Interview with Dirty Bits Author Lexie Donovan

Welcome to Dirty Bits Week Lexie.
I am so honored you would take time out of your busy life to sit down with me and answer a few of my questions. The honour is all mine J
Can I tell you that I loved your story In The Park.  A dark park will never look the same for me after reading your story. Thank you! I enjoyed writing it.
For the love of Books: Lexie, can you tell us a little about yourself?
Lexie: Sure. As my bio says I’m a Welsh girl gone bad so I totally live in a castle with a herd of sheep in the nearby field. 😉 I’m actually an editor under another name and a stay at home housewife under another!  
FLB: Have you always wanted to be a writer?
Lexie: For as long as I can remember I was making up stories and all my siblings and I played make-believe games with full blown story lines. I think I was born to be a writer because even when I tried to be other things I kept coming back to it.
FLB: What do you find is the best thing about being a writer?
Lexie: I love that you can make entire worlds come to life just from putting words on a page and that other people can experience that world from that. I think that’s the best thing a person can do.
FLB: As I said before ‘In The Park’ is a wonderful story. How did you come up with the idea? Personal experience? *Big Grin*
Lexie: Thank you! I would never write from experience of course. The idea came to me as a “what if” sort of fantasy. What would be the most dangerous thing you could get away with doing in public? I think my story reflects that 😀
FLB: What are you currently working on Lexie?  Any more Dirty Bits in you future?
Lexie: I’m currently working on my next Dirty Bit, to be released in July. It’s an f/f story with a highly emotional theme and some steamy scenes.
FLB: What is the best piece of advice you got when you started writing?
Lexie: I have been given so much advice that it’s hard to pick just one. I think the one that every writer needs to stick to is this, “never give up”. Every writer who ever lived was rejected and it only takes one person to say yes.
FLB: Anything else you want to share?
Lexie: Thank you for having me and I hope other people read and enjoy In The Park as much as you did.
FLB: Last Question:  What did you think of Dirty Bits week?
Lexie: I love it and would gladly come back for another week to share our short sexy stories with your readers
If all goes well I would like to do another Dirty Bits week in the future.  I hope that Lexie will have more stories for us too. 
Lexie, If the readers wanted to learn more about you where can they find you? Website, Facebook? Twitter? Blog?
You can find me at my website and blog,  www.lexiedonovan.com and at my facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lexie-Donovan/207822372584524
Huge THANK YOU to Lexie for doing this interview with me.  I look forward to reading more of your stories.
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#8 In The Park by Lexie Donovan

In the Park
By Lexie Donovan
A Dirty Bits short story
All the email said was, “No looking, no touching and no underwear. See you at the park.” It was going to be a wild night….

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My thoughts…..
OH MY *WIDE EYES* 
If you need a little dirty read for your day Lexie delivers.  Since this is a short story I won’t give away too much.  But let’s just say there is a Park, it is Dark, there is a Tree, two people and a promise of a whole lot of Hot Sex……
I enjoyed this short story… I was hot from the very beginning and stayed hot all the way to the end.  Lexie has a great way of getting your blood pumping and leaves you wanting more. The ending was just perfect.  I am not sure I can walk in a park at night now and not think of this story.
Dirty little tidbit:
“I’m going to do what I want to you. And nobody here will be able to stop me.  But they’ll all hear your screams”
Are you tempted yet? 

