Coming in Hot: Sexual Healing

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Sexual Healing

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Izzy Szyn!
@izzyszyn

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Two sexy shifter doctors need one sexy paramedic as their mate.

Paramedic Zoe Whitaker was set to become engaged until "they" came back. Lycan Werepire Doctors Brent Taylor and Liam Barnes have come back to Saginaw Heights for one reason only -- to claim Zoe for their mate.

New York Times Bestselling Author Izzy Szyn was born in May of 2014 when a friend dared her to write. Born and raised in Detroit, Mi. Izzy now lives in Oklahoma City with her furchild Misty, the friendliest Chihuahua/Terrier you will ever meet. Currently works in a call center, where she writes in between phone calls. 

Izzy loves to keep in touch with her readers.

Hello! Thank you for this opportunity to talk about my new release Sexual Healing and help my readers get to know me better.)

Tell us about your title featured in this set:

The title is Sexual Healing and it is about 22 pages long (give or take) and I wrote it in ten days. (true story)

My computer hard drive crashed 12 days before my book for the boxed set was due to be submitted. Everything that I had written and edited up to that point was lost. I thought I had it saved in one other place but it wasn’t there.

The honest truth was that even though I liked what I had written something didn’t seem right. I couldn’t place my finger on it until I started getting the urge to write another paranormal at the same time. So I decided to go with my gut and turned Sexual Healing from a contemporary setting to a paranormal one.

When I was approached for the boxed set, the first thing that came to my head was Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, so I went with it.

Tell us something about yourself:

I work full-time in a call center, and write in between phone calls. I hope one day to be able to stay home and write full-time.

I’m happily single, have a dog named Misty who is a spoiled brat, but loves everyone. I was born and raised in Detroit, but now live in Oklahoma city.

Tell us about your writing process: 

I write what the characters tell me to write I’m a complete pantser as far as writing. Outlines make me sweat.

What is your favourite genre to read? 

I will read pretty much everything, but my fav is erotic.

What would you say is the one thing are you most passionate about? 

In professional life I’d have to say get better with each story.

When you are not writing, what do you like to do? 

Watch movies, play Kitchen Scramble on fb

If someone who hasn’t read any your books asked you to describe your story in this set (the elevator pitch!) what would you say? 

Hmmm, A friends into lovers story with a paranormal twist. Zoe was friends with Liam Barnes and Brent Taylor in high school, but they left when Liam’s parents found them in bed together the night of their graduation party.

They return ten years later and things have changed. Zoe is about to become engaged to Liam’s twin brother Derek and Liam and Brent have changed in more ways than one. They are what i like to call werepires, a combination vampire and shifter and they came back to town to claim their mate. Zoe.

Where can readers connect with you? 

I live on facebook or it seems like I do. You can find me on Fb, twitter you can email me. I’m on Instagram too but still forget to go there sometimes.

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“Hi,” she said to them coming up. “Liam? I didn’t know you’d be here too.”

“When Brent told me that he saw you at the hospital, I couldn’t stay away,” Liam stood up and hugged her. Damn he smelled good. A smoky, woodsy scent that came from him and not some cologne that could be bought. “I’ve missed you.”

“If you’d really missed me then you would’ve contacted me,” Zoe refused to admit that her heart flipped. “When did you get back to town?”

“A few days ago,” Brent replied. “I’m here for a few days as a consultant for a case. But that’s not the only reason why we’re here.”

“Oh,” Zoe’s heart sank. “What’s the other reason?”

“We came for you,” Liam told her.

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Coming Together: Girl on Girl

Erzabet Bishop

Guest Blog

Hello, my name is Leigh Ellwood and I am pleased Erzabet has graciously offered her blog for my guest post today. I am thrilled to announced that my latest project, Coming Together: Girl on Girl, will be available for sale this week. Girl on Girl, as you might expect, is a work of lesbian erotica and romance, but it’s much more than that. It’s a collection of some of the finest short stories in the genre that I’ve had the pleasure to read and edit. As a publication from Coming Together, royalties will benefit a specific charity – that’s right, no authors or editors were paid (or harmed) during production.

I have been involved in some way with Coming Together for a few years now – I have contributed to a previous anthology and have worked with many contributing authors. Girl on Girl marks the first time I have edited a full book with them, and it’s also the first all lesbian erotic work, which makes it extra special for me. I write many genres of erotica and romance, but I find my F/F works tend to sell well – I’ve even seen one of my books final in the Goldie Awards for lesbian fiction. I wanted to create Girl on Girl to help the National Center for Lesbian Rights, an organization dedicated to helping all LGBT people with legal issues. It pleased me to see so many author, including Erzabet, willing to give their time to support human rights for all.

