2.Read outside comfort zone. Finding and getting
to know interesting authors. This year included the likes such as Gillian
Flynn, Rhonda Lauren, Junot Diaz, Julia Kavan, Cat Cavendish, and Phillipa
Gregory.
3.Write better not faster. ADHD lends itself to
doing it quick and then off to the next project. Bad kitty for improvement.
4.Back to mat. More yoga less email, less tweets,
less spin.
Her novels are best known for beautiful writing, superb character development, and humor.
Boy, can she spin a smokin' yarn!
Shoshanna Evers, Author Interview – December 12, 2012
Wishes If you had three wishes
they would be…. Hit the New York Times Bestseller list (fingers crossed!)
Have my soon-to-be-launched business help a *lot* of people
achieve their dreams...
Live a long, healthy and happy life with my amazing husband and
family.
Hopes Absolutely, this is top
ten bucket list item. I hope to be featured in some big magazine as a woman who was a
game-changer. We’ll see what the future holds! :) Present What are you working on
currently?
Currently I’m working on Enraptured, the final book in the
Enslaved Trilogy. The trilogy will be published by Simon & Schuster’s
Pocket Star imprint in April 2013.
I also just self-published a BDSM erotic romance novella titled
The Man Who Holds the Whip. Here’s the blurb:
The Man Who Holds the Whip
When Grace discovers her gorgeous ex-boyfriend Ian broke her heart
three years ago so he could pursue a career as a Dom on a BDSM Internet porn
site, she never expected to be intrigued...and aroused. Ian looks damn good
holding that whip. But can a girl who’s always considered herself “vanilla”
fire up her kinky side for love?
To find out, she’s going to audition for a chance to play Ian’s
sexual submissive—and maybe find her way back into his heart.
The Man Who Holds the Whip is a 28,000 word MaleDom BDSM erotic
romance novella from bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers.
I’m contracted with Pocket Star for another series called the
Pulse Trilogy. It’s a dystopian post-apocalyptic erotic romance. The first book
is written, but I need to write the other two novels in the trilogy by July, I
believe, so that’s a goal seated in the near future!
And, of course, I’m hoping readers will connect with my characters
and spread the word! :)
Thanks for having me!
My links are below, so if you’re reading
this post, please sign up for my newsletter on my website at www.ShoshannaEvers.com to be notified when my
new books release -- and say hi on Facebook and Twitter! :)
with the publishing of a non-fiction craft writing book providing other writers with the sexy know-how to craft steamy scenes. Shoshanna compiled essays provide in depth
insight into how to write to excite.
About Shoshanna Evers
Critically-acclaimed author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy stories including Amazon Erotica Bestseller Overheated. Her work has been featured in Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and Best Bondage Erotica 2013, the Penguin/Berkley Heat anthology Agony/Ecstasy, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas including Chastity Belt and Punishing the Art Thief from Ellora's Cave Publishing.
The non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to, How To Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors, is a #1 Bestseller in the Authorship, Erotica Writing Reference, and Romance Writing categories.
Her upcoming BDSM erotic romance The Enslaved Trilogy will be released in April 2013 from Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books imprint.
Shoshanna is a New York native who now lives with her family and two big dogs in Los Angeles, California. She welcomes emails from readers and writers, and loves to interact on Twitter and Facebook.
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Prolific author,Tiffany Reisz shares her view on writing. The making of Tiffany's gutsy and sensuous style of writing is explored. Thank you Tiffany.
THE PRINCE GIVEWAY IS RIGHT OVER THERE--------------->
"In all things involving Nora Sutherlin, proceed with caution." -Tiffany Reisz, The Prince
December 1, 2012 Author Interview: TIFFANY REISZ
1.What
part of your background has helped your writing career and what part has
hindered?
Going to a great
liberal arts college definitely helped me read the right books. Going to
seminary helped me find a theme for my books. The student loans have made it
hard to quit my day job which interferes with the writing.
2.How
has your life changed since the release of The Siren?
Everything has
changed and nothing has changed. I’m a real published writer now with books on
bookshelves in multiple countries. That’s fabulous. But I still have a day job.
I still live in the same condo. I still have to feed my damn cats. Oh no! The
cats! ::runs to feed cats::
3.Do
readers’ expectation and assumptions alter you or your writing? Perhaps prompt
a direction to take in future projects?
