LIEBSTER AWARD BLOG MEME
Jason Jack Miller, author of THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK,
tagged me in a ten question blog hop known as the LIEBSTER AWARD, so here it goes!
(1) Where did the idea for your current work-in-progress (WIP)
come from?
My current WIP is a poetry collection titled, BROTHEL. As a forever student of literature and literary theory, I love psychoanalytic criticism, especially in the vein of Sigmud Freud and his thoughts on psychosexuality. After writing books about madness (HYSTERIA), grief (MOURNING JEWELRY) and love (ANEXORCISIM OF ANGELS,coming soon!), I wanted to write a book that studied sex from the angle of someone whose job was marketing and performing sex for a living, i.e. enter the Madam. The collection is darkly erotic and erotically dark and I’m having a wicked good time writing it.
Also, I just kind of wanted to write a book about sex.
(2) Quote a favorite line from one of your favorite books.
"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." — Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
(3) Now quote your favorite line form your current WIP.
“Living and working in the whore house is a type of intimacy in itself, for you’re always being watched, and someone or something is always inside of you, whether it’s a memory or a person, and that makes it impossible to be alone.”
(4) What unique challenges has your current WIP had that your
previous ones did not?
Writing erotica is hard. I never know if I’m being sexy or if I just sound like a jackass.
(5) If you saw our main character at a party, how would you
react?
I’d pour myself a double shot of whisky and get ready for one hell of a night.
(6) Who would play your main protagonist/antagonist if your
current WIP were made into a movie?
Maria Brink. Duh.
(7) What are your biggest inspirations for writing?
Music. All of my books have been inspired by a single song, and Brothel’s was Sick Like Me by In This Moment. This particular piece struck me because it's masochistic, it's hot, and it's dark--which covers the theme, the tone, and the mood that I'm working with in the collection. Brink is seductive, and she's seductive in a way where she shows no shame for asking/taking what she wants. Her sexual honesty in the video is spot on with my Madam. Check out the video, here.
(8) Summarize your WIP as a haiku.
I shake, I tremble/
There’s a pleasure in the pain/
I beg you, don’t stop.
(9) What role does music play in your writing?
The biggest role of all: I write to it, get inspired by it, and celebrate with it. I also create a playlist for all of my books. Here is the one for Brothel.
(10) What’s one thing you’ve learned about the craft that you
wish you had learned earlier?
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