Author Naomi Shaw @naomishaw6 - Unexpected Lessons #release

I'm welcoming back Naomi Shaw to tell us about her latest release from Naughty Nights Press, Unexpected Lessons. You have both m/f and f/f in Unexpected Lessons. Did you find it difficult to balance the two relationships? Does one play a larger role in the story than the other?

One plays more importance than the other. Girl on girl with her room mate is something totally unexpected for Kyla, as she never realized Bev was attracted to her.

Kyla obviously has bisexual tendencies. Is this something she recognizes before the start of your novel, or in the process?

Kyla has often wondered, which she admits to Bev, but never acted on any bisexual curiosities.

You tell us very little about her relationship with her professor. Does it tend toward BDSM or is it more vanilla?

Ramblings in Ireland - Kerry Dwyer

Today I am lucky enough to be part of a blog tour for Kerry Dwyer. Her blog is interesting and varied with a host of ramblings.

You've made a book of your ramblings. Did the book evolve out of the blog or vice versa?

Neither really the blog didn’t start to promote my writing or even to tell people about my life in France. It started with a conversation I had with a friend about how I avoid ironing.  Then, a couple of weeks later when she was in a panic to go out and still had her housework to do I told her about my philosophy on housework. She said I should write a book about it. I didn’t think it was enough to write a book about but maybe a blog post or two. I wrote the Slut’s Guide to Housework. That was really the beginning of my blog. It has evolved considerably.

The book was inspired by a walking holiday in Ireland. I was so enthralled with the place and the people and the different sort of relationship I had with my husband whilst we were there. We hadn’t been in each other’s company quite so intensely for a long time. As we were walking, ideas for the book kept popping into my head. Something would happen or we would talk about something and a new chapter would formulate in my head. The book almost wrote itself by the time we got back to France. I then updated the blog to tell people about the book, at that time I thought publishers would be lining up to put me in print, little did I know.

I can relate to ideas popping when walking or driving, best when riding, that way I can write them down! You post regularly. What is your go to when you need something new to ramble about?

Paulette Mahurin - The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap

Today, Paulette Mahurin is here to tell us about her novel The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, which is available in hard copy and electronic format on Amazon.

First, let me say a big thank you for having me over for a visit at your great blog site and this interview.

You are most welcome! Your book is set in 1895 Nevada. How did you choose the setting for your novel?

That's an interesting question. The seed for the novel came from a photo to two women, dressed in turn of the twentieth century garb. When I started to research that time period, I came across the Donner Party debacle, which changed the course of migrating west, to move further south in the Nevada Walker Lake region. When I read about that area it seems like an interesting place, really different, to place a lesbian couple afraid of being found out, sorta women's Brokeback Mountain scene.

You have had wonderful endorsement. Did those come from volunteers or do you have a circle of acquaintances that helped pave your way?

Abby Hayes - Fights in Summer

I'd like to welcome a fellow Naughty Night Press author today — Abby Hayes. Before you ask, no, she is not in middle school, that's a different Abby. When did your first book publish? Was it with Naughty Nights Press?

My first single story release was with NNP in Dec of 2011, a novella called Finding Paradise.

How has your writing changed since then? Have you moved to new arenas?

Not sure my writing has changed as much as the content I'm writing about. Finding Paradise started off with a lot of different sexual situations touched on from m/f/m to m/f/m/f and everything in between plus a bunch of sexual fantasies. In novellas since, I've branched out, touched on different scenarios and fantasies in more depth, pushed the envelope for myself with each story.

Do you feel more confident with each subsequent release? Can you see your audience growing?

Thickness of Blood - Kimberly Gould

Today I rub my own nose in my duplicity. I'm happy to interview Kimberly Gould author of the recently released Thickness of Blood. Your website has a strong focus on your previous title, Cargon: Honour and Privilege. Do you plan to change the style to reflect your newest novel?

Starting with a tough one. My web designer, who I like to call dear, has been distracted of late. Although we have plans to revamp the website - make buy links more obvious, sort information in a more friendly manner - we didn't have plans to change the style per se.

Your first title was geared to Young Adults. Is Thickness of Blood the same?

