I just wanted to introduce Ms.Elodie Parkes to my blog today. She is a fabulous author and she's a great person. She is out promoting her new book, The Horoscope Writer:
Here is her wonderful interview:
Tell
me a bit about yourself:
I
live in Canterbury, that’s in Kent, United Kingdom. It’s a lovely old place and
I work in antiques there.
I
have two large dogs who are just softies despite their size. I drive an SUV and
love the countryside.
What
type of genre do you write?
I
write contemporary erotic romance sometimes with a twist of mystery, suspense,
or the paranormal.
What
genre to you personally read?
Wow
I read almost everything including some reference books for fun.
Tell
me about your latest?
Book
that I am reading?
Well
it’s the new Christine Feehan, Dark Storm.
Where
is your book available?
My
books are already available. I have three currently out on kindle only right
now.
My
latest release is The Horoscope Writer, but they have all been released on
kindle this year.
Where
you live and one thing you love about it
I
live in the rural end of Canterbury and I love that, the countryside and the
way it changes through the seasons. Right now the leaves are piled high along
the sidewalks having fallen from the trees that line the road.
Website: http://elodieparkes.blogspot.com
http://elodieparkes.webs.com/
What
sparked your passion for books and the art of a good story?
I
get inspired by people. I used to use art, drawing primarily to express that.
I’ve been writing since I was seventeen and yet only recently published. People
and life in general inspire me.
Is
there a particular book that changed or affected your life in a big way?
Not
in a big way but definitely influenced me in my early art career. Drawing on
the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards
What
was the seed of inspiration for your latest book?
I’ll
tell you about two books because they come directly from contact with
particular people.
For
instance my book ‘Millie Reinvented’ was inspired through my day job.
I
was talking to a young woman who was in the antiques shop where I work and she
was buying a little sculpture of two lovers kissing. She said she had to have
it because it was so nice to look at, as her husband didn’t even kiss her
anymore. I couldn’t say anything I just wrapped the item, and stored the
thought until the story burst out onto my laptop.
The
book ‘Two of Them’ was inspired by a guy in an auction house. He came to stand
next to me and was bidding for a Georgian table. He was talking to me about
having inherited a run-down cottage from his grandfather and buying a few
pieces for it as he renovated it. We had coffee together; he had the bluest
eyes and was very nice, he told me he was looking for a different job because
in his words ‘he felt as if he couldn’t stand the one he had another second’.
He inspired the character Jet.
Is
there a message in your book that you want readers to grasp?
Not
really a message. I write to give love to lonely people, my characters always
find love and my stories always have happy endings.
What
challenges have you faced in your writing career?
The
awful burden of marketing. Not that I don’t know quite a lot about advertising
and marketing but it cuts into writing time so much it drives me nuts sometimes
when I can’t get to writing because of it.
What
has been your best moment as a writer?
So
far just sitting back and reading my final product and thinking yes this says
what I wanted it to. I haven’t had many reviews yet but there was a lovely line
in one of them, “Parkes has a real gift for writing heartbreakingly real scenes
and complex characters whom you grow to care about deeply”.
That
felt good. Someone posted on my facebook page that The Horoscope Writer was a
sizzler, that felt good too.
Who
is your author idol?
Not
one single author. I don’t know if anyone is an idol. I admire a few dead ones.
Chekov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hardy.
Do
you see yourself in any of your characters?
I
thought not but I was featured on a blog recently and it came to my notice I
might have a thread of Cassie from The Horoscope Writer in me, or should that
be vice versa.
Do
you feel like your dream has come true or is there much more to do?
I
have heaps to do, I don’t have a dream when it comes to writing it’s a
profession that is too capricious to allow myself to have a dream about it. I’d
like readers to enjoy my stories, feel them, want to read the next one, that’s
all.
What
is your personal cure for procrastination?
Yikes
I don’t have the time to procrastinate honestly, I’m like running form dawn
‘til dusk and then on into the night to write.
What
does your workspace look like?
A
big table with carved legs ion which sit two laptops, a netbook, an iPad,
assorted pencils and post it note pads a blue plant pot with a giant fern in
it.
Here is some more information about her book and a short excerpt!
Here is some more information about her book and a short excerpt!
My latest release ‘The Horoscope
Writer’ was inspired by signs along a country road when I was out
driving one day in another county.
The main characters just started to flow into
my head and by the time I had driven home, which was a three hour journey through
the countryside, I had the book and characters completely ready.
Dominic Reed the horoscope writer is desperate
for love. He doesn’t know he has never had the kind of love he suddenly finds
with Cassie the female lead character. It ignites a sexual passion in him he
didn’t know he could feel.
My books do contain graphic sex in the love
scenes but they are love scenes, romantic and the characters are driven by
love.
‘The Horoscope Writer’ is about a man, Dominic, who is a writer
and has lots of different writing jobs for magazines amongst which is that of
horoscope writing. He is a lonely soul, living in the country on a funny
country lane where a few artisan’s workshops are. Fortunately he has a friend
there too, Jeremy, who has a workshop, design studio there on the lane.
