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October 13, 2013
Marriage Training Ch. 17
So, Chapter 17 of Marriage Training is now available on Literotica.
I know some of the chapters can get a little repetitive as they expound on the same themes, but Vivian and Gabriel took me for a little unexpected twist on this one which was fun. I didn't know how their evening was going to go when I started writing the chapter and they surprised me =)
Having a bit of trouble with Amazon's self-publishing program... apparently there was something wrong with my cover art for the 3rd and 4th books of Venus Rising. I have no idea WHAT exactly, since the email they sent me didn't say anything except that it didn't follow their guidelines and I definitely didn't think those covers had anything offensive about them. I bought the rights from bigstock for them so it shouldn't have been a copyright issue.
Anyway, I've re-submitted them with different covers so they should be back up in the next day or so.
I was hoping to get more writing done this weekend, and I have gotten a bit, but I'm also super sick. Enough so that I actually went to get checked out yesterday (which is extremely unusual for me, I usually just deal until it's over) and I'm now on anti-biotics... wooo. *sigh* Unfortunately I'm not feeling much better today. I'll still try to get some writing done though.
I know some of the chapters can get a little repetitive as they expound on the same themes, but Vivian and Gabriel took me for a little unexpected twist on this one which was fun. I didn't know how their evening was going to go when I started writing the chapter and they surprised me =)
Having a bit of trouble with Amazon's self-publishing program... apparently there was something wrong with my cover art for the 3rd and 4th books of Venus Rising. I have no idea WHAT exactly, since the email they sent me didn't say anything except that it didn't follow their guidelines and I definitely didn't think those covers had anything offensive about them. I bought the rights from bigstock for them so it shouldn't have been a copyright issue.
Anyway, I've re-submitted them with different covers so they should be back up in the next day or so.
I was hoping to get more writing done this weekend, and I have gotten a bit, but I'm also super sick. Enough so that I actually went to get checked out yesterday (which is extremely unusual for me, I usually just deal until it's over) and I'm now on anti-biotics... wooo. *sigh* Unfortunately I'm not feeling much better today. I'll still try to get some writing done though.
October 10, 2013
Angel Recommends: Lexi Blake
Lexi Blake writs a series called Masters and Mercenaries that I just love - and every book gets better and better - as well as being one of two authors who writes a series about menage BDSM romances. Personally I like her better on her own, but I compulsively buy both series whenever a new book comes out. She's right up there with Cherise Sinclair in getting me into the storylines and I read her books over and over again almost as often as I do Ms. Sinclair's.
Masters and Mercenaries is about a team of Mercenaries, some of whom used to work for various government agencies, and the women that they get involved with. All of them are sexy hot Dominants, some of them are straight up assholes, and I've got a soft spot for each and every one of them. All for different reasons. The best part is that every story is very different, every dominant and sub is very different, and the danger that each of them ends up being in is very different.
Even better, there's a story arch going over the entire SERIES, not just each book. An arch that has nothing to do with the romances, but which is revealed a little bit at a time as the series progresses. I think I've often said that I usually don't like romances with danger plots - these are definitely one of the big exceptions. I absolutely adore these books. And because of the line of work that these men are in, I find the danger plots totally believable and acceptable, not to mention really well written. And the sex scenes are hot, hot, hot. I absolutely recommend that if you like my books that you check out hers, because she's one of the writers - along with Cherise Sinclair - that I aspire to. Especially because, like me, she started out as an indie author and she's really making a name for herself. I'd love to be able to do that eventually. Also, good news, last night I submitted chapter 17 of Marriage Training =) So, you know, YAY! I think it's going to end up being 20 chapters total. So we're VERY close to the end!
Masters and Mercenaries is about a team of Mercenaries, some of whom used to work for various government agencies, and the women that they get involved with. All of them are sexy hot Dominants, some of them are straight up assholes, and I've got a soft spot for each and every one of them. All for different reasons. The best part is that every story is very different, every dominant and sub is very different, and the danger that each of them ends up being in is very different.
Even better, there's a story arch going over the entire SERIES, not just each book. An arch that has nothing to do with the romances, but which is revealed a little bit at a time as the series progresses. I think I've often said that I usually don't like romances with danger plots - these are definitely one of the big exceptions. I absolutely adore these books. And because of the line of work that these men are in, I find the danger plots totally believable and acceptable, not to mention really well written. And the sex scenes are hot, hot, hot. I absolutely recommend that if you like my books that you check out hers, because she's one of the writers - along with Cherise Sinclair - that I aspire to. Especially because, like me, she started out as an indie author and she's really making a name for herself. I'd love to be able to do that eventually. Also, good news, last night I submitted chapter 17 of Marriage Training =) So, you know, YAY! I think it's going to end up being 20 chapters total. So we're VERY close to the end!
October 7, 2013
What's Going On?
That's a question that I like to answer from time to time on this blog. What IS going on.
Well mostly Stronghold has consumed my attention. I'm about halfway through the next chapter of Marriage Training but I'm honestly having trouble trying to work on it from time to time because I'm so invested in Stronghold right now. Partly because it's a heck of a lot of fun. Angel is hilarious and her roommates crack me up and her effect on Adam's life and the Stronghold Dom entertains me so... and also, I really would like to finish it before the end of this month and I'm stressing about that a little.
I'm so close to the end. I can taste it. But things keep getting stretched out a little... I absolutely do NOT want to rush the ending just because I'm on a time crunch, but sometimes it's hard to decide what scenes need to be written out in their entirety and what can be condensed down to a paragraph describing "Adam had a conversation with Justin about such and such..." Ya know? Or maybe you don't know, but trust me. I don't want to disappoint and I feel like I'm putting a lot of pressure on myself since this is the first book in a new series, even if you all have met the characters before.
Like, what if it sucks? What if it's not as funny as I think it is? What if everyone hates it?
Which is silly, because I do have a couple of beta readers who have been helping me out in large amounts among the way and who have been very complimentary, but it's just something that I can't help but think about. I get nervous. Especially with something like this because I'm seriously putting so much time and effort into it. Not that I didn't with the other books either, but when I start something on Literotica - like the Venus School of Sex - then I get feedback from tons of people consistently as I'm writing. Waiting to put it all out at once and THEN finding out what people think is a little nerve-wracking. Also exciting and wonderful, especially when people like it.
I've had readers comment on the humor that they "consistently" see in my stories and how that's why my stories stand out and why they're wonderful... I have never had a comment effect me more than that one. Mostly in the fact that I'm now constantly worried that my humor hasn't worked its way into a piece. I especially worry about that sometimes with Marriage Training, but I feel like with that one it's okay. With Stronghold, I want a lot of it to be humorous. Kind of need it to be, to be honest.
Another thing this book is doing is giving me even MORE ideas for spin-offs. I already knew I wanted to write a novella - possibly a full length book - for Jake, Lexie's brother. I've now come up with novella storylines for Angel's two brothers as well. I'm seriously starting to consider doing a book called "Stronghold Siblings" or something to that effect where I write about all the siblings. But then there are other side characters that I have stories for too...
Gah. I wish I could just write ALL THE TIME except I know that even if I had the time to, I wouldn't have the focus. Things flow pretty easily when I'm in the groove, but that doesn't happen 24/7.
Right now I'm at the beginning of the end of Stronghold, wrapping up Angel and Adam's story and setting them on the right path so that I can feel like their book has concluded, pushing Lexie and Patrick a little closer to their book, and continuing to set up some of the other characters for their stories (especially Mr. Rick Winter, whose book is coming up next). Plus, giving all the ladies some more time together. I have to admit, I do particularly enjoy girl time.
So yeah. That is what's going on with me. I am trying to finish the next chapter of Marriage Training this week and get it submitted to Lit. And I'm trying to finish Stronghold. I'm still not sure how many chapters there are going to be total, but I'm getting closer to being able to guess... My current guess is 28 and I'm currently working on 23... so yeah. But Angel and Adam keep pushing things to be longer, so really, it could end up being more than that. We'll just have to wait and see!
Well mostly Stronghold has consumed my attention. I'm about halfway through the next chapter of Marriage Training but I'm honestly having trouble trying to work on it from time to time because I'm so invested in Stronghold right now. Partly because it's a heck of a lot of fun. Angel is hilarious and her roommates crack me up and her effect on Adam's life and the Stronghold Dom entertains me so... and also, I really would like to finish it before the end of this month and I'm stressing about that a little.
I'm so close to the end. I can taste it. But things keep getting stretched out a little... I absolutely do NOT want to rush the ending just because I'm on a time crunch, but sometimes it's hard to decide what scenes need to be written out in their entirety and what can be condensed down to a paragraph describing "Adam had a conversation with Justin about such and such..." Ya know? Or maybe you don't know, but trust me. I don't want to disappoint and I feel like I'm putting a lot of pressure on myself since this is the first book in a new series, even if you all have met the characters before.
Like, what if it sucks? What if it's not as funny as I think it is? What if everyone hates it?
