Myladymystere

Note: I am changing the order of the listed questions as it will be easier to answer them. I thought to make them short and painless, but now I have reconsidered and will ramble on and torture you all.

Warning: this interview is seriously long and you will learn more about me than you wished or can mentally cope with.

So what sparked/inspired you to write Fan Fiction?

I hate to admit this, but ABVH was not my first love. As to my introduction and the beginning of my addiction to writing I will solely blame a bouncy, giggly blonde named Tabitha who claims to be my friend. I know I do not give out a lot of personal info about myself, but the truth is my last name is Xavier…as in Professor Xavier of the X-Men (no actual relation though…pity) Tabitha and I were once avid Marvel readers and she has an unhealthy obsession with Nightcrawler. She writes under the name giannilee and asked me to beta her first story that she was planning to post in a site she just discovered called www.adultfanfiction.net.  I, of course, logged on and read the other stories there, discovering fanfiction about three years ago for the first time. I also noticed that my namesake, the Professor, had barely any smut written about him in the over 400 stories and decided to rectify this on a lark. I had so much fun I was hooked.

Do you write in other fandoms?

I did my one shot for X-men, but I hadn’t read the comic recently and felt unsure to write more as I am …detail oriented and knew I would go out and buy more comics, as in all of them, and that would be expensive. My roommate Nicole had just bought the sci-fi TV show Andromeda, the series set, and got me hooked on that and urged me to try writing her favorite pairing Beka Valentine, a spunky pilot and the all-male alpha Rhade. AFF is famous to being stingy with reviews, but my stuff got some and that was a huge ego boost. I had discovered slash through fanfiction and decided to write my first in Andromeda as well, an angsty smutty piece between the captain and the first officer who betrayed him and was left behind in the past. I actually got personal e-mails from readers about that one and I discovered I loved writing slash. I also posted my stuff on bacicword a fan site for the actor who played both Rhades’ in the series. The fan following for Andromeda suddenly, and for no reason, deserted and no one was posting etc. so my attention wandered and I by then I had discovered ABVH, but I will continue that later.

My last fandom I still currently write for is ……..Pred-luv. Yes, Predator Porn. If you think writing smut is a challenge, try it when your heroes are crab-faced. I was browsing AFF while Nicole was watching AVP and she made the comment, “If I was Lex I could go for big greenie.” Being the perv that I am, I logged on to that movie and found a small, but rabid, group of ‘Prediphilers’. I joined them.

How did you discover the AB books and the genre in general?

I grew up loving fantasy, sword and sorcery stuff that later branched off to sci-fi and I became a Trekkie (but had never heard of Kirk/Spock slash, simply amazing) I did not love vampires until …Tabitha (never trust blondes). Her teenage brother and his friends, through a comic book store they went to, had discovered a live action vampire role playing game called “Vampire the Masquerade”. Her mom had wanted Tabitha to drive them and keep an eye on him and she wanted company. I picked a throwaway character, her human cousin, and went to play with vamps and werewolves. In a shameless strategy of flirting and displaying cleavage I became the longest running human character in the history of the troupe game. Our group of friends, after five of six years, stopped playing, but I was hooked on Urban Fantasy now.

Nicole, another avid reader, loaned me her Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series and I discovered  Christine Feehan’s Carpathians and the two of us became partners in finding vampire smut/romance.

I was reading a collection of short stories that had the opening chapters of NinC. I innocently asked my roommate if she had heard of an author called Laurell K. Hamilton and you would think I had shot her in the ass with an arrow. Nicole is an avid fan of the ‘Merry’ books and together we bought the entire ABVH series and read them in two weeks. There was some ABVH fanfiction on AFF, but then I goggled and discovered ….PDS. My life had never been the same.

What about them drew you?
 
