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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On December 13th of 2012, author <i>Red Phoenix</i> visited my group on Goodreads and answer questions from our members. It was a lovely evening with a lot of good questions and even better answers. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">I always loved writing, but not as much as teaching. When my teaching career had to be put on hold, I went back to my second love.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>
<span style="background: white;">I love books, so although I can’t point to one particular author, I will say that all the great books I have read throughout the years have had a significant influence on me.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I usually play music that goes with the storyline or the character, if that doesn’t inspire, I move onto another story and come back to it. I find that if I am not feeling the flow it is almost useless to write the story. I get nowhere and then have to erase most of it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Organic all the way. I know basically where the storyline is headed, but I let the characters and events lead me on. For instance, I KNEW how Brie would end, but I let the characters carry me along to that ending.</span>
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I have a story to tell and a message to get across with each and every one of my tales. Although there have been a few times fans have said something that sticks in my head and I end up incorporating a portion into a story, I basically see myself as the captain. I am taking you on a journey and you have to trust I will get you there safely, no matter if it goes the way you want or not.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I am horrible. I literally get up at 6 and start. I am normally found at my computer until 11-12 at night. Yes, I do cook dinner, and run errands when I have to but constantly my head is in my books. I have to consciously break away to be a good wife and mother. I am doing better at that, except for this month… so many projects going on at once. To be honest, I have not gotten any Christmas shopping done, or any cards purchased to send out. Now I do jump onto </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Facebook</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and Twitter often to give myself a breather, but the writing is a full-time job, every bit as much as teaching was. However, instead of looking at the clock and hoping for the day to end, I am looking at it with tears in my eyes. NO! I need more time! Seriously, I feel that way every day.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I love getting to know the characters and experience life through their eyes. So many events in the stories are snippets of my life, but they take on more color, more life and more meaning when I write. I love the escape!</span>
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I dislike the business end of it. I HATE formatting the word document for the different websites and having to publish on each one, I am not so keen on the editing process, and I dread the little blurb for each book. It is almost impossible to take a story and condense it into a couple of lines. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">It strains my brain.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">I wanted to publish a novel I had written but was having a hard time finding a publisher for it. I started looking at online romance sites and kept coming across erotica. I thought I could do better, and wrote a piece Loving Amy, based on two characters in my original romance novel. I decided to publish it on Smashwords so I could learn the process and not worry about messing up. It was just a short, written under a pen name so I figured it was perfect. What I didn’t count on was how excited I would get having people read my work. I decided to continued on with the Sensual Erotica series. In the middle of writing that Layla’s story, Keeper of the Wolf Clan, came to me. After I finished the series, we had a snowstorm and Blissfully Snowbound was born. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">And that, my friend, was the beginning…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">I write is because it makes me happy in so many ways. Yes, I get hot when I write the scenes and my hubby and I benefit from it. But I also enjoy the feelings of romance that it invokes while I play out the lives of the characters, and I like the idea of helping other women get in touch with those feelings. My life is so much fuller, my marriage is so much more delightful with a healthy and active sex life.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I sincerely hoped when I started sharing these stories that women would come to understand what took me years to realize. Our bodies are beautiful, wonderful things capable of great passion and enjoyment. Nothing should be taboo between a caring couple. I hope I have opened eyes to the possibilities and encouraged women (and their men) to enjoy each other more.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I would love it if couples reconnect and enjoy each other more. Communication is so important and it is easy to lose that over the years. I believe couples long for that deeper connection, but many have fallen into ruts, or they have never allowed themselves to explore deeper desires because of shame, simple ignorance or fear of rejection. They stick with what they know and after years it gets stale for both sides.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Blessed escape. I get to control the worlds I write about and I always make it a pleasing one for me. It also releases the creativity that burns inside demanding release. There has been a side benefit I never saw coming… I have met and become friends with a bunch of amazing people!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Great question. It is not like Sir is saying, “Red Phoenix, I’m talking to you.” Instead, I see and hear their scenes play out. In the case of Faelan (who has been ‘bothering’ me lately), I knew where his story was going in the new Brie, but for some reason, his scenes kept coming to mind until I finally wrote them out. I am not sure why, as it isn’t until further in the storyline, but sometimes it feels like these characters are real in a spirit sense. Like they NEED their stories to be told and have chosen me to tell it. The first time I felt that strongly was with In 9 Days. Kevin/Luke’s story had me in tears. The determination and heart of Tesse inspired me. :)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The witty banter. I love connecting with them every day and laughing together. There is no shame, no judgment about our sensual desires, just support and encouragement – plus good humor and lots naughty pics.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">You know what the teasing really stems from? My desire to share what I have written with you. I want to just throw it out there after I write a good scene. But I am trying to be good and wait until the story is done. I started doing it with Brie Bows to Her Master and haven’t been able to stop. I have to admit though, I love when I throw out a quote and it can be interpreted in different ways. I know when you read through the story you’ll be thinking, “That is so NOT what I was picturing!” </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Wicked little giggle.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mainly my husband. He is my perfect mate. But simple things like a snowstorm can trigger a story. :) Naturally, I draw a lot from my life, but as I have said before, I feel like some of these characters call to me, wanting me to write their story. All that is required is for me to listen and write what I see and hear in my head.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">At all times, I am the energizer bunny!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Always nervous and excited. I wonder how the book will be received, but I can’t wait to share. It is an adrenaline rush, but by the next day I am crashing. I always do, the next day is always a struggle. It takes so much energy and time to publish a book that I’ve got nothing left afterwards. