Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bundle up with the Red Hot Wild Women Writers this holidays.

Aloha everyone! On Black Friday we six hot women writers are releasing our bundle of erotica romance stories. Over 60, 000 words, 6 hot stories to bundle up with this chilly winter and in the holidays. One wee NSFW piccie :-) 

The hotties answered a few more questions about writing, love, sex and favorite things. Thanks for reading! Aloha Meg, Mikey, Kay Dee, Alix, Ruby and Iona!!! 


Name three places it's easy for you to relax.

MIKEY: I generally don't relax. In the bath. In a hot tub. Even on vacation, I don't necessarily relax. About the only time I relax is on my Harley rolling down the open road with goddamn time frame.

KAY DEE: Café, hiking in the woods, hanging out near water (sitting in a chair next to it or floating on it in a boat).

ALIX: Beaches, pretty much ALL beaches. Grew up around the Great Lakes, beaches were a staple of life. Mountains, I truly enjoy the views from up at the top, or even halfway. If there’s a place where mountains and beaches converge, that’s where I want to be. :-) In the woodlands of the Upper Peninsula. I miss those long walks to reach the perfect beaches. (Meg: Here’s a tip. If you want to become a writer, come from Michigan. We have so many writers from there, it’s almost uncanny! :-) I lived there when I first came to the States. It must be something in their water supply, or long, longggggggggg winters. :-) )

RUBY: I sit on the cliff tops listening to the lull of waves, gently crashing down on the sea wall under moonlight. Another is, lying alone on my bed, deep in thought, sucking chocolate, listening to classical music. Lastly, a hot soak enriched with oils and  rose petals, flickering candles, a gentle fragrance from a burner and a glass of Bucks Fizz.

MEG: Kona, on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Sitting in the back of a luxury car, being driven. The West Coast of New Zealand, along the Punakaiki stretch of the coast. Wild, rugged and windswept. It’s gorgeous.






Night owl or Early bird?

KAY DEE: I love getting up early…before anyone else and getting right to writing: ) Although – I can do the same thing at night – everyone’s in bed and I’m still up writing: )

ALIX: Night owl all the way. Daylight is annoying at times. LOL

RUBY: I’m a vampire girl I only ‘come out’ at night… sweet dreams readers.

MEG: Pure night owl. I’m dysfunctional in the daylight.



What genre do you like to read?

MIKEY: gay romance, some fantasy, Star Wars, and I have a secret addiction to spy novels. Micah goddamn Dalton is hot. I've saved a bullet for him.

KAY DEE: It’s a mood thing for me – mostly erotic romance in sub-genres paranormal, fantasy, contemporary, historical, sci-fi, steam-punk – then I want to stop and read something mainstream – detective-type stuff – like Patricia Cornwell or Kathy Reichs.

ALIX: Pretty much all of them. I truly enjoy a good written (accurate) historical, as well as the fantastical that takes me to another world. The paranormals to suspend belief and yes, even erotic/a. Have to keep up with what I write. :-) I’m a sucker for a romance that has me believing in “happily-ever-afters” even if only for that second.

RUBY: Predominantly, I am a supernatural kinda girl. I love baddies and wish they’d win more… hehehe.  I don’t often read romance, murder mystery, thrillers or whodunits. The dark and macabre worlds of paranormal stories and the hint of truth contained within them are of fine substance for me. I love stories that contain any type of sexual gender, fetish or practice, non-fiction or fiction. These make interesting reads for me.

MEG: I read a selection, but I love the male/male romances. I read a lot of mainstream as well, mostly murder mysteries and romances. I love a good British cosy and occasionally read thrillers… skipping over the icky stuff. I read for the characters in any book, sometimes the plot is the background story for me. Anything with psychology thrown in is usually a draw card too for me.  


Lace, Leather, or Denim?

MIKEY: Leather and denim

KAY DEE: Totally denim :-)

ALIX: Combination of the three. I’m a sucker for leather and am extremely comfortable in denim. Lace is for bras and panties.

