Howdy, all! Anothr Ravenous Wednesday here at Un:Bound and since summer has officially kicked in, I've mixed up a huge pitcher of mojitos and another of Top Drawer margaritas. Ice cold beer (the good stuff - you name it, we've got it), champagne, water for those not inclined towards decadence, and coffee for those needing to stay awake.
Since our guest today hails from Hawaii, I've also got a ton of fresh fruit (the best pineapple to be had) and am handing out virtual leis (no, not 'lays,' you naught people!) as well.
Rebecca Leigh is one of my favorite new writer friends, both because of her generous, sunny-natured personality and her writing talent. Okay, and also 'cause she shares my love of zombies. Although her zombie love (as you'll read below) is a little kinkier than mine. :-) I've had the pleasure of reading what was then a work-in-progress and now a completed novel with what I have to admit is a pretty damn sexy zombie. Coming from an old school Romero zombie gal, that's saying something! Anyway, I'm looking forward to No Brainer getting picked up asap by a smart publisher (perhaps Ravenous?) and maybe someday touring with Rebecca with our respective zombie novels! Wouldn't that be sweet!
Anyway, please welcome Rebecca to Un:Bound and find out why she writes!
I Write, Therefore I am.
Sitting down to write this blog post I wonder . . . is there one concept that sums up who I am? The answer is yes. And the answer is no. Many things combine to make up who I am. They are:
I write. Erotic romance and erotica. You name it, I write it!
I work. Although I do write a lot in my day job as an attorney, legal statutes and case law are not nearly as fun as hot, steamy sex!
I have a husband and two kids who keep me busy when I’m not doing Number 1 or Number 2 (hmmm, that didn’t come out right). Did I mention my kids are young – they love potty humor!
I live in paradise. No, really – beautiful, sunny, warm-all-year-long paradise!
But writing flows through every aspect of my life.
I write at work. I write at home. I write on the beach. I write in the car.
I write when I’m not busy with work, husband, kids, and going to the beach.
I write because if I don’t I get really cranky. Seriously, my family could testify to my mood swings when days go by and I haven’t found time to write.
I write in order to get the crazy characters in my head down on paper, calm them down, and let them live their own lives.
I write because I love sexy, hot vampires.
I write because I love zombies with a heart of gold. If you don’t think zombies can be sexy -- then you haven’t yet met my zombies.
I write because I love men. And women. And the men and woman whom they desire and who desire them right back.
I write to stay sane.
I write, Therefore I am.
I write!
What do I write?
“Have Stake, Will Travel” about a dhampir vampire slayer who falls for a vampire is now available at Noble Romance Publishing: https://www.nobleromance.com/ItemDisplay.aspx?i=132
“Tea Time” about three 1950s woman who get together one every week for tea and sex is now available in “Once Upon A Threesome: An Erotic Anthology of Historical Ménage A Trois” at Ravenous Romance: http://www.ravenousromance.com/anthologies/once-upon-a-threesome.php
“Tight End” about a quarterback and his tight end is now available in “Tightends: An Erotic Gay Football Anthology” at Ravenous Romance: http://www.ravenousromance.com/m/m/tight-ends-an-erotic-gay-football-anthology.php
My next release is “One Way Trip” a short M/M space odyssey in which Captain Jay Marcos finds sex and love with a Martian, available on July 3, 2010 through Silver Publishing: http://silverpublishing.info/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=45_53_60&products_id=42&zenid=78f26649265d302d1eb388d9d3974d57
Other upcoming releases include two erotic legal short stories and a M/M steampunk novella!
I also recently finished my next novel – with a hot, sexy zombie that falls in love with a government employed zombie killer – “No Brainer.”
A straight-laced attorney by day, Rebecca Leigh gets lost in erotic fantasies at night. Those fantasies find their way into her steamy erotic romances. Visit Rebecca's blog for more info about her!
56 comments:
Ah, I am the first! Having a mojito and a piece of hot sourdough bread with butter. I am a happy hostess!