Interview with Dirty Bits Author AE Connelly

Welcome to Dirty Bits Week A.E.
I am so pumped you would take time out of your busy life to sit down with me and answer a few of my questions. 
I have to start by saying I love the two stories that I read Precisely at Dusk and High Rise.
For the Love of Books: A.E., can you tell us a little about yourself?
A.E. Thanks. I am really glad you liked the stories.
As far as me, I’m middleaged, middle income and pretty boring—the whole nine yards of middle class suburbia. Though I do have a wicked imagination. What goes on in my head would probably shock some of my neighbors in my ‘hood.
FLB: I have a bone to pick with you.  Precisely at Dusk was not long enough.  I know, I know it is a short story.  But I really want to know what happens the rest of the weekend. Will we see any more of these characters in the future?
A.E.: Well, I have toyed with the idea of revisiting this story. One option was to expand it into more of a novella, picking up where the scene leaves off.  The other idea was to write the continuation from the sub’s POV.   Maybe I will.
*crosses fingers* I hope so!!!
FLB: The second short story that I read was High Rise.  I am not sure I will ever be able to walk by a tall building without looking up and looking for… Well maybe I shouldn’t say anymore I want the readers to find out themselves. Again will we see any more of these characters in future stories?
A.E. : I’m glad the story made an…er, favorable impression. I think the Mistress and Pet  from this story may show up again.
FLB: How do you come up with the ideas for you stories? 
A.E.—Lots of alcohol and a helpful devilish muse. 
Ok, I guess that won’t cut it. The simplest way to explain it is that usually my imagination will kick out some kernel of an idea. Usually, it may be a snippet of a scene, just a slice. For example, PRECISELY AT DUSK started out with an image of a woman standing on a doorstep in an overcoat with nothing else on underneath, chewing on her lip as she debated about ringing a doorbell. That image was the start. Then the image came of the man in the window watching her. The fact that he was dressed so normal and so average, yet in the image I knew…just as authors know sometimes, I intuitively knew he was going to control her. And that image intrigued me. The image of a Dom, not in leather in a dungeon, but understatedly dressed wielding control so confidently.
HIGH RISE was another image—it was of a naked man standing in front of a window in tall building while a Domme was controlling him.
FLB: What are you currently working on?  Any more Dirty Bits in future?
A.E. Well, Life has been hindering my writing time (damnable responsibilities!). I have been working on a couple more erotica short stories which hopefully might find their way to Dirty Bits in the near future. I’ve also been toying with an idea of a “theme” collection of interconnected stories involving a small-town healthclub/gym and its naughty members.
I am also working on an erotic suspense novella involving a prosecutor and cop stranded in a remote snowbound area. Of course, there are badguys from the case they are working together coming around, and the two are attracted to each other, but they both are consummate professionals and don’t show that attraction to each other—well, they resist the attraction. For awhile.
FLB: What is the worst piece of advice anyone has ever gave you about becoming a writer?
AE.—The worst bit of writing advice? Actually, I have two. One was a writing instructor who thought you should only write “serious” (i.e.-literary) fiction. I think that’s nonsense, write what you want to write.
The other worse piece of advice is ‘write what you know.’  I mean, really do most authors write about what they know? Do science fiction authors KNOW about outer space or strange societies? Do crime writers really know about serial killing (I hope not) from personal experience? No.
I think the “write what you know” is tossed out without much thought to it.
I think the better advice would be to write what you understand (story wise), and I mean to fully understand the construct or genre. Write what interests you. Write the story that you should write. But also, if you are writing in a genre, then you should know that genre and its constructs.
FLB: Anything else you want to share?
Writing, and in reading erotica, I tend to be drawn to the BDSM themed stories. One thing I’ve noticed is that with a lot of publishers there tends to be plenty of Male Dominant BDSM themed stories, but not as many Female Domme ones, and I wonder why? Look through most of the erotica and erotic romance publishers lines and you find plenty of ‘kink’ but when you look closer, there tends to be mostly female submissive stories. And I wonder if that’s because of the demand of the audience preference?  Author preference?  Or publisher beliefs?
Personally, I like reading stories ‘from either side of the crop,’ so to speak.
Last Question:  What did you think of Dirty Bits week?
A.E. : I like Dirty Bits week. What a great idea.
A.E., If the readers wanted to learn more about you where can they find you? Website, Facebook? Twitter? Blog?
Alas, I don’ t have a website nor do I Twitter, blog or Facebook—honestly, I have a hard enough time finding time to devote to writing. I do, however, like to hear from readers and can be reached at AlexEConnelly@yahoo.com.
Huge THANK YOU to A.E. for doing this interview with me.  I look forward to reading more of your stories.
Got a question for AE?  Feel free to leave any comment or question below.

