My Bandslash Blog Tour Interview!

Hello, everyone! I wanted to put up a quick little reminder post that today is my turn on the Bandslash Blog Tour and my interview is now live at BL Morticia's place. Woo hoo! Just click HERE to be taken over to the interview. I talk a little about myself, the Conquest series, and also share a few music videos. It's a very fun interview, and my thanks goes out to BL for having me at her place and once again to Melanie Tushmore for organizing the blog tour.

Hope everyone who stops by, enjoys it!

#MusicMonday #Bandslash Blog Tour - Special Guest: BL Morticia

Hey, everyone! I'm very pleased to welcome a special guest here on my humble little blog, author BL Morticia! BL and I are both contributors to the #Bandslash Blog Tour that's been going around, featuring many awesome authors of gay romance stories with rockers. Each author gets to host another, and it's been organized by the lovely, Melanie Tushmore. I'm happy to be a part of it, and thrilled to feature BL's interview!

Next week, on March 11th, I'll be hanging out at BL's place answering these same questions, so do be sure to drop by there. If you'd like to see the full list of authors who are participating, click HERE. Also, there's a great giveaway going on! Full details on that are on the previous link, but you'll have a chance to win some awesome books at the final Wrap Up Party hosted at Melanie's blog on March 25th!

And without further ado, I present BL Morticia!

5 Questions About the Author

1. Who are you, and where do you come from?

BLMorticia, wicked gal hailing from the complex mind of Sharita Lira

2. What inspires you?

What doesn’t? I mean, I love heavy metal music, some liquor, hot men, not necessarily in that order. Oh and I love to read.

3. Describe your writing style in three words:

Snarky, erotic, tension

4. What style of music do you like, and who are your favourite bands?

I love heavy metal of all kinds. Top 3 metal bands right now are Opeth, Lamb of God, and Death Angel.

Devildriver "Clouds Over California" - I love this video because they have the kids portraying the band and the song f*ckin’ rocks!

Lamb of God "Walk With Me in Hell" - I picked this one because it’s a behind the scenes look at the band on tour with the crowds and mosh pits! \m/ \m/

Death Angel "Seemingly Endless Time" - Death Angel I’ve loved since I was in high school. This video was on regular rotation on Headbangers Ball and I couldn’t stop staring! It’s a great b&w shot of the band. Kick ass!

5. Been to any good gigs recently?

Lamb of God and In Flames at the Congress in Chicago Illinois. Great show, crowd was very responsive to both bands. Don’t ask me who played before these two because it’s all a blur. The mosh pit was killer, people were getting hurt all over the place! \m/

5 Questions About the Book

Title: The Wretched Tales #1.1 Corey’s Debut

Series: The Wretched Tales part of the Metalrotica Collection

1. Who is the story about?

Corey Patrick is the main character. A young man in his early twenties hailing from Boston to play bass for one of the biggest bands in the world. Corey takes you through all his emotions as a pansexual man just trying to fit in with his bandmates, keep his sanity, make his money and fall in love.

2. What inspired the idea for this story? Any real bands, music, or places from your experience?

Yes, it is, but I have to keep it top secret. Shar is a journalist for the Emag www.fourteeng.net The Wretched is based on the bands she’s met, interviewed, and seen up close. Real metal fans might be able to draw a comparison to actual bands but we ain’t tellin’! *winks*

3. What is it about musicians that make them irresistable?

Hmm, *thinks* Everything. The fact they can play their instruments, hopefully in tune. *laughs* Most of them are sexy in one way or another. Notice I said ‘most’. *laughs* Lead singers and guitarists have stage personas. A lot of them very appealing, some not so much.

4. As a story comes in three parts, and this is a music story, pick me three music videos that reflect how you feel the story goes.

Devildriver – “Clouds Over California” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ySpk3ErFd0 This video fits because Corey is still a kid compared to his bandmates. This is a chance in a lifetime for him to perform with a band he’s admired.

Lamb of God – “Walk With Me in Hell” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkhCxCcWSE This video because Corey is going through traumatic times while being in this band. Drugs, lewd sex, liquor, the pressure of playing in front of thousands and he’s doing this while trying to hide the fact he likes men as much as women.