Rebecca, when you're in the car, do you write stuff down? Or do you write in your head? And are you driving?!
Aloha Dana!
Mahalo so much for hosting me on Ravenous Wednesday! It's still Tuesday afternoon right now in sunny paradise -- but it's Wednesday somewhere, right?!
I'll take a vodka martini -- that's Grace's drink of choice in "No Brainer." Liqour is a necessary thirst quencher when you kill lower zombies for a living! Not to mention when a very sexy upper zombie spins your head and changes your life forever!!
I write in my head in the car, you silly lady! Okay, I lie a little. Sometimes on sticky notes and my older daughter's blank test notebooks. LOL! I hate driving, so as long as I don't try to read what I write (car sickness), then I write!
OMG, I can't believe you write while you're driving... LOL!!! Okay, you need to get one of those little pocket recorders, stat!!
It's Wednesday in the U.K. and a perfectly acceptable time here and in Hawaii to have a vodka martini!
Hello everyone! Wow, sounds like a lot fun things coming from you, Rebecca. And a martini woman too -- excellent. This may be my only chance to comment as I'm sitting in London City Airport, off to Amsterdam and then New York. Hope it's the usual lively party and you all have a great day. And yes, Adele, I'll be back before you know it.
CMK
Hello from Amsterdam! Time for some Dutch beer, I think. I have a question: can you tell us a bit more about the M/M steampunk novel? That sounds intriguing. In the meantime, anyone need tulips?
Kate/CMK
Hello from Amsterdam! Time for some Dutch beer, I think. I have a question: can you tell us a bit more about the M/M steampunk novel? That sounds intriguing. In the meantime, anyone need tulips?
Kate/CMK
Welcome, Rebecca. Dana, oh Darling Hostess, though it's not quite 10AM here, I'll take a mojito. Last day of the fiscal year, always stressful.
Steampunk! I love it. I went to (OK both Isabel's did *G*) the Steampunk World's Faire in May and had a blast! Your m/m one sounds like an emotional punch, since one of the workshps I went to discussed different lifestyles.
Hi everybody! Quite a bit ,later than usual but I'm here at last.
Dana, may I please have some more of that spiced coffee? (You're right, it is scrummy!) I'd also like some of that sourdough bread if you don't mind.
Rebecca, welcome to the wacky world of Unbound where pretty much anything can happen. I like that title: No Brainer. (Does it refer to the zombies or to certain characters who infest your world?)
In any case you have a very interesting life, including the stories you write. I hope you'll soar beyond the clouds. Thank you for sharing yourself with us here.
Good morning, everyone! So delighted to see you all: Jack, Isabel, Margery AND Kate! And thank you, my international travelers, for taking the time to stop in!
Bar/coffee bar/food bar is OPEN!!!
Mojito for Isabel, spiced coffee and sourdough for Jack, martini for my lovely CMK/Kate... for me? I'm on my morning Belgian chocolate mocha to start.
Rebecca, have you read the steampunk zombie novel by CHerie Priest? The name is totally escaping me... but it's excellent and combines two of your favorite things!
ooh, and I just saw Dutch beer... yummy...
Good Morning everyone and Aloha! It's not even 6 am here in sunny paradise!
@CMK -- thanks for dropping by during your travels!
My M/M steampunk is a novella set in the old west where steam is still the primary power source. It follows Damian Junter, a bringer of justice, and Kell Laughlin, an outlander. Damian is sent to kill Kell but learns he is innocent of the crime for which he is charged . . . hot, steamy sex . . . a revolution against the East . . . These are two of my favorite characters ever!! The novella will be coming out soon through Dreamspinner Press:)
@Isabel -- thank you too for stopping by! Steampunk is all the rage right now!
@ Jack -- oh, thank you so very much!!
@Dana -- for any who want to keep it virgin for the morning, I would also suggest plantation iced tea. An island favorite of equal parts tea and pineapple juice
Keeping it virgin? In THIS group?!...
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!
Actually that sounds really yummy. :-)
I like how you keep getting that 'sunny paradise' in there, Rebecca. You realize you'll be getting all of us showing up on your doorstep!
