New Release: Cinderella Loves Snow White

She kissed me in my dreams.

We stood in a lake in the middle of the deepest woods, alone, sans clothes or secrets between us. Two women, our bodies bared to each other, our breasts free and full, wet from the lake, as drops of water glistened and sparkled on her skin and rolled off in dewy streams.

That I was so fascinated by another woman’s breasts surprised me, and I felt my breaths run short. She stared at me with pearly-blue eyes, as her hair shimmered with the black shine of a raven’s feather, and a body I could only dream of. Her body was perfect, sculpted and lithe, the peaks of her hipbones just above the water, and her skin dove down towards her sex as it caught the laps of the gentle waves between us.

A woman?

I dreamed of a woman.

A wet drop of water clung to her hardened nipple, and I wanted to touch it, to steal it off and bring it to my lips. It escaped my touch before I could reach for it, as my hand stopped short in the tense air between us.

In my most private times I dreamed of her.

In my most lonely moments she delivered me peace and comfort.

My secret?

Why, my secret?

Her eyes knew but they did not say.

Cinderella Loves Snow White

Fantasy fairy-tale erotic romance captures my heart today, and now live in the store is book #1 of my CLS Romance Project, or aptly-titled Cinderella Loves Snow White. This is now available in the Amazon store and also on Kindle Unlimited, so you can check it our for free if you are a subscriber to that service.

So, why? I have always wanted to write romance, and while my alternate-ego Angel Black is deep in the middle of a swords and sorcery futanari epic, I wanted to stretch my wings and try something more conventional, yet unconventionally so. This started out as straight romance, but it acquired enough heat after I came back to place this in the erotic romance category, although the sex-to-pages quotient may not be as high if you are used to books that deliver sex in every chapter. Out of 32,000 words I have two-and-a-half erotic scenes, and the rest is pure story. The story is a mix of traditional romance and action-and-adventure, so it is a genre I love and true to my heart.

This is a book #1, because I needed this out. It sat for nearly a year uncompleted, and I came back to it early this month and finished this half of the story. I wanted this out to judge reader reaction, the end of this story has not yet been written, and I feel in some way this ending needs to come from the fans. I need feelings on this, and then I shall dive back in and bring the story to its end. I set a two-book limit for this story, and even put "1 of 2" on the cover to make that promise to readers. It feels like a two-book story now, and I don't want to lure readers along endlessly without a set limit.

Yes, if there is interest, the second book will be finished in a lot faster time than a year, trust me. I have fallen in love with this story, and ideas and endings are coming to me at this moment. It takes a little time though to finish something right, because I put a higher standard on myself because I am a reviewer. I'm not perfect though, but I like to think I am.

So, why fairy tales? Because it is about time we took them back. Go back and read the original Brothers Grimm tales, and you'll find that fairy tales were decidedly adult stories with mature themes. While I take nothing away from all the great work that writers and creators have done for these tales for younger audiences, I feel there is a wealth of material in the land of not-so "happily ever after" for these characters more suited for an older audience.

What happens to a Cinderella after her marriage to Prince Charming? What if she discovers her love for him may have been a little less true than she first assumed? What if another princess caught her eye, and set a fire in her heart? I know, there hasn't been too many fairy tales where princesses run off with other princesses, so this story has a unique and interesting angle to it that I feel is contemporary and worth exploring.

This world also has darkness, and same-sex relationships are not always the things of which fairy tale endings are made of. There is quite a bit of dealing and coping in this book with a troubled soul or two, and some admittedly dark places which define characters and their motivations. The world and certain places within are not so friendly to such an affair, and while this may be hurtful to some, it makes their love all the more tragic and special. Great romances are defined by the forces which stand against them and judge them, and in this case I wanted to capture a little fairy tale reality and some of the tragedy from history, from both medieval and our modern times.

There is humor, adventure, lust, betrayal, adultery, deception, and plenty of hurt to go around. Against that tide of war and darkness stands love, and someone who does not know who she is as a person. She must find herself, and she must deal with who she is and who she could be. In the end, this is a book about strength and love, and how two souls can overcome the darkness.