Stone Temple Pilots – “Sex Type Thing”

Throughout the series Corey will experience sex on almost every level and play out his wildest fantasies. ;P

5. If your book was a music video, how would it go? Talk me through it.

If it was a music video it would start with his trip to California for the audition, then on the road with the band, show his relationships and or hook-ups with the people he fancies, a down moment or two then triumph at the end with Corey getting what he wants. 

Thank you again to Melanie Tushmore for organizing this awesome blog tour and hooking me up to share BL's work! Many thanks to BL for playing here today! I'm looking forward to visiting your place next week! 

For more information about BL Morticia's work, please check out the following links:

Twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/rawiyamikembl

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TheLiteraryTriad

Kindlegraph - http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/rawiyamikembl

BLMorticia is currently a published writer with Naughty Nights Press and Rebel Ink Press. She entertains her readers with hot and smexy sex, humor, and lots of swear words. She attempts to incorporate metal music or the military in most of her works. Nothin’ sexier than metalheads or military servicemen and women! She also writes a biweekly column on Blak Rayne Books and blogs on the First Thursday of the month at NNP Blog. For more info, please visit, Erotica With Snark

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Book link: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thewretchedtales11-1048265-150.html

Book title: The Wretched Tales 1.1

Series: The Wretched Tales - Metalrotica Collection

Book blurb: Corey Patrick has arrived, fresh out of Boston to perform with the Wretched, one of the biggest bands on the planet. Immediately, the bass player takes advantage of the perks provided including hobnobbing with members of the press!

Excerpt

Over the loudspeaker…

“Ladies and gentlemen, crowd surfing and/or moshing will result in immediate dismissal from the venue. Enjoy the show.”

In a drug filled haze, I stood on the stage with my new band mates. The lights dimmed, the crowd chanting, “Wretched, wretched,” in unison, throwing up the horns as if in a similar trance. I’d been with several acts, toiling in the background as the spare, the fill in, the resident head banger while others gained the spotlight. Now was my turn to be the one. And even better in the most sought after metal act from the west coast of North America, The Wretched.

“You ready Corey? You better play your ass off tonight so they’ll forget about Randy’s stupid butt,” yelled Nicolai Zander with a wry smile.

Excited as a pig in shit, I responded with a nod and gave my bass a couple of plucks.

Once he turned his attention back to the crowd, he changed his expression immediately from smirk to scowl. The short, pudgy runt everyone came to know and love stalked the stage like Napoleon with a microphone in hand. As per usual, Nicolai donned baggy black trousers with pockets down both sides, chains hanging from every loop and hole. His Testament t-shirt and his trademark cowboy boots had both seen better days, but it made up the persona known as Nicolai Zander. The, ‘I don’t give a fuck ‘cause I’m the leader of this bunch of misfits’ kind of look. Glassy greenish blue eyes peered at his minions, and he returned their adulation with his own one finger salute and tongue wag.

Damn.

“Wretched, wretched, wretched…” the swarm of metal heads chanted, the spotlight shone on me, then Nicolai one after the other. Within seconds, the background music faded, and drummer Bryan started the first beats of our legendary song Devil’s Isle.

“YEOOOHHHH…” Nicolai screeched like a cat in heat and threw his gloved fist up in the air. True metalers formed a circle pit, running into one another, arms up, the looks on their faces, pure aggression. Others leapt on top of various shoulders, attempting to surf closer to the stage causing the security guys a lot of headache, but I fucking loved it.

This is what I’ve wanted other than a steady lay I could call my very own. This is my fucking life! This is what every young man dreams about from puberty in mom’s house to grown ass man living in mom’s basement.

I am Corey from the Wretched, and I have arrived!

© BL Morticia

NEXT WEEK!
BL Morticia hosts SJ Frost

Check out the #bandslash blog tour dates here: http://cocktalesandhotsauce.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/bandslash-blog-tour-dates-for.html

The Next Big Thing

Hello, guys and girls! Some of you may have seen on a few other blogs authors talking about the Next Big Thing. Well, the lovely and talented, Sloan Parker, tagged me to take part and answer a few questions about a WIP (work in progress) or my next book release, so here I am, talking about what will hopefully be my next big thing! My thanks to Sloan for inviting me to take part!