Which is silly, because I do have a couple of beta readers who have been helping me out in large amounts among the way and who have been very complimentary, but it's just something that I can't help but think about. I get nervous. Especially with something like this because I'm seriously putting so much time and effort into it. Not that I didn't with the other books either, but when I start something on Literotica - like the Venus School of Sex - then I get feedback from tons of people consistently as I'm writing. Waiting to put it all out at once and THEN finding out what people think is a little nerve-wracking. Also exciting and wonderful, especially when people like it.
I've had readers comment on the humor that they "consistently" see in my stories and how that's why my stories stand out and why they're wonderful... I have never had a comment effect me more than that one. Mostly in the fact that I'm now constantly worried that my humor hasn't worked its way into a piece. I especially worry about that sometimes with Marriage Training, but I feel like with that one it's okay. With Stronghold, I want a lot of it to be humorous. Kind of need it to be, to be honest.
Another thing this book is doing is giving me even MORE ideas for spin-offs. I already knew I wanted to write a novella - possibly a full length book - for Jake, Lexie's brother. I've now come up with novella storylines for Angel's two brothers as well. I'm seriously starting to consider doing a book called "Stronghold Siblings" or something to that effect where I write about all the siblings. But then there are other side characters that I have stories for too...
Gah. I wish I could just write ALL THE TIME except I know that even if I had the time to, I wouldn't have the focus. Things flow pretty easily when I'm in the groove, but that doesn't happen 24/7.
Right now I'm at the beginning of the end of Stronghold, wrapping up Angel and Adam's story and setting them on the right path so that I can feel like their book has concluded, pushing Lexie and Patrick a little closer to their book, and continuing to set up some of the other characters for their stories (especially Mr. Rick Winter, whose book is coming up next). Plus, giving all the ladies some more time together. I have to admit, I do particularly enjoy girl time.
So yeah. That is what's going on with me. I am trying to finish the next chapter of Marriage Training this week and get it submitted to Lit. And I'm trying to finish Stronghold. I'm still not sure how many chapters there are going to be total, but I'm getting closer to being able to guess... My current guess is 28 and I'm currently working on 23... so yeah. But Angel and Adam keep pushing things to be longer, so really, it could end up being more than that. We'll just have to wait and see!
October 3, 2013
Final Stronghold Teaser
Hopefully this is my last teaser before I publish. I'm in the middle of Chapter 21 right now, I have no idea how many more chapters to go before it's done... although I have an outline, some things take longer than I think they will. I'm guessing maybe 30 chapters at this point? I'm already at 110,500 words. WOOT! That's a lot. And so much more to come. I'm guessing I'll tap out somewhere between 120,000 and 140,000 words. I'm still aiming for getting it done before the end of this month which, for me, means getting it out by October 26 because I'm also going on vacation at the end of this month.
So... because I'm a big meanie, while I'm giving you a new teaser, I'm actually not giving you a new scene ;) If you read my last teaser that I posted, then you'll recognize a lot of this because it's the same scene from Adam's POV. Enjoy!:
Adam had studied the survey and information that Patrick had sent him on Angie, and hoped that the Introduction Scene wouldn't be as frustrating as his one with Stephanie. From the survey, as long as she had filled it out truthfully, it seemed like it should be an enjoyable scene for him. And from the amount of question marks and indications of "never tried, would like to" answers that she'd given, he assumed she was being truthful. Stephanie’s survey had been full of confidence that she would like her fantasies, Angie obviously didn’t have much experience but wanted to try a whole lot.
He was okay with that.
Especially cuz, going by the survey, she was interested in trying a lot of his favorite things. There was nothing more that Adam liked than playing with a woman’s ass and Angie had indicated that she was familiar with and enjoyed anal play and sex. From the survey she looked a lot more compatible to him than Stephanie from his last Intro Scene had been, so he'd tried building himself up on the drive over.
It almost worked. At least he wasn't dreading the evening. When he stepped into the club Jared grinned at him in an encouraging way, which was good. Lexie was behind the desk, her expression rather grumpy. She looked at him in surprise as he approached.
"I thought Andrew was doing the Intro scene tonight."
"He had to take Irene to the airport."
Lexie scowled. "Nice of Patrick to let me know."
"You two need to learn how to play nicely," he teased.
"I will if he will," she retorted. Adam just grinned. He wasn't one hundred percent proof positive that Lexie had feelings for Patrick that went well beyond sisterly, and that Patrick was fighting his own feelings in that regard, but lately it seemed more and more likely.
Which was a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
Just then, Patrick stuck his head out the door. "Jared..." His eyes swept around the room and landed on Adam. "Oh hey, good you're here. Never mind Jared."
Adam walked around the desk, heading for Patrick.
"I've got a situation downstairs... Tom offered Ellie a club contract last week but she refused."
"Of course she did. Ellie never signs club contracts." In fact she was almost as well known as Andrew around the club for her refusal to participate in anything that even resembled any kind of relationship. Even Adam had had some short club contracts since Brooke, usually not lasting more than a month and he'd never been interested in taking them outside of the club or extending them.
Club contracts were for people who wanted to play inside the club, exclusively with each other, for a certain amount of time. Some could last up to a year or more if the participants felt they had the right chemistry. The contracts clearly outlined what was expected of each party, but they only existed for inside the club. It was for those people who wanted stability in their play but weren't interested in a relationship outside of the scene.
"Yeah but she's been scening with him a lot lately, I think he got his hopes up."
Adam snorted. To his knowledge, Andrew and Ellie were rather unique in that they never signed club contracts. They only scened. Still it had been obvious to most of them that Tom was more than a little interested in Ellie; if she really had been scening with him on a regular basis then he could understand how the man got his hopes up. They had good chemistry, although he sometimes thought that Tom might be a little softer on her than she wanted. She and Andrew scened together on a fairly regular basis; since he was a sadist and she was a masochist they were well matched. It just never went beyond the scene.
"Anyway, she turned him down for a scene tonight and accepted an offer from Will, so now I've got to get downstairs because Tom's throwing a hissy fit, Ellie is making it worse by ignoring him, and Will is pissed."
"As he should be, if Tom's interfering with a scene over a sub that he has no claim to."
"Yes, thank you for telling me what I already know." Patrick gave him a look, but Adam just shrugged. "Anyway, Angie's in here, so you can chat with her before choosing a room for the scene. Interrogation, jail and school are all open."
"Okay, thanks." Maybe school. He hadn't been there in a while and that was always a good scene for an Introduction.
Patrick moved out of the doorway heading for the club and Adam walked into the door of his office, a room that he was very familiar with. Angie, the submissive, was sitting in one of the chairs in front of his desk, and she started to rise as he walked in.
Brown hair, piled on top of her head to show off her unadorned neck, she was a vision in white. The corset pushed up plump breasts, offering them up despite the thin, high-necked top she wore underneath in. In fact, that top only invited someone to rip it away and reveal the lush curves underneath. A short white skirt flirted around her thighs, white fishnets clinging to her long legs, and the white high heels were the kind that would dig into a man's back when she wrapped her legs around him.
She was innocence and sin, wrapped together in a sensuality that couldn't be denied. She was a fallen angel.
Adam's fists clenched as adrenaline and anger rushed through him in equal measure, a roaring sound filling his ears as he sucked in a deep, shocked breath.
"You."
Tottering on those thin, high heels, Angel sank back down, her eyes incredibly wide as she stared up at him. Those pouty lips opened in shock, temptingly pink and inviting. All too easy to remember how he'd fantasized about sliding his cock between them on the very first night that he'd met her.
"Oh my god..." Her voice was breathy and high, nothing like he'd ever heard her sound before. "What are you doing here?"
So... because I'm a big meanie, while I'm giving you a new teaser, I'm actually not giving you a new scene ;) If you read my last teaser that I posted, then you'll recognize a lot of this because it's the same scene from Adam's POV. Enjoy!:
Adam had studied the survey and information that Patrick had sent him on Angie, and hoped that the Introduction Scene wouldn't be as frustrating as his one with Stephanie. From the survey, as long as she had filled it out truthfully, it seemed like it should be an enjoyable scene for him. And from the amount of question marks and indications of "never tried, would like to" answers that she'd given, he assumed she was being truthful. Stephanie’s survey had been full of confidence that she would like her fantasies, Angie obviously didn’t have much experience but wanted to try a whole lot.
He was okay with that.
Especially cuz, going by the survey, she was interested in trying a lot of his favorite things. There was nothing more that Adam liked than playing with a woman’s ass and Angie had indicated that she was familiar with and enjoyed anal play and sex. From the survey she looked a lot more compatible to him than Stephanie from his last Intro Scene had been, so he'd tried building himself up on the drive over.
It almost worked. At least he wasn't dreading the evening. When he stepped into the club Jared grinned at him in an encouraging way, which was good. Lexie was behind the desk, her expression rather grumpy. She looked at him in surprise as he approached.
"I thought Andrew was doing the Intro scene tonight."
"He had to take Irene to the airport."
Lexie scowled. "Nice of Patrick to let me know."
"You two need to learn how to play nicely," he teased.
