Month: October 2007

I’m keeping the Halloween theme this week, since today IS Halloween and all.

Anywho, I’m at Target a few weeks ago and I walk out to my TRUCK (Feist will get that cos she has a TRUCK too) to find an orange flyer on it, proclaiming Halloween is the DEVIL.

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I had a different title but that was at 9:00 AM CST and I’ve forgotten what it was.  But…I did remember what I was going to blog about*!

It’s That Time of Year Again…you know….almost Halloween.  And on Halloween supposedly it’s the time when the veil between our world and the world of the…dead….is at it’s thinnest.  So, if you could speak to one person that’s no longer among the living, who would it be and what would that conversation sound like?  Come on now…be creative!

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*I think I was supposed to give away some books last Tuesday or the week before….If so, I’ll be back on Friday to give them away along with a copy of Hands On or Built to any of today’s commenters (BTW Comment at will….I won’t be around all day so I’m not ignoring ya’ll I’m just not here  :doh:  )

Can you believe Halloween is just a day or two away!? Like, holy heck, how did time fly by so fast? Oh, that’s right. I’ve been bowing to the will of Sven all month and preparing for the Emerald City Writers Conference.

So I was thinking back on past Halloweens and trying to remember my costumes. Really? I was so completely boring. The only things I remember being were

1. A baby

2. A gymnist

3. A dead housewife (not bad)

3. A cat

4. A gothic bride (getting better)

5. A clown (back to bad again)

How. Boring. Was. I? Seriously! There’s so many fabulous costumes I could have been. That are out there. Oh, like this gem…

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Someone recently asked me why I don’t write M/M scenes in my ménage romances. She said you write such tender, emotional relationships in your books that I’ve always wondered why you didn’t extend it to the men in the triad (or more).

The obvious reason is that most of my ménage books feature brothers (the next few won’t though but I considered her question very carefully before responding.

For me, the ménage is all about the female. It’s her fantasy. She’s the focus of two or more men who love and adore her and pleasure her. All roads lead back to her. And yes, most all of my books(with one exception) are all about the poly relationship, not just a ménage scene here or there to fulfill a fantasy and the other guy fades away into obscurity while the hero and heroine live happily ever after.

Back to my point. If I focused on a M/M relationship where they pull a woman into their life (never figured out why two gay guys would suddenly desire a woman in their life but that’s another story…unless of course they’re obviously bisexual and again that’s a whole nother ballgame lol) then the woman is going to face being “left out” at some point or another. If the two men are into each other in addition to being into her, there will be times when the woman is not the focus of the relationship. How could she be when there exists this whole other relationship with complicated dynamics as well?

Selfish? Well, yeah, but I make no apologies for writing the female fantasy aspect *g* I mean if I’m going to furnish the fantasy world, then I’m damn well going to do it up right.

The other question asked: Why brothers? Isn’t that “icky?” Well, uhm, no, not unless they’re getting it on too, and all I can say is I don’t have words…

But here’s my thought. I figure if two (or more) guys are ever going to actually share a woman, I can more easily picture brothers doing it than two guys who have no history or trust. I think jealousy would play less of a role in the triad than if two random guys were expected to participate in this sort of relationship. (and no, I’m not saying there wouldn’t be issues between brothers, just that I think there would be more inherent trust)

Another question I’ve been asked is why I write contemporary ménage relationship stories, as in there is no paranormal, no built in societal reasons where a poly relationship would be “normal.”

Short answer? Because I want to. *g*

Longer answer? Because I don’t like what I call the “inevitable ménage” in that there is some underlying reason why the characters MUST bond sexually or have a hot ménage either to stop evil, save the world or because it’s what’s expected in their society. Those are fun to read. I love em. I just don’t write them.

I want to write about characters who choose their circumstances, who own their choices, even as hard as they might be to make. And I want to do it in a real world setting because to me (personally) that makes the fantasy more powerful.

Am I preaching that readers can expect to see this sort of relationship in everyday life? Uhm no. (and if you’re reading one of my books saying omg this would never happen, you’re sooo missing the point lol). It’s there. Just not prevalent. At the end of the day, I’m still just writing erotic fantasy. No apologies. No excuses.

So c’mon, fess up. The whole ménage fantasy. For you? No way? And I’m not asking about your sexual practices lololol. But your reading practices. What works for you with ménage books and what doesn’t?

Currently I have two “relationship” ménage books in print, Colters’ Woman which is a m/m/m/f story and For Her Pleasure which is a m/m/f story. There is also “Overheard” in the Caught by Cupid print anthology which is my only “non relationship” ménage story. And finally, there is Brazen m/m/f which just released in ebook format from Samhain (It will be released in print next summer). Only For Her Pleasure is not available in ebook format.

If you comment or throw your two cents in, tell me which of the books you’d like to have (if you want one) and I’ll draw a couple of winners to win the book they want.