RUBY: I own clothes with all three and it depends what mood I’m in. Delicate and feminine? Basques and lace. A naughty girl? It’s gotta be leather or denim.

MEG: I like lace and leather combined, but if I had to pick one, it would be lace. I like wearing Victoriana clothing in the winter.



           
What brings about an idea that you form into a story, how do you know it’s a viable idea?

KAY DEE: The simplest thing…like I mentioned, my fascination in the elusive cougar. That thought planted the seed, and then the pot simmers for hours, days, or months…until the characters become recognizable and the story forms, ready to be written.

ALIX: More often than not, mine come to me out of nowhere. Those are usually the ones that last. There are others that pop in while I’m working another storyline. And those eventually are interwoven into a series of books. Those that are viable are the ones that I just cannot not stop working on. It’s as if nothing exists besides getting the story finished. I’ll keep going until I literally fall asleep on the keyboard. I’ve also had other ideas that took off, stopped, was certain they were finished then all of a sudden with the completion of a completely different story, that one comes back on. It’s funny like that. LOL

RUBY: A character ‘pops’ into my brain, his/her fetish, how that can affect people, could it be turned in to a story etc. Ideas are jotted down in pencil, and then at a later date I think ‘ooh, there could be something there.’ I check with colleagues to see if they like the idea, I always get mixed answers. Some turn up their noses and some are gagging to hear more of the …saucy details.

MEG: The ideas often come out of the blue. I don’t have much say over them. I usually sit with it a day or so to see whether it’ll start to ‘run.’ When it has legs and won’t leave me alone, I start taking dictation. I often only get tiny pieces of a story. Sometimes it’s a sentence that starts it off and then I’m at the mercy of The Muses and what they have to say. Thank God!! I’ve gotten used to them leading the story now. I just to type fast and try not to let my own ego or ideas get in the way.



Do you like muscled men?

ALIX: I most definitely do! Who doesn’t want a sculptured male to gaze at? Okay, okay, so I would also be drooling, but that wasn’t the question. 

MIKEY: I just like men. Muscles or no.
                                                                                     
KAY DEE: Not too muscly – just enough to know he’s strong: )

MEG: No. LOL. I really don’t like muscle bound, hairy men. Partly too, on the muscles, I suspect it’s because I’m a New Zealander. Culturally we don’t do the ‘body beautiful’ thing that’s prevalent here in the States. I like my men ‘normal.’ I don’t like the hard planes that muscles produce. I suppose though I do like a firm back and shoulders. I do find that sexy. But I have a thing for shoulders.

IONA: Muscular but not musclebound if that makes sense.

RUBY: Er, sorry guys, natural muscle only for me. Although I think the WWF kinda guys are cute, I prefer skinny, with a little cuddly tummy I can stroke.





What’s the biggest turn off in a lover?

ALIX: Someone who doesn’t take proper care of themselves. By that I mean, those who don’t have good hygiene.

MEG: A bad kisser, too much slobber, closed mouth, too fast. Ugh. Or the jabbing tongue. Eek. Men who don't have a clue how to bring a woman to orgasm and aren't willing to learn. Men who think a penis is the only thing they need to know how to use in bed. 

MIKEY: Food in their facial hair.

KAY DEE: When he doesn’t share his emotions verbally with me – it ends up being a one-sided communication that feels more like a rejection.

IONA: Someone who isn't working on the same mental plane as you.

RUBY: Pubes. Smoking.





What’s the biggest turn on in a lover?

ALIX: One who shares my soul. :-)

MIKEY: An erection and no food in their facial. (Meg: LOL. Jesus Mike)

MEG: A good kisser, someone who is very sensuous, but passionate. A man with a gentle touch and knows how to not rub a clitoris raw. 

KAY DEE: Words of love…simple touching, shows of affection.

IONA: Somebody who is in the same mental place as you. It all starts in the head.

RUBY: Age and maturity.





