped open. His gaze darted into the room…and locked with Jude’s.
“Fuck.”
Demanding Romance titles are available at online retailers. Visit the DR blog – http://www.demandingromance.blogspot.com/ or the website http://www.demandingromance.com/ to find direct links.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Demanding Romance Author Julian Dane
Trix was a fun story to write. AJ and I pushed through a sensitive subject to hopefully show that sometimes our fear of love can keep us from being with the individual who could truly make us happy. Eli struggles with accepting he’s attracted to his friend, Trigg…until he sees Trigg in drag as Trix. Now he has the perfect excuse to act on his desires.
Trix is tall, beautiful…and a man. But tonight that doesn’t seem to matter to Eli Harris. But what will happen in the morning when Eli must face the truth? Was it Trix…or the man beneath the dress and makeup that made Eli’s cock hard and his heart pound?
Adult Excerpt
“What do you want, Eli?”
“What can I have?” Eli stared up and Trigg stared down.
Trigg combed his fingers through the hair at Eli’s temple. Eli’s lips were full and tempting. His blue eyes sent heat skittering over Trigg’s flesh. “Do you want to kiss me again?”
“Yes.”
Trigg leaned in and brushed his lips over Eli’s. Eli groaned and opened his mouth. Tongue rubbed tongue, tasting, exploring, promising more.
Trigg shifted his hand between them and tugged on the knot of Eli’s sash. Eli skimmed his hands over Trigg’s ass to the hem of his dress. Then his hands slipped beneath the fabric.
“Oh damn.” Trigg broke from the kiss, took a step back and fumbled with the closure of Eli’s breeches. His hands trembled. He couldn’t get the damn zipper down. Eli’s thick cock pressed against the fabric.
“Wait.” Eli slid from the table and stood. Trigg smiled. Eli’s hands shook as he worked the zipper down and peeled open the fly.
Trigg captured Eli’s thick, swollen cock in his hands. With the first touch, Eli’s cock jerked and stretched. Velvety skin covered the steely length. Pearly cream seeped from the deep slit in the wide mushroomed crown. Dark engorged veins threaded the shaft. Trigg gently stroked him once…twice. Eli hissed and forced his pants over his hips.
Trigg clutched Eli’s hand as he dropped to his knees. “Are you sure?”
“Yes.” He smoothed his palm over Trigg’s hair. His touch was gentle, elusive. His gaze focused intently on Trigg, every erotic thought, every emotion etched across his face.
Trigg cupped his heavy sac and rolled Eli’s balls in his palm. With a gentle stroke, he milked the shaft. More fluid oozed from the spongy tip, glistening over the glans. Trigg leaned forward and tasted Eli’s essence.
“Trix, you’re killing me.” His hands fisted in Trigg’s hair. “Please.”
Trigg opened wide and wrapped his lips around Eli’s cock head. He moaned, curling his tongue around the firm ridge and sucking. Breathing through his nose, he relaxed his throat and slid his lips along the shaft. Pulling back, Trigg left Eli’s cock wet and slippery. Each glide down, his lips caressed the length. Trigg took him deeper, wanting to feel Eli stretch the back of his throat.
Eli cupped Trigg’s skull in his palms, bent his knees and angled more of his dick into Trigg’s mouth. The soft head pillowed against Trigg’s tongue. Trigg licked, sucked, and kissed the tip. The musk and salt of Eli’s spunk filled Trigg’s mouth and the scent of Eli’s warm flesh filled his nose. He wasn’t drunk on alcohol but intoxicated with lust.
“Your mouth feels so good. Hot. Wet.”
Trigg fisted Eli’s cock at the base with his right hand and pumped more pleasure into his dick. With his left, he fondled Eli’s balls, squeezing and tugging with just enough pressure to keep Trigg’s nuts from drawing up, holding off his orgasm. Call him selfish, but as much as Trigg wanted to swallow every drop of cum he sucked from Eli’s balls, he wanted him hard—hard enough to split him in half when he thrust his long thick dick into Trigg’s ass.
Demanding Romance titles can be purchased at:
To Purchase at Digi Books Cafe
To Purchase at Amazon Kindle
To Purchase at All Romance eBooks
To Purchase at Rainbow eBooks
To Purchase at 1Place for Romance eBooks
To Purchase at 1erotic eBook
To Purchase at BookStrand
To Purchase at Trapezium Books
Trix is tall, beautiful…and a man. But tonight that doesn’t seem to matter to Eli Harris. But what will happen in the morning when Eli must face the truth? Was it Trix…or the man beneath the dress and makeup that made Eli’s cock hard and his heart pound?
Adult Excerpt
“What do you want, Eli?”
“What can I have?” Eli stared up and Trigg stared down.
Trigg combed his fingers through the hair at Eli’s temple. Eli’s lips were full and tempting. His blue eyes sent heat skittering over Trigg’s flesh. “Do you want to kiss me again?”
“Yes.”
Trigg leaned in and brushed his lips over Eli’s. Eli groaned and opened his mouth. Tongue rubbed tongue, tasting, exploring, promising more.
Trigg shifted his hand between them and tugged on the knot of Eli’s sash. Eli skimmed his hands over Trigg’s ass to the hem of his dress. Then his hands slipped beneath the fabric.
“Oh damn.” Trigg broke from the kiss, took a step back and fumbled with the closure of Eli’s breeches. His hands trembled. He couldn’t get the damn zipper down. Eli’s thick cock pressed against the fabric.
“Wait.” Eli slid from the table and stood. Trigg smiled. Eli’s hands shook as he worked the zipper down and peeled open the fly.
Trigg captured Eli’s thick, swollen cock in his hands. With the first touch, Eli’s cock jerked and stretched. Velvety skin covered the steely length. Pearly cream seeped from the deep slit in the wide mushroomed crown. Dark engorged veins threaded the shaft. Trigg gently stroked him once…twice. Eli hissed and forced his pants over his hips.
Trigg clutched Eli’s hand as he dropped to his knees. “Are you sure?”
“Yes.” He smoothed his palm over Trigg’s hair. His touch was gentle, elusive. His gaze focused intently on Trigg, every erotic thought, every emotion etched across his face.
Trigg cupped his heavy sac and rolled Eli’s balls in his palm. With a gentle stroke, he milked the shaft. More fluid oozed from the spongy tip, glistening over the glans. Trigg leaned forward and tasted Eli’s essence.
“Trix, you’re killing me.” His hands fisted in Trigg’s hair. “Please.”
Trigg opened wide and wrapped his lips around Eli’s cock head. He moaned, curling his tongue around the firm ridge and sucking. Breathing through his nose, he relaxed his throat and slid his lips along the shaft. Pulling back, Trigg left Eli’s cock wet and slippery. Each glide down, his lips caressed the length. Trigg took him deeper, wanting to feel Eli stretch the back of his throat.
Eli cupped Trigg’s skull in his palms, bent his knees and angled more of his dick into Trigg’s mouth. The soft head pillowed against Trigg’s tongue. Trigg licked, sucked, and kissed the tip. The musk and salt of Eli’s spunk filled Trigg’s mouth and the scent of Eli’s warm flesh filled his nose. He wasn’t drunk on alcohol but intoxicated with lust.
“Your mouth feels so good. Hot. Wet.”
Trigg fisted Eli’s cock at the base with his right hand and pumped more pleasure into his dick. With his left, he fondled Eli’s balls, squeezing and tugging with just enough pressure to keep Trigg’s nuts from drawing up, holding off his orgasm. Call him selfish, but as much as Trigg wanted to swallow every drop of cum he sucked from Eli’s balls, he wanted him hard—hard enough to split him in half when he thrust his long thick dick into Trigg’s ass.
Demanding Romance titles can be purchased at:
To Purchase at Digi Books Cafe
To Purchase at Amazon Kindle
To Purchase at All Romance eBooks
To Purchase at Rainbow eBooks
To Purchase at 1Place for Romance eBooks
To Purchase at 1erotic eBook
To Purchase at BookStrand
To Purchase at Trapezium Books
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Demanding Romance Author Taylor McKay
Thank you Seriously Reviewed for Showcasing Demanding Romance authors.
I write hot gay cowboy stories. Rough Rider came out earlier this month. A hard-assed cowboy, Rand Mata likes his rides rough. But then he finds he has a tender spot for local journalist, Fallon O'Shea. Only problem, Fallon wants the dangerous ride Rand is known for.
Rough Rider by Taylor McKay
Only the climax of sex rivals the climax of bull riding. But Rand Mata isn’t interested in buckle bunnies. He’d rather rope and tie up a cowboy. Rand won’t be satisfied with anyone less than a sub, one that likes to fight back before he gives in.
Fallon O’Shea has a soft voice and a beautiful face. He wants a wild cowboy to rein him in—a rough rider. But Rand isn’t sure Fallon knows what he’s asking for. Rand wants to dominate Fallon, wants to give him more than an eight second ride, but sometimes wanting can be dangerous.
Adult Excerpt
Adrenaline coursed through his veins. His heart pounded and his nerves sizzled like live wires. Tornado snorted, pivoted and slammed against the guard rails of the bucking chute. Rand straddled the top of the fence, fastened his glove and ensured a snug fit of his protective vest. Tan and white leather chaps protected his thighs. His cowboy hat hung on the post. For his ride, he wore a helmet and face mask.
