Four Thoughts on The Condor
1 - The Condor is about stereotypes. I work in a field where there are not many women ... in fact, a colleague asked me how many women do my job in the industry and ... I couldn't think of a single other person O.o
I've always been a bit of a tomboy. Being the only female in the room has never bothered me. What has bothered me is the suggestion from other females that all the trappings of traditional femininity (makeup, fashion, boys, etc) play no role in my life because I am a tomboy.
People's inability to accept the idea that I can be BOTH one of the guys AND stare lustfully at things in Sephora means I'm forced to compartmentalize my life. The attitude is: I'm either the tomboy who loves hockey and hacks with the computer geeks or I'm the kinky sex kitten who writes romance in her spare time. ONE OF THESE THINGS MUST BE FAKE. Even though they both come from the same place and are fueled by the same aspects of my personality.
The Condor was a vehicle to express my frustration with this. Every character in it has two, contrasting sides to them. Harry is both the ultra masculine dom AND the snappy, makeup loving, babydoll calling queen. Logan is both cold, confident, arrogant AND also needy, soft and sensitive. Latrisha is both a glamorous diva and a middle aged man in a dress :D
2 - When did BDSM = Depressing? More than anything I wanted The Condor to be fun and silly, because hanging out with BDSM fans is starting to feel like hanging out with a bunch of goths. I don't get it. Kink is fun! I don't understand why BDSM stories always have to be about tragic pasts, abuses, and self-loathing. Can't a person be tied up and spanked just because it's fun?
3 - Danny is a real person. Sort of anyway. This is the first book where the order I wrote things is (mostly) the order you read them. Usually I write a couple of key scenes first and then go back to fill in the gaps. That didn't happen here because what pushed The Condor from idea to actual WIP was being approached by a young, lanky, gorgeous street canvasser while on my way to meet my parents for lunch. The first scene in the book is virtually identical to what happened (obviously without the prostitution bits *lol*) and by the time I got home, Harry's narrative was going strong in my head.
4 - With every book I've written I hit a point where I don't eat, sleep, or do anything else but write. Usually this lasts three days, with The Condor is lasted a month. Affectionately dubbed "Turbo mode" by my friends, I often have to be forcibly dragged away from my computer for meals. I don't do it on purpose... it's just one of those things. I think "Oh just let me get to the end of this sentence", I stand up to leave ... then barely two steps away the next sentence crystalizes in my mind and I have to write it down before it escapes.
Lather-Rinse-Repeat :)
For basically one month I did nothing but write The Condor. Those who read the serial will remember at one point I was doing three installments a week ... always expecting to slow down soon ... it never really happened.
I've always been a bit of a tomboy. Being the only female in the room has never bothered me. What has bothered me is the suggestion from other females that all the trappings of traditional femininity (makeup, fashion, boys, etc) play no role in my life because I am a tomboy.
People's inability to accept the idea that I can be BOTH one of the guys AND stare lustfully at things in Sephora means I'm forced to compartmentalize my life. The attitude is: I'm either the tomboy who loves hockey and hacks with the computer geeks or I'm the kinky sex kitten who writes romance in her spare time. ONE OF THESE THINGS MUST BE FAKE. Even though they both come from the same place and are fueled by the same aspects of my personality.
The Condor was a vehicle to express my frustration with this. Every character in it has two, contrasting sides to them. Harry is both the ultra masculine dom AND the snappy, makeup loving, babydoll calling queen. Logan is both cold, confident, arrogant AND also needy, soft and sensitive. Latrisha is both a glamorous diva and a middle aged man in a dress :D
2 - When did BDSM = Depressing? More than anything I wanted The Condor to be fun and silly, because hanging out with BDSM fans is starting to feel like hanging out with a bunch of goths. I don't get it. Kink is fun! I don't understand why BDSM stories always have to be about tragic pasts, abuses, and self-loathing. Can't a person be tied up and spanked just because it's fun?
3 - Danny is a real person. Sort of anyway. This is the first book where the order I wrote things is (mostly) the order you read them. Usually I write a couple of key scenes first and then go back to fill in the gaps. That didn't happen here because what pushed The Condor from idea to actual WIP was being approached by a young, lanky, gorgeous street canvasser while on my way to meet my parents for lunch. The first scene in the book is virtually identical to what happened (obviously without the prostitution bits *lol*) and by the time I got home, Harry's narrative was going strong in my head.
4 - With every book I've written I hit a point where I don't eat, sleep, or do anything else but write. Usually this lasts three days, with The Condor is lasted a month. Affectionately dubbed "Turbo mode" by my friends, I often have to be forcibly dragged away from my computer for meals. I don't do it on purpose... it's just one of those things. I think "Oh just let me get to the end of this sentence", I stand up to leave ... then barely two steps away the next sentence crystalizes in my mind and I have to write it down before it escapes.
Lather-Rinse-Repeat :)
For basically one month I did nothing but write The Condor. Those who read the serial will remember at one point I was doing three installments a week ... always expecting to slow down soon ... it never really happened.
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