Do you experiment with those sex scenes you create, or strictly use your imagination?

MIKEY: Anything is viable, just got to Rubic it around until it makes sense.

KAY DEE: I’d like to say I’ve experience a good portion of what I write *LOL* But it’s pretty much my wild imagination and I use it to full capacity when writing those love scenes.

ALIX: Most times. There are certain scenes I can’t enact myself, due to past experiences, that doesn’t stop me from asking friends and others about theirs. Trust me, I’ve heard people whisper behind their hands about being placed in my books. Other times I have to use my imagination, because, well, fantasy just does not exist in our world. LOL

RUBY: Simply both!  It could go ‘Darling, I have an idea, could we try…’  and I either get ‘do I have to?’ or ‘is that idea for real’ and the answers are,  “yes, you have to, it’s a tough job I know’ and ‘ yes in supernatural land, anything is real, does it sound horny though?’

MEG: It depends. I don’t have anyone to experiment on at the moment. So it’s either stuff from past partners, or I imagine it in my mind. If I had someone here though, I WOULD experiment on them. LOL.


How do you like your steak? 

IONA: Medium. I've no issues with a wee bit of blood!

KAY DEE: Medium-well and smothered in mushrooms :-) 

ALIX: Medium to well done. I’m not a fan of raw meat. Just not appealing and with my imagination it’s not hard to take that final leap into “OMG” and it’s all over. Don’t want it screaming at me. Just sayin’... LOL

RUBY: Is steak another word for cock Or real steak? (Meg: LOL. Jesus Ruby! LOL)

MEG: Medium to well done. No pink showing. Apparently people find this tough, but I’ve always eaten it this way, so it tastes fine to me. LOL. Although I do apologize to chef in a restaurant. And I like it with a sauce of some kind. A wine reduction, parmesan crust, French cream, mushroom, anything really… gravy and sauce… yum…



How do you weave reality into the fiction you create? Do you take from real-life events/happenings? Real people and interactions?

MIKEY: Real life. Mine and others. Specific events may be made up, or taken from headlines and then modified to fit my world, but emotionally I put in a lot of my own experiences. Especially pertaining to some of the darker aspects of my characters world.

KAY DEE: It’s a little of many circumstances - my personal experiences, things I’ve seen at the movies or on TV, stuff I’ve read, or what I’ve picked up from people I know.

ALIX: I do all of it. I enjoy the weave of fantasy into reality. Making it possible for the reader to actually believe it happened, or could have. I use real-life events and happenings. Both on the personal and public stage. It makes the pieces seem more realistic to me. Real people and their interactions are also a must. It really brings the realistic twist into what I’m trying to create. I truly enjoy seeing if my outcome is different from what happened in reality. :-) 

RUBY: I use past/present/future life and my own experiences. Work colleagues and friends experiences. More interesting than that are perhaps the incidentals, a wave, a smile, a touch, a comment, even snippets from conversations; or even inanimate objects. Those from my dreams, are recalled and transferred into notes, although the majority of these divine/spirit interactions are for stories not yet written.

MEG: Yes, I write from a large data base of my own life’s experiences. Anything could end up in there, from a look, gesture, entire event, a particular person, a dialogue. I describe a scene with a Greek flatmate in Saint Nicholas and the cookies his mum used to send him. That was word for word how it used to go every week. LOL. You can’t make some of this stuff up! :-)



What did you eat for breakfast? 

IONA: Porridge. It might be a cliché for us Scots but it has loads of fibre and low GI which keeps me going all morning

KAY DEE: Egg scramble – with asparagus and sharp cheddar.

ALIX: Haven’t ever been a breakfast person as I’m not usually awake. But when I am (like on vacation visiting family) I’ll do the eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, French toast, juice, pancakes, coffee...you know, all the usual food. :-) 

RUBY: Mikey, you’ll like this, always start my day with a good cocksucking… followed by breakfast and a milky day; can’t start it without a good feed.