“Ready?”
He nodded to the cowboys circling him. Slowly, careful not to agitate the bull while in the shoot, Rand held the fence rails and slid onto the mammoth bull. His thighs molded to the sides of the beast and his buttocks settled into the sway of the bull’s back. Rand slid his gloved hand beneath the braided rope and cinched it tight. He stretched and curled his fingers until he had a sure grip. The din of the crowd faded. The voices of the cowboys around him became a lulling hum as he mentally prepared for the most dangers eight seconds in sports. With a nod, the bucking shoot opened and Tornado stormed into the arena.
Rand focused intently on the twists and spins of the bull. His fluid body absorbed the impact and rolled with bucks and rears. Each second felt like an eternity. Leaning back and keeping his knees bent and hugging the belly of the beast, he found his rhythm. Hoping for style points, he spurred the bull. Tornado grunted, kicked back and flew into the air. Rand and bull were momentarily vertical. Then Tornado twisted hard right and Rand stuck the landing. Like flying, the endorphins from a good ride rushed through his system. His heart pounded with the crushing pattern of hooves hitting the hard dirt. The blast of the horn sent heat rushing through him. Fuck yeah!
The pickup man raced alongside the bull. His horse fearlessly approached the bull as Rand loosened the rope and slid from the still bucking Tornado. Clowns distracted the bull and maneuvered him out of the arena. Rand dropped to the ground and waved to the crowd. Cameras flashed but Rand searched for one face. He scanned along the perimeter fencing but didn’t see Fallon. Shit.
He jogged across the arena and launched over the fence. Cowboys slapped him on the back. Rand tugged off his helmet, combed his fingers through his short damp hair and plopped his cowboy hat on his head. He felt fantastic. His skin tingled and energy coursed through him with the same intensity of Tornado in that last spin. And now Rand wanted to see Fallon. He wanted to see all of Fallon.
A moment later the announcer broadcasted his score to the arena. Ninety-two. Rand jumped from the rail and charged into the arena. He waved his hat at the fans. He was in first place.
He jogged back to the rails. “Hey, has anyone seen that photographer with the ponytail?”
“You looking to become a celebrity,” one of the cowboys drawled. “You’d think you had enough love and adoration.” A group of buckle bunnies squealed and waved from the rail. Daisy Dukes and bikini tops didn’t do anything for him.
“Fuck you. I want a photo of tonight’s ride if I end up with the championship buckle.”
“Willy’s pumped and ready to give you a run for the money.” The next rider was in the chute.
“Shit. Gotta go.” He scrambled over the fence. Rand had a few superstitions. Accept for the ex-bastard, he never watched other riders.
Damn, Rand was primed and his cock was bucking against the fly of his jeans. Bull riding and sex. Sex and bull riding. He couldn’t enjoy one without the other. For months all he’d wanted was his hand. Fallon wasn’t the typical rough cowboy Rand went for. He was clean-cut, fit…and pretty. His skin was smooth and his lips had looked so damn soft.
But where the fuck was he? Rand hadn’t mistaken the invitation. They weren’t having drinks. They were going to fuck. No expectations, just rough and wild sex.
This week Demanding Romance will be giving away a couple of downloads. Trix by AJ Hardcourt and Julian Dane also Pumping Iron by AJ Hardcourt. Any comment on any post will put you into the drawing. Leave your contact email in your post, or if you'd like to keep your email private, email demandingRomance@hotmail.com.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
eXcessica Author Molly Wens
“A writer seeks truth.”
That’s what the man said. The man was one of my professors at college, a gentle person by accounts and more than a little nerdy. Ah, but he was brilliant and I should listen, right?
So, what’s so honest about fiction? Do we seek truth in our characters? Do we strive to enlighten with our plots?
I don’t know about any of that, but if I get a reaction, I’m thrilled. Much like tossing pebbles at my husband’s head, I love to find out what it takes to irritate, to titillate, to stimulate and to touch that hidden part of the reader that seems to elude his/her day-to-day life.
With my novel, Shelter from the Storm, I discovered how far I could push the heart. It’s an emotional roller-coaster that has the reader breathless, flipping the pages as fast as possible looking for the solution—and finding it only to experience another upheaval. There’s passion, love, danger, longing, and a protracted search from redemption. It wears the reader to a frazzle at the end of one chapter, lifts him/her back up at the beginning of the next, only to send them spiraling out of control once again before the next one starts.
I received many emails regarding this, but one sticks out in my memory. It was a man, an angry one, lambasting me as a writer. It seems the reader was very perturbed at having been reduced to tears over the fates of the characters. Then the author of the email went on to describe himself: A former Marine-turned-mercenary who wears a five-XL shirt with battle scars over his entire body and an inhuman lust for his job. (The description he gave was later used as fodder while creating a character in one of my free stories, A Cloak of Lies. Commenter beware . . .)
This, like a great many of my fans, is a self-proclaimed rugged outdoorsman who may have been pushed a bit far by the lusts and passions of two people lost together in the wilderness. Did the story find truth? I’m not sure, but it sure struck a chord with the big guy. The email had me wondering if I should be flattered, or run for cover.
There were many stories after Shelter, spilling from my fertile imagination like so many marbles from a broken case. Some fell to the ground with a shattering of glass while others rolled into the sunshine to be admired for their beauty—or their horror.
Many of these tales made their way to the internet, given freely to the ravenous readers who sent screaming messages for more. Well, most wanted more. Some weren’t quite so solicitous. One person suggested I should kill myself. Hey, you can’t please ‘em all.
The suggestion was made after I posted a short tale of marital hell called The Break-up. It was a non-fairytale about adultery, deceit and pain. Needless to say, it didn’t have a happy ending, a situation which didn’t sit too well with certain people. I can honestly say the story portrayed truth—raw, plain and all too real. Based on the real dissolution of the marriage of an old friend, which resulted in suicide and lasting scars, it apparently struck a chord with the reader.
Other stories made it to the web: Dire Straits, Heartless, The Red Velvet Suite, et al, and each of them drew out reactions all their own. The emails and feedback posts I’ve received have brought no end of delight, mischievousness, and laughter.
The Red Velvet Suite can by found (free) on my website, www.mollywens.com. It’s appropriate for this time of year with Halloween upon us. Although categorized as horror, it’s a humorous take on the reactions of persons thrust into a situation—whether of their own making or not—and their ability to adapt.
We have a reluctant psychic in denial, a flamboyant teacher’s assistant, the professor and MaryAnn (it’s okay, you can hum the tune) and a hot, young teacher with eyes for the psychic. Add a long-abandoned old mansion complete with a red velvet suite that’s home to a painting with the psychic’s likeness and you have the makings for a comedy of horrors—and a madcap escape in a lamentably once-cherry classic red Mustang.
Did the story find truth? I suppose if you put a wide range of varied personalities into a setting of a massive house that wants to kill them, they might act the way the story describes. I know one thing; when the real adventure took place my sophomore year at college, it was just as ridiculous as the writing turned out to be. (Insert winking icon here)
My next venture into publishing was Spell of Appalachia. I don’t know how much truth can be found in it. My grandmother once told me about hauntings and magic, the kind one could only find in the murky mists of the Smoky Mountains. Of course, Gramma’s innocent tale was sweet, but not exactly the sort of thing I write, so I gave it my own little spin. There’s sex, passion, lust, love, mystery and a search for something unknown. Two ghostly figures stand a wisp of a chance at being delivered from the bindings of their own making.
After that, it was The Long Road. This one is a bit darker than the ones before it. It centers on the corruption of wealth and power and one woman’s willingness to risk everything to escape. Redemption for her comes in the form of a farmer, a man with a heart as big as the world. She survives the hell of torture, slavery and violence to enter his tranquil, simple world, only to be pulled back down. Our farmer has no choice but to be pulled down with her.
Is there truth to be found here? Do we all seek redemption, fight through the pitfalls and drudgery of life to find the one thing that lifts us up? I believe there is honesty in this subject. I suppose it’s the reason I often write about it.
On the theme of redemption, there is A Little Human Decency. In this novella, we meet young Taren, a woman trapped in a world of hunger and homelessness. Her savior takes the form of Cordova Perry, a man born to privilege and less than sympathetic to her plight—but he made a promise to a dying friend and he always keeps his promises.
The honesty here is in how a man with everything deigns to offer assistance to a woman with no hope, but finds it’s his life that’s changed forever. I think every one of us has met someone we never thought we’d befriend, but later discovered how much they affected us.
The last of my published works is A Bear in the Woods. A challenge was presented by another author to create a work of fiction from a favorite fairytale. This short novella finds its inspiration in the old Grimm tale, “Snow White and Rose Red”. In it, I tried to depict how such a story might come about in our modern world. There are no “real” bears or mythical, evil dwarves, but there is a man by the name of Aedan Bear, his brother, Hugh, and a bad man who bears the nickname, “The Dwarf”.
There are also the twins, Rosa and Neve, two women living in a cottage, trying to survive the downturn in the economy. What happens when two women alone find a bear-like man half frozen in the woods? They take him home, of course. Little do they know upon first inspection that he’s their old childhood friend, Aedan Bear. Aedan is working undercover for federal law enforcement, investigating Harvey “The Dwarf” Malo. Among his many transgressions, Malo has been trying to force sweet young Neve into marriage and thereby seize control of their valuable land.
