Hello everyone and welcome to the Beyond Fairytales Blog Hop! My name is Erzabet Bishop and I have just released my first book called Club Beam. It is the beginning of my Shadow World series with more on the way very soon.
Blurb:
In the Shadow World, nothing is as it seems.
Detective Sydney Marr is having a very bad day. Her boss is
on the warpath, she’s being treated for a werewolf bite, and her current case
has hit a dead end. When her friend Erika talks Syd into going with her to Club
Beam, she jumps at the chance, even if it means spending an evening without her
spell arsenal. A high-class vampire bar and fetish club, Club Beam is fantasy
made real.
Club owner and Dom Gideon Raines spies the red-haired beauty
and is transfixed. A fight against a skillful murderer brings war for fae and
vampire alike. Sometimes when you play with monsters, the monsters play back.
Release date: May 5, 2015
Pages: 106
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Line: Beyond Fairy Tales, Shadow World Series
Genre: Paranormal Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tale, m/f
The Process and Inspiration of Club Beam:
This book is dedicated to all of my readers. Writing under
the Beyond Fairy Tales line and the creation of the Shadow World series was
both fun and a challenge. When I was presented with the fairy tale "The
Beam" I had to really think about how I wanted to portray the story. For
those of you not familiar with the tale, it is a short piece about a woman who
shows up a wizard and proves him to be a fraud. He gets his revenge in a very
public way. How could I take this story and twist it into an urban fantasy setting
and add a little kink to boot? I wanted a strong female character that could
handle herself in a conflict, but still dealt with her own insecurities. Could
she stand up to the opposing force in the story and somehow come out swinging?
You bet.
Sydney is a fun and feisty heroine both witchy and quirky.
Gideon is the perfect vampire alpha male Dom to curl her toes. Club Beam is a
place of magic and mystery, where the Red Door overlooks the fun and frivolity
of the main club floor. Fairy tales are for real here and some of them bite…and
hard. The club is a refuge for vampire, fae and other mythical creatures; it is
also a lure of many decadent delights.
The process of writing for me is an organic one. It begins
with a legal pad and a series of colorful sticky notes and a foam board. I
start thinking about the chapters and what needs to happen to make the story
move and there you go-plot points on sticky notes I can move around as needed.
It works too. Sydney had lots of thoughts on where she wanted to go and believe
me, she is still in there talking. The second book in the Shadow World series
is already writing itself (think dragon shifters and a psychic) and I can see
the fireworks shaping up nicely.
Stay tuned for a
short story featuring Sydney in the upcoming Sci Spanks event (https://www.facebook.com/scispanks?fref=ts).
You might just get invited for a session behind the Red Door. Master Gideon has
a paddle and he’s ready to play.
I hope you will enjoy the introduction to my Shadow World
series and return to Club Beam for many more adventures.
Buy links:
B&N: http://goo.gl/6eNqdL
Google: https://goo.gl/YHJzTh
Kobo: https://goo.gl/VTt0FZ
iTunes: https://goo.gl/HXXsTA
Amazon: http://goo.gl/gt5vRv
Excerpt:
“Once upon a time….” Erika sang and waggled her eyebrows.
“Come on, Sydney. Live a little. This club is smoking hot, and you’ll love it.”
Sydney grumbled under her breath and watched the club-goers
parade past, each dressed like a fairy-tale character. The Little Mermaid
trounced by in a see-through, diaphanous gown revealing too much in the way of
personal attributes. Sleeping Beauty sashayed down the sidewalk with a leash
around the neck of her Prince Charming. A woman in a way-too-short Red Riding
Hood outfit approached. Her arm was wrapped around a seductress dressed in wolf
ears, a tail, and a skimpy thong-style bikini. Red carried a basket full of
what looked like pink fuzzy handcuffs and a can of whipped cream, which she
swung into Syd.
“Hey!”
The red-cloaked vixen sent her a wink and traipsed on by,
joined by a near-pornographic version of the Red Queen from Alice in
Wonderland. Any shorter and the skirt would show her naughty bits. Or maybe
that was the plan.
Syd had just gotten off her day shift as a detective, and
the last thing she wanted to do was be around more people. Especially people
with more skin showing than on late-night cable shows. Her head hurt from the
lights and the pulse of the music, and her stupid witch costume was pinching
her toes. Erika’s scant fairy costume hugged all her curves, her breasts
bursting from the bodice. The skirt barely covered her backside, and the
strappy silver sandals showed off her silver-glitter nail polish.
The building loomed next to them. A giant warehouse-like
structure, it was large enough to house all manner of mischief, and Syd was
itching with the desire to get inside and find out just what was going on
behind its doors. The sidewalk was flagged by trees lit up with twinkly white
lights, adding an upscale ambiance to the area. What in the daylight looked
like an industrial area gone to the dogs had been transformed into an
attractive and well-attended venue.
She didn’t have the heart to tell Erika she’d been here once
already today for the case she was working on, but the entrance had been sealed
up tighter than a drum. Sydney’s recourse was to infiltrate Club Beam by night
as a patron. Her sergeant, Debra, would kill her if she realized Syd had even
considered going in without backup. So would her partner, James. Erika had
asked her to come so she wouldn’t be alone, and, despite herself, Syd couldn’t
resist. To catch a vampire, you had to go out at night, and Club Beam was the
hot spot. After last month’s fuckup, she had to do this and do it right, even
if it killed her. James was on medical leave, and it remained up to her to get
this guy before someone else got killed or turned furry.
I will not think about becoming one of the terminally furry.
It’s over. Move on. Take the pills the doctor gave you and freaking pray.
“Oh look. I think I see Snow White.” Erika stood on her
tiptoes and craned her head along the huge expanse of line they still had to
navigate to get inside.
Syd peered into the crowd and grimaced. Hairy legs. More
makeup than a Mac commercial. “Nope. That was a guy in drag.”
Erika narrowed her eyes. “God, Syd. You’re the world’s
biggest wet blanket ever.”
Sydney shifted her weight and moved another two steps toward
the door as the line inched forward. “I told you, I’ve had a hard day. We had a
homicide case come in, and I’ve been out beating the street. I want to go home
and bury my head under my pillow. But, no. Out of the kindness of my heart,
here I am standing in line at a vampire bar with a bunch of overgrown kids
playing dress-up in fairy-tale fetish wear.”
Thanks for joining me for the blog hop today. Question for readers: What kinds of fairy tales and modern myths make you swoon? Do you read BBW in fairytales? Would you?
For a chance to win a copy of Club Beam, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I also have up for grabs a copy of the Lucky Stars box set if you can tell me what BBW romance would make you melt.
About the Author:
Erzabet Bishop is the author of Club Beam, Sigil Fire, Written on Skin, Tethered, Fetish Fair, Temptation Resorts Jess and Marnie
interactive choose your own adventure romances and more. She is a contributing
author to The Big Book of Submission, Slave Girls, Hungry for
More and many other anthologies. She
is a finalist for the 2015 Goldie Awards and a PRO member of the Romance
Writers of America. She lives in Texas with her husband, furry children and is
often playing at local bookstores. Follow her posts on Twitter @erzabetbishop.
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