Pollygraph (interviews with erotica authors): Nicole Swann
Why erotica?
As awkward as it was initially to accept, it's simply something that I found myself writing with great ease, it seems if I take the shackles off, I gravitate to erotica.
How did you get into it?
I'd been writing mainstream books for a few years and I wanted a bit of a change, something I could be more relaxed with and I thought I'd write something 'steamy' for some fun, it was a bit of a surprise just how much I do enjoy it.
What kinds of erotica do you write?
I'm still experimenting a lot, I've written some very extreme (unpublished) works that will fall afoul with a lot of the publishing rules now, but I do enjoy a lot of of love triangles, for now it's mostly M/F, with a bit of forced-seduction for more edge. Some things I'm writing I like to keep it more on the romance-erotica side, but I do find I like to just "go hard" more often than not and let the explicit words spill out.
Tell us about your experiences as an erotica author. What have the big challenges and successes been?
Coming to accept that I enjoyed and wanted to write erotica was a difficult thing, especially when I started writing some very dark stuff. Admitting to those around me that I "also" write erotica was a difficult thing to do, but thankfully no one has yet ostricised me, at least not to my face. So far as successes go, I think every time I get to the end of a book and submit it, I like to think of that as a success.
Do the people around you know what you write? How have they reacted, or how would they react?
A lot of people I know all react well to hearing that I'm a writer, almost all of them usually burst out with how they're trying to write a book as well, seems there really is a book in us all. While I do want to tell a few people of my Erotica identity, it's still however something I'm keeping to myself.
Tell us about your most recent titles.
"Some kind of Freak" is the first part of a planned trilogy, it's my first published work written from male first-person perspective, I wanted to 'try something new' as it were and I'm pretty happy with how it came out (hopefully the readers will be as well). Essentially 'Tom' decides to try and awaken the sexuality of his room-mate's shy/timid girlfriend, however what Tom doesn't realise is that he's possibly messing with something a little more dangerous than what the first impressions conveyed.
Do you have a favourite, or favourites, among your stories?
Not as yet, I enjoy them all and I certainly feel like each one is a milestone.
How do you normally go about writing an erotic story? Is there much, ahem, research involved...?
There is a mixed bag of research, between picking the brains of nearby males (which can be amusing when they start squirming as I get into intimate details), to reading a lot of other material, to taking time out to get a more in-depth perspective on some matters that have to be written about ;)
And finally, what can we expect to see from you soon?
The two follow-up books for the "Some kind of Freak" series, as well as another book I'm working on right now which is a reluctant/compromise marriage + true love mashup, maybe with some crazy graveyard antics as well (sorry, no necro).
More from Nicole Swann:
website: http://nicoleswanbooks.comAuthor Central: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0075168ZSTwitter: http://twitter.com/nicswFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/nicoleswanbooks
As awkward as it was initially to accept, it's simply something that I found myself writing with great ease, it seems if I take the shackles off, I gravitate to erotica.How did you get into it?
I'd been writing mainstream books for a few years and I wanted a bit of a change, something I could be more relaxed with and I thought I'd write something 'steamy' for some fun, it was a bit of a surprise just how much I do enjoy it.
What kinds of erotica do you write?
I'm still experimenting a lot, I've written some very extreme (unpublished) works that will fall afoul with a lot of the publishing rules now, but I do enjoy a lot of of love triangles, for now it's mostly M/F, with a bit of forced-seduction for more edge. Some things I'm writing I like to keep it more on the romance-erotica side, but I do find I like to just "go hard" more often than not and let the explicit words spill out.
Tell us about your experiences as an erotica author. What have the big challenges and successes been?
Coming to accept that I enjoyed and wanted to write erotica was a difficult thing, especially when I started writing some very dark stuff. Admitting to those around me that I "also" write erotica was a difficult thing to do, but thankfully no one has yet ostricised me, at least not to my face. So far as successes go, I think every time I get to the end of a book and submit it, I like to think of that as a success.Do the people around you know what you write? How have they reacted, or how would they react?
A lot of people I know all react well to hearing that I'm a writer, almost all of them usually burst out with how they're trying to write a book as well, seems there really is a book in us all. While I do want to tell a few people of my Erotica identity, it's still however something I'm keeping to myself.
Tell us about your most recent titles.
"Some kind of Freak" is the first part of a planned trilogy, it's my first published work written from male first-person perspective, I wanted to 'try something new' as it were and I'm pretty happy with how it came out (hopefully the readers will be as well). Essentially 'Tom' decides to try and awaken the sexuality of his room-mate's shy/timid girlfriend, however what Tom doesn't realise is that he's possibly messing with something a little more dangerous than what the first impressions conveyed.
Do you have a favourite, or favourites, among your stories?
Not as yet, I enjoy them all and I certainly feel like each one is a milestone.How do you normally go about writing an erotic story? Is there much, ahem, research involved...?
There is a mixed bag of research, between picking the brains of nearby males (which can be amusing when they start squirming as I get into intimate details), to reading a lot of other material, to taking time out to get a more in-depth perspective on some matters that have to be written about ;)
And finally, what can we expect to see from you soon?
The two follow-up books for the "Some kind of Freak" series, as well as another book I'm working on right now which is a reluctant/compromise marriage + true love mashup, maybe with some crazy graveyard antics as well (sorry, no necro).
More from Nicole Swann:
website: http://nicoleswanbooks.comAuthor Central: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0075168ZSTwitter: http://twitter.com/nicswFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/nicoleswanbooks
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