In true fairytale fashion, the hero saves the day, but has to fight fiery Rosa every step of the way. She’ll brave heaven and hell to protect her child-like sister, and if it means stomping on the Brothers Bear, so be it. Okay, so honesty takes a little vacation, but it is a fairytale. Sorry, Professor Bolling.
Most of my readers know books by Molly Wens tend to be earthy, rustic and passionate. Not only do I write about “real” men, but also “real” women. A real woman isn’t weak and dependent upon a masculine influence—at least not in my world. My great-grandmother sold homemade hooch out of her basement window to make enough money to feed her children while her husband was gone as much as six months at a time working on the railroad. My grandmother owned her own business and employed my grandfather. We are strong, independent and willing a fight a buzz saw to take care of our own. These are the influences that have led to the characters that bring the stories to life.
Therein lays the genuine truth. If a story has realism, if the reader can identify with it, then truth has been found. And if it comes with a healthy portion of lust, a good dose of passion and a man who looks good in a pair of worn jeans and covered in woodchips and sweat, so much the better.
You can find the published works of Molly Wens on Amazon. Shelter from the Storm and Spell of Appalachia are available in both paperback and e-formats directly through the publisher at http://www.excessica.com/. The Long Road is also available at eXessica in e-formats. A Bear in the Woods and A Little Human Decency can be purchased through http://www.fidopublishing.com/ in e-formats.
Molly spends much of her free time playing games with her child while trying to keep the cat and dog from killing each other. She spends many hours looking for lamp shades to replace the ones destroyed in gruesome animal battles and tossing things at her husband’s head to see how long it takes to rile him up. When she finds the time, she stuffs earphones in her ears, listens to jazz, rock, folk—anything other than hip hop and rap—while she immerses herself in plots and characters inspired by the people and events around her.
When she’s not busy tormenting her family and pet; she can be found most evenings at her trusty laptop. Visit her website, http://www.mollywens.com/ (designed by the incomparable Joey Walnuts) for the latest on her career and a free story or two. Find her on Facebook for her newest ramblings (look under “notes”) about the domesticity of an author and her family.
Friday, November 12, 2010
eXcessica Author Mia Natasha
ART GODDESS & MIA
Spent the afternoon with my copy of W magazine. Kim Kardashian is stunning. I don’t get how fertility goddess-like she is. She looks like those cartoons of sexy women I used to draw after finding Dad’s Penthouse magazines under the sink in Mom & Dad’s master bathroom. Giant nipples, deep ass crevice. The first time I saw Kim Kardashian naked was at my parents’ house. The Playboy magazine sat open on the ottoman in the family room. “Do you know this girl, Kardashian?” Mom asked me.
I know. I was uncomfortable too. But it’s not anything new with those two. I explained about Bruce Jenner and the Kardashians, and the show on E!. Then there was Mom’s monologue about big tits and asses and yes, that’s why there’s a Tay Smytheson in Cinderella Club.
I have happily married parents who have been together for fifty years. They met as tweens and married as teens. It can be a little smothering at times, so naturally I wanted my main character in my novel to have dead parents. Is that mean? The parents are still controlling from the grave and so there you have that semi-autobiographical thingy.
There’s a lot of Mia Natasha in Cinderella Club. Like Miller Smytheson, I’m a gym rat - yes, that kind of body. I’m an art historian, an artist, a fashion designer and very often, the one who cuts you off mid-sentence because I talk too much.
And now I’m a writer too. Back when I was drawing naked ladies, I was writing copy as well. My sister and I put together our own magazine and showed it to our cousins who got in trouble for it. Should I even be sharing this? Because I was only about nine years old at the time. I’m so embarrassed - wait, am I? If I can’t tell you, who can I tell?
With Cinderella Club, I went for extreme (or as some sites claim, sextreme!). I got published with eXcessica. My book has been called “not for the faint of heart” and “graphic”. There’s a rape scene or as I prefer to call it, non-consensual sex. Miller is a sexually naïve young woman with deep-rooted submissive desires. Her sex life with her boyfriend doesn’t meet her expectations and she feels guilty about that. When she’s taken to the Cinderella Club, she experiences the bondage and rough sex she’d always craved in her fantasies. It’s fantasy, you know. It’s a potent female fantasy, especially to those of us who want to be relieved of responsibility once and a while. Titillating in that safe way that books about sexy things you’re embarrassed to like can be embraced.
Titillating, hmmm. I wrote Cinderella Club as a way to explore sexual themes in my otherwise child- friendly artwork. A reporter had challenged me to think about sex in art, and the art manifested in written form. Once I started translating abstract images to the idea, it unleashed a monster. It’s like the story was hidden inside the abstract paintings all along. Cinderella Club is a 450-ish page epic and its sequel, Cinderella Thyme, is soon to follow. A grown-up version of the innocent dabbling I did at nine.
Kim Kardashian said she was honored to be a part of that particular W issue as it was the art issue. If you haven’t seen it yet, Kim’s nude figure is glazed in some sort of gold paint, her long hair blow-dried straight then curling iron curled. Her chitty-chitty bang bangs are really banging, if you like that sort of thing in your art. And we do like sex in art, don’t we?
Mia Natasha
http://mianatasha-erotica.blogspot.com/
http://excessica.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=423&osCsid=fdb2841f9495695b84b1cb05c51ec50e
Thursday, November 11, 2010
eXcessica Author Eve Cassidy
Thank you so much for having me as a guest on your blog. Especially today. Veterans Day
is a special day for me because I am a veteran. I served in the USMC quite a few years ago but it was an incredible experience that stays with you for a lifetime. I often get asked why I went in the Marines and the answer is far to complex to summarize in one line so I found a video of women Marines who answer that very question.
The USMC was a welcome and enjoyable challenge in my life. In fact my enjoyment of my
thirteen weeks in boot camp is what inspired me to start writing the G.I. Jamie series. While I write erotic fiction, it's impossible not to blend in some real life experience along the way. So while Jamie might be having the sexual revolution of her life, some of the training experiences she goes through are quite real.
I considered writing one long story for Jamie and changed my mind. I really liked the idea of breaking up her journey into short story segments to give the reader a different feel or tone for each chapter of her experience. I already know where she ends up but she has a lot to learn before she gets there. I hope you'll check out
her stories and get a taste for the blend between fiction and real life. G.I. Jamie is the first story and is already available. On Your Knees Soldier is the next segment and comes out in January 2011. Which scary to say, is just around the corner.
I also write m/m military stories. For as long as I can remember the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy has been a source of controversy for so many. I had a very good friend in the Marines with me who also happened to be gay. Even though I knew him well, I can only imagine the internal struggle he must have suffered from having to keep part of who he was such a secret. His struggle inspired
me to write Don't Tell. I thought Jeff and Finn's story could remain simple, but like me, readers have fallen for these two men as much as I did and we are all clamoring for their return. So, I'm pleased to report I am working on a new story for them.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Veteran's Day. What does it mean to you?
To see what other books I have available or to find out what I'm working on please visit me at my website or chat me up on Twitter.
http://evecassidy.net/
http://www.twitter.com/evecassidy
is a special day for me because I am a veteran. I served in the USMC quite a few years ago but it was an incredible experience that stays with you for a lifetime. I often get asked why I went in the Marines and the answer is far to complex to summarize in one line so I found a video of women Marines who answer that very question.The USMC was a welcome and enjoyable challenge in my life. In fact my enjoyment of my
thirteen weeks in boot camp is what inspired me to start writing the G.I. Jamie series. While I write erotic fiction, it's impossible not to blend in some real life experience along the way. So while Jamie might be having the sexual revolution of her life, some of the training experiences she goes through are quite real.I considered writing one long story for Jamie and changed my mind. I really liked the idea of breaking up her journey into short story segments to give the reader a different feel or tone for each chapter of her experience. I already know where she ends up but she has a lot to learn before she gets there. I hope you'll check out
her stories and get a taste for the blend between fiction and real life. G.I. Jamie is the first story and is already available. On Your Knees Soldier is the next segment and comes out in January 2011. Which scary to say, is just around the corner.I also write m/m military stories. For as long as I can remember the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy has been a source of controversy for so many. I had a very good friend in the Marines with me who also happened to be gay. Even though I knew him well, I can only imagine the internal struggle he must have suffered from having to keep part of who he was such a secret. His struggle inspired
me to write Don't Tell. I thought Jeff and Finn's story could remain simple, but like me, readers have fallen for these two men as much as I did and we are all clamoring for their return. So, I'm pleased to report I am working on a new story for them.I'd love to hear your thoughts on Veteran's Day. What does it mean to you?
Happy Veterans Day!