The Triad - Sharita Lira

I'm happy to host one of the authors of Naughty Nights Press September releases. Sharita Lira is the author of Sugar Daddy. Well, more specifically, Rawiya is. Confused? So was I. It turns out Sharita has three incarnations, like those Hindu gods. Together, they are The Literary Triad (@rawiyamikembl). What makes Sugar Daddy a Rawiya book and not a BLMorticia or Michael Mandrake book?

Rawiya’s books are more sensual than BL’s or Michael’s. Her love scenes are longer, the characters tend to be a lot more emotional.

Which of your muses are men? How do they present differently than women?

A Little Mini-Madness - DeLeetra Staley

Today I have the pleasure of introducing another erotica author, DeLeetra Staley, and her book A Little Mini-Madness. Here's a synopsis:
Meet Quintessa Nevaeh James. A strong, independent, take charge woman with one flaw, she has a habit of thinking out loud. Quint also has an addiction to shoes that might be reason she has no man, she's never meet a man she loved more than her heels. Quint works for TGP(Thoroughly Groomed Personnel), one of the top temp agency's in New York. She is career oriented and thinks she only needs a man for the basics, which all revolve around the bedroom. Love is for suckers as far as Quint is concerned.

In walks Alejandro Sin'Jin Galliani, a successful businessman, in desperate need of a temporary personal assistant. With his domineering, alpha male personality Quint can tell that Alejandro is a man accustomed to getting what he wants, and he wants Quint. But this time Alejandro may have bitten off more than he can chew, while Quint is wondering if there is more to this arrangement then him needing a top notch PA?

Take everyday humor and the odd things that can happen when two people fall in love, then top it off with three nosey friends, a diva Siamese cat and a witch of a boss and A Little Mini-Madness will have you wondering why everyday isn't a shoe shopping day.

What made you decide to take the leap and publish?

Blood Stone release with #free #giveaway

I'm so happy to get to take part in Tracy Cooper-Posey's release week blog hop. She is celebrating the release of Blood Stone on September 14, the sequel to Blood Knot which is FREE September14-16 so you can read it before the sequel. So that's free, but we also have a giveaway, of Blood Knot to a commenter who just can't wait until Friday.

Tracy has very active blog, so I asked her a few questions about it. You blog almost daily. Do you ever get burnt out? Where do you turn for something new to blog?

The Tarot Diaries - Elicia Seawell

What would you do if you could find out your purpose in life? Would you want to know or be completely left in the dark?

Katie Jenkins finds out her purpose, but not in a way most people do. After a night of shots of tequila and a bet from her best friend, she is coerced to seek a fortune teller for insight into her future. What she finds out changes her life forever.

Katie comes from a long line of Romanian Gypsies cursed with the ability to not only read Tarot cards, but they also have to deliver the bad news to whomever the cards reveal. She, along with her best friend Phoenix (Finny) Carrington, seeks out those who are doomed and try to change their lives before something awful happens to them.

Can Katie stop a mad man from the deaths that surround her, or will she fall victim to the very same mad man responsible for the death of so many?

I'm very happy to announce a new release from my friend Elicia. She's the one who convinced me to send Blue Moon House to my publisher, so she gets giant props from me. In an odd twist of fate, we both released the same week!

Eden Baylee

I'd like to introduce to Eden Baylee. She is the author of a paired anthology set, Fall into Winter and Spring into Summer. I like the titles of your paired anthologies. Is there a reason you wrote them in the order you did? 

I wrote Fall into Winter first. The book was published in December 2010, but I wanted to launch it for Valentine’s Day February 2011, which made more sense for a book of erotica. I always knew I would complete all the seasons with my books, so Spring into Summer was the next one.

Most of your writing seems to be in short form (stories in an anthology, flash fiction). Are you planning on writing something longer or sticking with your strength?

Available Now! Blue Moon House & Campus Sexploits 3

Today is the day! If you didn't pre-order, today you can go to Naughty Nights Press, or Amazon (including UK and Australia) and buy Blue Moon House and Campus Sexploits 3. We're also on Smashwords.I'm celebrating on Elicia Seawell's site. Heaven O'Shay and J.S. Morbius are both helping me out, so big thanks to both of them. Rebecca Clare Smith is also letting me judge the #SatSunTails this weekend. Come check that out and possibly win a copy of either Blue Moon House or Campus Sexploits 3.