My first introduction was the first five chapters or so of NinC and that gave the readers Jason, teasing Anita in silver glitter, Richard not being an ass, the club and Narcissus, Jean-Claude and Asher and the revealing to readers of Asher’s scars and that he and the other vampire had A PAST. Despite our criticism of LKH she has created a wonderful world for us to write and play in. I liked the humor and Anita’s strong kick ass character, not to mention the beautiful men surrounding her. I liked the setting of supernaturals being ‘out of the closet’ and all the potential slash waiting that LKH doesn’t know what to do with. But I did.

Who is your favorite main character and why?

That is a toughie, not only because I love so many, but also because it seems that Anita is the only main character now. Once Jean-Claude and Richard were considered main characters, but now they hardly get any page time. I will stay loyal and say Jason. He’s funny, smart, insightful and sexy ….I could go on and on.

Who is you least favorite main character and why?

It would be easy to say Richard or Anita until I go back and read the earlier books so I will have to decide….Laurell K. Hamilton. I feel she is projecting a little too much of herself in her books and it is showing.

What is the one thing you wish you could change?

Stagnant character development and forgotten ones. Okay… and more interesting sex.

Who is your favorite minor character?

Rafael, he’s handsome, smart and a good leader. He has made the Rodere the example other groups should follow… and he made wererats sexy!

Oh, and… where is that Rafael smex you promised us?

If you mean regular sex, there lots with him in Broken Promises. If you are referring to slashy stuff, it is on the way, but hasn’t progressed to there in BP. I will have it as a stand alone, a two-or-so chappie story, but since the reasons why are tied to BP it will have to wait until more of that story develops.

Who is your least favorite minor character?

Dolph, he has become a one-song concert that has gotten old.

What would you change about ABVH world or Merry-land?

I want both to have more plot, not necessary more police action, but more than Anita trying to solve her personal moral conflicts and problems and Merry trying to solve her big physical problem: i.e. getting preggers (spoilers aside) If there had been faster progress that would have been fine. I would say more page time with minor characters, but sometimes LKH scares me with what she does to them. I love to read about sex, but why does it have to do some huge metaphysical stuff? With Merry it was kinda believable, but when did Anita’s unbersnatch get super powers? 

What is your ideal writing environment?
 
My very own computer…sigh, a recent and much needed acquisition. I had been sharing one with my sister, who I live with and she is an avid Internet surfer and my roommate, Nicole, who also writes fanfiction for Xena/Hercules and original stuff as saphirephoniex. It is in my room and I let my very own plot bunnie, Max a black and tan rabbit, run around loose under my desk as I sip hot cocoa and nibble on Pringles. My absolute ‘ideal’ would include the current male I am writing about lounging on my bed waiting to be used as research. I would sacrifice much to become a better author.

How much does music affect your writing?

Hugely. I use it constantly when I am hashing out stuff and to set the mood of my writing. My favorites are Fallen by Evanescence, Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, the soundtrack to Labyrinth and Enigma.

How much time do you spend writing or thinking about writing?

I think about it almost constantly. I am lucky enough to have a job where I can bring and play my own music and the actual work is repetitive and frees my mind to daydream. As for writing…not so good. I actually wrote longhand for my first few stories and Nicole would type them for me. I have mild dyslexia and was half afraid I couldn’t learn to type and have to self-admit my stupidity. I am still slow at typing and find putting my stories that are already written in my head to paper, so to speak, very laborsome. I tell myself I am being considerate and not overwhelming triscut with my stuff, but the truth is I am lazy. Pokey sticks do work on me.

How long have you been writing fanfiction?

Hmmm…..summer of 2005?

How much does reader feedback affect your writing?

I am a review whore. There it is. I am shallow and if there was no feedback from my betas and readers I would be even slower, because it is all already in my head for me to have and enjoy.

What is you writing process? (outlines, research, spur of the moment)

A lot is ‘spur of the moment’ for the idea and rough outline. If it doesn’t get vicious and jump the line I will write it down on my waiting list with a few sentences, but if I had over an hour to daydream on it, it is pretty complete in my head. I did do a rough outline of a sentence a chapter for my longer fics and sent it to triscut to give her a heads up - I discovered she doesn’t like surprises. She is constantly asking…’Where are you going with this?’ Kinda like Hal in the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey. I will sit down and re-read and write down chapter by chapter the book that affects my writing. I did it for GP, BB and recently NinC because my ‘Asher/Narci missing scene’ plot bunnie was nibbling on me. I do enjoy flat out research and history.