EveTo see what other books I have available or to find out what I'm working on please visit me at my website or chat me up on Twitter.
http://evecassidy.net/
http://www.twitter.com/evecassidy
****CONTEST****
This week there will be two winners. In your comment to Eve please let me know whether you would rather win Meet the Baumgartners by Selena Kitt or Slave to Shadows by Gavin Atlas
at the end of the week I will draw two names, one for each title, from everyone who leaves comments :)
click on each title to read the blurb
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
eXcessica Author Dakota Trace
Ladies First
That’s what started it all. I remember sitting in my third grade classroom bored out of my mind but vaguely listening to my teacher, Mr. Hoyt. In his hands he held a thick book. Its white cover was a bit battered and the sketch of a little boy’s head with a house as a hat was barely visible between his large fingers. Under them in italic lettering were the words Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstien. As he held the book in his hands, he calmly explained to us that his daughter had begged him to buy this book for her a couple of years ago when she was our age. He thought we’d enjoy it as much as she had. He opened the book in the middle and began to read. From the fact that he barely glanced at the page, it was obvious this was a well read poem.
“Pamela Purse yelled, "Ladies first,"
Pushing in front of the ice cream line.
Pamela Purse yelled, "Ladies first,"
Grabbing the ketchup at dinnertime.
Climbing on the morning bus
She'd shove right by all of us
And there'd be a tiff or a fight or a fuss
When Pamela Purse yelled, "Ladies first."
Pamela Purse screamed, "Ladies first,"
When we went off on our jungle trip.
Pamela Purse said her thirst was worse
And guzzled our water, every sip.
And when we got grabbed by that wild savage band,
Who tied us together and made us all stand
In a long line in front of the King of the land-
A cannibal known as Fry-'Em-Up Dan,
Who sat on his throne in a bib so grand
With a lick of his lips and a fork in his hand,
As he tried to decide who'd be first in the pan-
From back of the line, in that shrill voice of hers,
Pamela Purse yelled, "Ladies first." *
It was 1983, and I was only eight years old. It is the first time I became aware of the written word as a source of pleasure and could be used to express how a person felt. Up until then I normally stared off into space when my teacher read in class. And heaven forbid if I had to actually write a paper. You know that girl in Remember the Titians, the assistant coach’s daughter, Shyrl Yoast? The little girl who loved football, hanging out with her dad and had absolutely no manners to speak of? That was me. I was a tomboy who wanted to be out climbing trees, riding my bike and helping my dad in the garage. I most definitely did not want to read nor did I ever consider myself a “lady” much to my grandmother’s chagrin. I wasn’t like my older cousin, Marie who was every inch a young lady. She never burped or farted in public. Nor did she ever come in with her clothing torn up, dirty and her hair a mess. She had impeccable table manners and a poise I knew I’d never be able to emulate. I’d even heard my grandmother, scolding me and allowing my cousin to have the first piece of dessert because she had acted like a young lady.
So when I heard the opening lines of Ladies First it caught my bored eight year old mind. I listened to Mr Hoyt read the poem and for the first time connected to a story. I knew exactly the frustration the narrator felt. The class would giggle when he did the falsetto for “ladies first” line and there would be laughter when he read the fate of Pamela Purse.
Thinking back now, that was when my love affair with the written word started. With the help of an exceptional teacher and a thick volume of poetry, for the first time I wanted to read. At the time I had little better than a first grade level reading skills. It took me almost the entire year to read all 176 pages but I persevered. In fact I begged and pleaded with my dad to get me a copy of Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends. I was so disappointed when Christmas came and there were no books under the tree for me that year. But low and behold, before the school year ended and I finished the last poem in that book, reading it to the class in fact, Mr. Hoyt gave me the battered up copy that he’d bought for his daughter. Inside the cover, his daughter had written a note. Scrawled in a childish hand, it said, “Daddy says you love Ladies First just like me. I want you to have it.- Abigail”
As a writer, I’m frequently asked what first got me interested in writing and how old I was. Well, now you know the answer. It was all because of an extraordinary teacher and his ten year old daughter who gave a battered up copy of Light in the Attic to a poor second grader whose father couldn’t afford to buy her books. I think each author has their influences and people that have molded and encouraged them to hone their writing skills. In my case, not only was it a book of poetry, an teacher and his daughter but also an understanding father who did manage to pinch together enough pennies to buy me Where the Sidewalk Ends for her ninth birthday. So tell me what book influenced you?
Dakota
*Ladies First is a poem from the book, Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstien, copyright Oct 9, 2001. Published by HarperCollins.
****CONTEST****
This week there will be two winners. In your comment to Dakota please let me know whether you would rather win Meet the Baumgartners by Selena Kitt or Slave to Shadows by Gavin Atlas
at the end of the week I will draw two names, one for each title, from everyone who leaves comments :)
click on each title to read the blurb
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
eXcessica Author D.B. Story
Hello,
I'm D.B. Story, your guest-blogging author du jour. As of today I have 39 titles published with Excessica Publishing (http://www.excessica.com/ ), and one with Fido Publishing (http://www.fidopublishing.com/ ). This is your chance to learn a bit more about me and my writing.
Writers come in all different flavors from the fame-seeking, who spend so much time in the public eye that you wonder how they ever have time to write a single sentence, to the exceptionally reclusive. In the latter category I would include J. D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird), both of whom wrote books that changed a nation before retreating completely from their well-earned fame for reasons best known to themselves. Salinger kept writing (and picking up impressionable younger women, it seems) for the rest of his life. Now that he's deceased it is hoped that all of those stories will finally see the light of day soon – making his heirs rich in the process. This would be a much better outcome than Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) left for his fans. He made everyone wait for 100 years before his dictated autobiography was allowed to be released. That century just expired, and here in this paragraph you've just experienced an example of my own writing style. I write about things that interest me in the course of my stories. Like with this guest blog entry, you may learn some things along the way that you never realized before.
If I had my choice about what kind of writer I'd like to be, a modified version of Phillip K. Dick comes to mind. Things I like that he achieved include success in having his writing published throughout his life, writing in the Science Fiction genre that I love, writing stories that no one else could write, and being allowed to toil in relative obscurity behind his typewriter in such a way that fame didn't damage his life. The place I'd prefer to diverge from him is that his greatest fame and success (movies et al.) came after his death, having struggled financially throughout most of his life. Personally I'd like to enjoy my success while I still can. Putting it another way, I'd like to be successful enough to go to Disneyland any day that I wish, yet remain obscure enough that nobody cares about it or bothers me when I do.
A question writers are often asked is: Why did you start writing? Let me get that out of the way quickly by saying that I started writing when I realized that I wasn't finding enough of what I liked to read to occupy my time and interest. When I can't rely on someone else's imagination to entertain me I'm forced to resort to my own. That, and I've always wanted to create more of pretty much anything that I've enjoyed. If someone else can do it I'm left feeling that I can do it too.
Having long had stories in my head that I would have enjoyed reading if written by someone else, that left me with the question of: Was I the only one who liked this kind of stuff? There were certainly at least a few fans since stories about sexy robots and other interesting encounters (pun most definitely intended) with non-human partners are being written, but did anyone care about my ideas for them? Fortunately the Internet offered an answer.
The first story I wrote was mostly because I loved the premise as written by another author in his story about this marvelous ultra luxurious hotel of the future where the robot staff provided anything you wished for. However, I was left feeling that his execution of the idea didn't go quite as far in the direction that I wanted to see it happen. After inquiring if that author minded (he didn't, as long as I was clear about writing about a different hotel in the same chain), I wrote the first chapter of "Lisa's Tale: A Courtesy Suites Story." When I completed it I realized I there was a bit more that I needed to do if I wanted to offer it up to the world at large to see if I could be a writer too.
These additional chores included picking a pseudonym so that any future employer wouldn't immediately track my writing back to me on their first Google search. This is always a consideration for an erotica writer when one has to live in the real world as well, and I knew from the beginning I was going to be writing an erotic romance. Then came creating the requisite web-page (now defunct) and e-mail address for my writing. Only when that was in place could I go ahead and post it for comment to the relevant Usenet groups of the time: alt.sex.fetish.robots and alt.sex.stories.moderated.
While I knew what I'd be writing – stories that wouldn't shy away from the inherent sexual aspects of the beautiful, sexy characters contained within them – when I selected my pseudonym I wasn't quite so prescient. I didn't realize that "DB Story" had a whole separate meaning for Japanese anime fans and was only vaguely concerned about the fact that once you start out under a given name, the more you use it the more it becomes impossible to ever change it because it becomes part of building your brand. My advice on in this regard to any newly aspiring writer: choose wisely, young grasshopper, for it will forever be a part of you. And despite the terrible proofing of that first chapter, the feedback was quick and positive with the demand to tell what comes next – and that's what I've been doing ever since.
Writers are also often asked if they enjoy writing? While writing can be real work, for me the answer is an unqualified YES. Why? Because when I'm writing I'm living in that world. I get to walk around poking and prodding things to see what they're really like and how they work, all while meeting and interacting with my characters. That's the reason I seldom write horror or suspense – who wants to spend much of their time living in a place like that? While I've certainly done some stories in that genre (Dangerous Toys Volume 1), erotic romance with exotic females, occasional males, and sometimes something more than either just female or male – is a place I find well worth exploring.
When asked what kinds of stories I write, I used to reply science fiction and fantasy, with an emphasis on erotic romance, often with fembots. I only recently changed that description. This came about because on Amazon.com (which was always a goal of mine to be distributed by) tags can be added to assist other readers in locating your work and similar sorts of stories. It was only this year, after writing steadily for the last ten years, that I finally looked back on my body of work and realized what most of I'd really been writing about all along was best described and tagged as "interspecies romance". And don't discount the idea of interspecies romance not being a big deal. The highest grossing movie of all time was about exactly that.
