Moving Forwards

Hi all
I know things are quiet right now I think I’m sitting in a holding pattern – waiting – waiting – waiting. Blood Dance Club comes out on the 26th of October and Fallen Angel comes out 23rd of November…

*Sits with an impatient slump* It’s not July yet.

So I’m playing with some new ideas – Plotting out some, brainstorming others but I can’t seem to settle on one idea. And that’s where the old discipline comes in lol. So I shoved all those aside and grabbed at something new. A contemporary erotic romance of passion and revenge. I know the begining and I know the end and I know a few main plot points. And that’s it.

I’ve come to realize something that I should have realized before, but then when do we ever actually see ourselves in the moment? What I worked out was this: I don’t work well with a plot outline. When faced with a complete plot outline I tend to feel trapped or worse bored and my muse flys out the window.

With Fallen Angel I had my two characters solid and real in my head, I had a few main plot points oh and I had my villain. (lol I love my villain, Brooks, he was so evil and scary) And that was it, from there I just let the story flow and boy did it! James and Eliza fought like cats and dogs and loved with the intense passion that can only come from a couple with strong chemistry

The problem? It’s like jumping from a plane and trusting that the shoot will open and save me from falling to a gross splattery death… yeah I know I’m overthinking and panicking – but then I am a panicker!

So here I go, jumping out again, with a shoot that I’m not sure is packed right and is possibly full of holes…

Wish me luck!!

Love of Novellas & Pirates

When I first entered the world of erotic romance I started reading novellas because well to be honest I didn’t have a whole lot of time to really sit and read. I enjoyed the simple, erotically charged plot and the fun charismatic characters and I loved the quick satisfying end.

It’s no surprise then that when I decided to try my hand at writing, I wrote a novella first. I just loved slapping two strong characters together in a quick, snappy adventure tale full of love, angst and passionate lovemaking.

Fallen Angel was a story that I just had to write, if for no other reason then to get it out of my head. I’ve always had a thing for pirates and of course Pirates of the Caribbean just made it worse. But it was a book that gave me my final push towards scribing my sexy tale of the high seas.

The book was a biography of Black Barty, beautifully written the book not only gave an uncensored view of a pirate’s life, but the description was almost intoxicating in it’s phrasing. When I closed my eyes I could see James (My hero pirate) living that life, and my headstrong heroine, Eliza, adapting to and loving it. *Laughing* I know I loved it

Anyway below is a segment not in Fallen Angel but that was inspired by Black Barty and stars my three favourite characters, James, Francis and Carter (Who will be the hero of And a Bottle of Rum):

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The Ship
By Sandra Fowke

“She’s a beauty is she not, Mr Carter?” James Butler led the two men down the dock.

Edward Carter nodded his agreement, stepping up beside the older man. “She is that, to be sure, Captain.” He tipped his head to the side to get a better view of what the painters were writing and he could hear the echo of carpenters hammering. “A solid ship indeed; eighty-five feet from bow to stern, three sturdy masts, and wickedly fast when the wind takes her, I’ll wager.”

James slapped his shoulder, nodding his approval. “Faster then the devil himself.” he grinned wider. “It will have to be.”

Francis squinted up at the side. “What’s ‘er name, Captain?”

“The Fallen Angel.” James looked to Carter again. “She’ll need a First Mate.”

“Undoubtedly.” He pursed his lips in thought. “Piracy be an awful dangerous game.”

“As apposed to the slave trade?”

“Point taken. What about Silver?”

“An equal share all round and that goes for clothes food and anything else we can plunder.”

“And wenches?”

James laughed. “What do you think we be spending the Silver on, mate?”

Carter strode closer to the ship appraising the offer and craft. They were both fine and First Mate was a step up from Second. “Who else do we have on the crew?”

James stepped up between him and Francis, resting his arms on both their shoulders. “We have a cook.”

(c) Sandra Fowke 2008

Fallen Angel

Unhappy with life in her time, Eliza finds herself swept into the past to the year 1769. All too easily she falls into the role of doxy to Pirate James Butler and before she can stop she is in love.

In the past she finds a life and world she had only imagined and in the pirate’s bed she find desire and rapture like she had only dreamed in her wickedest fantasies.

James is a pirate, heart and soul; he loves his life on the sea and is very protective of his crew. But what is the secret that holds him back from letting Eliza into his heart?