If you enjoy lesbian erotica and romance of all sub-genres, Girl on Girl has it for you in one place. There’s BDSM, futuristic, contemporary, interracial, and historical. Toys, spanking, sex in public places…it’s all hot, and your purchase helps a great cause.

Girl on Girl releases this week, and I hope you enjoy it. Please visit the publisher’s page at http://www.eroticanthology.com/girlongirl.htm for information on purchase. You’ll find the digital version at All Romance, Smashwords, Kindle and Nook.

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About the book

Coming Together: Girl on Girl is a collection of lesbian erotica and erotic romance edited by award-winning author Leigh Ellwood. All proceeds from the sales of this anthology, and any individual titles released in eBook or audiobook, will benefit the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Authors:

The Princess' Princess (Salome Wilde); Sundae, Bloody Sunday (Lisabet Sarai); Angel (Ms. Peach); Hot Air (Slave Nano); A Taste of Vanilla (Leigh Ellwood); The Trade In (Stephani Maari Booker); New Girl (Harper Bliss); Same But Different (Kate Atwood); Fair As the Moon (Laurel Waterford); On Display (Sophie Mouette); Tough Enough to Wear a Dress (Teresa Noelle Roberts); Snow Blind (Jean Ro berta); All Keyed Up (Scarlet Chastain); Ghost Lights (Erzabet Bishop); Winner Take (Andrea Dale); Worth the Wait (Beth Wylde)

A Visit With M. Christian

1. How did you get started writing erotica?
 

Well, to be honest, I didn’t really start out to be a smut writer.  Oh, sure, I wanted to be a writer – got the bug sometime in late high school – but I never really wanted to write dirty stories full time.  Like a lot of writers I tried most of the familiar genres (science fiction, horror, fantasy, mysteries ... you name it) but, frankly, the competition was just far too rough. 
 
Then, by chance, I took a class in erotica writing taught by Lisa Palac (of the late-lamented FutureSex Magazine) and she actually bought one of my stories ... which was then picked up for Best American Erotica 1994 and the rest, as they say, is history.
 
That's not to say I don't like writing erotica.  Far from it: I actually really like being part of a genre that's still new and fresh, with lots of room to experiment and play.  While I did spend a lot of time writing and getting rejected I think it's getting me more comfortable  with stories and language.  So, in the end, it's all turned out pretty well.

2. What is the absolute hottest scene you have ever written...oh please share...we like it naughty here. *cheeky grin*
 

You know, I don't really think of hotness when I write.  I'm usually just focusing on the writing and the tale I'm trying to tell, and the sex scenes just spin out of that.  Makes me more than a bit different, I think: some of my smut-writing friends say that they write from ... well, let's say below the belt.  I don’t do that – and when I've tried it gets far too distracting to focus.  So I just tell stories about characters and sex and the while thing just comes together.

3. I really enjoyed your book about how to write erotica-it was what got me started in the right direction. Can you tell the folks who have not heard about it a little bit to whet their appetites...
 

Thanks so much!  The book is called How To Write And Sell Erotica and it's out (in print as well as 'e') by the great folks at Renaissance E Books ... who (ahem) I happen to be an Associate Publisher for.  It's a collection of my essays and articles from my irregular column Confessions Of A Literary Streetwalker for the fantastic Erotica Readers And Writers Association.  More than anything, the articles were kind of my ... revenge against all the bed writing classes I took when I first started writing.  That, and some of the stuff that's come up when I've edited anthologies and now as a publisher.  I like to think of the book as being a buck-naked writing book ... but not because it's about smut, but because it's more revealing than and honest than a lot of writing books out there.

4. Tell us about your current work.

 

Well, right now I'm making my way through a new collection of science fiction erotica – a follow up to my well-received Bachelor Machine book.  But I also have plans for a new novel (just have to decide which book too actually write).  Meanwhile I'm having a blast working for Renaissance and enjoying teaching classes here in the Bay Area on everything from smut writing to bondage and other kinds of kinky stuff.  Check out my site at www.mchristian.com for into on everything I'm into ... some of what I'm into, at least.  I do have to keep a few things private ;-)

5. Whip or flogger?

Oddly, even though I teach classes in both (and canes and bondage and paddles and much, much more) I'm actually a very simple fellow ... sexually, at least.  Oh, sure, there are a few things I like (ahem – big girls – ahem) but I'm more of a sensualist than a sadist, and more a lover than a masochist.  I guess you could say my biggest kink is my writing: I get the biggest turn-on from telling stories than just about anything else.