"I will if he will," she retorted. Adam just grinned. He wasn't one hundred percent proof positive that Lexie had feelings for Patrick that went well beyond sisterly, and that Patrick was fighting his own feelings in that regard, but lately it seemed more and more likely.
Which was a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
Just then, Patrick stuck his head out the door. "Jared..." His eyes swept around the room and landed on Adam. "Oh hey, good you're here. Never mind Jared."
Adam walked around the desk, heading for Patrick.
"I've got a situation downstairs... Tom offered Ellie a club contract last week but she refused."
"Of course she did. Ellie never signs club contracts." In fact she was almost as well known as Andrew around the club for her refusal to participate in anything that even resembled any kind of relationship. Even Adam had had some short club contracts since Brooke, usually not lasting more than a month and he'd never been interested in taking them outside of the club or extending them.
Club contracts were for people who wanted to play inside the club, exclusively with each other, for a certain amount of time. Some could last up to a year or more if the participants felt they had the right chemistry. The contracts clearly outlined what was expected of each party, but they only existed for inside the club. It was for those people who wanted stability in their play but weren't interested in a relationship outside of the scene.
"Yeah but she's been scening with him a lot lately, I think he got his hopes up."
Adam snorted. To his knowledge, Andrew and Ellie were rather unique in that they never signed club contracts. They only scened. Still it had been obvious to most of them that Tom was more than a little interested in Ellie; if she really had been scening with him on a regular basis then he could understand how the man got his hopes up. They had good chemistry, although he sometimes thought that Tom might be a little softer on her than she wanted. She and Andrew scened together on a fairly regular basis; since he was a sadist and she was a masochist they were well matched. It just never went beyond the scene.
"Anyway, she turned him down for a scene tonight and accepted an offer from Will, so now I've got to get downstairs because Tom's throwing a hissy fit, Ellie is making it worse by ignoring him, and Will is pissed."
"As he should be, if Tom's interfering with a scene over a sub that he has no claim to."
"Yes, thank you for telling me what I already know." Patrick gave him a look, but Adam just shrugged. "Anyway, Angie's in here, so you can chat with her before choosing a room for the scene. Interrogation, jail and school are all open."
"Okay, thanks." Maybe school. He hadn't been there in a while and that was always a good scene for an Introduction.
Patrick moved out of the doorway heading for the club and Adam walked into the door of his office, a room that he was very familiar with. Angie, the submissive, was sitting in one of the chairs in front of his desk, and she started to rise as he walked in.
Brown hair, piled on top of her head to show off her unadorned neck, she was a vision in white. The corset pushed up plump breasts, offering them up despite the thin, high-necked top she wore underneath in. In fact, that top only invited someone to rip it away and reveal the lush curves underneath. A short white skirt flirted around her thighs, white fishnets clinging to her long legs, and the white high heels were the kind that would dig into a man's back when she wrapped her legs around him.
She was innocence and sin, wrapped together in a sensuality that couldn't be denied. She was a fallen angel.
Adam's fists clenched as adrenaline and anger rushed through him in equal measure, a roaring sound filling his ears as he sucked in a deep, shocked breath.
"You."
Tottering on those thin, high heels, Angel sank back down, her eyes incredibly wide as she stared up at him. Those pouty lips opened in shock, temptingly pink and inviting. All too easy to remember how he'd fantasized about sliding his cock between them on the very first night that he'd met her.
"Oh my god..." Her voice was breathy and high, nothing like he'd ever heard her sound before. "What are you doing here?"
September 30, 2013
Marriage Training Ch. 16
Chapter 16 of Marriage Training is now out on Literotica! And we are getting closer and closer to the end, I kind of can't believe it. At which point I'll be switching over from the past to the future, and writing something much darker. I kinda wanna do some more playing around with the human psyche. I got to do a little bit with Marriage Training, but honestly not as much as I wanted to do since it ended up becoming almost romantic.
With my next work, I think I've figured out a way to get the romance in there to keep readers happy, while still getting to explore all the dark stuff that I want to =P It's going to be set in the future, although it's not going to be super sci-fi / fantasy. I just set it into the future because it makes it easier for me to write the dark stuff without becoming uncomfortable... since it's going to be in the Non-Con category, I need it to be situated so that I am okay with writing it, and the scenario that I came up with makes me too uncomfortable to write about if it's set in the present. I really want to do as much of a mind-fuck as I do dark erotica with the story. Soooo that's all the hints I'm giving, which really isn't much at all, but hopefully you won't have to wait too long to find out. I think I'll probably be done with Marriage Training by the end of October.
Hopefully I'll be done with Stronghold by then as well, but we'll see. As usual, I'm trucking along and I am REALLY enjoying writing this book, but it is definitely going to be quite a bit longer than I originally realized... I'm already well over 100,000 words into it and still have a lot to write. I'm getting really close to the end of my outline though, so that's always exciting =)
Later this week... watch out for a Stronghold teaser ;)
With my next work, I think I've figured out a way to get the romance in there to keep readers happy, while still getting to explore all the dark stuff that I want to =P It's going to be set in the future, although it's not going to be super sci-fi / fantasy. I just set it into the future because it makes it easier for me to write the dark stuff without becoming uncomfortable... since it's going to be in the Non-Con category, I need it to be situated so that I am okay with writing it, and the scenario that I came up with makes me too uncomfortable to write about if it's set in the present. I really want to do as much of a mind-fuck as I do dark erotica with the story. Soooo that's all the hints I'm giving, which really isn't much at all, but hopefully you won't have to wait too long to find out. I think I'll probably be done with Marriage Training by the end of October.
Hopefully I'll be done with Stronghold by then as well, but we'll see. As usual, I'm trucking along and I am REALLY enjoying writing this book, but it is definitely going to be quite a bit longer than I originally realized... I'm already well over 100,000 words into it and still have a lot to write. I'm getting really close to the end of my outline though, so that's always exciting =)
Later this week... watch out for a Stronghold teaser ;)
September 25, 2013
New Story: Thunderstorm Threesome
So, as usual, I've been working on multiple projects and last week I finally finished a reader requested standalone story that I've been working on for at least a month (got caught up enough in the series that this standalone took forever).
Thunderstorm Threesome
was a fun request for me to fulfill because I haven't been writing any threesome stuff in my current books and I kinda missed it =) Plus, I love "shaping" someone else's fantasy.
This week I'm hard at work on the next chapter of Marriage Training, which is almost done! And then I'll be getting back to Stronghold, which definitely got pushed aside in favor of MT. I can't believe how close to the end I'm getting for both stories, although I'm definitely a lot closer to the end of MT. Whoo-hoo! I think there's only about 3 chapters left to go and then I'm going to be working on some much darker stories - which, as much as I love Gabriel and Vivian, I'm really excited to do some darker things. I'm just feeling it lately, don't know why. Too much romance maybe? hahahahaha
Anyway. Gonna throw out another teaser for Stronghold next week and hopefully the next chapter of Marriage Training will be out then too!
This week I'm hard at work on the next chapter of Marriage Training, which is almost done! And then I'll be getting back to Stronghold, which definitely got pushed aside in favor of MT. I can't believe how close to the end I'm getting for both stories, although I'm definitely a lot closer to the end of MT. Whoo-hoo! I think there's only about 3 chapters left to go and then I'm going to be working on some much darker stories - which, as much as I love Gabriel and Vivian, I'm really excited to do some darker things. I'm just feeling it lately, don't know why. Too much romance maybe? hahahahaha
Anyway. Gonna throw out another teaser for Stronghold next week and hopefully the next chapter of Marriage Training will be out then too!
September 24, 2013
Interview Me Part 3: Personal Questions & The Future
What sports do you like to watch?Football! I'm a Skins fan (although this season I don't know if I can really say I "like" to watch... wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't gotten all hopeful after last year). I also love watching gymnastics and ice skating during the Olympics, sometimes swimming, skiing and snowboarding, but the only thing I watch on a regular basis is Football.
Do you and hubby want to have kids? Who are you, my mother? lol. Yes, but not for a couple of years. We're having a good time being married and spending time with each other for a bit before kids take over our lives. I have to say though, when they're teenagers I'm going to have nightmares about them discovering what Mom writes about.
Do you watch a lot of TV?
Um... sort of? Like I said, I'm more of a book person, but there are definitely days when I'm feeling the TV thing. Lately I've been watching a lot of Property Brothers and Love It or List It. Hubby and I have also been watching Dr. Who (the one that's on Netflix right now, Chris Eckleston and David Tennant) and I've been trying to get into Star Trek. I'm about halfway through the first season of the original Star Trek series (whoo Captain Kirk!). But I read more than I watch TV.
What is your favorite movie and why?Love Actually. I love how it shows so many different characters who all intertwine. I love the love stories. I love the music. I love the message. I watch it every year around Christmas. Sometimes multiple times.
What is your favorite book and why?My favorite book of all time is The Merro Tree by Kate Waitman. It has everything I love in it... an underlying message, an emphasis on the importance of the arts, romance, intrigue, a bit of a mystery, an underdog overcoming everything to succeed, and so many moments when I want to either cry or leap for joy. It's an incredible piece of work and it kills me that more people don't know about it.