#7 High Rise by A E Connelly

A.E. Connelly

A “Dirty Bits” Short Story

He is her Pet. She is her best friend. The high rise apartment is their playground.

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My thoughts:
A fantasy finally revealed, but will she be able to handle all that comes with it or will she crack under the pressure?
When the doorbell rings it is time to step up to the plate or back down.
I enjoyed this story.  Who doesn’t have a fantasy they wanted to fulfill, but not everyone has the means or the friends to help them.  AE Connelly does a great job with the BDSM topic in both of these stories.  And just like any good Dom, he leaves us craving and wanting more.
Come take a trip up the elevator to the top of the High Rise and see if you can handle living out a fantasy.
Dirty little tidbit for you:
“She led him to the window and told him to stand there and put his hands out , to brace himself against the window”

#6 Precisely at Dusk by AE Connelly

Precisely At DuskA.E. Connelly

A Dirty Bits Short Story
She arrived precisely at dusk.

She had her instructions. She knew the choice that lay before her. Each step she took brought her closer to the thing she most desired…and feared. The decision was hers.

All she had to do was submit. Could she?

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My Thoughts: 

Would she be able to do it?  She was not 100% sure she could, but still she found herself standing outside the door getting ready to ring the doorbell.  She had always wanted to know what it would be like.  There is a fine line between fear and desire.  This is her chance to find out what side of that line she is on.

OH ME, OH MY!!!! *Fanning myself*

This story was not nearly long enough for me. I was intrigued from the get go, but at last like every good short story it ended way too soon for me. 

If you are not afraid of a little bondage, a little domination then this short story is for you. 

Dirty little tidbit for you:
“This weekend you will do things only when I command you to,” I ordered “And I will do anything I want to you,” I said. I slid my foot underneath……