So what inspires my writing, I have two answers for that.
The first is that I'm inspired to complete, or elaborate on, stories that I find intriguing that ended too soon. This is a dangerous area to write in since those characters and situations belong to another writer who may not want to share. You can end up writing something that you can never show afterwards – at least not without major revisions that can undo the very idea that attracted you to it in the first place. That is vanity writing in the extreme since you'll have trouble ever making a living at it. FanFic falls into this category and it does sing its siren song at times to me. As a result, some of my stories you'll never see listed for sale. I'm not interested in being sued by the Disney Company.
My second inspiration is my favorite story in all of mythology: Pygmalion and Galatea. Who wouldn't want to create and have the perfect woman all to themselves? This is an ongoing story that has been retold countless times through the ages in so many different ways because it is such an enduring dream. Even musicals of stage and screen such as "My Fair Lady" are based on this myth. Of course, many people don't realize that in the beginning Pygmalion he hated all women, which is why he set out to create one that would be different from all the rest. He certainly hadn't planned to fall in love with his creation and never expected her to be anything but a silent statue. Fortunately for him it all worked out. My stories start out much the same, with a relationship that seems improbable at best in the beginning. Writing a P&G story isn't FanFic, but rather exploring an eternal theme of humanity itself. My most blatant P&G stories to date are my "Still Life" series starting with "Still Life: Barbara", with three more stories to follow over the next few months.
Some might say that my protagonists are misfits and in a way I have to agree with that. I write about people who, for whatever the reason, haven't found a normal relationship. They are the proverbial square peg in the round hole type and as a result are open to something more unconventional or exotic, even if frowned upon by society. They are the dreamers who can see something that the rest of us have missed. In that way, one common theme of my writing is all about tearing down society's artificial barriers to true love. And I refuse to have insipid, faint at the first handsome male who shows them the least amount of attention, female characters regardless of whatever species of female I'm writing about. Who would ever be interested in one of them as a life partner?
I'm also a fan of what I call The Twilight Zone Principle. What is that? Well if you remember the original The Twilight Zone television show (1959 – 1964) you'll recall that it started its run in a time when television broadcast codes prohibited a lot of what you can find on a hundred cable channels now. Rod Serling wanted an edgy, relevant, paranormal series and was finding himself continually thwarted by the network censors. Then he stumbled upon a way to sidestep them completely.
It seemed that while there were many things that you just couldn't have someone say on television at that time – it was absolutely fine if a robot, or an alien, said it. Once he realized that simple truth, from then on whenever he wanted to say something controversial he just added the necessary non-human to the scene and got his point across. When I want to write about unconventional relationships with characters who thrive in them, I write about unconventional characters. I may start out with an idea that initially appears completely unacceptable – such as who would ever marry a machine – and have a line of readers standing in line clamoring for that opportunity themselves by the last page. And as far as The Twilight Zone goes, they wrote their own Pygmalion and Galatea story in the memorable episode: "The After Hours". That was a major inspiration for my own Still Life stories, along with my long held belief that they should have really titled that episode "Still Life". Once again this is just me telling more about a story that I liked. And don't ever say that I just ripped off The Twilight Zone, unless you're willing to concede that TTZ ripped off "One Touch of Venus" (1948).
I also write stories about the type of adventures that I would like to take myself. And being a hard Science Fiction kind of guy, I'll tell you all of The Rules that you'll need to know in order to embark on the journey for yourself when you next find yourself in that situation.
Regarding my finding Excessica Publishing as my publisher, for a long time I had people I respect tell me that my stories were great and that I could get them published if I would just tone down the sex a bit. While I appreciated every one of those comments, one of the things I'd decided from the beginning was that I was tired of stories that did precisely that. Sex is a part of life, and as such it is a part of stories about life. If a story is only about sex then it isn't a story – it's stroke, and that's not the audience I write for. In fact, some reviewers won't even give my stories a stroke rating because they aren't that kind of story. I remain flattered by that sentiment in a reviewer. But when writing about beautiful, sexy characters, don't shy away from the sexual aspects of the story.
OTOH, don't dwell on them either. Set the scene and let your reader's imagination fill in the blanks with what works best for them. What's right in great detail for one reader will be totally wrong for another. This is an area where less can truly be more.
And one last question authors are often asked (at least when they're not being asked yet again by some fan to take the fan's great idea, do the easy part of writing the story based on it, and split the money afterwards) is: What is your best book? Or what book would you recommend that I read first? Aside from my best one is always my next one, and that you should read all of them as well as buying copies for all of your friends and relatives, usually a more specific answer is desired.
For me, if you like a good length novel to settle down with I'd have to say try out "Far Future Fembot: Bill's Story". I'll take you further in that story than any other one I've published yet. If you prefer shorter stories, I suggest starting out with "The Fembot Chronicles Volume 1". And if you're absolutely certain that robots just aren't your thing (and I have a number of e-mails from people who tell me that they just knew that they'd never enjoy a story about a robot – until they read one of mine) then take a look at my Encounters stories, or anything else under my name.
I couldn't not mention the book review I have enjoyed the most so far – especially because it happens to be found on this very site. It's for "Encounters: Pig Girl" and you can read it here: http://seriouslyreviewed.blogspot.com/search/label/D.B.%20Story . All I can say is that every time I think about it I am most certainly Entertained. :^)
My latest news is that I now have a Facebook page as "Db Story" since a writer can't afford to simply ignore the New Media. Over time I intend to put some unique content there about the background to my stories. This will be the same kind of information that appears in Authors Notes in my later titles, but was missing in the early ones. In this way I live in a modern world that PKD only imagined in his writings.
My latest releases are my Strip Club Tales, which adhere to another rule of writing that I have. If you want to write an interesting story, either write about interesting people (the very rich and the very lucky are far more interesting than the average or very poor – and if you're not rich, well you can still be lucky) and/or put them in exotic places and situations. This rule is why I know that while I'll see a CSI: Las Vegas, don’t' expect a CSI: Cleveland or CSI: Toledo. Interesting places as seen on TV include casinos (Vega$), bars (Cheers), Hawaii (as in 5-0), and strip clubs (The Sopranos). My Strip Club Tales are set in the near future where fembots have replaced live entertainers. As with all of my fembots, when their minds awaken and they start thinking and feeling for themselves is when interesting things can happen. These titles have just been released as individual eBooks after previously appearing across 2 anthologies.
Because I couldn't get a weekend day for this blogging I will drop in during the day as I can to respond to comments, and get back to all the ones I couldn't reply to earlier this evening.
Thank you and have a great day. I hope that you've been Entertained!
Check out D.B. Story’s titles from Excessica.
Check out The Runaway Starship by D.B. Story from Fido Publishing.
I'm D.B. Story, your guest-blogging author du jour. As of today I have 39 titles published with Excessica Publishing (http://www.excessica.com/ ), and one with Fido Publishing (http://www.fidopublishing.com/ ). This is your chance to learn a bit more about me and my writing.
Writers come in all different flavors from the fame-seeking, who spend so much time in the public eye that you wonder how they ever have time to write a single sentence, to the exceptionally reclusive. In the latter category I would include J. D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird), both of whom wrote books that changed a nation before retreating completely from their well-earned fame for reasons best known to themselves. Salinger kept writing (and picking up impressionable younger women, it seems) for the rest of his life. Now that he's deceased it is hoped that all of those stories will finally see the light of day soon – making his heirs rich in the process. This would be a much better outcome than Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) left for his fans. He made everyone wait for 100 years before his dictated autobiography was allowed to be released. That century just expired, and here in this paragraph you've just experienced an example of my own writing style. I write about things that interest me in the course of my stories. Like with this guest blog entry, you may learn some things along the way that you never realized before.
If I had my choice about what kind of writer I'd like to be, a modified version of Phillip K. Dick comes to mind. Things I like that he achieved include success in having his writing published throughout his life, writing in the Science Fiction genre that I love, writing stories that no one else could write, and being allowed to toil in relative obscurity behind his typewriter in such a way that fame didn't damage his life. The place I'd prefer to diverge from him is that his greatest fame and success (movies et al.) came after his death, having struggled financially throughout most of his life. Personally I'd like to enjoy my success while I still can. Putting it another way, I'd like to be successful enough to go to Disneyland any day that I wish, yet remain obscure enough that nobody cares about it or bothers me when I do.
A question writers are often asked is: Why did you start writing? Let me get that out of the way quickly by saying that I started writing when I realized that I wasn't finding enough of what I liked to read to occupy my time and interest. When I can't rely on someone else's imagination to entertain me I'm forced to resort to my own. That, and I've always wanted to create more of pretty much anything that I've enjoyed. If someone else can do it I'm left feeling that I can do it too.
Having long had stories in my head that I would have enjoyed reading if written by someone else, that left me with the question of: Was I the only one who liked this kind of stuff? There were certainly at least a few fans since stories about sexy robots and other interesting encounters (pun most definitely intended) with non-human partners are being written, but did anyone care about my ideas for them? Fortunately the Internet offered an answer.