What advice would you give to your younger self?Enjoy life. Don't focus on the bad stuff, focus on the good. Because life is short and you never know when it's going to be taken away from you.
Also, STOP USING YOUR CREDIT CARD YOU'RE GOING TO BE PAYING THAT SHIT OFF FOR YEARS AND IT'S GOING TO SUCK BALLS.
What is your favorite quote?"There's a skinny woman inside me, screaming to get out... but I can usually shut her up with cookies."
Seriously, that's one of them. The other one is from the Lord of the Rings:
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.Sam: I know... It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding onto something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
Which famous person, living or dead, would you like to meet and why?Aw man... I hate this question because I never know the answer. Maybe Henry VIII... because I'm wildly curious. I've always had a bit of an obsession with him and I would want to know what he's actually like. I can guarantee that if Dr. Who was to show up on my doorstep, I'd tell him to take the TARDIS to Tudor England, preferably when both Anne Boleyn and Catherine were still alive because I'd want to meet both of them too.
What does the future hold?Ah good question. And I have SO many answers. I definitely want to keep writing... I'd love to eventually make it my full time job. That would be my dream. However, even if I never make it that far, I'm going to keep providing stories to Literotica and books to Amazon and Smashwords. Once I'm done with the Domestic Discipline Quartet I'm going to start a series that will include the book version of Marriage Training and will be called The Society of Sin. There will be four other books in the main series, about Gabriel's father and step-mother, his two sisters, and another two characters that will be introduced in the other books. Once I'm done with the Stronghold series, or if I finish The Society of Sin first, I'll be starting on a new book series that will be set in the distant future. It's somewhat based off of Carolyn Faulkner's book Prima, except that I didn't agree with her vision of the future. I haven't come up with a title for the series yet, but I've come up with the plots for four or five books in it. The idea is that a disease has killed off a large portion of the population, but proportionally was much worse for women, and now we've gone back to a medieval mindset even though most of the technology is still in place, because women need to be protected / cherished as the bearers of children, etc. They are to be well-loved and also well-disciplined. Because of the lack of women in general, men often save up in groups - either brothers or close friends - to buy a wife ;) I'm still working out how the society works, but by the time I'm writing it I should have that all worked out.There are several series that I want to work on, as well as a couple of standalone books, many of them in the Victorian timeline, some Westerns (cowboys... yum), and some contemporary. I'm also working towards two other pen names, one of which will focus more on romance and one of which will focus more on shorter / darker novellas that will usually be focused on a fetish (demon sex, were-animal sex, etc.). I've noticed there are a lot of novellas out there that sell for $2.99 and as long as they're about a specific kink, they do pretty well. So I kinda want to try my hand at that. I'll def announce all new releases on the blog, because a lot of them are going to only be 99 cents for the first week =)
For Literotica I definitely have a few darker works coming up, as discussed here on my blog, and I've also been working on an outline for a follow-up series to Being the Maid starring Samuel. I definitely want to finish some of the series that I started and never completed, like Instruction and From Terra. And, of course, working on the reader requests that come my way =)So yeah, that's what I'm working towards!
How can readers discover more about you and your work? (Thanks Queenie for thinking of this one =)Website: Facebook: Not on it currently... thinking about making a Golden Angel page but I'm afraid no one would friend me =PTwitter: https://twitter.com/GoldeniAngelPinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/goldeniangel/boards/Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Angel/e/B00897C6HG/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1379678726&sr=8-2-entSmashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/GoldeniangelGoodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6440220.Golden_Angel
Thank you all SO MUCH for all the amazing questions, I can't believe what an incredible response my request got and how many different questions people came up with! Some of which I had no idea anyone would be interested in LOL.
Do you and hubby want to have kids? Who are you, my mother? lol. Yes, but not for a couple of years. We're having a good time being married and spending time with each other for a bit before kids take over our lives. I have to say though, when they're teenagers I'm going to have nightmares about them discovering what Mom writes about.
Do you watch a lot of TV?
Um... sort of? Like I said, I'm more of a book person, but there are definitely days when I'm feeling the TV thing. Lately I've been watching a lot of Property Brothers and Love It or List It. Hubby and I have also been watching Dr. Who (the one that's on Netflix right now, Chris Eckleston and David Tennant) and I've been trying to get into Star Trek. I'm about halfway through the first season of the original Star Trek series (whoo Captain Kirk!). But I read more than I watch TV.
What is your favorite movie and why?Love Actually. I love how it shows so many different characters who all intertwine. I love the love stories. I love the music. I love the message. I watch it every year around Christmas. Sometimes multiple times.
What is your favorite book and why?My favorite book of all time is The Merro Tree by Kate Waitman. It has everything I love in it... an underlying message, an emphasis on the importance of the arts, romance, intrigue, a bit of a mystery, an underdog overcoming everything to succeed, and so many moments when I want to either cry or leap for joy. It's an incredible piece of work and it kills me that more people don't know about it.
What advice would you give to your younger self?Enjoy life. Don't focus on the bad stuff, focus on the good. Because life is short and you never know when it's going to be taken away from you.
Also, STOP USING YOUR CREDIT CARD YOU'RE GOING TO BE PAYING THAT SHIT OFF FOR YEARS AND IT'S GOING TO SUCK BALLS.
What is your favorite quote?"There's a skinny woman inside me, screaming to get out... but I can usually shut her up with cookies."
Seriously, that's one of them. The other one is from the Lord of the Rings:
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.Sam: I know... It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding onto something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
Which famous person, living or dead, would you like to meet and why?Aw man... I hate this question because I never know the answer. Maybe Henry VIII... because I'm wildly curious. I've always had a bit of an obsession with him and I would want to know what he's actually like. I can guarantee that if Dr. Who was to show up on my doorstep, I'd tell him to take the TARDIS to Tudor England, preferably when both Anne Boleyn and Catherine were still alive because I'd want to meet both of them too.
What does the future hold?Ah good question. And I have SO many answers. I definitely want to keep writing... I'd love to eventually make it my full time job. That would be my dream. However, even if I never make it that far, I'm going to keep providing stories to Literotica and books to Amazon and Smashwords. Once I'm done with the Domestic Discipline Quartet I'm going to start a series that will include the book version of Marriage Training and will be called The Society of Sin. There will be four other books in the main series, about Gabriel's father and step-mother, his two sisters, and another two characters that will be introduced in the other books. Once I'm done with the Stronghold series, or if I finish The Society of Sin first, I'll be starting on a new book series that will be set in the distant future. It's somewhat based off of Carolyn Faulkner's book Prima, except that I didn't agree with her vision of the future. I haven't come up with a title for the series yet, but I've come up with the plots for four or five books in it. The idea is that a disease has killed off a large portion of the population, but proportionally was much worse for women, and now we've gone back to a medieval mindset even though most of the technology is still in place, because women need to be protected / cherished as the bearers of children, etc. They are to be well-loved and also well-disciplined. Because of the lack of women in general, men often save up in groups - either brothers or close friends - to buy a wife ;) I'm still working out how the society works, but by the time I'm writing it I should have that all worked out.There are several series that I want to work on, as well as a couple of standalone books, many of them in the Victorian timeline, some Westerns (cowboys... yum), and some contemporary. I'm also working towards two other pen names, one of which will focus more on romance and one of which will focus more on shorter / darker novellas that will usually be focused on a fetish (demon sex, were-animal sex, etc.). I've noticed there are a lot of novellas out there that sell for $2.99 and as long as they're about a specific kink, they do pretty well. So I kinda want to try my hand at that. I'll def announce all new releases on the blog, because a lot of them are going to only be 99 cents for the first week =)
For Literotica I definitely have a few darker works coming up, as discussed here on my blog, and I've also been working on an outline for a follow-up series to Being the Maid starring Samuel. I definitely want to finish some of the series that I started and never completed, like Instruction and From Terra. And, of course, working on the reader requests that come my way =)So yeah, that's what I'm working towards!
How can readers discover more about you and your work? (Thanks Queenie for thinking of this one =)Website: Facebook: Not on it currently... thinking about making a Golden Angel page but I'm afraid no one would friend me =PTwitter: https://twitter.com/GoldeniAngelPinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/goldeniangel/boards/Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Angel/e/B00897C6HG/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1379678726&sr=8-2-entSmashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/GoldeniangelGoodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6440220.Golden_Angel
Thank you all SO MUCH for all the amazing questions, I can't believe what an incredible response my request got and how many different questions people came up with! Some of which I had no idea anyone would be interested in LOL.