Stormy Knight blogs about How to Suck in your Reader and Leaver Her Panting

Sinking into Dialogue
How to Suck in your Reader and Leave Her Panting
Dialogue is the most overlooked and crucial part of erotica and erotic romance. Okay, a bunch of you are laughing, but it’s true. The mind is really the most erotic organ. Without involving the mind in the sex of a written work, but only for the value of the sex act alone, you have porn. Once the mind is being enticed, you have erotica or erotic romance. Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to have sex with a guy who is a piece of eye candy but has no sign of a brain. I prefer my men to have brains and brawn, and in that order.  Did I mention he has to have a sense of humor? I want a man who can engage in verbal foreplay way before the actual sexual act occurs.
Dialogue in erotic romance can be used in many different ways. There can be the use of the double entendre where the sexual connotation is there, but no actual graphic language is used. Please note the title of this blog. An example of the double entendre can be seen below in Rose, a romantic comedy, excerpted with the author, Bobbye Terry’s permission. This romance is not classified as erotic, but the sexual connotation is evident.:
“Women say I’m not as they first expect. Once I get to know them and allow them to see the real me, exposed, hiding nothing at all, I grow on them. The closer they get to me, the more they like the whole package. In fact they embrace it. I guess you can say I suck them in. Or maybe it’s just because I get so deep into them. But, most are very surprised at how much there really is to me and they open up. I don’t even have to pump them for…” He stared at her with the blank, innocent stare of a choir boy. “Information.”
He didn’t say one slang word for sex, not one truly inappropriate thing, but the heroine is soaking wet. That’s verbal foreplay, my friends.
Sometimes double entendre doesn’t work. It can be a turn-on for the character and the reader to hear what the lovers say while getting ready to have sex, like below from All for Lust, releasing through Turquoise Morning Press in June:
Phoebe opened the door. “Why, Collin. I never expected to see…”
He pushed her back in the room, shut the door behind him and pinned her up against the wall. “Don’t waste time with pleasantries.”
“How did you know where I lived?”
“Some things I make my business to find out. Especially when a woman makes it clear she wants sex every bit as much as I do.” He leaned into her, making full body contact and put his hand under her chin. “I have wanted to sink into you from the first minute I saw you behind that desk. Watching those pert little breasts, aching to rub them into hard nubs, thinking of that ***, only inches from the bottom of your skirt. How wet it would be as I played with your ***, sucked on you ‘til you moaned low in your throat….”
Here’s an example from Red Hot Lightning, now available from Turquoise Morning Press:
“If you call that a quickie, I want to do it again.”
His chest rocked hers as he laughed. “You will. But not until after the marathon. First, a little slow foreplay. I get a chance to explore those rosebud breasts and that tight ass. Roam my fingers around every inch of your body while you do the same to mine. You can stroke me and…”
Of course, there’s a lot more dialogue in these works, a lot of it naughty, but this isn’t a content-warning blog site and you get the drift anyway. Talk like your characters would. No two will talk exactly alike. They’ll all have their own style and way about them. Be true to them as you tell the story and don’t do or say anything they wouldn’t. Whatever a writer does, she should never carry on a lengthy conversation in the middle of sex. It makes me laugh just to think of it. I mean, how engaged can two lovers be if they can carry on a conversation then? Nope, by that time, all bets are off.
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Stormy Knight is a true southern girl: sweet, sassy and oh so sexy behind closed doors. She loves to look at snow as long as she does it from inside a ski lodge with a big mug of hot chocolate and a handsome guy. However, at her core, she is a child of the winds and the water, loving the warm climates. Partial to the ocean, she has spent many hours on the beach and piers of The Outer Banks, Fort Pierce and Fort Myers, Florida. Now she lives In Texas but her heart still bleeds Carolina Blue. Her latest short works at Sapphire Nights Books include Red Hot Lightning, Blown Away, and Better at Midnight (Steaming Quickies). Stormy’s first novella in The Three Bustiers series, All for Lust, debuts in June.

#5 Blown Away by Stormy Knight

Blown Away
by Stormy Knight

Ace McAllister used to be what Greer Patrick lived for. Now ten years later, he’s how she stays alive. Caught together outside during an F-3 tornado, they shield each other from the wrath of the storm. But, with their sizzling reunion, is Ace’s truck the only thing that’s blown away?

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My Thoughts:

Doesn’t get better then sex during a tornado.  I know what you are thinking. Who has time for that?  Well hang on because Blown Away is going to show you just how very easy it was to get caught up in the storm of love and lust.
Loved this story. Althought I am sure if I was caught in a Tornado the last thing on my mind would be sex. But then again I guess some people deal with stress in different ways.I hope that Stromy brings these characters back soon… I want to know what happened after the pool……. (oops, can’t tell you anymore)
Dirty little tidbit for you:
She lifted her legs, wrapping them around him. It wasn’t the first time she’d don’t that.

#4 Red Hot Lighting by Stormy Knight

Red Hot Lightning
by Stormy Knight

A Dirty Bits Short Story

Skye Miller is so tense, not even a full set of tennis can unwind her tight muscles—her tension heightened by a raging summer storm that grips the town. But a hot and sweaty set of tennis is not the physical exercise she craves, nor will the pounding rain erase her pain. Thank the sex gods above she remembers a possible remedy just up the street. And he’s already posed the invitation.