The first story I wrote was mostly because I loved the premise as written by another author in his story about this marvelous ultra luxurious hotel of the future where the robot staff provided anything you wished for. However, I was left feeling that his execution of the idea didn't go quite as far in the direction that I wanted to see it happen. After inquiring if that author minded (he didn't, as long as I was clear about writing about a different hotel in the same chain), I wrote the first chapter of "Lisa's Tale: A Courtesy Suites Story." When I completed it I realized I there was a bit more that I needed to do if I wanted to offer it up to the world at large to see if I could be a writer too.
These additional chores included picking a pseudonym so that any future employer wouldn't immediately track my writing back to me on their first Google search. This is always a consideration for an erotica writer when one has to live in the real world as well, and I knew from the beginning I was going to be writing an erotic romance. Then came creating the requisite web-page (now defunct) and e-mail address for my writing. Only when that was in place could I go ahead and post it for comment to the relevant Usenet groups of the time: alt.sex.fetish.robots and alt.sex.stories.moderated.
While I knew what I'd be writing – stories that wouldn't shy away from the inherent sexual aspects of the beautiful, sexy characters contained within them – when I selected my pseudonym I wasn't quite so prescient. I didn't realize that "DB Story" had a whole separate meaning for Japanese anime fans and was only vaguely concerned about the fact that once you start out under a given name, the more you use it the more it becomes impossible to ever change it because it becomes part of building your brand. My advice on in this regard to any newly aspiring writer: choose wisely, young grasshopper, for it will forever be a part of you. And despite the terrible proofing of that first chapter, the feedback was quick and positive with the demand to tell what comes next – and that's what I've been doing ever since.
Writers are also often asked if they enjoy writing? While writing can be real work, for me the answer is an unqualified YES. Why? Because when I'm writing I'm living in that world. I get to walk around poking and prodding things to see what they're really like and how they work, all while meeting and interacting with my characters. That's the reason I seldom write horror or suspense – who wants to spend much of their time living in a place like that? While I've certainly done some stories in that genre (Dangerous Toys Volume 1), erotic romance with exotic females, occasional males, and sometimes something more than either just female or male – is a place I find well worth exploring.
When asked what kinds of stories I write, I used to reply science fiction and fantasy, with an emphasis on erotic romance, often with fembots. I only recently changed that description. This came about because on Amazon.com (which was always a goal of mine to be distributed by) tags can be added to assist other readers in locating your work and similar sorts of stories. It was only this year, after writing steadily for the last ten years, that I finally looked back on my body of work and realized what most of I'd really been writing about all along was best described and tagged as "interspecies romance". And don't discount the idea of interspecies romance not being a big deal. The highest grossing movie of all time was about exactly that.
So what inspires my writing, I have two answers for that.
The first is that I'm inspired to complete, or elaborate on, stories that I find intriguing that ended too soon. This is a dangerous area to write in since those characters and situations belong to another writer who may not want to share. You can end up writing something that you can never show afterwards – at least not without major revisions that can undo the very idea that attracted you to it in the first place. That is vanity writing in the extreme since you'll have trouble ever making a living at it. FanFic falls into this category and it does sing its siren song at times to me. As a result, some of my stories you'll never see listed for sale. I'm not interested in being sued by the Disney Company.
My second inspiration is my favorite story in all of mythology: Pygmalion and Galatea. Who wouldn't want to create and have the perfect woman all to themselves? This is an ongoing story that has been retold countless times through the ages in so many different ways because it is such an enduring dream. Even musicals of stage and screen such as "My Fair Lady" are based on this myth. Of course, many people don't realize that in the beginning Pygmalion he hated all women, which is why he set out to create one that would be different from all the rest. He certainly hadn't planned to fall in love with his creation and never expected her to be anything but a silent statue. Fortunately for him it all worked out. My stories start out much the same, with a relationship that seems improbable at best in the beginning. Writing a P&G story isn't FanFic, but rather exploring an eternal theme of humanity itself. My most blatant P&G stories to date are my "Still Life" series starting with "Still Life: Barbara", with three more stories to follow over the next few months.
Some might say that my protagonists are misfits and in a way I have to agree with that. I write about people who, for whatever the reason, haven't found a normal relationship. They are the proverbial square peg in the round hole type and as a result are open to something more unconventional or exotic, even if frowned upon by society. They are the dreamers who can see something that the rest of us have missed. In that way, one common theme of my writing is all about tearing down society's artificial barriers to true love. And I refuse to have insipid, faint at the first handsome male who shows them the least amount of attention, female characters regardless of whatever species of female I'm writing about. Who would ever be interested in one of them as a life partner?
I'm also a fan of what I call The Twilight Zone Principle. What is that? Well if you remember the original The Twilight Zone television show (1959 – 1964) you'll recall that it started its run in a time when television broadcast codes prohibited a lot of what you can find on a hundred cable channels now. Rod Serling wanted an edgy, relevant, paranormal series and was finding himself continually thwarted by the network censors. Then he stumbled upon a way to sidestep them completely.
It seemed that while there were many things that you just couldn't have someone say on television at that time – it was absolutely fine if a robot, or an alien, said it. Once he realized that simple truth, from then on whenever he wanted to say something controversial he just added the necessary non-human to the scene and got his point across. When I want to write about unconventional relationships with characters who thrive in them, I write about unconventional characters. I may start out with an idea that initially appears completely unacceptable – such as who would ever marry a machine – and have a line of readers standing in line clamoring for that opportunity themselves by the last page. And as far as The Twilight Zone goes, they wrote their own Pygmalion and Galatea story in the memorable episode: "The After Hours". That was a major inspiration for my own Still Life stories, along with my long held belief that they should have really titled that episode "Still Life". Once again this is just me telling more about a story that I liked. And don't ever say that I just ripped off The Twilight Zone, unless you're willing to concede that TTZ ripped off "One Touch of Venus" (1948).
I also write stories about the type of adventures that I would like to take myself. And being a hard Science Fiction kind of guy, I'll tell you all of The Rules that you'll need to know in order to embark on the journey for yourself when you next find yourself in that situation.
Regarding my finding Excessica Publishing as my publisher, for a long time I had people I respect tell me that my stories were great and that I could get them published if I would just tone down the sex a bit. While I appreciated every one of those comments, one of the things I'd decided from the beginning was that I was tired of stories that did precisely that. Sex is a part of life, and as such it is a part of stories about life. If a story is only about sex then it isn't a story – it's stroke, and that's not the audience I write for. In fact, some reviewers won't even give my stories a stroke rating because they aren't that kind of story. I remain flattered by that sentiment in a reviewer. But when writing about beautiful, sexy characters, don't shy away from the sexual aspects of the story.
OTOH, don't dwell on them either. Set the scene and let your reader's imagination fill in the blanks with what works best for them. What's right in great detail for one reader will be totally wrong for another. This is an area where less can truly be more.
And one last question authors are often asked (at least when they're not being asked yet again by some fan to take the fan's great idea, do the easy part of writing the story based on it, and split the money afterwards) is: What is your best book? Or what book would you recommend that I read first? Aside from my best one is always my next one, and that you should read all of them as well as buying copies for all of your friends and relatives, usually a more specific answer is desired.
For me, if you like a good length novel to settle down with I'd have to say try out "Far Future Fembot: Bill's Story". I'll take you further in that story than any other one I've published yet. If you prefer shorter stories, I suggest starting out with "The Fembot Chronicles Volume 1". And if you're absolutely certain that robots just aren't your thing (and I have a number of e-mails from people who tell me that they just knew that they'd never enjoy a story about a robot – until they read one of mine) then take a look at my Encounters stories, or anything else under my name.
I couldn't not mention the book review I have enjoyed the most so far – especially because it happens to be found on this very site. It's for "Encounters: Pig Girl" and you can read it here: http://seriouslyreviewed.blogspot.com/search/label/D.B.%20Story . All I can say is that every time I think about it I am most certainly Entertained. :^)
My latest news is that I now have a Facebook page as "Db Story" since a writer can't afford to simply ignore the New Media. Over time I intend to put some unique content there about the background to my stories. This will be the same kind of information that appears in Authors Notes in my later titles, but was missing in the early ones. In this way I live in a modern world that PKD only imagined in his writings.
My latest releases are my Strip Club Tales, which adhere to another rule of writing that I have. If you want to write an interesting story, either write about interesting people (the very rich and the very lucky are far more interesting than the average or very poor – and if you're not rich, well you can still be lucky) and/or put them in exotic places and situations. This rule is why I know that while I'll see a CSI: Las Vegas, don’t' expect a CSI: Cleveland or CSI: Toledo. Interesting places as seen on TV include casinos (Vega$), bars (Cheers), Hawaii (as in 5-0), and strip clubs (The Sopranos). My Strip Club Tales are set in the near future where fembots have replaced live entertainers. As with all of my fembots, when their minds awaken and they start thinking and feeling for themselves is when interesting things can happen. These titles have just been released as individual eBooks after previously appearing across 2 anthologies.
Because I couldn't get a weekend day for this blogging I will drop in during the day as I can to respond to comments, and get back to all the ones I couldn't reply to earlier this evening.