September 23, 2013
Interview Part 2: About erotica/porn/sex
Today's "interview" is a little shorter, but the questions are a lot more personal too =P
Do you ever masturbate when reading erotic stories? Do you watch porn and masturbate? Do you prefer to read stories or watch movies? I'm going to go ahead and answer these three questions together since they kind of intertwine =) I've always been more of a book person than a movie or television person. With my college boyfriend we would sometimes watch porn, and I downloaded a LOT of files from Kazaa (hahaha, remember Kazaa?!) looking for the ones that appealed to me. I downloaded hundreds, possibly thousands of files, over the course of a couple years and the collection of ones that I kept that turned me on was about 30. For me, watching porn is a couples activity, I will very rarely watch it on my own, and when I do it's kind of like foreplay... I watch it to get in the mood, maybe play with myself a little bit, and then I go find one of my favorite stories to get off to. When I found Literotica, that was the first time I started masturbating. I actually didn't masturbate before I had sex (weird, right?), but the stories on Lit would get me so hot that if my boyfriend wasn't around I would take care of myself. Now when I masturbate it's with one of my favorite stories in my other hand ;)
What do you fantasize about while masturbating?Since I'm usually reading, I fantasize about what's happening in the story that I'm reading. Sometimes I'm in the place of the main character, sometimes I'm just watching the action. My favorites tend to involve multiple partners, a little bit of pain, and anal.
Is there anything you've tried in real life that you'd never write about and vice versa?
Hmm... wow, I can think of TONS of things I've written about but never actually tried (caning comes to mind, as do most of the more brutal scenes I write) and I don't think I will EVER try... I'm not sure there's anything I've tried and not written about in one form or another. Even my more embarrassing sex moments came up in First Time Blunders. Granted, they're mixed in with my friends' embarrassing moments so that no one will know which are MINE, but they're still out there LOL.
Have you ever swallowed cum? I'm definitely a "swallower." The taste doesn't bother me and I find something incredibly satisfying about giving head and getting a guy off with something that requires a little bit more effort on my part. I don't really think about it as a "reward" as I sometimes describe it my stories, but there's something sexy about it to me.
Have you ever thought about writing a movie?
Honestly no. Script-writing is incredibly different from writing a story or book and I kinda suck at it. I also don't find it to be a lot of fun - not that I've ever tried to write a porno, but I once tried to write a play.
Would you ever let someone make one of your stories into a porno?
Um... I'd probably want to see the script before I agreed. Also, strange as this may sound, I'm not entirely sure I support the porn industry. If a woman enjoys her job, that's one thing, but if she's in it because she feels like she has to be because of the money thing... I dunno. It's kind of a weird area for me.
What's your favorite sexual position?
I'm so boring in real life... missionary. LOL. It's the one that I get off in the easiest, when the guy's on top of me and I can feel his weight over me and every thrust is grinding against my clit... I've found that I can still get off in other positions, but it takes a lot more work. The worst one for me is me on top. I enjoy it in a lot of ways because I get to see how much my man is enjoying himself, but it's almost impossible for me to get off when I'm on top. I can get really close, I just can't seem to get over the edge.
If you were single, would you be willing to get gangbanged by 10 hot guys? I honestly don't know how to answer this question LOL. Um... maybe? Multiple men is definitely one of my favorite fantasies... the main problem being that I'm definitely a one-man kind of woman when I'm in a relationship. I suppose that if I were single and there were 10 men that I was reasonably attracted to and they said they wanted to gangbang, then I would be willing to try. I have no idea how well I would succeed lol. It's a great fantasy and a fun thing to write about, but I can't imagine how sore I would be afterwards!
Do you ever masturbate when reading erotic stories? Do you watch porn and masturbate? Do you prefer to read stories or watch movies? I'm going to go ahead and answer these three questions together since they kind of intertwine =) I've always been more of a book person than a movie or television person. With my college boyfriend we would sometimes watch porn, and I downloaded a LOT of files from Kazaa (hahaha, remember Kazaa?!) looking for the ones that appealed to me. I downloaded hundreds, possibly thousands of files, over the course of a couple years and the collection of ones that I kept that turned me on was about 30. For me, watching porn is a couples activity, I will very rarely watch it on my own, and when I do it's kind of like foreplay... I watch it to get in the mood, maybe play with myself a little bit, and then I go find one of my favorite stories to get off to. When I found Literotica, that was the first time I started masturbating. I actually didn't masturbate before I had sex (weird, right?), but the stories on Lit would get me so hot that if my boyfriend wasn't around I would take care of myself. Now when I masturbate it's with one of my favorite stories in my other hand ;)
What do you fantasize about while masturbating?Since I'm usually reading, I fantasize about what's happening in the story that I'm reading. Sometimes I'm in the place of the main character, sometimes I'm just watching the action. My favorites tend to involve multiple partners, a little bit of pain, and anal.
Is there anything you've tried in real life that you'd never write about and vice versa?
Hmm... wow, I can think of TONS of things I've written about but never actually tried (caning comes to mind, as do most of the more brutal scenes I write) and I don't think I will EVER try... I'm not sure there's anything I've tried and not written about in one form or another. Even my more embarrassing sex moments came up in First Time Blunders. Granted, they're mixed in with my friends' embarrassing moments so that no one will know which are MINE, but they're still out there LOL.
Have you ever swallowed cum? I'm definitely a "swallower." The taste doesn't bother me and I find something incredibly satisfying about giving head and getting a guy off with something that requires a little bit more effort on my part. I don't really think about it as a "reward" as I sometimes describe it my stories, but there's something sexy about it to me.
Have you ever thought about writing a movie?
Honestly no. Script-writing is incredibly different from writing a story or book and I kinda suck at it. I also don't find it to be a lot of fun - not that I've ever tried to write a porno, but I once tried to write a play.
Would you ever let someone make one of your stories into a porno?
Um... I'd probably want to see the script before I agreed. Also, strange as this may sound, I'm not entirely sure I support the porn industry. If a woman enjoys her job, that's one thing, but if she's in it because she feels like she has to be because of the money thing... I dunno. It's kind of a weird area for me.
What's your favorite sexual position?
I'm so boring in real life... missionary. LOL. It's the one that I get off in the easiest, when the guy's on top of me and I can feel his weight over me and every thrust is grinding against my clit... I've found that I can still get off in other positions, but it takes a lot more work. The worst one for me is me on top. I enjoy it in a lot of ways because I get to see how much my man is enjoying himself, but it's almost impossible for me to get off when I'm on top. I can get really close, I just can't seem to get over the edge.
If you were single, would you be willing to get gangbanged by 10 hot guys? I honestly don't know how to answer this question LOL. Um... maybe? Multiple men is definitely one of my favorite fantasies... the main problem being that I'm definitely a one-man kind of woman when I'm in a relationship. I suppose that if I were single and there were 10 men that I was reasonably attracted to and they said they wanted to gangbang, then I would be willing to try. I have no idea how well I would succeed lol. It's a great fantasy and a fun thing to write about, but I can't imagine how sore I would be afterwards!
September 22, 2013
Interview Part I: About Writing
So, because you all are wonderful, I have received a ridiculous amount of "interview" questions... so many that I realized I needed to break up this blog into three different blogs to be released today - Tuesday... otherwise the one blog would be the longest blog in the history of blogs... (possibly not, but it would be up there). I've combined some of the questions that I got that seemed to go along with / were similar to others and I've separated them out into three categories.
Today I'm answering the questions about my writing, tomorrow I'll be answering questions about erotica/porn/sex, and on Tuesday it'll be the questions that are more personally directed to me as well as one very important question: What does the future hold?
Here we go... Part I:
How old were you when you started to write erotic stories? What inspired you to start writing?
I was 22. I'd been reading Literotica for several years, but because I'm a speed reader I was starting to run out of the stories that I really enjoyed and new ones weren't coming out quickly enough for me, and a lot of them didn't have exactly the kinks I was looking for or they would have some and not others and I started thinking "Maybe I should just write what I want to read." And so I did. My first series, Office Play, ended up getting a lot of really supportive comments from people and it made me want to keep it up... especially because I def got off on writing the EXACT kind of story that I wanted to read. Still do. Do many people know you write erotica? How do people react when you tell them? Do they buy your books? Define "many." LOL. Almost everyone knows that I write, what they know about what I write depends. My family knows that I write for amazon and that I write erotic romances, they don't know about Lit... my dad just doesn't talk about it and my mom's thrilled that I've found a way to make extra money (actually, I'm wasn't the one to tell my Dad, my mom outted me at a family dinner to him and my brother... bro was not pleased LOL). My friends know that I write that as well as the fact that I write for Literotica. Actually, one of my friend's boyfriends thought we were pranking him when she told him - and was even more unnerved to realize that he was in the middle of thoroughly enjoying reading Being the Maid. He said he couldn't finish it once he knew that it was me writing it LOL. Other friends haven't had that difficulty. If any of them have bought my books they haven't told me, but a lot of them have read my stuff on Literotica over the years =) Do you correspond with other authors on Lit? Sometimes. In the past I used to e-mail / co-write with drksideofthemoon. He hasn't been around for a while though. Lately LoAnnie's probably the one I talk to the most, through twitter, although I also occasionally e-mail with abob1 and a few others. It's always nice to be able to chat with / vent to people who know exactly where you're coming from, although I don't always have time to e-mail, etc. when I'm doing 80 million other things as well LOL. What came first, the kinky real life or fictional?Definitely the fictional. Although, I definitely always had kinky fantasies. Slave Leia in Star Wars had me thinking up non-consent and dirty fantasies when I was like 12. At the time I thought there was something wrong with me, when I finally found Literotica I finally realized that a lot of people have dark fantasies. Even now, my real life isn't as kinky as the stuff I write about - although every year we do get explore a little more kink ;) How much of the stuff that you write about have you personally experienced?It depends on when the story was written. When I first started writing, I had absolutely no experience in the things I was writing about (and I think it comes across because some of what I write is way too harsh to be anything but a fantasy). Eventually I told my boyfriend about some of my fantasies and we started to explore, I've done even more exploring with my husband. I have come to the conclusion that some of the stuff I write about are things that are hotter in my head than they would be to experience. I'm a little bit of a masochist, but I definitely like to read about things that would probably be too much for me to experience and still be turned on. I've also discovered that I like reading/writing about humiliation, but it doesn't turn me on to experience. Being called a "slut" or a "sexy whore" doesn't turn me off, but it doesn't do anything for me either. I've done bondage, spanking, nipple clamps, vibrators, anal, strap-ons, a little bit of whipping, a flogger, and a couple other things. I usually review those toys on my blog.