There is another part to this story, I know and I feel it. There is yet another tale here to be told. But for now, let me be your storyteller for a while, and take you once upon a time into a fantasy world where a single dream can turn everything on its head.

Cinderella Loves Snow White, book #1, now on Amazon.

CLS Romance Project: Cover Reveal

So...CLS Romance Project?

Let's start calling this Cinderella Loves Snow White, and today let's do a cover reveal. I just submitted this to the Amazon store and it is in review, so it will take a day or two to go through the store submission process and get on the shelves.

So, lesbian erotic romance meets fairy tales? Yes, you got it right, and this one was so fun to write. If you have been following along, this one sat on the back burner for a while, as I hit a point where I didn't know where I wanted it to go. I had a plan, but by the time I got there, the plan rung hollow and it needed a new direction. I needed to follow my heart, so I rolled some things back, set a new course, and finished the first book in this series.

I wanted to write this as straight romance, but I had some very nice heat creep in there by the end, and so I put this in erotica where it belongs. I needed that heat, because without it, you would have this book where the two of them constantly lust instead of commit and change. This decision to add a little more heat was a part of my revamp and rekindling of this title, and it payed off for me because I was able to explore so much more, and take this in a decidedly delicious and darkly twisted direction.

This is a book one, and it will be up to the fans to let me know if this one should continue. I know it feels like a typical move, but I want some fan reaction to shape the ending of this, so I will let people read and give me some feedback. The end of this story has not yet been written, and in a way, the fans will let me know in which way this one will go.

I will speak more about this when it is in the stores and give you a store link, but for now, enjoy the cover, and I am a happy writer who has another one on her shelf.

More to enjoy soon.

SCL Project: 7,000 Words In...

Just a 'keeping it real' status update for my SCL Project, and I am 7,000 words into this. Oh my Goddess, I cannot believe how fun writing this book is for me.

I have gotten a lot of feedback about how I write, and this book is a result of what people said they like to see. It is also what I like to write, and I just feel so totally at-home writing in this style and on this subject.

To those of you that follow my reviews, the characters and style will be very familiar to you.

I have a couple major decisions coming up where I will need to make choices. One is on sexual content, how much and how graphic. There is another decision I will have to make that will require me to be very brave or very stupid and possibly both. I am saving making them until the last few words before I have to make them. The sexual content choice is coming up very quickly, within a chapter of where I am, and I shall see what I decide.

That second brave/stupid decision that comes later though, and I am agonizing over this. To be true to my vision, I need to go forward with how I envisioned this to be written. This means being brave/stupid and taking a huge chance. I guess I will get to this when I get to it, and I can put it off just a little longer.

I think what is fascinating to me about this project is that I am seeing a character I know from an entirely new side, and I am also meeting the people around this person. It is a fascinating world I knew little about or even explored in my reviews, and now I am getting to know this person a lot better through what he is going through. It is like 'knowing' someone online, and then the experience of meeting them in person.

Your perspective changes, and you start making opinions about them based on something other than a label or a simple statement of fact. In this case, I am really liking this character, and diving into this world with them is a fascinating and eye-opening experience. Someone you thought of as 'simple' is becoming wonderfully complex, and in that you start to realize things about yourself as well.

The story? Right out of a movie and I love it. It is one of those books you write and feel alive again, and I hope this comes across for readers as well.

More news soon, and the chase continues...

SCL Project: Work Begins

I don't believe in shelving an idea, because they rot. You either start it fresh, or throw it away.

So over the weekend a new novel project hit me, and I dived in.

I started by making the cover, and it sang to me. I just started throwing together pieces of the sample images I could find and I built a mock-up that made me smile. I also came up with a title that absolutely rocks, it nails what the book is about and it encapsulates the plot of the book perfectly.

Once I had the cover, I started throwing around the ideas.

It took a while, I knew what I wanted the book to be about, and I knew the general plot. I mentioned this to Darthaniel, and he came up with a totally different plot he thought the book should be about. His ideas has a lot of merit, so I took them and mixed them with my ideas, and now the book is perfect.

