Other things I am writing or want to write
This is post #3 of my author chat here at the Circlet Press LJ - scroll down to read the first two and the comments! Jump in wherever you feel the water is fine.
Some people have asked me how I, best known for more 'realistic" SM porn, can find a home at Circlet Press, best known for their support of the science fiction/fantasy/paranormal side of sex-lit.
The fact is, I *am* a media nerd. Yes, I am that one quoting Monty Python and/or William Goldman in the hallway, the player of fantasy role playing games, the reader of incredibly long sagas taking place in world of magic and/or incredible technology. I am the one who waits on a line at midnight to see a movie or buy a book. (Although now that the Harry Potter series is over, there's no other book I am willing to wait on line for.) i do actually own some action figures, and several boxes of comic books and a REVENGE of the Jedi poster, that hangs in the same room as my Hammer Films lobby cards. My Circlet creds go back to a very early original chapbook for Telepaths Don't Need Safewords.
Yes...I am a geek.
Of course, I often tell people that The Marketplace *is* a fantasy. Not because of a depiction of a real life slave market with trainers and slaves and owners; hell, I didn't make that up and these books aren't the last word on the subject. They are fantasy because of the number of people who would actually allow themselves to be trained and sold as slaves. Let's face it - no matter how "submissive" someone is, they still retain one very vital choice - who they fuck. Take that away, and the volunteers who remain would be ...almost non-existent. (Hey, there's always someone who will do *something.*)
But that's not really enough of a fantasy to fit the Circlet mode, which is why my books get a brand new imprint, which is Very Cool.
However, that doesn't mean I haven't written and will not write things other than Marketplace books and stories.
In the past, I have written about Jewish lesbian vampires, a demon who possesses a kinky lady, and I re-told the Little Mermaid as a contemporary butch/femme fairy tale. I've also dabbled in an alt-Japan with a dominant lady warlord and her unexpected lover. I *like* fantasy and SF; I want to write more of it. In fact, I have been thinking of a book about a bunch of hedonistic warriors against the darkness, the type of urban heroes so popular in fiction right now, but with, er, more and better sex. And monsters who are MONSTERS, not freaking Abercrombie and Fitch teenagers who sparkle and pose, but rip-your-throat-out, eat-your-liver, drive-you-insane *things.* Graphic sex and violence - what's not to love?
But for right now, I am busy writing the bonus stories for the e-book releases of the previous Marketplace books and I am working on Book 6 of the series, The Inheritor. In fact, since I have more than three comments, I will post something from The Inheritor HERE, tomorrow!
I also have other Marketplace books planned - a book written from the perspective of owners, for example. Every other book has been written from the perspectives of slaves or trainers. The owners need a book of their own. I am also working on an anthology with my wife, Karen Taylor, who wrote some of the stories in The Academy, book 4 of the series. (Like, Insha'allah and The Nurse.) We will be putting together a collection of short stories about the minor character slaves in the series, like Leon, and a few of the old characters who readers have been curious about, like Sharon.
And, I have two projects in mind that would need some real support from a publisher/editorial staff...
the MP historical novel, with the working title "Anderson's Line" - about the formation of the American side of the Marketplace, and
the PARKER novel.
Yeah, I want to write his biography. Childhood, adolescence, early experiences, his time in England and at Kaleigh and in Japan, his connections with the trainers who formed him and who taught him, his passions, his ordeals, his struggles.
So, yeah...I want to write a lot. I hope I can live up to this wish list - because there's even more than what I have listed above, including a comic mystery. But it is nice to know that even when I finish the next three projects, I have stuff that I can still turn to!
Laura
Some people have asked me how I, best known for more 'realistic" SM porn, can find a home at Circlet Press, best known for their support of the science fiction/fantasy/paranormal side of sex-lit.
The fact is, I *am* a media nerd. Yes, I am that one quoting Monty Python and/or William Goldman in the hallway, the player of fantasy role playing games, the reader of incredibly long sagas taking place in world of magic and/or incredible technology. I am the one who waits on a line at midnight to see a movie or buy a book. (Although now that the Harry Potter series is over, there's no other book I am willing to wait on line for.) i do actually own some action figures, and several boxes of comic books and a REVENGE of the Jedi poster, that hangs in the same room as my Hammer Films lobby cards. My Circlet creds go back to a very early original chapbook for Telepaths Don't Need Safewords.
Yes...I am a geek.
Of course, I often tell people that The Marketplace *is* a fantasy. Not because of a depiction of a real life slave market with trainers and slaves and owners; hell, I didn't make that up and these books aren't the last word on the subject. They are fantasy because of the number of people who would actually allow themselves to be trained and sold as slaves. Let's face it - no matter how "submissive" someone is, they still retain one very vital choice - who they fuck. Take that away, and the volunteers who remain would be ...almost non-existent. (Hey, there's always someone who will do *something.*)
But that's not really enough of a fantasy to fit the Circlet mode, which is why my books get a brand new imprint, which is Very Cool.
However, that doesn't mean I haven't written and will not write things other than Marketplace books and stories.
In the past, I have written about Jewish lesbian vampires, a demon who possesses a kinky lady, and I re-told the Little Mermaid as a contemporary butch/femme fairy tale. I've also dabbled in an alt-Japan with a dominant lady warlord and her unexpected lover. I *like* fantasy and SF; I want to write more of it. In fact, I have been thinking of a book about a bunch of hedonistic warriors against the darkness, the type of urban heroes so popular in fiction right now, but with, er, more and better sex. And monsters who are MONSTERS, not freaking Abercrombie and Fitch teenagers who sparkle and pose, but rip-your-throat-out, eat-your-liver, drive-you-insane *things.* Graphic sex and violence - what's not to love?
But for right now, I am busy writing the bonus stories for the e-book releases of the previous Marketplace books and I am working on Book 6 of the series, The Inheritor. In fact, since I have more than three comments, I will post something from The Inheritor HERE, tomorrow!
I also have other Marketplace books planned - a book written from the perspective of owners, for example. Every other book has been written from the perspectives of slaves or trainers. The owners need a book of their own. I am also working on an anthology with my wife, Karen Taylor, who wrote some of the stories in The Academy, book 4 of the series. (Like, Insha'allah and The Nurse.) We will be putting together a collection of short stories about the minor character slaves in the series, like Leon, and a few of the old characters who readers have been curious about, like Sharon.
And, I have two projects in mind that would need some real support from a publisher/editorial staff...
the MP historical novel, with the working title "Anderson's Line" - about the formation of the American side of the Marketplace, and
the PARKER novel.
Yeah, I want to write his biography. Childhood, adolescence, early experiences, his time in England and at Kaleigh and in Japan, his connections with the trainers who formed him and who taught him, his passions, his ordeals, his struggles.
So, yeah...I want to write a lot. I hope I can live up to this wish list - because there's even more than what I have listed above, including a comic mystery. But it is nice to know that even when I finish the next three projects, I have stuff that I can still turn to!
Laura