I can't believe today is here! I'm so excited!

How about some links?
Amazon: Blue Moon House, Campus Sexploits
Amazon UK: Blue Moon House, Campus Sexploits
Smashwords: Blue Moon House, Campus Sexploits
All Romance eBooks: Blue Moon House, Campus Sexploits
NNP: Blue Moon House, Campus Sexploits (use SC3PromoAD for 25% off)

Lokians and Aaron Dennis

Jumping back into the saddle. And here to help me is Aaron Dennis. He is here to tell us a little about his writing experience and his book series. 

You write hard sci fi. Not just hard in the extra-terrestrial sense, hard in the researched plausible science sense. How much work did that take?

Hours... many, many hours of research and double checking. It was actually quite a bit of fun. While I've always had a propensity for theoretical sciences, I had an opportunity to play with basic knowledge. I bought an astrophysics textbook and read through it, downloaded several term published term papers, and existing studies. Also I watched some youtube vids on magnetics and downloaded available schematics on rocket engine design. Naturally, plugging it all in the story would have made it more educational and less thrilling, not what I wanted, so I just alluded to facts.

Do you have any science degrees or other academic learning that you draw on?

Release Eve - the day before awesome

Today I have wonderful news to share! Tomorrow Blue Moon House will be available on Amazon, Smashwords and at the NaughtyNightsPress Estore. By Monday or Tuesday it should be on Barnes and Noble as well (takes a little longer to get through their system). So if you've enjoyed great excerpts like this, or this, or this, then you really need to get the whole thing. If you haven't read any of the excerpts (well, click the links!) then here is a blurb to whet your appetite:

Julia has the chance to become one of the vampires of the Blue Moon House. Before being accepted, however, she must prove herself to each of the vampires, and each has their own exacting cost. Ranging from lesbian, to being forced, to physical torture, she is pushed to her breaking point time and again. Eventually her perseverance pays off and she crosses from submissive to dominant and vampire.

If you prefer the short stuff, I have a second release tomorrow (I know, crazy). NaughtyNightsPress is releasing their third installment of Campus Sexploits and this one includes a story by me! Here is the blurb for the anthology followed by Synopses from each of the authors.

Day 15 #blogflash2012 - Books

As Angelica I have never published a book. I have two contracts, for a novella and a short story, that will hopefully be published in the next few months (longer for the anthology). Both will only be available in electronic form. So... is an ebook, especially a ten or fifteen page story, still a book? I notice the prompt photo on Terri Long's site is of a stack of hard books. If you search book in Google images, that's what you see as well. Is there anyone, when hearing book without an e, doesn't think of pages bound together? Will our children? The media is changing. We still buy hard books for our kids, but we are also letting them read on our Kindles and IPads. Which will they give their children? Will the collective image coming to mind at the word 'book' ever change? 

My real name has written a post-apocalyptic renaissance based on a future where it did change. In her world, the reason they have floundered and returned to a dark age level of technology is that no one had hard books anymore. When the power went out, no one could access information any more. It's a scary idea, but one I don't believe is unrealistic. It is a future I hope I don't live to see. Although I love my Kobo and will probably sell more files than pages in the long run, I hope there will always be a place for a bookshelf in a home.

What do you think? Will the definition of book change? Will we always keep a few relics to remind us of the old days? Will the tide turn back to printed books?

Always Hope - April Marquette

Today, I'm happy to host the first person to ask to be on my blog! I've tweeted often that I'm looking for bloggers to interview, but April was the first to take me up on it. (If you were wondering, I found the other blogs through twitter and invited the bloggers through the same medium.) April has released a trilogy of erotic novels as well as a few others, but what I really want to know about is her blog.Do you have a schedule for your blog posts? Do you ever write them in advance?

I do have a schedule for my blog posts. I try to get them up each Friday before noon. I actually write most of them in advance, on Thursday. To get motivated, I tell myself that's the day they must go up. Then on Friday before I publish, I check for mistakes or necessary revision.

That last minute check can be so important. What do you do to prompt yourself to post in quiet times, between big news events?

I like to write about the books that I have written. I tell readers about the things other readers have written to me. I really want my readers to know that whenever I write an article, a blog post or a book, I have them in mind. I know they want good, juicy, informative stuff! So I try to give it to them. So far, they haven't complained.

