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In The Flesh: Book 1 of The Medusa Consortium
Mini Post
1: Imaginary Lovers
I suspect every young girl and probably most boys too have had imaginary
lovers. Okay, if I’m being honest, as a writer of romance and erotica, I have
them all the time. J Those
imaginary lovers are the lovers we long for when there isn’t anyone else, when
we’re on our own and yearn to be the center of attention of the best, most
amazing, hottest man ever, or when our fantasies turn dark and dangerous and we
need a little bit of scary-hot help. And let’s face it they certainly have
their place in our self-love life, don’t they? They are our images of
perfection, something that doesn’t exist in the real world. Though In The Flesh has a complicated
origin, a part of its roots and, certainly a part of what drives the story is
an imaginary lover. But this imaginary lover is not the book boyfriend of your
dreams. He’s not the one all your friends will be jealous of. Don’t get me
wrong though, this imaginary lover is strong, powerful, outrageously sexy and
he’s completely focused on you. What more could a girl ask for, right?
But what if this insatiable glorious lover, who blows your mind with sex
beyond your wildest dreams, isn’t imaginary at all? Oh, I’m not talking
Cinderella and Prince Charming or Christian Grey and Anna Steele. Oh no! This
lover is way beyond Charming or Grey. In reality, this lover is the most
terrifying being you’ve ever met. And what if, in spite of even that, you still
can’t resist him?
When I first started writing the story of the Chapel House Guardian, it
really was just a short story, an idea about the perfect imaginary lover gone
horribly wrong. But after three different incarnations, shared in two different
writing groups, I realized there was way more to this Guardian and to those he
seduced than what could be contained in one short story. In fact, I soon
discovered it would take something more than a human to thwart the seduction of
the Guardian. 94k words and In The
Flesh later, I discovered that even then, Susan and Michael, and the
Guardian’ strange story wasn’t finished. I’m now writing the sequel, Blind- Sided. Both books are a part
of something even bigger still, the Medusa’s Consortium Series. You’ll
be hearing more about that later. In the meantime, enjoy the excerpt and don’t
forget to comment for a chance to win the giveaway.
Giveaway: To promote the release of In The
Flesh, I’m giving away a $30/£20 Amazon gift voucher. Check out the
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Mini Post 2: The Mad Mash-up
I
have to admit, I was very skeptical when my husband rented a copy of Cowboys and Aliens for our evening’s
viewing pleasure a couple of years ago.
I mean seriously – that’s like mixing clams with chocolate covered cherries
isn’t it? And then there was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Is it
an acquired taste? Well it certainly wasn’t for me. I have to admit I loved all
three. That got me thinking about mash-ups and rules and how they exist to be
broken. In the Flesh wasn’t really a mash-up when it started its life
ten years ago as a short story. It was just sexy horror. I didn’t even plan the
mash-up bit when I began what I thought was In The Flesh, the
novella. But as it evolved into a novel, it became a strange mix of demons,
vampires, angels and Medusa – that’s right, even Medusa shows up for the fun.
And why not? It is the first book of Medusa’s Consortium, after all.
What
I discovered as I wrote it is that the characters who joined the cast
throughout the novel may have come to the party uninvited, but they were always
a welcome addition that made the story better and stronger and juicier as it
unfolded. Those new characters and the chemistry they created opened the doors
to whole new possibilities and made the novel shine and sizzle in ways I could
have never achieved without a little party-crashing mash-up, making ready for
one giant twist of a mash-up that absolutely guaranteed Michael, Susan and the
Guardian were gonna need a sequel. Enjoy the excerpt and don’t forget to
comment for a chance to win the giveaway.
Giveaway: To promote the release of In The
Flesh, I’m giving away a $30/£20 Amazon gift voucher. Check out the Rafflecopter
for your chances to win!
Mini Post 3: A Story Teller’s Magic
Every novelist
knows there’s magic in a story well told. Every reader knows this too. A good
book is so much more than the sum of its words, and yet somehow armed with just
twenty-six letters and the words and combinations of words we can make from
them, we have the possibility of creating whole new worlds and peopling them
with fascinating, terrifying, dynamic wonderful characters who do incredible,
sometimes terrifying things. How can that not be magic?
Susan is a
writer, so she’s very aware of the magic of the written word, but she’s a
story-teller with something extra – something extra she knows nothing about
until the power of the written word – her written words – nearly destroys
everything she loves. In Susan’s case, while ‘sticks and stones may break your
bones…’ words can do a helluva lot more damage than she could have ever
imagined.
It was
exciting for me to write a story in which the power to create and destroy, to
love and to lust could somehow be embodied in the word magic every writer toys with and creates with on a daily
basis. Making that ability into to something gone horribly wrong, something
twisted and manipulated to dark and sinister purposes was such deliciously evil
fun. The thing about words is that they can’t be unspoken. That’s something we
forget, living in the world of sound bites and video clips. In a world of cut
and paste and delete, it’s easy to undo what we’ve written, but what if it wasn’t?
