1. How did you start writing erotic romance?
After my mom passed away in 2012 I got to spend a
long time alone at her beach house while we closed her estate. On my daily
beach walks, I started getting all kinds of story ideas. Realizing at 62 that I
wasn't getting any younger, I decided to try my hand at erotic story telling.
2. Plotter or pantster?
Panster, which might explain why my works are short,
but I also have a very short attention span.
3. What are three things you have on your writing desk?
My laptop, the ubiquitous cup of coffee and a
printed draft of my WIP
4. Favorite food?
I want to say Brussle sprouts or something healthy
like that but it's Girl Scout cookie season. Me and the Cookie Monster are
twins separated at birth.
5. Tell us a little about your new release. What character
in the book really spoke to you?
"The Substitute" is another of my
tradesmen stories. In this story, a union journeyman plumber risks his career and
assumes a false identity to substitute for a friend who owns a non-union
plumbing business. The fun starts at the first job when he is shocked to find
the client is expecting sex and not plumbing services.
"Gary", my unsuspecting plumber, torn by
lust, his obligation to his friend and his conscience was the first character
to speak out. The others developed around him.
6. I write because ____...
It's an inexpensive, fun and engaging pastime to
carry into retirement. I'm not going to be one of those retirees who can play a
$200 round of golf topped off by dinner at a five star restaurant.
7. What is your favorite type of character to write about?
"Gary" my MC is a sincere, but
slightly clueless guy who falls into the orbit of a sexually assertive woman.
An ordinary guy in extraordinary circumstances is much more fun for me to write
about than alpha males or billionaire bad boys.
8. What is the sexiest scene you ever wrote?
I think it's here in "The Substitute"
between "Gary" and the second woman he meets on the job. I hope
readers will let me know. By this point in the story there is much more between
them than sex for hire. I really tried to focus on the sensual elements, the
longing and surrender.
9. What advice would you give new authors in the erotica/romance
field?
The best advice I got: write the story you want to
hear, the way you want to hear it. I invariably do my best work when I stick
close to that advice. When I wander away trying to write to an audience, it's
like pulling the plug on creativity.
10. What is next on your writerly horizon?
I have been working along time on a series of
stories surrounding an amazing weapon, "The Gueschtunkina Ray Gun".
One shot from this weapon renders a woman into a state of extreme sexual
arousal. The three part story has time and interstellar travel, a seven foot
tall, three breasted female warrior and an evil dude who travels in his own mobile
universe. It's lots of fun, but a big challenge for a panster to get multiple
plot arcs to come together.
Blurb:
A substitute plumber's world turns
upside down when he discovers his buddy's business is providing more than
plumbing services to an exclusive female clientele.
A journeyman plumber breaks union rules,
risking the loss of his career, and assumes a false identity to substitute for
an injured friend who owns a non-union plumbing shop. When "Gary"
arrives on the job, he is stunned to discover that the client is expecting sex
and not plumbing services. It's the beginning of a day of surprises.
Motivated by his obligation to a friend
and seduced by the allure of the client, "Gary" has some of the best
sex of his life. He is at peace until he overhears the client making an
immediate referral to a friend. Torn between conscience and friendship, he
accepts the referral.
His day turns again as Britta initially
spurns his services, much to "Gary's" relief, then asks him to do
some plumbing work. While he is working, Britta slowly drops her hostile
manner, sharing more of her personal story. "Gary" finds himself
longing for a deeper connection, but has to dispel Britta's feelings of
inadequacy and deal with his hidden identity.
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Excerpt:
One
minute I was getting ready to install a new faucet for this really hot
divorcee. The next thing I knew, she was naked, splayed out on the massive onyx
granite kitchen island of her fabulous McMansion. Her legs over my shoulders,
my work pants on the floor, I'm banging her furiously. She was screaming and
panting, heavy breasts flopping like luscious melons, her pussy pouring out
love juice over my cock while she clutched the backs of her thighs. Her head
thrashed in the pile of her frosted, layered mane of silver and black hair. She
was so strong I thought she was going to lift my two-hundred-pound frame from
the floor as her back arched in the agony of a hard orgasm.
WTF?
I
was breaking all the rules that day, but the last one I ever expected to break
was fucking a client on the clock. But technically, she wasn't my client.
My
strange odyssey began when my plumbing trade school buddy, Steve, called me in
desperation from the ER where he was being treated for a severely turned ankle.
"Dude,
you gotta take this job for me today." His voice was full of mirth, making
me suspect he was loaded with painkillers.
"Steve,
you know I can't do that. I'm a union journeyman, and you're a non-union
shop."
I
couldn't work for one of my best friends, not within the rules the union had
set for us. Rules that protected us from exploitation, but limited our choices.
"It's
just one job, goddamnit. I don't have anyone else I can trust."
"Yeah, but that
one job could cost me my career."
Bio:
Spencer Dryden is a new to writing
fiction, but an old guy on the threshold of draining any reserves left in
Medicare and Social Security. In real life he is a handyman, an at-home dad,
inventor, and web videographer, living a quiet life in the frozen tundra of
Minnesota, USA.
He earned an MBA from a prestigious
Midwestern university but is so far behind on the career earnings scale of his
peers that the university has offered to refund his tuition if he will return
his diploma and disavow his affiliation, lest he continue to denigrate the
school's impeccable brand.
He has a beautiful trophy wife ready to
spend his royalties. Like all good romance writers, he has a cat but prefers to
pet his wife.
This is his fourth work published by
Breathless Press.
He can be reached at multiple locations:
Check out his website:
http://www.fictionbyspencer.com/
He's on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+SpencerDryden
Tweet Him at: @SpencerDryden
He is a regular contributor to the
multiauthor blog, Oh Get A Grip: http://ohgetagrip.blogspot.com
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