Do you ever get fed up of writing about sex or have writer's block?Oh absolutely. That's part of why I write more than one story at a time. If I'm writing a sex scene between Adam and Angel and I get sick of it, I can move over to Vivian and Gabriel courting, right up until they get to the next sexy time and then I'll jump over to Cynthia and Wesley, etc. That also really helps with my writer's block because it gives me something fresh and different to look at and work on, and when I come back later it's usually with new motivation / ideas. There was definitely a longer period where I was tired of writing about sex, which I took a break from Literotica during, but that was mostly because I was going through a bad time in my life. Even then I would come back and write sometimes because I couldn't stay away. I just love to write. Have you ever written a scene that holds no interest for you?Oh absolutely. Pretty much every incest story I've ever written LOL. As long as I don't think about how the characters are related to each other I'm okay. It's the #1 most requested story category that I get so I can't seem to entirely avoid it, and since I've found my own way to manage writing in it, why not, you know? Any lesbian scene too. Trust me, I don't have anything against lesbians... in fact, I applaud their bravery. Vaginas scare me. What erotica sub genre is your favorite/least favorite to read/write?Pretty much anything with either reluctance, anal or a little bit of pain and I'm happy. My least favorite is probably lesbian, both for reading and writing, because it's something I have a harder time working in the things that turn me on. I still write it occasionally, even though I don't do the survivorphile contest anymore, but pretty much only if it's a group sex, BDSM or non-con/reluctance story. Because that's my way of working in the things that interest me, and I can't write a story that has absolutely nothing that gets me going. What are your pet peeves with fans?Definitely when they try to take over the story. Obviously that doesn't really happen on Amazon but it happens all the time on Lit. Someone will have a vision of how they think the story should go and try to dictate it to me. Or they'll dislike something about a character and want me to change it or they'll try to put their own spin on how they think BDSM "should" be or how a woman/man "should" feel rather than recognizing that everyone is different. I've gotten more than one comment about how Vivian should be more like Alanna or Jessica and I'm just like, how boring would it be if I only wrote about one kind of submissive? Vivian LIKES being submissive and I like her. I'm not going to change her just because of some comment made on Chapter 9 of the story (I can't actually remember when the comments started but I know it was several chapters into the story). What do you love about your fans?I mean... what's not to love? Other than the pet peeve-y stuff ;) Although I'm not really sure I consider those people 'fans' because they apparently only like my work if I write the story to their specifications. But seriously, I think I have a lot of wonderfully vocal fans who come up with fantastic ideas. I love getting reader requests as well as comments on my stories with suggestions. I know the latter part might sound weird when I was just bitching about people trying to direct my writing, but there's a difference between suggesting something that would be cool or saying "I hope this happens" and saying "a real person would never act like this, she needs to ____________." A lot of my best ideas and little twists come from comments that fans make - sometimes criticisms and sometimes compliments or hopes. I absolutely love how involved people get in the story line... I was in alt over the whole Team Justin vs. Team Chris thing that was going on during Venus School, that was quite possibly one of my favorite things (especially since I knew from the beginning that all 3 of them were going to end up together). I love that people are invested and that they let me know it. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. What kind of music do you listen to when writing (is it different depending on the kind of scene or maybe you don't listen at all)?I usually don't listen to music when I write, sometimes I have the TV on in the background... I usually like shows that I find silly and not SO interesting that I have to watch every moment. Lately my choice has been Big Bang (real sexy right? lol) because it has funny moments but I'm not actually invested in it.
Who do you read (erotic and otherwise)?Lately I'm reading a LOT of Victorian romance, although I also hit up the occasional BDSM novel. My automatic-buy erotica/romance authors are Cherise Sinclair, Lexie Blake, Stephanie Laurens, and Kallypso Masters. I also will almost always buy things by Laura Lee Ghurke, Lisa Kleypas, Carolyn Faulkner, Elizabeth Powers, Julia Quinn, Maggie Ryan and Laylah Roberts. When it comes to 'otherwise' - I am a GIANT sci-fi fantasy nerd. Patricia Briggs, Karen Marie Moning, Mercedes Lackey, and Gail Carriger are among my current buys. On my shelves are also Robert Jordan, Tamora Pierce, Spider Robinson, Angus Wells, Piers Anthony, Elizabeth Moon, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Sara Douglass, Eric Flint, David Drake, Brian Jacques, Laurell K. Hamilton, Frank Herbert, Terry Goodkind, Kate Elliot, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, etc. (I have a ridiculously large library). And when I'm not reading either of those, I'm reading historical fiction or history books focusing on the Tudors, especially Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn =) What genre would you classify your books as? What draws you to this genre of books?I would definitely classify my books as erotic romances. A lot of the stuff I have on Lit I would classify as pure erotica, although even there I would say I'm slowly moving in a direction towards erotic romances. Part of what draws me is that I find relationships between people absolutely fascinating. I love exploring the different ways a relationship can go right or wrong and I love that there are endless variations on the same love stories, depending on the people involved in the story. Plus... I love the sexy stuff. If I was a first time reader, what book do you suggest I start with?Probably The Venus School of Sex. Unless the person tells me that they're into historical in which case I would send them to Birching His Bride. Eventually I'll hopefully have more options to send people to =) Where do you get the ideas for your stories?Sometimes they just come to me and I'm not sure where they come from, but more often they're sparked by something. It can be anything from a conversation with someone, to seeing a movie trailer, to reading a book and thinking "but what if it happened this way instead," to getting a specific request from someone. The ideas tend to come in from all over =) How much research do you do for each book?Very little... lol j/k. It depends on the kind of book. Some things come purely from my imagination (like what it feels like to be double penetrated), some things I have to look up online - like what kind of dojo Liam has and what some of the exercises would be. Other things I really do have to research, especially when I'm writing historical stuff... although even there I tend to rely on knowledge that I already have, since I was a History major before I was an English major =) Do you write part time or full time? How do you schedule it into your day? Do you have a page or word count goal in mind when you sit down to write? What do you write on?I write part time... I wish I could go full time. And I don't really schedule it into my day, I just fit it in where I can, which also means I usually don't have a goal when I sit down other than "get as much done as possible." I write on a computer, and I type about 100 wpm so that's a good thing =) What is the hardest/easiest thing about writing?The easiest thing for me is always writing the outline / story idea. The hardest thing is getting the characters to stick to it LOL. Sometimes the easiest/hardest thing is the exact same thing: keep writing. Sometimes I'm not in the mood, sometimes the words just flow like a river. And I don't always know which it's going to be when I sit down. Do you design your own book covers? If so, how do you make the choices?Yes I do. At the moment I use bigstock.com for stock photos and then I do the writing on them myself. I usually look for something that I find visually appealing and that speaks to me about either the characters in the book or the plot line. A lot of the time I'll just look at a picture and thing "Well that's close, but it's not quite right," and I couldn't explain logically why I chose a different picture that felt completely right when it might be really similar to the one that's not. A lot of the time it's a gut feeling. As a self-publisher, what are the advantages and disadvantages?The advantages are definitely that I can keep my books super cheap because I don't have to pay an agent / allow a publisher to make decisions like cost. The disadvantage is definitely editing and marketing. I would love to have access to a professional editor and to have someone else handle my marketing for me. One advantage I have is that I only started publishing because of fans on Literotica who asked me to, and so I started with a group of people who were interested in buying my books and who were wonderful enough to leave reviews for me on Amazon once they did, which helped out immensely. What are your views on good and bad reviews?A bad review can make me pissy and feel like not writing, especially if there's nothing constructive in it. I can take constructive criticism, but a lot of the time people leave bad reviews that don't give me anything to work on for next time. It's frustrating. Good reviews, for me, aren't just the ones that compliment me (although I love those), they're the ones who do give constructive advice or suggestions or criticism so that I know what to do for next time. And I love them. Good reviews make me feel happy and motivated, they can completely make my day if I'm in a bad mood when I read them. I'm always checking for reviews, because it's the validation that people enjoy what I write and that it's worth the time and energy that I put into my writing. Do you ever write something you really enjoy and no one else seems to?Haha, I wish my humor stories got more attention honestly... I go back and re-read them sometimes and I think they're hilarious... but after they were first published they stopped getting any comments. *cries* j/k. They're probably mostly funny to me, to be honest. What advice would you have for young writers? Don't give up, because writing is one of those things that you can always get better at - that's one of the most lovely things about it. When people give you CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, don't get pissed, LISTEN to it. It's incredibly hard to listen to people tear up your work, but sometimes (a lot of the time) they have a point. Don't be afraid to change things. Also, know when to stand up for your work. I got TORN apart in my creative writing class by the professor in college, but one of the things that she kept saying was that it wasn't literary... but I knew that the audience I wanted was more general, I wanted to write more pop-literature than what she considered "true" literature. But I still took a lot of her advice on things that I thought were applicable. The best thing you can do is be open minded and be willing to look at your work with a critical eye, listen to constructive criticism that is given to you and READ. Read lots of work by authors that you love, study what they do and how they do it and try to apply it to your own writing. I can honestly say that I wouldn't be as good a writer if it wasn't for all the reading I do.