What if what we created took on a life of its own beyond the written page, and
our only weapon for undoing those words was that same 26-letter alphabet and
the words it creates? In the Flesh is dark paranormal
romance in which words have been used to a terrifying end, and Susan may well
be one of the scariest, yet bravest characters I’ve ever written. Enjoy the
excerpt and don’t forget to leave a comment for the giveaway.
Giveaway: To promote the release of In The
Flesh, I’m giving away a $30/£20 Amazon gift voucher. Check out the
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In The
Flesh Blurb:
When Susan
Innes comes to visit her friend, Annie Rivers, in Chapel House, the
deconsecrated church that Annie is renovating into a home, she discovers her
outgoing friend changed, reclusive, secretive, and completely enthralled by a
mysterious lover, whose presence is always felt, but never seen, a lover whom
she claims is god. As her holiday turns into a nightmare, Susan must come to
grips with the fact that her friend’s lover is neither imaginary nor is he
human, and even worse, he’s turned his wandering eye on Susan, and he won’t be
denied his prize. If Susan is to fight an inhuman stalker intent on having her
as his own, she’ll need a little inhuman help.
EXCERPT : In
The Flesh: Researching God’s Love Life
By the time I
finished my breakfast and was ready to go, Annie was already fast asleep,
curled in her nest at the foot of the altar. Outside, the smell of burning rubbish
stung my eyes and the back of my throat.
I had little
enthusiasm for the handbag sale, nor for lingering at the make-up counter.
Instead I found myself in a coffee shop, laptop open researching God’s love
life, which turned out to be a long history of seducing humans.
Zeus visited
Danae in a shower of gold. He seduced Leda in the form of a swan. Eros came to
Psyche in the dead of night forbidding her to look upon his face. Hades dragged
Persephone down to the Underworld. The Virgin Mary was impregnated by the god
of the Bible. In the New Testament, Christ is the bridegroom, and the church
his bride. And the list went on and on. Perhaps even the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit was just another way for divinity to experience flesh.
I had always
loved mythology, and I’d read all these stories before. I’d just never put them
together to get the whole picture. And though I was seeing an aspect of
divinity that I found rather disturbing, I couldn’t help feeling there was
still a piece of the puzzle missing.
I suppose I
should have felt relieved. Annie wasn’t as unusual as I’d thought. God was the
ultimate stalker, and he didn’t seem to be very faithful to his lovers. Just
Annie’s type. I tried not to think about the implications of my experience in
the bath last night. After all, it was just mythology, and I’d had a lot of
wine. And there’s never any accounting for my vivid imagination. After all, I
was a writer. I made my living as a teller of tales.
“What are you
reading?”
I jumped at
the sound of Annie’s voice and quickly minimized the page. “Didn’t expect to
see you here.”
“I’m feeling
better.”
“How did you
know where to find me?”
She leaned
down and whispered next to my ear. “My lover’s God, remember? You can’t hide
from him.” I barely had time to register shock before she reached down and
restored the page.
“Trying to
learn a little bit more about him, are we?” She smiled at the monitor and
nodded knowingly. “None of this does him justice. He’s the Hound of Heaven.
He’s always pursuing those he loves, and there’s no escaping. Once he’s set his
eyes on you, he’ll do whatever it takes to make you his own.”
I suddenly
felt cold.
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Voted ETO Best Erotic Author of 2014, and a proud member of The Brit Babes, K D Grace believes Freud was right. In the end, it really IS all about sex, well sex and love. And nobody’s happier about that than she is, otherwise, what would she write about?
When she’s not writing, K D is veg gardening. When she’s not gardening, she’s walking. She walks her stories, and she’s serious about it. She and her husband have walked Coast to Coast across England, along with several other long-distance routes. For her, inspiration is directly proportionate to how quickly she wears out a pair of walking boots. She also enjoys martial arts, reading, watching the birds and anything that gets her outdoors.
KD has erotica published with Totally Bound, SourceBooks, Xcite Books, Harper Collins Mischief Books, Mammoth, Cleis Press, Black Lace, Sweetmeats Press and others.
K D’s critically acclaimed erotic romance novels include, The Initiation of Ms Holly, Fulfilling the Contract, To Rome with Lust, and The Pet Shop. Her paranormal erotic novel, Body Temperature and Rising, the first book of her Lakeland Witches trilogy, was listed as honorable mention on Violet Blue’s Top 12 Sex Books for 2011. Books two and three, Riding the Ether, and Elemental Fire, are now also available.
K D Grace also writes hot romance as Grace Marshall. An Executive Decision, Identity Crisis, The Exhibition, Interviewing Wade are all available.
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