Is there something you really want to write but haven’t got the chance yet?

I mentioned in a thread an idea for an A/U story based in ABVH titled ‘Reign of Blood’. Its premise is…what if Mommie Dearest never went to sleep and the vampires came out of hiding centuries ago. What would the world of ABVH be like now and how would the characters be different?

Any other authors or series in the genre that you really like?

Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Christine Feehan, Susan Sizemore, Angela Knight.

Who is you favorite fan fiction author?

I can’t even begin to answer that. I have enjoyed so many stories from AFF as well as here at PDS.

What is you personal watermark of excellence for writers?

That the style of writing etc. was good enough that I would pay for it.

When reading, are there any things that draw you about a story (besides slash?)

Hey now, I will peek at all smutty stuff, that question makes me seem shallow…shallower than I am, I mean. I do tend to look at stories with my favorite characters in it first; Jason and the Rodere always catch my attention.

Any things that bounce you out?

Crossovers, I am a purest. There are some good ones on the site, but the only one that really got me curious was the one with Supernatural. The one I want to see is with Forever Knight. Also an Anita/Edward pairing is hard for me to imagine, especially with how her character has developed in the later books.

Are your OC’s based on anyone or purely fictional?

I have been very careful in not using OC’s in my PDS writing and will admit that I don’t like them. I understand why a writer might create one for ABVH if they want a love interest who is female as the series does not give us too many to work with. I have to really fall in love with them in the first chapter to continue reading. I did create two minor Rodere members for Broken Promises, but they are fictional. Kissa is almost an OC as the one book didn’t give us too much about her character and she is from my imagination, the only real life reference I use concerns her height. I am short and I consult my roommate who is 6 ft. on certain issues about her or Claudia.

In my original fiction I do have the parents of my main character based on Tabitha and her husband who begged me not to write him in slash. I agreed, since he is a D/S consultant for my writing, and gave him Asian twins instead to appease him.

Any original works?

I have two chapters of an original fic posted in AFF called Dante’s Dungeon where I explore some harder core BDSM slashy stuff. I had a great premise for my bit of fluff, a half-Incubus/ half-cat daemon needs to find new lovers to feed his hunger. Then DM was published. I swear I had my shallow storyline first!! It’s also hard to continue as I lost the most recent two chapters with a disc problem I had. 

I also have a hidden, secret slashy one that harks back to my love of fantasy sword and sorcery, but I had to get crazy and compose a whole new world for its setting. I am very nervous about sharing that one.

Is writing just a hobby or do you have hopes to do something more?

To be honest, it is just a hobby and I use it as stress relief. I do have a job that I enjoy, suits my personality and pays decent. I think if I had deadlines for my writing it would take the fun out of it. If I do publish anything it would be short stories, probably in e-book format. 

If you where to rewrite any of your stories, which would it be and what would you do differently?

I do see an improvement in my writing since I started, but I am still happy with my earlier stuff. If I was to rewrite anything it would be an original fic that I had started that I lost with my corrupted disc. It was a slashy sci-fi and the first four chapters are now poof.

Have you changed your approach to writing over time?

Nope, except I am trying to write on my lunch breaks with the theory if I type it in when I get home I will keep going.

Do you ever find it difficult to find the right flow for a scene?

Not usually, though conversations will slow me down and I have to make sure my characters are doing what they would do and not necessary what I would do. I had Kissa with someone tied to a bed and couldn’t finish for two weeks because I wanted to turn it into a heavier BDSM scene, but that wasn’t what was needed. My roommate teased me…..”Is he still tied to the bed; you know muscle cramps are nasty.”

How important a role does your beta play in your writing?
Are you a good speller/grammar person or do you rely a lot on spell checker and the Den Momma?