Writing to your reader. I think that's Blog Tip #1 for writers. Too many of us (myself included) write for other writers/bloggers. That's not going to stop me!! blush How did you build your audience? Do you feel they are mostly fellow writers, readers, others?

Rambling and Reviews - LM Preston

Today I have LM Preston with us to tell us about her blog. She is a YA SciFi author with a number of books under her belt. The first question that came to my mind was, do young adults read your blog?

My blog audience is more adult focused. My facebook audience is younger but a mix of adults and teens.


She doesn't mince words, does she? So, my suspicion is correct. In that case, how did you build your audience? Where did most of your followers find you?

I built my audience by doing blog hops, posting on www.bookbloggers.ning.com and twitter.

I like that you're straight to business. Do you write your posts in advance?

About 50% of the time I write them in advance, but if a thought inspires me, I write it then. I typically post twice a week. Either on Monday/Tuesday and Thursday.

You review a lot of material on your blog. How do you choose which movies and books to review?

Muse - Cassandra Davis

Cassandra Davis is the author of Dremiks, a story about the bonds of friendship and loyalty. Dremiks is filled with the wonder of cosmic exploration, wildly different alien races, and the problems of adapting to space-ship life. The crew and passengers of humanity's first inter-stellar transport start their seven month journey knowing that they are racing against time to save a dying planet. They have no idea, though, the magnitude of the obstacles they are about to encounter.

Cassandra, how did you build your blog readership? Where do most of your readers come from?

My author blog initially drew readers only from my Facebook friends and family. As of the end of April, I am seeing as many referrals from Twitter and Goodreads as I am from family and friends. Since the blog, and the site it is attached to, are focused on my writing, the launch of my book is featured heavily in post content.

Indeed, you often include excerpts from Dremiks and it sequels. Do you find you get better reception for your excerpts or your interviews?

Free Books!

Well, if that didn't get your attention, I'm hopeless. Desiree Finkbeiner, author of Ethos, let me know about this little special. Not little at all. Kindle versions are available in this give-away, but there's more than just Ethos available, as if you needed more. In fact, Hydra Publications has everything from Fantasy to Mystery, Historical Fiction to Science Fiction. Just follow the link and load your cart! Hurry though, the give away is only for May 2 and 3!

Spankalicious

That's the subtitle of Erica Pike's blog. The subtitle! The actual title is Gay Romance. Caught your eye? Yeah, it caught mine too. So I'm sure it'll come as shock to learn that she reads and reviews Gay erotica. It doesn't?! Well, how about how she chooses what to read or review? Do you know that? That's what I thought. That's why I'M the interviewer here, bub.


I go by cover, blurb and title (in that order). A cover will catch my eye first, I’ll buy the book if the blurb sounds interesting, and I choose which story to read on my Kindle by which title interests me (because, let‘s face it, with all the books I have on my Kindle I‘m not going to remember the blurb to all of them). The titles may not have been paramount in the past, but with e-readers, they are very important.

Do you plan your posts in advance? Are you ever at a loss for a new post/idea?

Oh God, yes, I’m at a loss for new posts and ideas a lot! It’s getting better though. I always got this huge writer’s block whenever I sat down to blog. I don’t usually plan my posts in advance. I do it sometimes, when I think up new topics but have already posted that day, or if the topic really stretches on and I split it into two or three parts. A week and a half from now I’m doing a “Twink Week” in honor of my upcoming release, Absolutely Eric, (that features a very proud twink), so I’m having a bunch of guest bloggers from the m/m genre. But generally, I just blog when I feel like it. It’s not the best strategy, but it’s the only way I can stay active on my blog without clogging up with writer’s block.

I know writer's block. It seems sometimes you turn to activism. Do you find you're preaching to the choir about gay rights or falling on deaf ears? Do you see a lot of prejudice and discrimination in your daily life?

Update from Carla and Blog of the Day

Threesomes Volume 4 is now available on Amazon. Carla is looking for your input on her next project! Head over to her blog to have your say. Kharisma Rhayne's blog has been heating up my Google Reader lately. She has a delightful mix of photo content, questions for readers and teasers to tempt. If you haven't before, take a look at her blog.