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Poor family… They dread publishing day.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It is the funnest job I can imagine. Yes I work all the time, but I LOVE it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I do a lot of research. Once I know what I want to write about, I start researching the topic or setting.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I read them all – but sometimes I wish I didn’t. The vindictive ones have a negative influence on my day. But yes, I have certainly had bad reviews that were helpful. One helped me make changes to Her Gift, because I agreed with what the reviewer said. One reviewer encouraged me to write more BDSM after reviewing The Flame. For me, it’s the ones that are personal attacks, attacks against erotica in general or the out and out lies that slay me. Even though I tell myself they don’t matter, those really get my goat and don’t do my psyche any good. I have cried a few times.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Most are helpful. I want honest opinions. But I think some reviewers have an agenda I don't know about.</span>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I loved writing Brie although it was a hefty burden to come up with a completely different scene for every sexual encounter. I did repeat the DP, but it was a different situation so I felt it was okay. I love her heart, humor and her need to please while remaining true to herself whatever the cost.</span>
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I found Blissfully Broken the most difficult to write. Although it is fiction, it brought up some issues in my past that were very hard for me. I was about to publish, but both a beta reader and my content editor said it needed tweaking and I had to postpone publication so I could rewrite it. It was like pulling teeth, however I am very happy with the results. Based on the lightness of the storyline you would never suspect the turmoil it created.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Brie, her humor and kindness. Kevin/Luke for his loyalty and character. Cryil, for caring enough to step in. Marquis, his expertise and teacher’s heart. Tono, his peaceful and loving spirit, Layla, her determination… or crap I love them all!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Master Anderson in the Sensual Erotica series. If you read the original scene you might have been quite surprised. Really it was more appropriate for a girl who was more fully trained, so it is good I scaled him back. Amy was a newbie after all. ;)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Volleyball, reading, Texas Hold ‘em, the game Catan. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">(But really, all I do is write these days.)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If he could grant a wish, it would be that Brie takes off enough to be in bookstores. It would tickle me to death. That, or a sexy cable series…</span>
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If he had limitless funds, that I get a maroon Mustang with black racing stripes on the side, and my Phoenix on the hood. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">(Grins)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I dreamed of training as a Geisha when I was younger, thinking what a joy it would be to know the secrets of pleasing a man - any man. I decided to pair that with my submissive tendencies and created the Submissive Training Center. I also enjoyed the movie The Paper Chase and how the college weeded out perfectly good law students because they only wanted the ones who would give everything to stay in. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I combined it all into that first novelette.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">All of my stories written under the name Red Phoenix are erotic. Some are sweet romances like In 9 Days and 9 Days and Counting, some are adventurous like Brie (Sensual Erotica Series and the Blissful Series), and I even have a couple of paranormals (Varick and The Keeper). The closest to Brie I would say is The Blissful Series. I see Dan and as potential Dom material, but it is not BDSM, it centers around ménage. There are a few chapters of BDSM in Sensual Erotica (where you get an introduction to Master Brad Anderson of the Brie Series). In all of my writing, I try to convey the beauty and energy of good sex.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The most common question asked. As much as possible, I have experienced or personally tried out what I write about. What I have cannot experience, I have researched to find out how it is done and why women like it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I have heard there are some that exist, but nothing like what I wrote about. I was writing out my personal fantasies - college professionalism with tons of different “teachers” and hand-on training, i.e. The Submissive Training Center. I think a lot of subs wish there was such a thing. But the reality is, most people come together and discover those things as couples. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Dom trains his submissive.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">All off the Brie scenes were either my experience or my tireless research. Yes, I do have some friends who are into the BDSM lifestyle, who knows, you might too (you just don’t know it.) :)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I know the importance of full disclosure and the terrible effects it can have when those memories are triggered. I desperately wanted the message of being upfront and honest with one’s partner to be loud and clear. It is not fair to the sufferer nor the partner who has thoughtfully set up the scene.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My husband is too embarrassed to read most of my work. I understand, it is like a play by play and he would rather keep it private. As long as he doesn’t read it, he doesn’t have to deal with the embarrassed of how I sing his praises through my characters. My Male POV comes mainly from years of observing him and my upbringing. Most of my life, I related better with guys than girls. I just couldn’t relate to most females. I found them shallow, silly and mean. Men, however, I get and I love! But now that I am older, I have found a TON of awesome women who get me and I them. I adore it. <3<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dominants all have their preferences. For Ms. Clark, eyes averted is a sign of respect that she demands. But it goes much deeper than that. The two are like oil and water. Although Ms. Clark was impressed with Brie that first day, she quickly grew to resent her. Sir’s breach of conduct with Brie and her outing with Rytsar (a little background story that will be explored in the next Brie) was more than Ms. Clark could handle. She saw Brie’s need for eye contact as a problem, so she became relentless about it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> They are longtime buds, that will become more clear in the new series. <span style="line-height: 115%;">Brie is going to learn a lot about Sir!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Promises by Nero - speaks to Brie's angst.</span>
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. This was the song I used when I wrote the scenes with Tono Nosaka.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yes, the second season of Brie’s life will begin the end of January. It will be written on a novelette by novelette basis just as the original Brie was. When it is finished, I will compile it into a novel. I AM writing another Dom based series which I have dubbed “The Secret Project” for now. It was an idea given to me by my husband and I am not sure there is anything else out there like it. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hope to publish the first piece very soon.</span></span></span></span></div>
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