I read a lot of urban fantasy with strong heroines and I noticed a depressing trend over the years—the leading ladies seem to constantly mess up their love lives in each book! I understand we all like to read flawed characters, who are much more like real life, but do they all have to struggle in their personal relationships? When I started writing, it was purely as a means to escape. I wrote a vampire story where the main characters…
It’s a thrill to be here amongst the vampire-lovers; paranormal/fantasy fiction, erotic or otherwise, is one of my first loves, and I started out writing in the fantasy genre (or at least my alter-ego Connie Wilkins did.) I haven’t been writing or editing as much of it lately as I’d like to, but I’m working on remedying that lapse. I do have a gargoyle/demon erotica piece, one of my rare straight stories, in Kristina Wright’s Dream Lover anthology, and a…
A guest blog about nothing Remember the old Jerry Seinfeld sitcom? For a few episodes they talked about creating a new TV show. When pitching the idea, they were asked what it would be about. “Nothing. It’s a show about nothing,” they exclaimed as if it were a brilliant concept. Part of the joke for the viewer was the parody they were making of their own show. At a book signing for my first mass market paperback, an intellectual reader…
Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance might seem like a rather unusual choice of theme to appear right on the heels of the recently released Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, my raunchy retake on the Jane Austen classic, but I say hey, why not? I prefer to do different kinds of projects rather than getting stuck in a groove. So to go from sexual madness and mayhem in Meryton, Netherfield, Pemberley and Hunsford Parish to sexy Gothic thrills and…
Ohh… vampires! I so love vampires! For that matter, I love paranormal anything. Vampires, ghosts, shapeshifters, demons. Dark and sexy alpha males (and females!) who are more than what they seem… Is it just me or does your imagination conjure up all sorts of delicious possibilities when you hear the word paranormal? There is an element of the taboo in lusting after someone who is potentially dangerous, but in the world of paranormal fiction it’s not only expected, it often…
I thought it would be fun to have my editor visit for a day. Here’s what Brenda Knight, Associate Publisher at Cleis Press and Viva Editions, sent. Please give her a big welcome! ~Delilah Devlin The Power of True Listening When you are talking to a friend or loved one, do you stop, look them in the eye and just hear what they have to say? When you cease all the multitasking and monkey-mind worrying and offer true attention, it…