The book is so fun, and it has things in it that people universally say they love in my writing. It also has characters familiar to some, so this should be a treat for my fans.

I do have a choice to make, and it's pretty big.

Mainstream or erotic-romance?

This is a big choice for many reasons, well two actually, so I am diving in and holding off my decision for as long as possible. Is the book strong enough to sail without the sex? It certainly is. Would it be really, really fun with some spicy scenes added? It would in fact, fit perfectly.

Now even with straight romance you have a lot of leeway in spicy content, and then you can go to erotic romance, and then straight erotica. I am not doing this as straight erotica since it is not entirely about sex, but it is set in a world where writing the sex out would feel artificial and sterilized.

So there will be sex in the book. How explicit this will be is going to have to be a decision I make. It will also be a very tough decision if I do what I am planning on doing with the narrative. This is my second agonizing choice, but one I know readers will love since I do it all the time. Just not in this way.

And I completed 4,000 words today in the first two chapters, and the story starts off with a bang.

And I shall keep writing until I have to make that choice.

I am still editing Vampy Black, and I hope to get that done and back to Darthaniel soon. But the idea struck me, and it carried through to an amazing start I am super happy with. I will share more when I get work done and things get towards release, but this is going to be a fun one.

For now, I shall call this the SCL project, and keep you updated with as much information as I can. More soon.

Planning a New Book - Romance!

Oh yes, the fires have been lit, and I am in the planning stage of a new book. This time, I want to tackle romance. Why romance? I don't know, I do what I want to. I seriously do not want to be pegged into one place, I love writing free and being free.

I know, I know, I'll change my tune ones I'm a bestseller in a category and that one thing is all I'll do.

So romance! Not erotic romance either, just fun, be still my beating heart, bodice ripping, and tear-inducing romance. Well, maybe there will be a little heat, or a lot. I'm thinking the latter. There is a way to write romance that is extremely hot without being overtly erotic, remember, there are some unwritten rules here between romance and erotic romance that have to deal with subject matter and tone. I am looking forward to exploring those and sharing the differences with you.

There will be a twist to this to make it fun and interesting, so do not expect anything normal coming from my keyboard. Several twists in fact. It will be fun, trust me, and it will be a little more lighthearted than our dark and brooding debut paranormal horror novel sitting over there on the sidebar. Several eye-catching and twisty twists shall make this a very fun novel indeed.

Romance can be fun, it can be very emotional, it can be hot, and it can have a kick to it that makes it emotionally satisfying and highly dramatic. I just want to do it my way and have some fun, so we will see what I will come up with.

I have a beautiful cover done for it, and a title.

Oh yes, that's how I roll - cover and title first. What I write has to be true to what's on the cover, the characters, the feelings, the look, and the emotion. Having a cover done also gives me an investment in getting it done, because I can open it up and look at it every day until it is time to hit the "submit" button on Amazon and send it to you.

No, I'm not ready to share. Not yet!

I have it all plotted too, with the major backstories laid out. Romance needs a lot more in terms of prep-work, you do not have easy filler, and character and background become very, very important. I will still probably be doing prep-work for a week or so until I am happy I have enough to pull from to get it going and keep me going.

I want this one to have some heat to it as well, but tasteful and sultry heat. It will be a little bit more mature, but I want it to sizzle without having to cross the line to where the story is driven by sex-as-plot. It will be driven by lust, and then most likely love, and I want room to explore that. There is a lot of fun to be had with love and lust, and I feel without such a heavy sexual burden there will be more room to play and have fun with the concept.

It will be hot though, most teasingly so.

And twistedly delicious.

I love writing, and I love being different. I don't ever want to walk the predictable road, and I want what I do to break genres and stereotypes. I'm just doing what I love, sharing, and creating little stories to share with you. What I try to do is say 'don't be afraid to be different' and also 'to be true to yourself' - that is what is important.

Do what you love. Write what lights your fires.

Be unique. Live!

And love.