1.) What is the working title of your book?
      Adapting Instincts. This will be the fourth book in my Instincts series, so it needed to have "Instincts" in the title ;-) With each of the Instincts books, I try to have the first word as being relevant to the what the characters are experiencing or the theme of the story. "Adapting", fits these main characters rather well because they're both adapting and coming to accept changes in their lives and their emotions toward one another.

2.) Where did the idea come from for the book?

       This idea came about quite a long time ago, even all the way back to when I was writing Natural Instincts, Book 1 in the series. There's a character who returns throughout the series in a small role, Carl Anderson. I knew I wanted to write a story for him, and I was also fascinated with another character from that first book who had a small role, Egill Dalgaard. When I sat down to write the third book in the series, Loving Instincts, I felt there was chemistry between the two of them and somehow, someway, I needed to get them together.

3.) What is the genre of the book?
     Gay Paranormal Erotic Romance. Vampires, baby! Yeah!

4.) Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
      Oh man, this is always the hardest question! I think most every author ponders with each book who you'd like to see play your characters in a movie, but for all my guys in my books, I still haven't found that right actor for any of them.

Gackt

Adapting Instincts would be tricky to cast, especially for the role of Egill, because  finding a six foot seven, burly guy with bright red hair and a Norwegian accent might be difficult ;-) I can't even think of any actors who would fit, even with dying their hair red and cutting out the accent. Carl would probably be a little easier to cast. I'd need someone with boy-next-door hotness, but not too young, since Carl is in his early thirties. See what I mean about how I can never find that perfect actor for my guys?!

It would be just as hard trying to cast the other guys, Titus, Andreas, and Daniel. Age Alex Pettyfer about 10 years, and he's got potential for Titus. For Ryunosuke, I'd be all over Gackt! Um...for the role, I mean. Okay, next question!

5.) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
     When Carl Anderson's actions endanger the life of his vampire lover, Egill Dalgaard, he must decide whether to walk deeper into vampire society, or turn his back on the only man who's ever made him feel secure. Or something like that. It's so hard to fit a 67k word novel into one sentence!

6.) Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency/publisher?
      It'll be represented by a publisher, MLR Press, where the others in the series are published.

7.) How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
      It took me about three months to finish this one, which is actually very fast for me, but I was working under a hard deadline for it. Then after the first draft, I did about a month of revisions before turning it in. The average for me from first written word to submission is closer to six months. I had to really push hard to finish this one faster, which is what led to me needing to take a break from writing for a while. I was just a tiny bit wiped out.

8.) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
      Besides the other books in the series, I really don't have a clue. There are a lot of great vampire stories in the gay romance genre, but I can't think of any with vampires or a "world" quite like what I've created. Really, I don't like to compare books, whether to books I've written or that I'm reading. It may seem that comparing stories about vampires would be like comparing apples to apples, but to me, it's really not, because every author creates a unique vision in the story they've written. Rather than try to hold one book up against another, I prefer to enjoy each book I read on it's own strengths and individuality.

9.) Who or what inspired you to write this book?
      Even though early in the series, I felt I wanted to do more with Carl and Egill, it was really my readers who inspired me to give a story for them serious consideration. Emails, messages on Facebook and Twitter, asking about them and if they'd get a story were great encouragement. My thanks to everyone for that!

10.) What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
        Well, I really think this is a book that if you've read the others in the series, you'll enjoy it. Some familiar faces will pop up, a lingering question or two from the last book gets answered, and of course, it's got plenty of hot action in it. But more than that, it's a love story, and is focused on the building of a new relationship and overcoming doubts to find the courage to pursue your heart. If that's the kind of story you enjoy, hopefully you'll like Adapting Instincts!

My thanks again to Sloan for tagging me to answer these questions. And if you'd like to see some other big things coming from a couple fantastically talented authors, Jambrea Jo Jones will soon be talking about her Next Big Thing, and later next week, so will Melanie Tushmore. Be sure to swing by their places and see what they've got going on! Thanks to everyone who read about my next big thing, and I hope if you decide to give Adapting Instincts a read when it releases in March 2013, that you'll enjoy it!