6. Chocolate or peanut butter?
 

Chocolate for sure – especially the wickedly wonderful fun stuff like Vosges, or salt and caramel chocolates.  Yum!

(I knew we were kindred spirits!) *grin*
 
7. Beach or mountains?
 
Hum ... tough call.  I like both quite a bit: always loved the ocean and I like it cool, so the mountains are also a favorite.  The only place I don't like is anywhere too hot so I'm not a huge fan of the desert ... tough for the right trip and adventure I'm sure I could be convinced to go.

8. What is your favorite type of character to write about?
 

I love a good villain so that has to be at the top of the list, but I also really love to play with a character (and the audience) in a situation that's ethically challenging – or that might even flip the whole idea what they are, and what the world is.  I've really enjoyed writing books like Me2, Finger's Breadth, Brushes, and Painted Doll – which is also why I can't wait to work on the next book ... just have to decide what to do.

We agree! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!

9. What is one of your pet peeves that you see as an erotica author and editor?
 

The biggest I think it when people think that, because they are writing 'just smut' they don't have to try to tell a good story with engaging characters, evocative descriptions, or enticing dialogue. Nothing turns me off more – as an editor or publisher as well as a reader – to have a writer just throw out something that they don't care about ... because, guess what, that lack of caring really comes through.  I don't care if you're writing about people doing the horizontal mambo, but I do care that you put some love and craft into it.  When I read erotica I don’t look for the sex, I look for good writing.

10. Food and erotica...tell us what you think about when you put those two together.

 

You must mean my recent anthology (published by Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions), Hunger: A Feast of Sensual Tales about Sex and Gastronomy.  That was a lot of fun to put together – and it has come kick-ass stories from wonderful writers in it.  My co-editor, Alyn Rosselini, and I really tried to find stories that mixed our love of both book and doing the nasty – and, I really think, we succeeded pretty well. 
 
I've always been a bit of a foodie and, luckily, I live in the Bay Area where great eats is right up there with a good night between the sheets, so putting together a book celebrating the mixture of savory, sweet, and sexy was kind of a no-brainer.  Yum ... brains...

Lol. Yes! I can't wait to read this one! Food and sex. One of my favorite combinations. 

 
 

M.Christian

www.mchristian.com

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Thank you Chris for stopping by and sharing a little of yourself with us today. You are the main reason I have published so many short stories over the last year. If I hadn't gotten annoyed at 50 Shades and read your book, I never would have found out about ERWA and the amazing author resources they offer. Your high standards make me want to become not just a "smut writer," but a better writer on the whole. It is something I have been working towards my whole life, but since reading your book, I have been in short story writer boot camp (at my own insistence) and have learned so much! Now I just need to go and do that spread sheet you were talking about! Whew!

Now, back to reading your Coming Together anthology!

Hungry for Love: An Erotic Anthology Visits With Fellow Author Lynn Townsend

Coming Together: Hungry for Love is a collection of zombie-themed erotic fiction edited by the fabulous Sommer Marsden. Sales proceeds benefit the American Diabetes Association.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Little Deaths (Cora Zane); My Name is Brighton (Alana Noel Voth); Dead in the Water (Lynn Townsend); Head Full of Zombie (Alison Tyler); Zombie Apocalypse: First Responder (Kissa Starling); You Look Better Dead (Jeffrey L. Shipley); Zombie Goddess (Sadey Quinn); Dark Hunger ( Erzabet Bishop); Love Never Dies (t'Sade); Meat (Bobby Diabolus); Annie Morgan (Armand Rosamilia); Queer Zombie Disco (Kirsty Logan); The Tenderest Meat (Elise Hepner); Last Man on Earth (Blacksilk); Zombie Factory (Kiki Howell); Screen Siren (Annabeth Leong); You Make a Dead Man Come ( Sommer Marsden)

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It's out. My first short story. It's erotic and horrific and oh so very perfect for this time of year. So many great authors went into the making of this anthology and all the proceeds go to help the American Diabetes Association. As someone who came very close (last April) to being diagnosed and who had to live with the scare, this is a worthy cause and it was a joy to participate in. I hope you will join me in supporting Coming Together and add some scary fun to your November.


In talking about our new book release, I got the chance to visit with fellow author Lynn Townsend. 

1. What inspired you to write erotica?

I've been writing for a very long time now. I started my first poem in first grade, and wrote my first short story in fifth grade. During college, I took Creative Writing classes... but my first love was fantasy/horror/sci-fi. And I wrote those instead. However, it seems that in retrospect, I was always writing love stories, just set in a sci-fi, or fantasy, or horror setting. And then I was going back, when I was done, and removing all the sex, most of the romance, and hating it. I had a perfectly good peacock here, I was ripping all the feathers off it, calling it an eagle and trying to figure out why the damn thing wouldn't fly.