Before I can rave about how wonderful Triscut is I must give credit to my two friends I have already mentioned, Tabitha and Nicole. We get together once a week at Blueberry Hill for dinner and writing advice. We act as a sounding board for each other and they give advice even though they are not slash-o-holics. When I write Nicole reads it even before triscut and saved me from sending the Den Momma a story featuring Haven and his ‘warrior loins’. I spell so badly that sometimes spell checker can’t guess at what word I want and offers suggestions so I leave it for Nicole to figure out. When I write conversations I make a wild stab at punctuation and hope for the best. I do feel bad that I can’t act as a beta for others, but I would be lost without spell checker. Triscut has helped me tremendously, not just in giving me adjectives, advice and help with the boring stuff, but with research and keeping me true to the timelines of the books. She has guided me in writing Jason’s personality, of which she is one of the experts, and saved Jeff in Broken Promises. I have to wait a bit, but it is well worth it. 

How many projects do you usually have going on?

About four, which triscut probably thinks are three too many, especially since I have been neglecting Jason.

Which three works of yours that you like best? (from those published here on PDS/SDS, or on other sites if there are more elsewhere)

The three longest running, so that would be Dark Wolf, Broken Promises and Possibilities and More Possibilities (my Predator stuff at www.adultfanfiction.net).

Who are your favorite characters from you own works?

I love Jason and Phillip, but worry that I might portray them not true enough. So I will have to say Jamil, Magnus and Kissa, for now as I have some freedom on how their personalities are developing. Oh, and Gil, I just want to cuddle him.

Where do you get your inspiration?

Many of my fics happen because of the PDS message board. A Quiet Evening and a coming story called Pleasure, Pain and Asher were direct requests. Broken Promises, Noah’s Journey, Stolen Moments, The Fox and The Hound and Dangerous all were birthed from conversations in different threads.  Anita’s Attic and What’s Missing were ideas that were sparked when I read other author’s stories. So really, my inspiration comes from all you.

If you could live one scene or segment in the series, what would it be?

The five-some with ME, Jason, Nathaniel, Asher and Jean-Claude… and the evening would have ended differently.

If you could be a preternatural in the ABverse- what would you be and why?

An exiled fey warrior sorceress would be my choice because I could have magic, kick butt….and be taller. Hmm, doesn’t sound like ABVH so maybe I’m an exile from Merry’s world, but in Anita’s.

If you could have any one of the characters for just one night-who would it be?

This was a toughie…just one (sniffles) but in taking into consideration my own personality I came up with a surprising choice…Caleb. He’s good-looking, sexy, flirty and funny (in a wise-ass way), he’s got the ‘bad-boy’ thing going and is outgoing. I’m kinda conservative (in RL) and I have a feeling he would drag a date out to all the clubs and make sure we were having a wild and crazy time. His background lets me hope he would let me take him home, tie him up and play with his piercings and his personality assures me he would use a safe word so I could relax and enjoy tormenting him. Afterwards, he would roll me over and fuck me into the mattress until neither of us could move. That sounds like a fun night, but I would probably need a week to recover afterwards.

What is the most painful thing for you to write? To read?

If you mean emotionally, I would have to choose child abuse and molestation. And I would choose not to read or write it in detail. If you mean literally, then conversations are tough for me. I can never remember the punctuation that goes correctly with them.

What is the most important lesson you’ve learned about life through writing?

To go for something you want to get or do. I thought I was too busy, too old, too bad of a writer when it came to grammar and spelling, but I discovered the personal rewards and self satisfaction are worth the doubts and time spent. 

How much does real life affect/inspire your writing?

I know I am not supposed to use this as an answer, but being horny does factor in. If I was involved in a committed relationship I probably wouldn’t have the time to write and my focus might be different. I am a ‘bedroom Domme’ and my experiences concerning BDSM do get featured in my writing.  I also adore oral sex, as in giving a blowjob, so that gets written about if I can’t be doing it for real. I also have a bathroom fetish that I personally have not gotten to fully explore, so my characters can do it for me.