MEG: I’m not generally up for breakfast. And rarely eat when I first get up. I can’t cope with food first thing. On holiday though when I’m up early and traveling, I’ll eat a full English breakfast. Bacon, poached eggs, baked beans, black or white sausage, proper English sausages, fried bread with a large pot of Earl Grey Tea and pure cream. Yummm.


What is your favorite cuisine? 

IONA: Thai food.

MIKEY: Southern. British comfort food like bangers and mash. Liver and onions, cooked right.

KAY DEE: Man, I really lead a sheltered life…it’s nothing fancy…my husband’s smoked chicken, it melts in my mouth: )

ALIX: Italian and Mexican. I’m a sucker for good pasta and spices that make my eyes water and nose run. Bet that’s a pretty picture you have now. LOL :-)

RUBY: Nouvelle cuisine. You don’t get much and pay a fortune for the privilege.

MEG: French, then the ethnic ones like Afghani, Indian, Burmese, Hawaiian Fusion.



How do you get into your writer’s mindset? 

MIKEY: Close the door, shut out the world, grab a drink and just fucking write. I'm generally naked, a drink next to me, and now a hot pink vapor cig clenched between my teeth (since I quit smoking). I used to smoke pink cigarettes. On occasion, I'll have a cigar.

KAY DEE: First, I have to know I’m going to have some hours of uninterrupted time…when my mind has plenty of time to sink into writing mode. I can’t have any distractions…it’s too easy for me to go “empty.” I set an area up with a drink, soft music, a scented candle…maybe do a short meditation of intention and roll from there.

ALIX: I breathe, light candles and find the right playlist. Sometimes I’ll even go for a walk or annoying my kids a moment before I settle down to write. Annoying the kids is to keep them from getting at me once I start writing. LOL Sometimes I’ll even veg out for a few hours with them to empty my head of all the junk I’ve collected. Clear my mind. :-)

RUBY: Wow, that’s a hard one. I’m so hyper that sitting down to type a word doc, is more difficult than getting ideas or into mindset. I suppose I read a couple chapters from any book I randomly select, that includes dictionaries, thesaurus, and fiction; close the book, sit in the lounge and sup a hot blackcurrant, munch on a box of choc and just type. I may ask to have an ankle brace fitted and tied to the table, so I can’t move and Daddy (age related fetish please note) may have to pamper his little girl whilst she works hehe

MEG: I do a visualization every day that’s not related to writing and the story often keeps popping in pieces of what’s coming next while I visualize. I also pour a Bacardi and diet coke, so that my brain is switched off from its straight and linear course and on the creative track. I’ll start a sentence wherever I am in the scene that I can see in my mind. It might be half way through or at the end. I write what is running ‘hot’ at the time, otherwise I miss stuff. I go back and fill around the main scene later.





Are you in the closet as an erotica writer, or balls to the wall open?

MIKEY: Everyone knows what I do. No closet here in terms of what I write.

KAY DEE: I use a pseudonym, although most of my family and friends know, I keep it away from them. I love what I do, but I don’t wish to offend anyone…most especially my family :-) And some do find it offensive.

ALIX: Not really closet. I don’t throw it about, but I also don’t hide it either. When people ask what I do, I tell them honestly. Either the conversations end there (a lot of times it does, lol) or I find a new friend. I’m not ashamed of writing erotic/a, if anything I’m free, happy and at peace. Which is a huge plus in my book. :-) 

RUBY: I was advised to be a closet girl – am I a girl?
Everyone in UK is backward when it comes to sex, come on folks everyone knows that. Maybe one day, we will be able to mention the word and the stiff upper Brit lip will quiver with excitement not stand erect with angst.

MEG: I’m open. I write under my own name and like what I do. I have no problems telling people what I write. Generally people are intrigued and fascinated by it. If anyone has had a funny reaction, I’ve never struck it.


How many tattoos do you have? 

IONA: One - a youthful experiment somewhere you won't ever see!