Dominic is lonely. His last relationship broke
up a couple of years prior to the opening of the story and he really wants
love.
There is a workshop to let on the lane and
Cassie comes along to rent it.
Dominic is instantly attracted to her when he
sees her in Jeremy’s office and she finds Dominic irresistible.
There is a mild paranormal streak running
through what is an erotic romance because Dominic has been influenced by his
great uncle who was also a horoscope writer.
This is a love story, erotic and enticing.
EXCERPT 18+ From The Horoscope Writer
“Can I get you anything Cassie? Coffee?”
She smiled at him thinking he had perhaps
changed his mind about going to bed together.
“Okay coffee is good” she answered.
Dominic washed his hands and made coffee.
Cassie watched him.
“If you’ve changed your mind Dominic it’s
okay”, she told him. It was what Dominic needed.
He went to her and held her head to kiss her.
The kiss was like nectar to Cassie and she began to put her hand up inside his
sweater to reach his skin. Dominic held her head with one hand kissing her
almost desperately as he used the other hand to unzip her jeans and push them
down her thighs. Cassie unzipped his jeans. Dominic felt almost lightheaded, he
couldn’t stop kissing her, and he put his hand down inside her underwear to
press his palm against her lower stomach.
Cassie gasped and searched for a way to lower
his jeans and feel his hard bottom. She felt his fingers reach her entrance and
she parted her legs a little so that he could push them into her.
Dominic’s voice was a whisper.
“Cassie let’s go to bed. I want to feel you
naked against me. I need you”.
She nodded slightly as his face was still
against hers. She moaned involuntarily as he took his fingers from her.
Dominic took her jacket, and put it over the
back of a kitchen chair.
Cassie pulled her jeans up leaving them
unzipped.
Dominic held her hand to lead her up to his
bedroom. The staircase was surprisingly wide, and they could walk up there side
by side. Dominic’s room was at the end of the landing, and he pushed the door
open with the side of his body as he turned to hold Cassie again and kiss her.
Somehow, though it wasn’t clear how to either
of them when they thought about it later, they undressed, and lay clasped
against each other on the bed breathing into each other’s mouths when the
sensation of being skin to skin overwhelmed them for a few moments.
Dominic traced his fingers down her stomach
reaching her entrance to find she was wet for him. His lips found hers and
their tongues touched gently as his fingers began to work magic on Cassie. She
moved against his palm and made little sounds into his kiss as she reached for
him. He thrust into her hands and they both groaned with need.
“Cassie wait I’ll find a condom”, he said, as
she began to whisper her need to him.
“Dominic I need you inside me now”, she
whispered over, and over as she kissed him.
Her hands felt cool on him and he was still
thrusting his hips as he moved his fingers in her. Cassie was close to coming
and she kissed Dominic shaking a little against his lips.
“Dominic I’m going to---”. He knew, and he
decided to give her that first.
He kissed her tenderly and moved his thumb
over her bud, his fingers deep inside her. “Cassie I know, let go, do it”, he
whispered, and left his lips soft against her mouth as she moaned and thrust on
his fingers coming. It seemed to last a long time and Dominic liked that. He
looked at her with love as she finally opened her eyes and smiled a little at
him.
He wanted to be inside her and he reached over
her to the drawer in the bedside table to find a condom. He couldn’t find one,
and because he was kissing Cassie as she stroked his erection, he stopped
kissing her to look into the drawer. Cassie took the opportunity to move down
his body and take him into her mouth. She felt his intake of breath as she did
it and held his hips still before moving a hand to hold him low on his shaft
and suck him.
Dominic let the feeling of complete pleasure
soothe his worry about not finding a condom. He held Cassie’s head gently with
his hands in her hair. As he looked down at her, Cassie shifted her body and
moved her leg over his so that he could feel her entrance wet against the top
of his shin. Her hair fell over his lower stomach. She was doing amazing things
with her tongue and his gaze fell on the lovely curve of her bottom and length
of her satiny thighs. Dominic felt his orgasm rise up from his thighs as
Cassie’s hair feathered across them. The sensation rippled up him all the way
to his lips and he groaned. Cassie kept him in her mouth until she knew he had
completely finished. She had never known quite what to do with the mouthful of
seed and this seemed like such a lot. Without thinking too much about it she
swallowed and then kissed up his stomach and chest until she nuzzled against
his throat.
Dominic could feel her moving gently against
his thigh and sighed at the pleasure it gave him to feel her damp entrance on
his skin.
“Cassie”, he whispered, as she sucked a little
at the base of his throat.
She waited.
“Cassie”, he whispered again, and he lifted
her gently up so that her head was level with his. He kissed her tenderly and
then kept her cuddled against him. They both closed their eyes and lay quietly
together until they slept for a short time.
Copyright Elodie Parkes 2012
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