When it comes to the BDSM thing,  how accurately do you feel LKH portrays it?
 
It seems as if she has researched it, asked around, fantasized and perhaps dabbled abit, but I doubt she has done anything actually hard-core in her own personal experience, and with LKH it shows in this area when she writes, as it does in a few others. She has a lot of the concepts right, but Anita doesn’t truly ‘get it’. As a character who has never been exposed to it, Anita is trying though, just soooo slowly for us readers.

Would you want to see more of it in the books or should she not go there?

For Nathaniel’s sake I think she has to. LKH is not going to give an authors a throw-away line for us to capitalize on like…..”Nathaniel is happier now that I gave up trying and let Asher collar him.” LKH created such an extreme submissive in Nathaniel that Anita literally does not know what to do with him and, to be truthful, many Doms think they might, but it would not be the best for either. LKH does stress how a proper scene should be done, using a safe word, having boundaries and that anything that is agreed upon by both parties is okay. Also, as Anita told Richard once, liking BDSM and having even darker personal fantasies does not mean they would be fully acted out. The problem is that as Anita thinks these things, or even explains them to others, she does not fully believe them. I think LKH can continue to go there, and at her own pace, because finding and expanding one’s comfort zone is what that genre and lifestyle is all about.

What characters in the books do you think have exciting BDSM potential?

Everyone has some potential, if tying up with silk scarves and some mild spanking is all, than that is good and fun to write and read. If the question is for the more intense stuff then the list must begin with Narcissus, who is a hugely underdeveloped character. I think he was shown badly as the readers only saw him as a Dom through Jean-Claude’s flashbacks. He obviously believes in using a safe word, as he mentions it while talking with Asher, and had no idea that Jean-Claude was ordered by another not to use it. Yes, the things he did to JC were extreme, but there are many subs who would relish that attention and Narcissus thought JC was one of them. Understanding Nathaniel, even better than Anita could hope to, I believe he could be trusted with our favorite kitty.

Nathaniel, I am not going to even state the obvious.

Asher would love, and need for his self-confidence, a devoted and adoring sub. He is a switch, but after centuries of true abuse he would only volunteer to bottom with someone he truly trusts.

Jean-Claude, from what Asher has stated would Dom out of necessity, but it would not be his first choice. Nor would he submit to a stranger, after his past of forced sexual attention. I think as the stress of being a Master of the City gets to him he would enjoy the release and comfort of submitting to Asher and with every ‘Yes, Master’ he is actually admitting ‘I love you, Asher, and I always will.’

Caleb and Zane both have silver piercings, I believe, and that says it all.

Richard had admitted to these desires, but it will take the right partner for him to trust them and trust himself with them. I think if he did it could resolve some of his problems. I think one of the reasons he hates his beast is that he fears it getting out of control in certain circumstances --like during a scene -- and he equals his savage beast nature with what he thinks is an unnatural desire for BDSM.

Micah, yes surprise. He admitted to Anita he never raped, but that doesn’t mean Chimera didn’t teach him the fine art of inflicting pain. There are some hot Micah/Nate stories in the archive that makes this believable. He would truly feel it was his duty to provide for his Pard’s needs, even the kinky ones, if Anita allowed it.

.Edward. We discussed this in a thread ages ago and it was proposed that, as a control freak and danger junkie, being a submissive would be the ultimate rush for him in a world that he created where even the fear of death doesn’t make him hesitate….. but being tied up and blindfolded…..yeah.

Phillip showed us in Guilty Pleasures his desire for being bit and so much more and for me he is still a viable character to write.

For me they all have some potential, if I can pull off slash you know I can write slap and tickle.

How did you acquire the enlightenment that Phillip’s story in ‘Guilty Pleasures’ may not end with his death? How much preparation is ‘Broken Promises’ taking? Is it fun to write or a pain in the brain?