MIKEY: Lots… too many to catalog :-)

KAY DEE: Zippety do da day – but I’m not against themJ

ALIX: Two and plan for more...a LOT more. LOL :-)

RUBY: None, am not that trendy. I’m a therapist, I wouldn’t dream of desecrating my body, and skin is a sensual organ.

MEG: None. I have a pain threshold of -500 and while I’m used to seeing them more now, they’re not something I’ve ever hankered for






Wishing everyone Happy Holidays across the globe. 






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Sunday, November 16, 2014

LOVE IS LOVE ~ a sex-positive view on insta-love and gay romance writers

Aloha everyone! Thanks so much to Grace Duncan for setting up this great idea on a sex-positive blog hop! :-) 

Lately there’s been a fair few scuffles over two things which I see popping up in all sorts of blogs and comments.

One is the moans and groans about women writers of gay romances. 

The other is the insta-love thing that seems to stick in some people’s craw.

There’s a lot of "not realistic" stuff thrown about over "insta-love." And it only seems to apply to m/m romances. Why? People DO fall in love instantly all the time. If it hasn’t happened to you in your life, I’m not sure whether to say you’re lucky or not lucky. I’m going with NOT. Even Shakespeare knew about love at first sight. 

I think about descriptions from WWII, or from men I’ve met in this lifetime, or have read about. We often hear,  “…the moment I laid eyes on her, I knew she was the one, I was going to marry that girl. It was love at first sight.”

“When I met her, it was instant kapow, right between the eyes. I just fell in love with her.”


Often people have a soul connection from another lifetime. So when they meet again, they’re reconnecting from the past, recognizing each other again. Of course, they would love instantly.

Also culturally things move differently in different countries. I come from New Zealand and we don’t "date" for years. We go on a "couple of dates" with someone and we’re either going out with them or not. We might not fall in love with them instantly, but we do know whether there’s a connection there.


I’ve fallen in love with someone kapow the first day I laid eyes on them and also grown in love with someone. I actually think I’d take the kapow kind. I can’t see that either produced a better relationship funnily enough and you’d think one would work better, but that hasn’t been my experience.


We fall in love instantly with lots of things. Why not a partner?

The moment I saw that car, I just fell in love with it…

The moment I laid eyes on that ginger kitten, I knew I had to take him home.

The moment I walked in that house, I knew I had to have it.

On my first bite, I fell in love with the dish, I had to get the recipe.

Is it really so odd? So unusual? I don’t think so.

I think we’re geared to love. On a heart and soul level, love is such a binding force in the Universe that we naturally gravitate toward it.

And when we recognize that connection to another kindred spirit—we take it.




Because love is love and it doesn’t always come along in several varieties to choose from like say a car, or a dress or a selection of cheeses. Often we only get presented with one love at a time. Sometimes not, of course... :-) 

Which leads me to the women writers on gay romance thing.

Like it or not, writers have always written about things they know nothing or little about, but are drawn to for some reason.

Q: “Why did you write about a past life set in WWII?”

A: “I’ve always been interested in that period of history.”

Q: “Why did you write about the Civil Rights Movement?”

A: “I’ve always hated prejudice. I wanted to say something about that particular incident and highlight what went on for people.”

And the list goes on…



We write about what interests us often as writers.

I write the characters that pop into my head, often unasked, uninvited. They just turn up, noisy, fervent, raiding my booze cabinet, clattering around in my kitchen, until I have no choice, but to sit down and listen to their story.

And once they start and I’m intrigued, I find myself reaching quietly for a pen and paper to take notes.

Sometimes a story is going in one direction and then a rogue character turns up and hijacks the whole thing. My first full length novel Henry and Isolde due out in Spring next year was like that. It started out as a "nice wee romance," until "bloody Charlie" turned up. He was nicknamed that by me because he wanted to be in the relationship with Henry and Izzy. I just said no. You can’t. People won’t like that. What will the readers think? (I had no idea at the time I started writing that, that people WOULD like that.)