What are your long-term writing goals?Lately I've been toying with the idea of making some of my books available through Amazon in print... they have a program so that I could do that. The main thing is that I feel like a print book should be even more heavily edited / perfect than a Kindle book, in large part because it's automatically going to cost more for people to buy them. So I would want them to be professionally edited, which costs money (probably like a thousand dollars per book if not more) and I'm not sure whether or not people would be interested enough in buying the hard copy to make that worth it. One of my friends suggested doing a Kickstarter to try and raise the money, which I'm seriously considering.
Today I'm answering the questions about my writing, tomorrow I'll be answering questions about erotica/porn/sex, and on Tuesday it'll be the questions that are more personally directed to me as well as one very important question: What does the future hold?
Here we go... Part I:
How old were you when you started to write erotic stories? What inspired you to start writing?
I was 22. I'd been reading Literotica for several years, but because I'm a speed reader I was starting to run out of the stories that I really enjoyed and new ones weren't coming out quickly enough for me, and a lot of them didn't have exactly the kinks I was looking for or they would have some and not others and I started thinking "Maybe I should just write what I want to read." And so I did. My first series, Office Play, ended up getting a lot of really supportive comments from people and it made me want to keep it up... especially because I def got off on writing the EXACT kind of story that I wanted to read. Still do. Do many people know you write erotica? How do people react when you tell them? Do they buy your books? Define "many." LOL. Almost everyone knows that I write, what they know about what I write depends. My family knows that I write for amazon and that I write erotic romances, they don't know about Lit... my dad just doesn't talk about it and my mom's thrilled that I've found a way to make extra money (actually, I'm wasn't the one to tell my Dad, my mom outted me at a family dinner to him and my brother... bro was not pleased LOL). My friends know that I write that as well as the fact that I write for Literotica. Actually, one of my friend's boyfriends thought we were pranking him when she told him - and was even more unnerved to realize that he was in the middle of thoroughly enjoying reading Being the Maid. He said he couldn't finish it once he knew that it was me writing it LOL. Other friends haven't had that difficulty. If any of them have bought my books they haven't told me, but a lot of them have read my stuff on Literotica over the years =) Do you correspond with other authors on Lit? Sometimes. In the past I used to e-mail / co-write with drksideofthemoon. He hasn't been around for a while though. Lately LoAnnie's probably the one I talk to the most, through twitter, although I also occasionally e-mail with abob1 and a few others. It's always nice to be able to chat with / vent to people who know exactly where you're coming from, although I don't always have time to e-mail, etc. when I'm doing 80 million other things as well LOL. What came first, the kinky real life or fictional?Definitely the fictional. Although, I definitely always had kinky fantasies. Slave Leia in Star Wars had me thinking up non-consent and dirty fantasies when I was like 12. At the time I thought there was something wrong with me, when I finally found Literotica I finally realized that a lot of people have dark fantasies. Even now, my real life isn't as kinky as the stuff I write about - although every year we do get explore a little more kink ;) How much of the stuff that you write about have you personally experienced?It depends on when the story was written. When I first started writing, I had absolutely no experience in the things I was writing about (and I think it comes across because some of what I write is way too harsh to be anything but a fantasy). Eventually I told my boyfriend about some of my fantasies and we started to explore, I've done even more exploring with my husband. I have come to the conclusion that some of the stuff I write about are things that are hotter in my head than they would be to experience. I'm a little bit of a masochist, but I definitely like to read about things that would probably be too much for me to experience and still be turned on. I've also discovered that I like reading/writing about humiliation, but it doesn't turn me on to experience. Being called a "slut" or a "sexy whore" doesn't turn me off, but it doesn't do anything for me either. I've done bondage, spanking, nipple clamps, vibrators, anal, strap-ons, a little bit of whipping, a flogger, and a couple other things. I usually review those toys on my blog.
Do you ever get fed up of writing about sex or have writer's block?Oh absolutely. That's part of why I write more than one story at a time. If I'm writing a sex scene between Adam and Angel and I get sick of it, I can move over to Vivian and Gabriel courting, right up until they get to the next sexy time and then I'll jump over to Cynthia and Wesley, etc. That also really helps with my writer's block because it gives me something fresh and different to look at and work on, and when I come back later it's usually with new motivation / ideas. There was definitely a longer period where I was tired of writing about sex, which I took a break from Literotica during, but that was mostly because I was going through a bad time in my life. Even then I would come back and write sometimes because I couldn't stay away. I just love to write. Have you ever written a scene that holds no interest for you?Oh absolutely. Pretty much every incest story I've ever written LOL. As long as I don't think about how the characters are related to each other I'm okay. It's the #1 most requested story category that I get so I can't seem to entirely avoid it, and since I've found my own way to manage writing in it, why not, you know? Any lesbian scene too. Trust me, I don't have anything against lesbians... in fact, I applaud their bravery. Vaginas scare me. What erotica sub genre is your favorite/least favorite to read/write?Pretty much anything with either reluctance, anal or a little bit of pain and I'm happy. My least favorite is probably lesbian, both for reading and writing, because it's something I have a harder time working in the things that turn me on. I still write it occasionally, even though I don't do the survivorphile contest anymore, but pretty much only if it's a group sex, BDSM or non-con/reluctance story. Because that's my way of working in the things that interest me, and I can't write a story that has absolutely nothing that gets me going. What are your pet peeves with fans?Definitely when they try to take over the story. Obviously that doesn't really happen on Amazon but it happens all the time on Lit. Someone will have a vision of how they think the story should go and try to dictate it to me. Or they'll dislike something about a character and want me to change it or they'll try to put their own spin on how they think BDSM "should" be or how a woman/man "should" feel rather than recognizing that everyone is different. I've gotten more than one comment about how Vivian should be more like Alanna or Jessica and I'm just like, how boring would it be if I only wrote about one kind of submissive? Vivian LIKES being submissive and I like her. I'm not going to change her just because of some comment made on Chapter 9 of the story (I can't actually remember when the comments started but I know it was several chapters into the story). What do you love about your fans?I mean... what's not to love? Other than the pet peeve-y stuff ;) Although I'm not really sure I consider those people 'fans' because they apparently only like my work if I write the story to their specifications. But seriously, I think I have a lot of wonderfully vocal fans who come up with fantastic ideas. I love getting reader requests as well as comments on my stories with suggestions. I know the latter part might sound weird when I was just bitching about people trying to direct my writing, but there's a difference between suggesting something that would be cool or saying "I hope this happens" and saying "a real person would never act like this, she needs to ____________." A lot of my best ideas and little twists come from comments that fans make - sometimes criticisms and sometimes compliments or hopes. I absolutely love how involved people get in the story line... I was in alt over the whole Team Justin vs. Team Chris thing that was going on during Venus School, that was quite possibly one of my favorite things (especially since I knew from the beginning that all 3 of them were going to end up together). I love that people are invested and that they let me know it. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. What kind of music do you listen to when writing (is it different depending on the kind of scene or maybe you don't listen at all)?I usually don't listen to music when I write, sometimes I have the TV on in the background... I usually like shows that I find silly and not SO interesting that I have to watch every moment. Lately my choice has been Big Bang (real sexy right? lol) because it has funny moments but I'm not actually invested in it.