Thank you and have a great day. I hope that you've been Entertained!
Check out D.B. Story’s titles from Excessica.
Check out The Runaway Starship by D.B. Story from Fido Publishing.
Today, D.B. is offering one lucky commentor an e-copy of Encounters: Pig Girl. Leave a comment and don't forget to leave a way to contact you if you are the winner :)
****WEEK LONG CONTEST****
This week there will be two winners. In your comment to D.B please let me know whether you would rather win Meet the Baumgartners by Selena Kitt or Slave to Shadows by Gavin Atlas
at the end of the week I will draw two names, one for each title, from everyone who leaves comments :)
click on each title to read the blurb
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
Monday, November 8, 2010
eXcessica Author Roxanne Rhoads
Are Ghosts As Real as We Are?
My belief is that our souls, our spirits make us who we are. Once the spirit/soul leaves the body the body is just an empty shell. The essence is gone on to wherever it is spirits go- heaven, hell, limbo, or perhaps stuck in this world unseen and unheard by the living.
With this belief in mind I would think that on one level a ghost is just as real as a living, breathing person they just no longer have a shell around them. When I say real I mean a conscious, feeling entity.
I do understand that some spirits are not conscious, they are more of an imprint, a memory locked on replay tied to a place or thing- the same image, the same thing happens over and over again. And then there are spirits that are not human, that were never human to begin with but that’s a whole different ball park than what I’m talking about now.
I’m talking about your basic ghost. Someone dies, the spirit leaves the body but for whatever reason does not cross over. It’s here, still conscious, still feeling, still aware but not tied to a physical body. Can we say that the spirit is not worth considering, that the spirit does not matter?
I question this because the point was brought up in an amazing book I just finished, Sparks by Laura Bickle. Her character, Anya, believes that ghosts- spirits matter. That their feelings should be taken into consideration. A few people in her ghost hunting group think otherwise. It’s not something that gets resolved within the book but it is a great discussion point and something to ponder.
If we are who we are because of a soul and our soul leaves our body when we die and moves on to become a spirit- then how can anyone who believes in a soul believe that the spirit that it becomes irrelevant?
It’s something to think about isn’t it?
My stand alone release from Excessica, A Halloween to Remember, features a ghost. Dimitri is the spirit of a man who died before his dream could become reality. This ties him to his house so he is unable to cross over. But no one ever sees him. Not until Adena attends a Halloween party in the home he built- and Halloween magic allows her to see and feel him.
He’s as real to her as a flesh and blood man, certainly to her ghosts are real and deserve the same consideration as a living breathing human.
My story, “Overkill”, that appears in the October Excessica anthology, Wonder, features a vampire not a ghost but many consider vampires to be soulless- so would that make them less likely to have rights even though they have a physical body?
I find the belief that vampires are soulless to be outdated considering that many modern depictions of vampires show them to be tortured and loving souls capable of great emotion. I can’t see how one can have emotion or the ability to love without a soul.
One line I read in the book Sparks said something similar to “their rights end at death”.
According to a lot of vampire legends vampires are dead- or undead. So even if they have a soul and though they are up and walking around they are still considered walking corpses (another concept I find outdated). Do they not have rights, feelings, and emotions to be considered?
It’s something to ponder when reading or writing paranormal fiction and urban fantasy- in the laws of a world that recognizes the existence of paranormal creatures what rights under law should they have?
What feelings should we consider when making choices about/for them?
What do you think?
Do rights and feelings end at death?
If they existed in our world should sentient ghosts, vampires, werewolves and Other paranormals have the same rights as normal humans?
My belief is that our souls, our spirits make us who we are. Once the spirit/soul leaves the body the body is just an empty shell. The essence is gone on to wherever it is spirits go- heaven, hell, limbo, or perhaps stuck in this world unseen and unheard by the living.
With this belief in mind I would think that on one level a ghost is just as real as a living, breathing person they just no longer have a shell around them. When I say real I mean a conscious, feeling entity.
I do understand that some spirits are not conscious, they are more of an imprint, a memory locked on replay tied to a place or thing- the same image, the same thing happens over and over again. And then there are spirits that are not human, that were never human to begin with but that’s a whole different ball park than what I’m talking about now.
I’m talking about your basic ghost. Someone dies, the spirit leaves the body but for whatever reason does not cross over. It’s here, still conscious, still feeling, still aware but not tied to a physical body. Can we say that the spirit is not worth considering, that the spirit does not matter?
I question this because the point was brought up in an amazing book I just finished, Sparks by Laura Bickle. Her character, Anya, believes that ghosts- spirits matter. That their feelings should be taken into consideration. A few people in her ghost hunting group think otherwise. It’s not something that gets resolved within the book but it is a great discussion point and something to ponder.
If we are who we are because of a soul and our soul leaves our body when we die and moves on to become a spirit- then how can anyone who believes in a soul believe that the spirit that it becomes irrelevant?
It’s something to think about isn’t it?
My stand alone release from Excessica, A Halloween to Remember, features a ghost. Dimitri is the spirit of a man who died before his dream could become reality. This ties him to his house so he is unable to cross over. But no one ever sees him. Not until Adena attends a Halloween party in the home he built- and Halloween magic allows her to see and feel him.
He’s as real to her as a flesh and blood man, certainly to her ghosts are real and deserve the same consideration as a living breathing human.
My story, “Overkill”, that appears in the October Excessica anthology, Wonder, features a vampire not a ghost but many consider vampires to be soulless- so would that make them less likely to have rights even though they have a physical body? I find the belief that vampires are soulless to be outdated considering that many modern depictions of vampires show them to be tortured and loving souls capable of great emotion. I can’t see how one can have emotion or the ability to love without a soul.
One line I read in the book Sparks said something similar to “their rights end at death”.
According to a lot of vampire legends vampires are dead- or undead. So even if they have a soul and though they are up and walking around they are still considered walking corpses (another concept I find outdated). Do they not have rights, feelings, and emotions to be considered?
It’s something to ponder when reading or writing paranormal fiction and urban fantasy- in the laws of a world that recognizes the existence of paranormal creatures what rights under law should they have?
What feelings should we consider when making choices about/for them?
What do you think?
Do rights and feelings end at death?
If they existed in our world should sentient ghosts, vampires, werewolves and Other paranormals have the same rights as normal humans?
****CONTEST****
This week there will be two winners. In your comment to Roxanne please let me know whether you would rather win Meet the Baumgartners by Selena Kitt or Slave to Shadows by Gavin Atlas
at the end of the week I will draw two names, one for each title, from everyone who leaves comments :)
click on each title to read the blurb
Sunday, November 7, 2010
eXcessica author Kenn Dahll
![]() |
| For Excerpt |
![]() |
| For Excerpt |
![]() |
| For Excerpt |
Author page/Catalog of available titles: http://excessica.com/store/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=56&osCsid=8a21a383e69701219767b6533b0bf219
Experimenting in Writing
Being innately curious once I became a published author I felt a compulsion to experiment in order to expand my horizons and add new dimensions to my work. My earliest experiments dealt with Point of View (POV) and tense. I tried omniscient narrator in both past and present tense (I’ve not attempted future yet) as well as first person participant in both time frames. I discovered a problem with setting a story in the present. Inevitable I’d lapse into past tense. This is the case whether writing in the first or third person.
A very unsuccessful experiment – at least according to the bar charts provided for reader comments by some distributors – was alternating characters narrating the story [Missing Aaron]. The work was divided into sections with first Dirk relating events from his perspective then Zeke picking up the tale. The final product often covered the same time period from two different angles. I liked the result but, as I said, readers didn’t.
Another experiment involved writing in an historical setting. The entire Frontier Brothers series is set around the American Civil War period and involved a family of characters. My initial challenge to myself was to write an erotic gay story without using the words “cock” and “balls.” I gravitated to an historical setting which facilitated achieving that goal. The first story (Soaring with a Hawk) introduced several characters who took over my brain and forced me to write three sequels (Missing Aaron, Seeking Zeke and Starting Over).
Real boons to experimentation are the eXcessica anthologies. Each year I select one of the themes dreamed up by our founder, Selena Kitt, and stretch myself to provide a story for the volume. In that vein I’ve done science fiction with erotic gay characters (Universal Relations in Stuck on You); a satanic seduction for all sexes – male, female, shemale and demonic (Samhain in Four Seasons: Autumn 2009); and a gay fantasy tale (Dragonflies) to be in an anthology (Strange Love) due in October next year.
A recent story (Irish Punk) released two days ago on November 5, 2010 does not reflect an experiment but is a perfect example of how I write a story. The main character Tim is based on a young man in front of me in line at a sub shop at lunch break. I was taken by how his red hair, pug nose and belligerent attitude conflicted with the bank teller uniform he wore. All the way back to the office my mind went into overdrive devising how to meet the kid and what happens after we meet. Other characters popped into my mind - his older State Trooper brother and his colleagues. Somehow I focused on the suppressed hostility between the brothers and let it play out sadistically. It is one of the easiest stories to write that I’ve published – almost writing itself.
Other areas I might explore include a story from the female POV, a longer work set in the Middle Ages which has been percolating in my mind for decades, and a purely cerebral work in which the protagonists imagine sex with each other but never consummate the act. I enjoy writing and expect to be experimenting and fantasizing for years to come.