I interact with my
fans on a daily basis. It really helps me see my books through a reader’s eyes.
They ask me questions that I never thought of so when I go back to writing I
think about how I can answer their question or clarify their confusion. My readers
inspire lots of great stuff!
4.What type of research do you do for your
characters? Language, culture, background beyond the sexual kink.
The world is flat
now apparently and luckily that means it’s very easy for me to reach out to
someone to help me with my research. I have a character who is half-Danish.
Easy! I have a Danish friend on Twitter who answers all my questions for me
about Denmark. Most everything is in my imagination, and then I dig until I
find the reality to match my fantasy.
5.How
do you approach writing the manuscript from the conception of an idea?
I just start writing.
I usually have a beginning, end, and vague idea of a middle before I start
writing. Then I just glue my ass to the chair every night and pound out the
words.
6.What
avenues need to be opened in writing and publishing erotica? Beyond the hype of
Fifty Shades.
I think erotica is
doing fine. My books have a lot of controversial content in them and I haven’t
gotten any pushback from my agent or editor. Readers have been welcoming as
well. If the book is well-written, you can get away with anything. I’d love to
see more writers take on the taboo. Only by bringing these things out into to
the open do we dispel the unnecessary shame we all feel for our totally healthy
sexual fantasies and desires.
7.You have a tremendous amount of
information to share concerning writing in general and a specialty in erotica.
You’ve opened doors for other authors to follow.Are you considering teaching?
I’d love to
teach if I had the time. Writing takes talent, yes, but mostly it’s a craft and
you can learn how to be a better writer by studying your craft. I’d teach in a
heartbeat if I had the time.
8.What experiences do you draw upon to
access and to write such full-bodied complex characters? Especially someone
like Søren.
Søren’s a combination
of one of my former Dominants (a six foot four blond sadist), plus college
professors, and God. I gave him my love of theology and my sadistic streak.
Creating a character is like solving a mystery for me. I investigate my
character. I take what I know about them and then dig into their pasts. I know
everything about my characters from birth. It helps me enrich them by giving
them religious feelings, philosophies of life, personal preferences, pet
peeves, bad habits, sexual fantasies, and childhood memories.
9.How
do you stoke your creative muse? OR What do you do to clear your mind and
recharge?
I don’t bother with
muses. They are fickle lovers. I show up to my book at the same time every
night. Then the magic happens. I don’t wait for the magic to happen first. The
magic never happens until I start writing.
Literati Literature Post Inspired by Tiffany Reisz’s The Siren. Enjoy!
Tiffany Reisz lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her
boyfriend (a reformed book reviewer) and two cats (one good, one evil). She
graduated with a B.A. in English from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and
is making both her parents and her professors proud by writing BDSM erotica
under her real name. She has five piercings, one tattoo, and has been arrested
twice.
When not under arrest, Tiffany enjoys Latin Dance, Latin Men, and Latin Verbs.
She dropped out of a conservative southern seminary in order to pursue her
dream of becoming a smut peddler. Johnny Depp’s aunt was her fourth grade
teacher. Her first full-length novel THE SIREN was inspired by a desire to tie
up actor Jason Isaacs (on paper). She hopes someday life will imitate art (in
bed).
This last week has been more than busy between finishing one manuscript involving a scene I kept putting off, detailing large animal veterinary methods, and instead of giving into brain frizzle, I did what many writers do to keep fresh. I took a writer's break. Between assimilating research and churning out a scene, I went back to my roots of romance. But something changed. Drastically.
This time I didn't stop until I had the makings of a short-piece of a couple thousand words from the idea of what if it were possible to just meet someone and let go. When Jeff Steward asks, "Do you trust me?" Crash landing from a break up, Cerise considers her options.
Six Sentences
“What
do I have to go on?” she whispered already knowing he’d bought the farm so what
was the point of quibbling, acquiesced
by nodding, and bit her lower lip to silence errant second thoughts.
“Get
ready,” he whispered before dipping her backwards.
She arched into a
variant of a trust fall. His hand traced a smoldering line down her back until he gripped
her ass. She moaned. His fingers moved as if in time to the pulsing music, separating
her cheeks without stopping, her senses on full alert, unbelieving that he
grazed the inside of thighs and caressed her intimately.
Through free form scribbling, I discovered oh this is so much fun and decided, why not. So here's my trust fall into an erotic tale without the romance story set-ups, and a first for me.