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Showing posts with label Paranormal romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paranormal romance. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Photo Interview with Jennifer Denys



Exquisite Quills Welcomes Jennifer Denys


EQ: Welcome to EQ! Tell us a little bit about yourself!

Thank you for letting me loose on your blog! I am a bestselling author in various genre (BDSM, contemporary, sci-fi, and paranormal, with historical and fantasy in my works-in-progress) with several different publishers. An Englishwoman through and through, I live in a beautiful historical city, and I’m game to try most things once. I’ve had a tattoo done on my calf, flown down zip wires 100 feet up in the trees, and was photographed nude by a professional photographer. All of which have taken place since I turned 50! Many of my experiences end up in my books… but you will have to read them to find out what!

EQ: Tell us a little bit about your most recent release.

‘Kink After Dinner’ is my first book with a new publisher, Luminosity Publishing. It is about a middle age woman throwing off her inhibitions and trying new experiences and is out on 5 September available from various distributors including Luminosity Publishing and Amazon.

Here is the blurb:

Kink After Dinner.
8pm. Usual place.
Wear the new purple basque – no knickers.
Expect some SERIOUS (!) paddling. No touching until then.
Master.

Beth hurriedly hides the note she has received so her family won’t see it.

Her daughter regards her parents as stuck in the mud. If only she knew!  When Beth decided to throw off her inhibitions she was able to thoroughly enjoy her middle years, despite the usual body issues, including attending a BDSM event and starting a relationship with a Dom.

Putting on her purple bustier and high heels as ordered, and covering up with a coat, she leaves her husband engrossed in his carpentry workshop to walk to a neighbour’s house. This is the home of swinging couple, Alistair and Helen, with whom she’s had several encounters over the past year. And this begins a wonderful evening of kink—bondage, spanking, paddling, handcuffs, and orgasm denial.

Then her husband turns up.


I had great fun with ‘Kink After Dinner’ writing about a heroine of a similar age to me, so I was able to include my own feelings of being middle age – like the fact that my middle age spread enabled me to finally have a decent cleavage after years of being skinny! Unfortunately this also meant the stomach expanded. So for my 50thbirthday I had some ‘boudoir’ photos taken to prove I could still be desirable despite body issues and I discovered a basque is great for holding the stomach in (which the heroine in the story also notes!). I was very pleased with the outcome to the photos which were taken by a firm called Mighty Aphrodite in the UK.







Handcuffs are used in the story and are featured on the front cover of ‘Kink After Dinner’. I frequently buy
an implement and try it out before writing about it so that I can put myself in the shoes of the main characters and know how they experience it. However, when I first bought the handcuffs, I was eager to try them out and couldn’t wait until the following day for the person I was going to use them with so I locked one on my right hand…… and then I couldn’t get it off!!!! As I am very right handed, I struggled to turn the key with my left hand. I was beginning to panic, thinking I would have to go to the fire station to get them cut off, when I discovered there was a latch at the side that one could depress to release them. Phew!

A red rose is significant to both the story and to me. You will have to read the story to find out where a rose comes in. All I can say is that it is not a real one! As for me, I use a red rosebud as my logo on promotional items and I also have a red rose tattoo on my calf (every year I try to do one thing that is exciting, adventurous, or outside my comfort zone and this year I had a tattoo on my calf by the lovely people at Ruby Arts in York)

Yes, this is a plate of strawberries! LOL. The title of ‘Kink After Dinner’ came from a friend who said this in conversation and I thought, “What a great idea for a title.” So I came up with the story to fit the title.  Food, is relevant, though, as the main characters, at the end, talk about going for a ‘Dinner Weekend’ at Lindsay Park Manor… which is going to be the setting for a series set in an English country mansion which holds BDSM events. ‘Dinner’ in this case does not involve eating off a plate… Use your imagination!



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Kink After Dark is available for pre-order right now! See the first comment for a link.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Author Interview: Rachell Nichole



EQ Welcomes Rachell Nichole

EQ: Welcome to EQ! Tell us a little bit about yourself!

Rachell: Hi everyone. Thanks so much for having me stop by today. I’m Rach and I write erotic romance. (I always feel like I’m at an Erom Anonymous meeting when I start like that). I really love romance and most of its subgenres, but right now I’m mostly writing contemporary erotic romance. I like to call them Sizzling Romantic Entanglements. I really enjoy putting my characters through their paces on the journey to love. I live in New York with a mountain of books and a cuddly (though sometimes invisible) cat.

EQ:Tell us a little bit about your most recent release.

Rachell: My latest book is Break(Through) the Ice. It’s a novella-length book about an author and the actor who inspired her characters. I had a lot of fun writing this book. It was really cool writing about a writer. J Here’s some more info:

When Jasmine Graves is invited to the set of the movie based on her shapeshifter book series, she thinks her dreams have come true. The Vince Demarco will be there, and she can’t wait to meet him. Little does she know that she’ll have to face her worst fears to keep her leading man.
Vince Demarco has never been as intrigued by a role or a writer as he is with his current alpha werewolf character and its creator. So when he comes face to face with Jasmine Graves herself, he’s awestruck. But he fears an author who’s a reported recluse will want nothing to do with the paparazzi madness and crazy schedule that comes with dating a movie star.

