Blogger extraordinaire, Stephanie Neighbour, tagged me to
participate in the Blogging from the Heart Writing Tour, giving me a chance to
share with you my next work in progress. If you have not yet visited
Stephanie’s blog, you are not only missing out on a great chuckle, but also a
unique insight into human behavior. Stephanie is not afraid to poke fun at
herself, which is probably why we get along so well, and through her quirky
introspection help us to see a side of life we may have been avoiding. Thanks,
Stephanie, for your writing as well as giving me this opportunity to talk about
my next novel.
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What am I working on?
With Losing Faith
fresh off the presses so to speak, my mind has gone to another series of a
kinkier nature. While there will be more in the Rutherford Series–the next one
will follow Morgan Brewer in Roll the
Dice–my creative side has delved into a new series called The Society of
Thorns. The first book in this series is titled Surrender and will follow Virginia Hart as she discovers the BDSM
world through Jaron Towers.
Someone wrote to me about Losing Faith, “What I love about your book is the depth of the
emotion and characters. The majority of erotic novels don’t have it and they
are just quick reads.” Another person said, “There’s actually a story. If you
take the sex out, it’s still a great book.” And that’s my main goal, to write
where sex is a part of the story and not the reason for it.
In Surrender, I go
deeper than the kink. It’s a story about master-slave relationships and the
protocols that trigger the mind, which then triggers the body. The mind is the
sexiest part of the body to me and that is what I intend to explore with this
series. I try to steer away from the feeling that “this story could only happen
in books.” There is a real world out there where this happens and that is what
I want to delve into. Of course, for story-telling purposes, I’ve added some
intrigue by creating a secret society with rituals and initiations. This is
fiction after all and we need some excitement outside of the sheets. How people
handle relationships intrigues me. I find if you explore that, then everything
else falls into place.
Why do I create/write what I do?
I think I answered some of this in the previous question.
Relationships come in all shapes and sizes. The household of the 50s has
evolved and people are more open now about how they live their lives than ever
before and who they love. I want to dig into those worlds and see where the
journey takes me. I write first to discover and then to share.
How does my writing/creative process work?
Sometimes like a blender on its highest setting and
sometimes like molasses. I tend to work on a few projects at once. My mind
jumps around quite a bit and I’ve discovered that by having a few irons in the
fire, I always have something to jump to in order to keep moving forward. My
mind will get fired up about a storyline and I’ll run with it, usually knowing
where I am going but not how I will wind up there. I have scenes in my head–and
yes, sometimes I jot them down–that I want to include, but when the characters
take over, the story dictates whether they will be in the final draft or not.
I also write everything free hand. I have three 3-subject
notebooks where the stories begin that I carry around in a satchel wherever I
go. I love seeing things come to life with ink. Plus, it’s easier to carry
around than a laptop. Quicker, too.
So, that’s what’s on deck and my imagination’s focus
currently. It’s going to be exciting to see the series unfold and develop with
what’s already in my mind. I hope you join me for the journey. Until then,
check out Losing Faith and see how
Faith and Selby Greer handle an open marriage.
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