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My Thoughts:
Skye is a girl in need and when she finds what she needs it is over just a little too quickly for me. I would have liked Skye’s encounter to last a little longer, promises were made but never pursued. I do have to say that it was a good quickie… and it leaves the door open for more stories of these characters.
I did enjoy Stormy’s story…
Dirty little tidbit for you:
“It means one short sex session followed by a very long one, then one more short one. Think of the appetizer, the main course and the dessert”

Interview with Dirty Bits Author Madison J Edward

Welcome to Dirty Bits week Madison.
I am so excited to have you here.  Thank you for taking time out of your busy life to sit down and answer a few questions.
I have to start off by saying I really enjoyed the two short stories of yours that I read, The Proposal and The Perfect Secretary.  Both were wonderful and very different from each other. 
For the Love of Books: Madison, please tell us a little bit about yourself.  Have you always wanted to be a writer?
Madison: Yes, and no. Reading is my passion, and stories have always swirled around in my head. My husband told me for years to write a book, but I didn’t put pen to paper until January 2009. Now I wonder why it took so long.
FLB: As I said I above I loved The Proposal.  Cheri and Blake are so hot together.  I didn’t want this story to end.  Are we going to get to see them in a story in time in the future?  Do you think we should share any tidbits from the story?
Madison: I enjoyed writing about Cheri, and Blake – what can I say… LOVED him. Sends spicy shivers all over just thinking about him. I hadn’t thought about continuing their story, but now that you’ve planted a seed. Hmmmm.
Here’s a small excerpt:
Soft jazz filtered down the hall from the living room, but later on, it could just as easily be Metallica, or maybe even Van Halen as he pressed her naked body against the bank of windows overlooking the city and took her until she screamed out her release. Her sex tightened, and a wave of lust made her dizzy.
As if he could read her thoughts, which she sometimes wondered if he could, he pushed her onto the bed. She fell with a soft whoosh, her legs dangled over the side and a pillow skittered onto the floor.
“Your skin is like silk.” His palm skimmed her calf, moving upwards. “So smooth, so soft.”
Warm lips replaced his hand and slowly, ever so slowly he crept up the inside of her thigh, his breath hot against her skin. “I’ve dreamt about this. I’ve dreamt about you.”
Cheri clutched the satin duvet, waves of desire washing over her, drowning in her own sensuality. Her back arched when broad fingers slipped under the elastic of her panties, and circled the pierced, hooded bud that clamored for attention.
Kneeling before her, his fingers hooked the edge of the lacy scrap, and tugged it down her legs, and once cleared of her deadly shoes, tucked them in his pocket. She’d never gotten a pair of panties back from him, ever. Once, after two days of energy draining sex, and during a moment of lazy cuddling, she’d asked him what he did with them.
A small smile had crossed his firm lips, and as he’d buried his head between her splayed thighs, he told her he kept them in a very safe place. When his tongue has rasped through her slick folds and over her clit, she’d forgotten what she’d asked, and let her body spiral higher with each swipe of his talented tongue.
Her attention came back to the present when she felt his mouth blazing a trail of kisses up her inner thigh. Draping her legs over his shoulders he focused all his attention on her aching sex. Warm fingers slid into her, intimately probing, caressing. Spasms rippled through her midsection when his thumb unerringly found her sensitive bud, swirling over it before drawing the small distended nub into his mouth.
Nerve endings, which had lain dormant for a year, sprang to life. Grasping the covers of the bed with desperate hands, she bucked into his mouth, wanting more. He filled a void that no man had. She’d waited a lifetime for him, and would do anything for him. Anything to quench this overwhelming need eating at her soul.
FLB: The second story that I read of yours was The Perfect Secretary.  Oh man where do I get a job like this?  Again you left me wanting more, any chance we will get to see Seth, Troy or Sarah in the future?
Madison: The adventures do continue. ‘The Invitation’ is with my editor now, and ‘Taking Dictation’ is in the planning stages. Miss Adams is going to have her hands *wink* full for some time.
FLB: Madison, how do you come up with the ideas for your stories?
Madison: Everywhere. I hear a song, and a word phrase will stick with me, certain jobs lend to thinking, ‘What if?’ Sometimes, just as I’m drifting off to sleep, my muse wakes me up, and all you’ll hear is my husband calling out: “Where are you going now?” “Be right back. I have to write this down before I forget.”  I think all writers can empathize with that one.
FLB: Any current Works in Progress you want to share with us?  Any more Dirty Bits stories? *fingers crossed*
Madison: Yes. The two sequels to The Perfect Secretary, and I’m toying with a Poker series. Give a whole new definition to 5 card stud.
FLB: What do you find is the hardest part of being a writer?
Madison: Finding time. I work away from home, so all my writing is done in the evenings and weekends. As you know, family and friends can pull you in a million directions, and I reserve two nights a week for family/friends, and Sundays I always have family dinner where my sons, their wives and grandkids descend on our house for a noisy time.
FLB: Anything else you would like to add?
Madison: Thank you for interviewing me. I have one blatant plug. My first full length novel, According to Plan, is slated for release this July. All details will be on our website for Turquoise Morning Press, as well as my own blog www.whereromancelies.com
FLB: Last Question:  What did you think of Dirty Bits week?
Madison: I think it’s awesome. We have some talented writers at Sapphire Nights Books, and when our publisher said she had some ideas for naughty stories, we jumped on board. This venue will put our stories out there, and hopefully readers will check them out. They’re fun, outrageous, and of course – just a little bit dirty.
Huge Thank you to Madison again for her time and her wonderful stories. I will be posting reviews of both stories shortly after this interview.
Madison, how can the readers find out more about you? Website? Facebook? Twitter?
Website: Where Romance Lies – www.whereromancelies.com