But I think I really got pointed in the right direction when a friend of mine was making fun of slash fiction. "Here's what I don't get... there's this whole subculture of women, writing stories about men having sex with other men, mainly for other women." And I thought, "There is? Really? How come I haven't heard about this? Where? Let me see!"

2. Tell us a little about what inspired your story in Hungry for Love.

I love Zombies. One of my favorite movies, ever ever, is Shaun of the Dead. I actually have a collection of Zombie themed music; (Zombie Prostitute by Voltaire, Re: Your Brains, by Jonathon Coulton, The Dead Crawl from the Earth Alive by Jonah Knight are some good examples). As for the specific story, I saw a Facebook post that said "Buy a boat! Zombies Can't Swim."

I did have an interesting adventure while writing it; I've had a bit of a phobia about guns for a long time. And when I was writing the scene where Paige is shooting a deader, it just wasn't coming out well. So I called a friend of mine who likes to go to the shooting range and I had her take me down and teach me how to fire a gun.

3. Open your story to any page and give us a snapshot of what is happening.

Paige is staring out at the coastal waters, somewhere in Virginia. She's wearing long pants and dying from the heat - Virginia is unpleasant in the late summer, really. Mosquitoes and humidity, even at night. She's looking through binoculars, keeping an eye out for deaders along the shore.

 4. Your main character wants to go out to dinner. Set the scene.

Even before the zombie outbreak, Paige never was the type of girl who wanted to be wined and dined. She's more of a "get Chinese take out and eat out of the boxes while watching movies on television." She's been working on a charter fishing boat for the last several years, though, so she's not big on seafood.

5. What are your favorite types of characters to write about?

I don't know if I have a particular character type, although most of my characters tend to have messed up or dysfunctional families. I grew up in an uncomfortably estranged household and I've never quite managed to write a convincing loving family.

6. Pepperoni pizza or sushi?

Yes? I love sushi; particularly eel. I have to be careful, tho. Both my husband and my daughter are allergic to shellfish.

7. Beer, martini or mineral water?

Definitely beer. And good beer, mind you, not that cheap American crap. Except Sam Adam's, sometimes. My current favorites are Monty Python Holy GrAle, Abt. 12, and Newcastle Brown. There's a really good German restaurant down in Portsmouth, the Biergarten and we go there fairly regularly. They have over 300 beers, and I'm always having fun trying to find something new to drink.

8. What are your current writing projects?

Oh dear god.

I'm finishing up a holiday piece called Christmas Miracle. I'm going to miss the deadline for a femme fatal piece - I've had an abundance of real life getting in the way, but I think I may expand on that idea... In the background, I have some longer pieces; a vampire steampunk three-some, a straight-up steampunk romance, a college-age m/m, and a possible piece of lit-fic. I've always got something going on... usually just too much to ever get done at one time. I've also got about half a dozen shorts floating around that haven't been finished yet.

9. What is your favorite kind of erotica? Fantasy, horror, BDSM...

Honestly, I'm a little odd. I like something that makes me laugh. Sex is enjoyable. And I don't want to read sex that takes itself too seriously. It's one of the reasons that I really wanted to work on this antho; I adore Sommer Marsden. She makes me laugh. So, really, genre doesn't matter. I tend to steer away from too much pain; I'm a horrible wimp. I will stop sex in the middle of things because my partner is leaning on my hair.

10. What are some of your hobbies when you are not writing wonderful

smutterific things to read?

Well, I'm a sci-fi/fantasy geek. I love summer action movies. I like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Firefly. That kind of stuff.

I'm almost always reading something - usually two or three somethings, honestly. Right now I'm reading one of the Longmire mysteries, re-reading a David Eddings novel, and flipping through the stories in Hungry For Love. Oh, and I'm reading a romance, Your Scandalous Ways.

I like role-playing games - the kind with paper and dice, I mean. I'm currently playing Star Wars, the Old Republic as my MMO, although up until recently, I'd been playing Warcraft for... oh... (((eight years)))

I'm also a bit of an audiophile. I have something close to 30,000 mp3s. I go to estate sales and yard sales and thrift stores and buy boxes of CDs, just to have something new to listen to. I'm particularly fond of filk and geek music. Jonathon Coulton, Jonah Knight, Mikey Mason, that sort of thing.

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Thanks so much!

Thanks so much for joining me on the blog today. Happy book release!