Neither one can deny the animal attraction that overwhelms them at first contact. But will the heat between them turn to ice in the harsh winter cold of the Adirondack Camp?


EQ: What kinds of female characters do you prefer to write?

Rachell: I really enjoy spunky female characters. I can’t stand it when a heroine is mopey or feels sorry for herself all the time. I’m not saying that I don’t want my heroines to be vulnerable in some aspects of their lives or that they won’t lean on their leading lady or man, but it’s important to me that my females can stand on their own two feet when they need to. Some of them are more brazen, others a bit more reserved, but they’re all kick ass in their own ways.

EQ: What kinds of male characters do you prefer to write?

Rachell: I like damaged alpha males. Whether it’s a rough run-in with love in the past, a fear of commitment, or the hyper-focus on the career instead of love, I make my guys really work for their ladies to win them over in the end. I really like writing a man who is secure in himself, or pretends that he is, and who learns to grow and move on with his life through his relationship with my heroines.

EQ: What is the biggest risk you’ve taken in your writing?

Rachell: That’s got to be the book I just finished writing. I plunged head-first into the BDSM deep end with Domestic Discipline Needed. I had this idea for a book over a year ago, but I was too busy with other books that I didn’t have time to write it. When I did, I turned to a good friend and fellow erom author, Nona Raines, who helped steer me in the right direction. I don’t think I’ve ever done as much research for a book as I did for that one. I studied some books, joined some online communities where I could get all of my pesky questions answered, and generally got sucked down into this world of dark eroticism for four solid months, ignoring pretty much everyone and everything going on in the real world. It was a big leap for me to write in the genre and I love the finished product.

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Genesis of a Book - Passion's Sacred Dance by Juli D. Revezzo


Genesis of a novel by Juli D. Revezzo

What is your history? We know our birthdates and what we’ve accomplished throughout our lives. We know our friends, our mothers and fathers’ stories, maybe our grandparents, but what of the legacy they might leave behind when they’re gone? This was, in essence, the genesis of my latest paranormal romance novel, PASSION’S SACRED DANCE: The question of what becomes of one’s legacy, life to life. How could a woman who lived hundreds of years ago have any influence on today’s world?

One can look into the genealogy of their family for clues about the past. You can trace down your lineage via the Internet these days for a small fee, in some cases. But sometimes a language barrier exists. Worse are the errors in historical records—if they exist at all. Historical records only go so far back.

This was a huge problem for my heroine Stacy Macken. A historian by nature she has the tools to follow her family lineage down through the ages, but she’s from a line of people—the Celts—who weren’t interested in writing very much down. Most all of what we know about them comes secondhand from the Romans and Greeks (who wanted to eradicate them and so, demonized them) or from monks who may or may not have ever had any real contact with them (and/or might’ve wanted to demonize them as nasty evil pagans). So one must bow to the reality that the recording of historical events, if not downright non-existent in some eras, can be faulty. Even novelists can’t get past this barrier often.
 
But, writing a story that’s fantasy in nature—paranormal, if you will—the solution is easily found.  Shades from the Otherworld can leave clues everywhere. Even the mighty Shakespeare knew that. So I had no trouble using that age-old trope to help out Stacy.  The Celts had an idea that the dead aren’t gone, the doors to the Otherworld swing wide all the time. And for her, that’s when her ancestors come to help her understand that answers are out there. Sometimes, one just needs a hand and in her case, it comes from a sexy warrior out to save her world from what she finds in those dusty old records.

History. Ain’t it great?;)

Blurb
 
Battling mounting debt, Stacy Macken is determined not to lose her historic art gallery. When Aaron Fielding appears and offers to help, she fights to keep the attraction sizzling between them from clouding her judgment. He may be her savior in disguise--but can she trust him?

Aaron intrigues her with tales of the Tuatha dé Danann, sworn warriors who protect humanity from the monsters seeking their destruction. If Aaron can prove what he claims, she would give up anything to help--even the gallery he claims is sacred ground. But with her property set to stage the next epic battle, she needs answers. An old family diary will confirm the ancient legend is true, if only they can find it in time.

If the battle is lost, the enemy will take control of Earth for the next five hundred years. Stacy and Aaron's budding love might only complicate things.
 

About Juli D. Revezzo:

Juli D. Revezzo has long been in love with writing, a love built by devouring everything from the Arthurian legends, to the works of Michael Moorcock, and the classics and has a soft spot for classic the “Goths” of the 19th century. Her short fiction has been published in Dark Things II: Cat Crimes, The Scribing Ibis, Eternal Haunted Summer, Twisted Dreams Magazine and Luna Station Quarterly. She also has an article and book review or two out there. But her heart lies in the storytelling. She is a member of Independent Authors Network and Magic Appreciation Tour. Passion’s Sacred Dance is her first romance novel.
 
Passion's Sacred Dance, From Faery Rose and The Wild Rose Press, is available now at
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You can find out more about Juli at her homepage: http://julidrevezzo.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On twitter: @julidrevezzo