I was first reading Bloody Bones because it had a lot of Jason in it for writing DWW and I noticed a YAABI where Kissa was not named when Anita woke up in the bar trapped in the coffin with Serephina. Since I had been moaning about the fact that LKH didn’t give us many female characters I hypothesized that there was a possibility she didn’t burn which made me happy because I wanted to write m/f smut with Rafael. I knew I couldn’t just have her show up in St. Louis so I pondered this and decided to re-read GP as it had Rafael’s first appearance. There was an active thread in the message board about how much readers missed Phillip and as I read GP I fell in lust with him all over again. Thinking myself clever, I noticed another YAABI when LKH writes, ‘Torchlight glittered on the wet bone of his spine (Phillip’s). Someone had ripped his throat out.’ Well, that means dead to most people, but later it says as Anita sees him as a zombie ‘The horrible wound at his throat was thick white, scar tissue.’ Well, I am not a medical expert, but scarring means healing and it is stated numerous times in the books that zombies that are raised by a powerful animator appear like they did at the point of their death. So that touching conversation between Anita and Phillip couldn’t happen as he had no vocal cords at his death. Also, I had just finished BB where Anita proved a powerful necromancer could raise and control a newly turned vampire with Ellie. Zachary was powerful enough to appear as human and fool Anita and vampires even though he was actually a zombie himself. So that gave me a loophole. If a vampire had turned him, and I had one available in Kissa, then he would ‘live’ and this gave me the opening I needed for her to meet Rafael and explain a past she shared with Jean-Claude that I felt could have been hinted at in BB in the brief conversations they had. Also it gave me the opportunity for Phillip smut, which caused me to do a happy dance. The being true to the timeline was tricky, but triscut was invaluable in keeping it correct. Now that the writing with the books is over it is much more fun to write. 

What is more important for you – the story to ‘ring true’ or to follow the cannon, even when it doesn’t sound so …true?

Despite my previous answer, I do realize that bringing Phillip back was total bullshit. I don’t think any of my stories are canon as no one is having sex, except with Anita and certainly not slashy. The problem with the series is that the readers only see a narrow view of the world through Anita’s eyes and she is proven in later books not to know everything as LKH decides to throw in something new. I want to be true to the characters and write character development of behavior that seems true - or could be true - to what has been established. I try to stay with in the timeline of the books and respect the established general rules of the ‘world’. If it had been written Phillip’s head had been cut off then I would not have written him in BP. But even the general rules get changed - like in NinC when Anita discovers that Weres, except for some reason weredogs who are hereditary and with no reason why given, cannot carry fetus to term, but later we learn weretigers can in TH. ???? So I think most stories have non-cannon elements as fan fiction authors try to ‘fill in the gaps’ and if it flows and seems believable…I’ll read it.    

What is more important: the porn scenes or the plot behind them?

Hmmmm…………THE PORN. Seriously, I do have faith in my writing ability that I believe I could weave a strong story without the smut….but it’s soooooo much fun. The sex scenes are truly the easiest to write, I must have natural ability.

What was your first introduction to slash?

Mercedes Lackey wrote a series about a fantasy world called Valdemar and in the beginning trilogy, ‘The Last Herald Mage', it featured a lonely, angsty apprentice mage named Vanyel who happened to be gay. Later in the series it introduced another gay couple, an arrogantly beautiful adept named Firesong and an ebony haired healer that, as I ponder, the pair bares a striking resemblance to Asher and Jean-Claude in the characterizing and story twist. I was too young when I read it to think slash, but I have since gone and looked for fan fiction about it.

What published author takes your breath away?

Mercedes Lackey for having the daring to make a strong main character who was gay and just have it as part of his personality. And she created a complex and exciting fantasy world that will have readers spellbound.

What about the Jamil /Jason pairing that drew you?