Fallen Angel is a swashbuckling adventure, lush with vivid sea life, exciting, heart pounding battles, evil villains, and steamy, graphic, love scenes that will have you turning up the fans and heading for a cool shower.

 

Excerpt

     Her head hit the hard wood of the door hard enough to make her mind blur, but only for a second.  James hot, hard body shoved her harder, sandwiching her between him and the door.  He growled, deep and rumbling against her mouth and she whimpered with need.  Her body flamed hotter as his large hands held hers firmly above her head and she wrapped one leg around his hip to grind her pulsing heat against his trapped hardness.

     “Fuck, Ellie, you’re incredible.”  His breath gushed against her cheek and his hot mouth made a wet trail across her face and down her throat.  “Never met a wench like you.”  He freed one of his hands and deftly tore open her shirt.  “Never wanted a woman, the way I want you.”  He dragged his thumb over her nipple then, cupping her breast, tenderly, dropped his mouth to lav the pinkish nib with his rough tongue.

     Eliza moaned as he gave the other breast the same attention.  “Oh James, I was so scared.”  Her voice cracked and she strained against the hand holding hers captive.  “Thought you were going to die… Who was that man… Thought he was supposed to fight for the good guys…  James!”  She cried out when he tore open her pants and let them drop.

     “He does – Used to,” he rasped as he gripped her thighs and lifted her, moaning when she wrapped her legs around his waist.  “Maybe never – We served in the navy together as lads – Always a cruel bastard… Ooh…”  His eyes shut tight as he released his cock and with a long, guttural moan slid his thick length home.  “God’s teeth, that feels so good Ellie.”

     It was a tight fit.  She felt torn in two.  Nothing had ever felt so good.  She laughed breathlessly and tightened her inner muscles around him.  “I feel like such a bad girl – Never done anything like that before.  Is this how you feel all the time?”

     He grinned, eyes twinkling mischievously as he slowly pulled out till only the tip of his cock remained.  “Aye.”  He lifted to slide back into her with a groan.  “And you know the best part?”

     She felt him release her hands to cup her bottom more firmly.  Winding her arms around his neck she held on for dear life.  He drew out then inch by inch pushed back in, letting her feel every vein and ridge of his engorged cock.  At last she remembered that he had asked her a question.  She shook her head and whimpered impatiently.

     “The best part,” he rasped and pulled almost all the way out again and held himself completely still at her entrance.  “Is – This…” the last word was hissed out as his fingers dug brusingly into her bottom and he thrust hard and fast back inside.

     “James!”

     Eliza shuddered and felt her cries escaping her throat but all she could hear was him.  His grunting moans filled her head just as his thick cock slammed again and again into her soaking pussy.  His legs were strong, unrelenting, pounding his cock deeper till she felt impaled on his rock hard length.

     She had never felt anything so hard, so thick; no man had ever made her feel such wanton abandon.  She was in heaven and so was her pirate lover. 

     Her head dropped to his shoulder, her hands gripped his flexing arms as she felt and heard him draw closer to his climax.  His head fell back and she could feel his abs and shoulders tightening and flexing with every plunge of his thick cock into her quivering cunt.  It was all she could do to just hold on for dear life and feel.  Feel his cock stretching her so perfectly, feel his whole body straining towards that one part of his body that was pumping desperately inside hers.

     And all at once it was all she could do to breath.  Everything stopped.  Time, space, the world revolving around the sun.  Everything but him and the sweet bliss that spread in white hot waves from where she gripped his cock and outwards to her very toes and fingertips.  Somewhere in the distance she heard and felt him find the same completion. 

     Her body trembled with electric aftershocks as she rested her head on his shoulder and listened to his breathless cries as his body stiffened, his cock flexed and his warm seed filled her passage.

 Coming Soon!

From eXcessica.com

Blood Dance Club

A vicious vampire cult stalks the night, seducing then butchering young boys on the cusp of adulthood.  One lone vampire, Jimmy, may hold the key to revealing their lair; he is the only member to ever get out undead.    All Blaise Rickman has to do is infiltrate the notorious Blood Dance Club and drag him out.  Should be simple, right?

Wrong.