Who do you read (erotic and otherwise)?Lately I'm reading a LOT of Victorian romance, although I also hit up the occasional BDSM novel. My automatic-buy erotica/romance authors are Cherise Sinclair, Lexie Blake, Stephanie Laurens, and Kallypso Masters. I also will almost always buy things by Laura Lee Ghurke, Lisa Kleypas, Carolyn Faulkner, Elizabeth Powers, Julia Quinn, Maggie Ryan and Laylah Roberts. When it comes to 'otherwise' - I am a GIANT sci-fi fantasy nerd. Patricia Briggs, Karen Marie Moning, Mercedes Lackey, and Gail Carriger are among my current buys. On my shelves are also Robert Jordan, Tamora Pierce, Spider Robinson, Angus Wells, Piers Anthony, Elizabeth Moon, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Sara Douglass, Eric Flint, David Drake, Brian Jacques, Laurell K. Hamilton, Frank Herbert, Terry Goodkind, Kate Elliot, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, etc. (I have a ridiculously large library). And when I'm not reading either of those, I'm reading historical fiction or history books focusing on the Tudors, especially Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn =) What genre would you classify your books as? What draws you to this genre of books?I would definitely classify my books as erotic romances. A lot of the stuff I have on Lit I would classify as pure erotica, although even there I would say I'm slowly moving in a direction towards erotic romances. Part of what draws me is that I find relationships between people absolutely fascinating. I love exploring the different ways a relationship can go right or wrong and I love that there are endless variations on the same love stories, depending on the people involved in the story. Plus... I love the sexy stuff. If I was a first time reader, what book do you suggest I start with?Probably The Venus School of Sex. Unless the person tells me that they're into historical in which case I would send them to Birching His Bride. Eventually I'll hopefully have more options to send people to =) Where do you get the ideas for your stories?Sometimes they just come to me and I'm not sure where they come from, but more often they're sparked by something. It can be anything from a conversation with someone, to seeing a movie trailer, to reading a book and thinking "but what if it happened this way instead," to getting a specific request from someone. The ideas tend to come in from all over =) How much research do you do for each book?Very little... lol j/k. It depends on the kind of book. Some things come purely from my imagination (like what it feels like to be double penetrated), some things I have to look up online - like what kind of dojo Liam has and what some of the exercises would be. Other things I really do have to research, especially when I'm writing historical stuff... although even there I tend to rely on knowledge that I already have, since I was a History major before I was an English major =) Do you write part time or full time? How do you schedule it into your day? Do you have a page or word count goal in mind when you sit down to write? What do you write on?I write part time... I wish I could go full time. And I don't really schedule it into my day, I just fit it in where I can, which also means I usually don't have a goal when I sit down other than "get as much done as possible." I write on a computer, and I type about 100 wpm so that's a good thing =) What is the hardest/easiest thing about writing?The easiest thing for me is always writing the outline / story idea. The hardest thing is getting the characters to stick to it LOL. Sometimes the easiest/hardest thing is the exact same thing: keep writing. Sometimes I'm not in the mood, sometimes the words just flow like a river. And I don't always know which it's going to be when I sit down. Do you design your own book covers? If so, how do you make the choices?Yes I do. At the moment I use bigstock.com for stock photos and then I do the writing on them myself. I usually look for something that I find visually appealing and that speaks to me about either the characters in the book or the plot line. A lot of the time I'll just look at a picture and thing "Well that's close, but it's not quite right," and I couldn't explain logically why I chose a different picture that felt completely right when it might be really similar to the one that's not. A lot of the time it's a gut feeling. As a self-publisher, what are the advantages and disadvantages?The advantages are definitely that I can keep my books super cheap because I don't have to pay an agent / allow a publisher to make decisions like cost. The disadvantage is definitely editing and marketing. I would love to have access to a professional editor and to have someone else handle my marketing for me. One advantage I have is that I only started publishing because of fans on Literotica who asked me to, and so I started with a group of people who were interested in buying my books and who were wonderful enough to leave reviews for me on Amazon once they did, which helped out immensely. What are your views on good and bad reviews?A bad review can make me pissy and feel like not writing, especially if there's nothing constructive in it. I can take constructive criticism, but a lot of the time people leave bad reviews that don't give me anything to work on for next time. It's frustrating. Good reviews, for me, aren't just the ones that compliment me (although I love those), they're the ones who do give constructive advice or suggestions or criticism so that I know what to do for next time. And I love them. Good reviews make me feel happy and motivated, they can completely make my day if I'm in a bad mood when I read them. I'm always checking for reviews, because it's the validation that people enjoy what I write and that it's worth the time and energy that I put into my writing. Do you ever write something you really enjoy and no one else seems to?Haha, I wish my humor stories got more attention honestly... I go back and re-read them sometimes and I think they're hilarious... but after they were first published they stopped getting any comments. *cries* j/k. They're probably mostly funny to me, to be honest. What advice would you have for young writers? Don't give up, because writing is one of those things that you can always get better at - that's one of the most lovely things about it. When people give you CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, don't get pissed, LISTEN to it. It's incredibly hard to listen to people tear up your work, but sometimes (a lot of the time) they have a point. Don't be afraid to change things. Also, know when to stand up for your work. I got TORN apart in my creative writing class by the professor in college, but one of the things that she kept saying was that it wasn't literary... but I knew that the audience I wanted was more general, I wanted to write more pop-literature than what she considered "true" literature. But I still took a lot of her advice on things that I thought were applicable. The best thing you can do is be open minded and be willing to look at your work with a critical eye, listen to constructive criticism that is given to you and READ. Read lots of work by authors that you love, study what they do and how they do it and try to apply it to your own writing. I can honestly say that I wouldn't be as good a writer if it wasn't for all the reading I do.
What are your long-term writing goals?Lately I've been toying with the idea of making some of my books available through Amazon in print... they have a program so that I could do that. The main thing is that I feel like a print book should be even more heavily edited / perfect than a Kindle book, in large part because it's automatically going to cost more for people to buy them. So I would want them to be professionally edited, which costs money (probably like a thousand dollars per book if not more) and I'm not sure whether or not people would be interested enough in buying the hard copy to make that worth it. One of my friends suggested doing a Kickstarter to try and raise the money, which I'm seriously considering.
September 18, 2013
A Bit of Random
Thank you to all of you who have sent me questions for the "interview" (see previous blog if you have no idea what I'm talking about ;) - I'm going to keep accepting questions through Friday and then the blog will be out on Sunday. So far it's looking like it's going to be a VERY long blog even if no one else sends me any more questions, so that's good! And there are plenty that I'll be able to post to Smashwords that'll be really useful =)
I've been getting a lot of writing done this week, on all of my projects which is nice. I was so hardcore into writing Stronghold that it's taken a bit of effort to direct my attention elsewhere, but I really don't want to make people wait too long for the next chapter of Marriage Training either. And I've had a reader request standalone story that I've been working on probably close to a month now, if not more. Ack.
So far this week I've finished a chapter of Stronghold and am about halfway through the next one, started the next chapter of Marriage Training and I am sooooooooo close to being done with the standalone story that I can taste it. Sadly I haven't been able to work on Seduction by Spanking at all, but that's okay because Stronghold is definitely the priority.
And, as usual, those characters are being a little unruly. Not in a bad way, and they're not messing with my overall outline at the moment, but Adam and Angel are taking a bit of extra time that I hadn't originally planned. Which is just fine, it's going to make their relationship stronger in the end, but it does mean for a slightly longer book =) (So not a bad thing). I can't even tell you all how much fun I am having writing this book, and it does seem to be flowing out of me really quickly and easily which is great. Still aiming for an October release date although it will probably be around the end of October rather than the middle, just because I can tell this is going to be a bigger editing job than usual once I manage to finish it due to the length. I'm already almost at 100,000 words and I'm more than a couple chapters away from the end.
So that's what's going on with me... I gotta go work out the repercussions of a fight that broke out in Stronghold ;) Don't worry, nothing to do with Angel and Adam... but I don't think Lexie's relationship with her boyfriend Trevor is going to make it through the end of this book. Definitely not if Patrick has anything to say about it ;)
I've been getting a lot of writing done this week, on all of my projects which is nice. I was so hardcore into writing Stronghold that it's taken a bit of effort to direct my attention elsewhere, but I really don't want to make people wait too long for the next chapter of Marriage Training either. And I've had a reader request standalone story that I've been working on probably close to a month now, if not more. Ack.
So far this week I've finished a chapter of Stronghold and am about halfway through the next one, started the next chapter of Marriage Training and I am sooooooooo close to being done with the standalone story that I can taste it. Sadly I haven't been able to work on Seduction by Spanking at all, but that's okay because Stronghold is definitely the priority.
And, as usual, those characters are being a little unruly. Not in a bad way, and they're not messing with my overall outline at the moment, but Adam and Angel are taking a bit of extra time that I hadn't originally planned. Which is just fine, it's going to make their relationship stronger in the end, but it does mean for a slightly longer book =) (So not a bad thing). I can't even tell you all how much fun I am having writing this book, and it does seem to be flowing out of me really quickly and easily which is great. Still aiming for an October release date although it will probably be around the end of October rather than the middle, just because I can tell this is going to be a bigger editing job than usual once I manage to finish it due to the length. I'm already almost at 100,000 words and I'm more than a couple chapters away from the end.
So that's what's going on with me... I gotta go work out the repercussions of a fight that broke out in Stronghold ;) Don't worry, nothing to do with Angel and Adam... but I don't think Lexie's relationship with her boyfriend Trevor is going to make it through the end of this book. Definitely not if Patrick has anything to say about it ;)