#3 The Perfect Secretary by Madison J Edwards

The Perfect Secretary
Madison J. Edwards

A “Dirty Bits” Short Story

Sarah Adams, thrilled to be Troy Reid’s personal executive assistant, wants to prove she was the right choice. She’s the perfect secretary, who’ll do anything to please both her bosses.

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My Thoughts:
It was the job of her dream, and her bosses where to die for gorgeous.  But when he calls her into her office and tells her she needs to be punished.  Sarah fears she has lost her job after 6 very short months. She is willing to do anything to keep the job of her dreams. 
The secretary and the boss, we all know the story but Madison takes it up a notch for us.  There is more that meets the eye in this story and Sarah doesn’t know what she is in for until she is already in it.  I really enjoyed this story and hope that we get to see more of Sarah and her bosses.
Dirty little tidbit for you:
Fascinated at what she could be doing, he almost laughed out loud as she bunched her skirt up, and fitting a tiny apparatus on her finger, began to massage…………….

#2 The Proposal by Madison J Edwards

The Proposal

A “Dirty Bits” Short Story

Is it an affair that suits both Cheri and Blake? One weekend a year they meet for hot, torrid sex. No commitments, no holds barred. One of them wants something more. Will the other say yes?

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Words: 4300
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My thoughts:

Cheri and Blake are so Hot together it is almost wrong.  But beyond the hotness of their interaction is the underlining story of love and the fear that one may not return the other love.  I have to say I wanted more. I didn’t want this story to end. I want to know more about Blake and Cheri.  What happens to them in the future…

Dirty little tidbit:
“You know that by wearing my gift tonight, you’ve agreed to the terms.  There is no turning back, Cheri”

#1 One + One = Three by JA Blaze

One+One=Three
by
J.A. Blaze

When Steven invites his college crush over for a night of sex, he realizes that pleasuring one girl just isn’t enough. He dips his hands into the pleasure jar and calls Jenny over for a euphoric night she’ll never forget. They’ll all find out if things really are better in threes.

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My Thoughts:
Steven is a guy who is not afraid of sex or pushing the envelope.  But is his kinda girlfriend (or is she a friend with benefits?) willing to go the distance with him? Guess he is going to find out.
I enjoyed this story of a little three-way.  Although it was not my favorite of the 10 books I read. I would have like to see a little more interaction between the female characters.  It was kinda of a wham-bam thank you ladies story. It was still a fun story and J.A. left the door open to continue the story line.

Did you know that one + one can equal three?  Well jump in to this story to find out just how easy it is to get that answer. 
Dirty little tidbit for you:

“My turn to watch.” she countered. “I like to watch”