Ten years ago Blaise bedded then betrayed his rival Alexandria Woodrow for the place in a government agency.  He got it.  Humiliated, she fled.

Now the two are rivals again.  She’s a bounty hunter in it for the money and the kicks.  He’s a government agent in it for his job.  The stakes are higher, deadlier.  That same desire that sparked all those years ago is now a raging inferno.  A game of desire and lust is played again, only this time Blaise isn’t so sure that he is the cat.

They are in for a night of new revelations, tastes, sensations, a little spanking and a whole lot of mouthwatering, toe-curling and flesh-scorching sex.  But in the depths of the Blood Dance Club only one can take the prize.

 

Excerpt

He turned to her as soon as the vampire was gone.  “Look, I’ll level with you.  Jimmy is a loser, but we need him for our investigation.”

Her jaw dropped.  Why that slimy snake!  He didn’t want to apologize at all.  All the warmth that had a moment ago been spreading in her chest and body suddenly chilled.  Money.  One hundred thousand dollars to be exact was the only thing that she had to gain tonight and she would be damned if she lost something else to Blaise Rickman.

“And this is my problem because…”  She waved her hand in attempt to make him fill in the blank.

“Because you’re one of the good guys, like me, and I know that you want these filthy vampires dead as much as I do.”

“Sorry, but I don’t see how my target has anything to do with your case.  He’s small potatoes in the vampire world but worth a whole lot of money to me.”

“Money.”  He spat the word at her.  “Is that all you care about.  Do you really have such a one track mind?”

She laughed without humor.  “Look who’s talking.”  Shaking her head she walked around the room taking in the huge bed, mirror on the ceiling, red and black velvet everywhere she looked.  Spinning to face him she glared into his soulful brown eyes.  “Good girls and silly swats come last, you taught me that.”

“This isn’t about you and me.  This is about right and wrong.”

“Oh, and you of course are right.”  She sneered before sitting delicately on the bed.

His face flushed as he glared daggers at her.  “Bloody hell, Alexandria!”  He bellowed and she was taken aback by his use of her name.  She couldn’t remember even one time that he had spoken it.  “You must be the most infuriating woman.  This is not a game.”

Alex laughed again grinning widely right back at his glare.  “Of course it is, everything is a game to you.  Win at all costs.”

“That was a long time ago.”

“I still remember – clearly.”

“Then you should know not to play with me.”  He growled and shifted closer.  “You will lose, again.”

“Not this time, Rickman.”

“Fine, you want to play a game, Lexie?”  His expression changed and a slow sensual smile curled his lips making her stomach flutter.

“Name it.”  She edged back on her elbows till she could feel the plush pillows beneath her.  Licking her suddenly dry lips, she watched as he knelt on the bed and crawled towards her.

Each movement was tantalizingly slow, strong, and predatory till he was settled firmly above her.  His legs rested either side of hers and his hands planted firmly on either side of face.

“I’m going to make you come,” he whispered against her ear, sending shock waves of arousal right down to her toes.  Such simple words and yet she could feel them and her body responded with a vivacity that shocked her.

She swallowed hard and tried to will her heartbeat to slow down.  “T-that doesn’t sound like a game.”

“Oh but it is.”  He twirled a long blond lock of her hair around his fingers.  “The moment your sweet body trembles with pleasure, the moment your toes curl, the moment that your carnal bliss screams from your lips, I win.”

 

 Coming Soon!

From eXcessica.com

New Novella

I’ve just signed with eXcessica again for my new novella Fallen Angel!!

Unhappy with life in her time, Eliza finds herself swept into the past to the year 1769. All too easily she falls into the role of doxy to Pirate James Butler and before she can stop she is in love.

In the past she finds a life and world she had only imagined and in the pirate’s bed she find desire and rapture like she had only dreamed in her wickedest fantasies.

James is a pirate, heart and soul; he loves his life on the sea and is very protective of his crew. But what is the secret that holds him back from letting Eliza into his heart?

Fallen Angel is a swashbuckling adventure, lush with vivid sea life, exciting, heart pounding battles, evil villains, and steamy, graphic, love scenes that will have you turning up the fans and heading for a cool shower.

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Sweeney Todd

I have been wanting to blog about this movie ever since I first saw it.  But for some odd reason I just couldn’t seem to put my thoughts into any cognitive form.  Maybe it was something to do with all the squealing, laughing, blushing and squealing again. 