![]() |
| For Excerpt |
![]() |
| For Excerpt |
![]() |
| For Excerpt |
**Kenn has a free read available at ARE, HAPPY NEW YEAR that you can go check out.
****CONTEST****
This week there will be two winners. In your comment to Kenn please let me know whether you would rather win Meet the Baumgartners by Selena Kitt or Slave to Shadows by Gavin Atlas
at the end of the week I will draw two names, one for each title, from everyone who leaves comments :)
click on the titles to read the blurb
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
click on the titles to read the blurb
Please don't forget to leave an email addy so you can be contacted if you are a winner
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Lydia Dare Guest Blog, Author of The Taming of the Wolf CONTEST
Thanks again for hosting us on Seriously Reviewed this week! We’ve had such a great time and we hope you’ve all learned a bit more about our books. To celebrate the end of a fabulous week, our publisher, Sourcebooks Casablanca, will be giving away 4 full sets of our series: A Certain Wolfish Charm; Tall, Dark and Wolfish and The Wolf Next Door!
Just leave a comment and tell us who your favorite shapeshifter is—and no, you don’t get extra points for saying one of our heroes :-) Thanks again to Seriously Reviewed, and we hope to chat with all of you again soon!
Lydia Dare is the writing team of Tammy Falkner and Jodie Pearson. Both Tammy and Jodie are active members of the Heart of Carolina Romance Writers and live near Raleigh, North Carolina. They are working together on their next paranormal historical trilogy as Lydia Dare, which will be released by Sourcebooks Casablanca in 2011! For more information, please visit http://www.lydiadare.com/.
Don’t Forget!! We have a blog tour that lasts all month, and we hear that there are giveaways at each one :-) Hope to see you along the way!
10/31-11/6 SERIOUSLY REVIEWED SPOTLIGHT!
11/1 Open
11/2 Fang-tastic Books http://www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/
11/3 Open
11/4 The Book Binge http://thebookbinge.com/
11/5 Open
Weekend
11/8 Books Like Breathing http://bookslikebreathing.blogspot.com/
11/9 Anna’s Book Blog http://annavivian.blogspot.com/
11/10 Night Owl Romance http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/
11/11 Suite 101 Romance Fiction http://romancefiction.suite101.com/
11/12 Open
Weekend
11/15 My Book Addiction and More http://www.mybookaddictionandmore.wordpress.com/
11/16 Debbie’s Book Bag http://debsbookbag.blogspot.com/
11/17 Open
11/18 Fresh Fiction http://freshfiction.com/
11/19 Sizzling Hot Books http://sizzlinghotbooks.blogspot.com/
Weekend
11/22 Star-Crossed Romance http://www.star-crossedromance.blogspot.com/
11/23 Book Addict Patti http://www.sleeplessinneworleans2.blogspot.com/
11/24 Thoughts in Progress http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com/
11/25 Thanksgiving
11/26 Open
Weekend
11/29 Romance Junkies http://www.romancejunkies.com/rjblog
11/30 Open
12/1 Luxury Reading http://luxuryreading.com/
12/2 Open
12/3 Open
Just leave a comment and tell us who your favorite shapeshifter is—and no, you don’t get extra points for saying one of our heroes :-) Thanks again to Seriously Reviewed, and we hope to chat with all of you again soon!
Lydia Dare is the writing team of Tammy Falkner and Jodie Pearson. Both Tammy and Jodie are active members of the Heart of Carolina Romance Writers and live near Raleigh, North Carolina. They are working together on their next paranormal historical trilogy as Lydia Dare, which will be released by Sourcebooks Casablanca in 2011! For more information, please visit http://www.lydiadare.com/.
Don’t Forget!! We have a blog tour that lasts all month, and we hear that there are giveaways at each one :-) Hope to see you along the way!
10/31-11/6 SERIOUSLY REVIEWED SPOTLIGHT!
11/1 Open
11/2 Fang-tastic Books http://www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/
11/3 Open
11/4 The Book Binge http://thebookbinge.com/
11/5 Open
Weekend
11/8 Books Like Breathing http://bookslikebreathing.blogspot.com/
11/9 Anna’s Book Blog http://annavivian.blogspot.com/
11/10 Night Owl Romance http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/
11/11 Suite 101 Romance Fiction http://romancefiction.suite101.com/
11/12 Open
Weekend
11/15 My Book Addiction and More http://www.mybookaddictionandmore.wordpress.com/
11/16 Debbie’s Book Bag http://debsbookbag.blogspot.com/
11/17 Open
11/18 Fresh Fiction http://freshfiction.com/
11/19 Sizzling Hot Books http://sizzlinghotbooks.blogspot.com/
Weekend
11/22 Star-Crossed Romance http://www.star-crossedromance.blogspot.com/
11/23 Book Addict Patti http://www.sleeplessinneworleans2.blogspot.com/
11/24 Thoughts in Progress http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com/
11/25 Thanksgiving
11/26 Open
Weekend
11/29 Romance Junkies http://www.romancejunkies.com/rjblog
11/30 Open
12/1 Luxury Reading http://luxuryreading.com/
12/2 Open
12/3 Open
Friday, November 5, 2010
Lydia Dare Guest Blog, Author of The Taming of the Wolf
What is next for Lydia Dare, you ask?
Well, over the last year, we have introduced you to our werewolves masquerading as Regency era noblemen. All right, all right – technically they are both of those things. First there was pack alpha Simon Westfield, the Duke of Blackmoor, whose story is told in our debut book, A Certain Wolfish Charm. Next there was his youngest brother Benjamin, the hero of Tall, Dark and Wolfish. Followed by the pair’s middle brother and silver-tongued rogue William in The Wolf Next Door. And finally, out this month, is our reformed villain, lone-werewolf Dashiel Thorpe, the Earl of Brimsworth, in The Taming of the Wolf.
That’s a lot of wolves, right?
Well, if you like vampyres (that’s right, we meant to spell it with a “y”) then you are in for a treat next year. We have expanded our paranormal Regency realm to include those seductive, undead gentlemen as they seemed a natural fit in our world. Not quite sure what that says about us, but there you are.
First up is James Maitland, Baron Kettering in It Happened One Bite, due out in March 2011. James is an Elizabethan era vampyre whose previous two decades could have gone a little better – not that he remembers them.
Then Matthew Halkett, the Earl of Blodswell, the hero of In the Heat of the Bite, in stores June 2011, finally gets his story. We say “finally” because the always-noble Matthew has been around a while – well, ever since the Third Crusade, anyway. For more than six hundred years this knight in shining armor has walked in two worlds – that of the living and that of the undead, not really belonging to either.
And finally Never Been Bit will be out in September 2011. We would tell you tons of interesting details about this particular hero, but we’d rather not. Don’t get us wrong – he is wonderful and we adore him AND we’re certain you will too; but telling you now who he is could be a spoiler for another book and we don’t want to ruin anyone’s fun. So, suffice it to say that the sexy hero of Never Been Bit is one you will fall in love with, if you haven’t already.
So that is what is next for Lydia Dare. And after that….? We think we can spot a trio of wolves on the horizon for 2012. We’ll just have to wait and see!
What’s your favorite paranormal creature to read about?
Well, over the last year, we have introduced you to our werewolves masquerading as Regency era noblemen. All right, all right – technically they are both of those things. First there was pack alpha Simon Westfield, the Duke of Blackmoor, whose story is told in our debut book, A Certain Wolfish Charm. Next there was his youngest brother Benjamin, the hero of Tall, Dark and Wolfish. Followed by the pair’s middle brother and silver-tongued rogue William in The Wolf Next Door. And finally, out this month, is our reformed villain, lone-werewolf Dashiel Thorpe, the Earl of Brimsworth, in The Taming of the Wolf.
That’s a lot of wolves, right?
Well, if you like vampyres (that’s right, we meant to spell it with a “y”) then you are in for a treat next year. We have expanded our paranormal Regency realm to include those seductive, undead gentlemen as they seemed a natural fit in our world. Not quite sure what that says about us, but there you are.
First up is James Maitland, Baron Kettering in It Happened One Bite, due out in March 2011. James is an Elizabethan era vampyre whose previous two decades could have gone a little better – not that he remembers them.
Then Matthew Halkett, the Earl of Blodswell, the hero of In the Heat of the Bite, in stores June 2011, finally gets his story. We say “finally” because the always-noble Matthew has been around a while – well, ever since the Third Crusade, anyway. For more than six hundred years this knight in shining armor has walked in two worlds – that of the living and that of the undead, not really belonging to either.
And finally Never Been Bit will be out in September 2011. We would tell you tons of interesting details about this particular hero, but we’d rather not. Don’t get us wrong – he is wonderful and we adore him AND we’re certain you will too; but telling you now who he is could be a spoiler for another book and we don’t want to ruin anyone’s fun. So, suffice it to say that the sexy hero of Never Been Bit is one you will fall in love with, if you haven’t already.
So that is what is next for Lydia Dare. And after that….? We think we can spot a trio of wolves on the horizon for 2012. We’ll just have to wait and see!
What’s your favorite paranormal creature to read about?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)




