I talked to my mentor. He said, give him one scene, let him run with it. It’ll probably satisfy him. It didn’t. Four books down the track…and Charlie’s almost the main character. LOL.

We women like male/male romances in the same way we like male/male sex.

Why? Because we like men too.

And generally I think we’re gravitating more toward whole men. Men who show emotions, aren’t scared to cry or feel afraid. We want a more "feminized" man. I don’t mean an effeminate male. I mean an actualized man who shows he’s human. They’re very attractive to many women. For years too, we’ve often felt left on the outside on the seeming chasm that are men’s emotional states, thoughts, and feelings. We WANT to know men are human, feel, get hurt, get emotional, all the things that are often not deeply seen in m/f romances. Although I write my men that way because I have known real men and I like them enormously.

Men that don’t cry or show emotions scare the shit out of me.




We women I think too are doing our small part in gay awareness, relationship equality, slowly fighting homophobia. We ripple out into layers and layers of society. Afterall we do know what it's like to be an oppressed minority. 

In my Big Fat Greek Wedding, there’s a scene where the mother says something like, “The man, he is the head of the family, but the woman…she is the neck, she turn the head of the man.”

We have that influence across the board.



I see women authors and women in general supporting gay rights on fb more than the men sometimes. And I think we do that in so many ways as women. What we do ripples out from a single person to a group. The majority of women are still the larger group or percentage that bring up children. We have a great deal of influence in the world. We can teach our kids to hate or teach them to love.

Throughout history, we women have quietly influenced all sorts of things:


Back in 1848, a group of women started their fight for women’s right in Seneca, New York. Stanton, one of the chief organizers drafted a “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances, and Resolutions,” that echoed the preamble of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt helped open some doors and endorse the first black airmen to serve in the US military as pilots—The Tuskegee Airmen. She was immensely interested in their cause and insisted on flying with their leader.

Although the Secret Service was anxious about the ride, Chief Civilian Flight Instructor Charles Alfred Anderson, known today as “The Father of Black Aviation,” piloted Mrs. Roosevelt over the skies of Alabama for over an hour.
Flying with Anderson demonstrated the depth of Eleanor Roosevelt’s support for black pilots and the Institute’s training program. Press coverage of her adventure in flight helped advocate for the competency of these pilots and boosted the Institute's visibility. Roosevelt was so impressed with the program that she established and maintained a long-term correspondence with some of the airmen.


Back in 1955 on an Alabama bus, one woman sparked the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted for 381 days and brought about massive reforms when she said NO.

In her autobiography, My Story Rosa Parks said:
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.[23]

On the day she went to trial:
— December 5, 1955 — the WPC distributed the 35,000 leaflets. The handbill read,
"We are...asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial ... You can afford to stay out of school for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off the buses Monday."[28]
It rained that day, but the black community persevered in their boycott. Some rode in carpools, while others traveled in black-operated cabs that charged the same fare as the bus, 10 cents. Most of the remainder of the 40,000 black commuters walked, some as far as 20 miles (32 km).

Can you imagine walking in the rain and often the oppressive sweltering humidity of Alabama for 381 days—that's over a year? Getting to work exhausted, already foot sore, hot and sweating like a pig, then doing a full day’s work for awful wages and walking home again?


It changed things though.
One woman…started a spark…
Changes DO happen when people speak out, say what's not right, stand up for what they believe in, write about, blog about, get on social media...

We forget that once:  
We women were not allowed to vote and had few rights. 
It was legal to have signs in windows of businesses saying "No blacks, negroes, colored allowed." 
It was illegal for gay people to marry like any other human being. 


And despite being hetero myself and a woman to boot, I’m still happy to be counted as one woman who cares. I hope that possibly something I write will bring about a small change somewhere for someone regarding gay relationships, rights and equality. I hope that I research well and am sensitive to the gay men I write about and love. 

Because love is love, no matter what form it comes in. 

And I am tired of people saying otherwise.

Aloha everyone! Meg :-)



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