*Taking deep breaths*

I grew up watching and loving musicals and really enjoyed the way music and song could drive home a theme or idea or scene the way that even an hours-worth of dialogue couldn’t.  Sweeney Todd was everything that a musical should be.  It brought me deep into the story within the first few bars of the music and I knew exactly where I was, time-set, and I had a good grasp on both characters in the scene within those first few moments.  Each song both portrayed the emotion and drove the plot forward.

The central theme throughout the film was definitely obsession.  The Judge’s obsession with the Barber’s wife, Todd’s obsession with revenge and his daughter, Mrs. Lovett’s obsession with Sweeney (Or possibly finding love at any cost)

Actors: 

Helena Bonham Carter: It scared me how much I related to Mrs Lovett.  I honestly think this was one of the best roles I’ve seen Helena play.  Her Mrs. Lovett was chilling and yet so sad and again within the first few moments of her on scene I had a strong grasp of who she was and how she worked.

Johnny Depp: Yes I know it’s wrong on several levels to find a man so damn hot even when he’s slashing throats.  But how can I not?  This has to be one of Depp’s strongest roles yet.  He is just so evil and yet at the same time he has been wronged so badly that it almost justifies his actions … almost lol.

Alan Rickman: Of all the characters, Rickman’s was the most interesting.  At times the Judge seemed to have multiple personalities and as the film moves forward you find that he is constantly at war with himself and oddly enough shares a similar obsession with Mrs. Lovetts – Love at all costs.  He sets his sights on one impossible love-interest and simply can’t turn away.  No matter how wrong and cruel his actions are to gain her love he seems so honestly and beautifully infatuated – if I hadn’t seen the other half of his infatuation I would have found it endearing.

Memorable Moments:

Mrs. Lovett’s – Worst Pies in London: Helena was just amazing in her first moments on screen.  I couldn’t help but smile at her wide-eyed, starving need to keep this customer in the shop and the song with both funny and almost completely wrapped up her character.

Lovett & Todd Duet – My Friends:  I can’t put how many emotions I felt during this son into words.  He was so dangerous with the strong edge of crazy as he plots his revenge and her laying out her heart to him.  So many conflicting emotions – her love and his hate combining with the same lyrics.

Todd & The Judge Duet – Pretty Women: Now most people who know me know full well of my weakness for Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman so for me to be sitting back and watching one shave the other was truly mouthwatering!

 

I could write reems on this movie and the moments that moved me, the moments that made me laugh, the moments that made me want to squeal.  So I’ll end it here and say simply that this was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, production, script, cinematography, and casting was beyond reproach. *Laughing* ok I’m going to stop now.  Oh one more thing - Sasha Baron Cohen *giggles*  I have a love/hate relationship with this guy but he was perfect here.

SHARE!!  Tell me what you loved about Sweeney Todd – send me links to your Todd review or fangirl ravings and I’ll add a link here.

New Free Read!!

I have just released a new Free Read! 

A sexy tale of hidden love and red hot passion.  When Jake walks in on his son’s closest friend drinking away her misery he just has to help.  But can he keep his feelings to himself?  Can he keep his hands to himself?
Read it here: Helpful Guy

SOLD!!

Ahem – I’d like to announce that I have successfully sold my first short story to Excessica Publishing!!!

Blood Dance Club will be released on the 26 of October 2009

Pros of Writing Fan-Fiction

So as some of the people who read my stuff know, I started out writing fanfiction. POTC first then Harry Potter. Don’t even ask how I got into that, the truth of it was that I was just bored one night and out searching for something “interesting” to read… lmao ok so I was looking for Snape fics *blush*

ANYWAY – In this very tight knit community I found some honestly interesting writers, themes and stories of all genres and before I even knew it I was plotting out my own.

The first was an adult story – grownup!Hermione/Remus Lupin lol

The thing was, I was having so much fun plotting and writing these stories that I didn’t even realise what I was learning until someone asked me for advice and all at once I was talking about characterisation, outlining, building tention, pacing… A couple of years ago I would have rolled my eyes and said, “Just write it!”

Now I understand so much about how a story works and it’s made the whole writing experience that much more exciting and enjoyable for me, and hopefully my readers.

Kisses

Sandra Fowke