I wanted Jason to have his own love interest in which he came first. I read the possibility of slash in his conversation with Anita in BM and had read fan fiction pairings that were wonderful, but had usually come about if Anita became evil and was out of the picture. Though I will Anita-bash in the message board, I do not like to read it in a story or have it be used as a reason to why a pairing can suddenly happen. Jason’s physical description and personality reminded me of another character I had known and loved in Andromeda named Harper. I had discovered slash in X-Men fan fiction, but the first couple that made it believable to me was the sexy stories pairing Tyr/Harper. Tyr was played by Keith Hamilton Cobb who is very close to the physical ideal of Jamil so that just clicked for me.

Why slash? (I was horny is not an acceptable answer)

If anyone would have told me three years ago I would be a slash-o-holic I would have been surprised, not shocked as I have done some experimentation outside the vanilla norms, but still surprised. As Anita would say, ’It flat out does it for me’, or at least for right now. I’m not sure why; it does have elements that appeal to me. I love giving blowjobs and that is prominent in gay sex and having anal done to me was a ‘forbidden taboo’ that has that ‘naughty’ appeal that not many things still do. Mentally visualizing two men gives me twice the viewing pleasure as well. Also, I think it is because when you read a scene and try to ‘put yourself in it’ I have a problem because the woman is rarely the dominant one. She might kinda top from the bottom, but you don’t often read her rolling a man over and having her wicked way with him and he is acting submissive and that’s me during sex. I know it might sound odd, but I can more easily mentally take the place of the more aggressive guy in a slash sex scene than the woman in a straight one. 

You’ve invented your own genre of PWP-Porn WITH Plot. How do you do your research?

First of all, I am flattered to been told that I have my own version of PWP. For BDSM, straight and slash sex I really have done research the old fashioned way in all three categories and with overlaps for some. I have read non-fiction books, looked through web-sites, been part of a BDSM message board where I could ask questions, talked to my friends and pooled their sexual experience, gotten fiction books (for research material), watched anime as well as porn films and drawn from my own personal experience.

And have you ever seen live guy on guy action or is this all just a part of your fabulously hawt imagination.

A lot is my imagination based on dry research and reading other’s works. Unfortunately, so far I haven’t seen it for real, the closest is in films. The slash stuff is somewhat based on actual experience though. In the pervious answer I had to clarify ‘having anal done to me’ for a reason. As you know I am a Domme (don’t get me wrong straight sex is fun too) and one way to truly dominate a guy is to have him submit to you in EVERY way so everything that I have written having a guy do to a guy I have done in the past to my submissive/boyfriends. If you are more curious just PM me or ask in the ‘Sexpert thread’, I truly do not mind.

What would a shining moment in the literary world for you?

I’m not sure exactly what that question means, but I would love it if all my favorite and famous authors of urban fantasy had a convention somewhere scenic, like Denver, and everyone at PDS got to go and get together. We would probably be asked to leave the city, but it would be so much fun to meet everyone.

 What would you like your legacy to be to the world of literature? And the world in general?

I would like to be remembered as a good friend. As for the world for literature, right now slash fiction and the idea of women reading it and finding it interesting is not widely spread or socially accepted. You cannot walk into bookstore or a library and find many books of this genre waiting on the shelves and even on the internet you have to hunt to find well written, sensual slash. I would like for it to be widely available for anyone who wishes to read it, starting of course, with my stories.

What do you wish to leave your readers with? Or what do you hope they take away with them? 

Several readers have told me that they did not read or like slash until they had found some of my stuff and I am very proud of that. I think that fiction focusing on slash or BDSM has been viewed by many who have not read it as ‘wrong’ or that they are ‘kinky or perverted’, where it is really just another way for some to expand their erotic boundaries. If a reader has read it and has found it not to be their ‘cup of tea’ then that’s fine, but everyone should try something, anything, that expands their ‘comfort zone’ of what the world has decided is ‘normal’ and reading and imagining in the cozy comfort of your home is a safe way to do it. 

What direction would you avoid in writing at all costs?

To be boring!!!!!


Thank you,
Myladymystere

Opps, forgot one:

Um…and what about Gil, our beloved Foxy? Where’s the second part of The Fox and The Hound, huh?

I have just started writing it!


Posted: November 23, 2007