Come one, come all. The Leigh YMCA hasn't had guests this year yet, so it's certainly open for business!!
You know I would love to see some fellow writers -- I know none on this rock!
We could have a zombie movie fest :)
Rebecca, if we can swing tickets next year, we're SO there... I'll just print out this comment thread as proof... :-)
Boneshaker! That's the name of the Cherie Priest book! You would absolutely love it!
Steampunk zombies is definitely intriguing!
If you come, plantation iced tea -- virgin or spiked -- is on me!!
Im off the booze at the moment so can I have some sort of virgin too please?
Glad you're doing so well, Rebecca. If I lived in Hawaii, I probably wouldn't write much. I'd be too busy enjoying the beaches and the water. How do you write on the beach - seriously? Do you bring a laptop, and if so, how do you keep the glare off the screen?
Plantation tea for tee-to-taller Adele!
Lana!! Lovely to see you here!
I'll take a mojito and some guava if it's hiding behind the pineapple. Since I do love Hawaii, the people make the real win, which one do you call home, Rebecca? No really, I'm not trying to show up at your doorstep.
Sipping, and off to read excerpts. Steampunk, and sexy zombies. Gotta say they always seemed a little gross, so gonna check it out!
VA!!! One mojito with a side of guava. I can do that!
Some more coffee please? (I guess some of us ARE "recovering" our virginity today.) Susan, my wife, is an Air Force brat so she lived in Hawaii for some time when her father was assigned to his post there. I'd like to take her back there in the not so distant future. I know she'll love the warm temperature.
Are there any vampires in the folklore of the Islands Rebecca? I know the Hawaiians have an extensive lore of spirits and deities, mostly centering around volcanic activity. Don't know about home grown zombies or other manifestations of the walking dead.
Perhaps they will be subjects of future books. Hope so anyway.
Keep writing and we aill all keep reading. And thank you again.
Hi Lana! Paper, paper, paper! I wish I had a lap top that was sand safe though!!
@ VA -- Oahu! Trust me when I say you will find Ethan Waters, the hero in my zombie romance, more than sexy!!
@Adele -- thanks for stopping by my post! The best plantation iced tea also has a sliver of pineapple on the side :)
@Jack -- I haven't been here long to learn much Hawaiian lore, but I'm not familiar with any vamp myths. I do have a novel that places vampires at the fall of Captain James Cook tho :) It's a . . . let's say . . work in progress!!
Rebecca, let me introduce you to Adele, otherwise known as Hagelrat, otherwise known as She WHo Created Un:Bound! Just realized you probably haven't met her yet!
More coffee for Jack!
Sorry, Adele-I saw you wanted a virgin and didn't think DRINK...I'll just pick my mind out of the gutter now.
Rebecca, I love Steampunk, what drew you to it originally? A book, movie? Something else?
Aloha Rebecca and everyone else here!
I've got a busy day, so it's coffee for me this morning.... You're the best, Dana!
Rebecca, I totally sympathize with the irritability that can arise when you don't get enough writing in; writing keeps me sane, too. ;-)
Good luck with your new steam punk!
Hey Adele, was that "virgin" or Virginian"? The second category CAN be more fun---well, depending on your taste that is... ;-)
Isabel, since when is your mind in the gutter? You aren't a rat or a snipe you know.
I think Dana will agree that something so beautiful and meaningful as sexual love couldn't possibly have emerged from any gutter ever constructed. It's only our crazy neo-Victorian mindset which puts it there in the first place.
No one at this blog could possibly be called crazy anyway. LOL.
Coffee for Lisa...
And Isabel, your mind is very much in alignment with everyone else here. :-)
I get very cranky when I can't write, but also feel cranky when I'm slammed on a deadline... and then have to write whether I'm tired or not. The brass ring - earning enough money to write full time... sigh. a
LOL, well Aloha then Adele, nice to meet you :)
@Isabel - you know I wrote the Steampunk novella because I just wanted to try it out. I'm all about trying new things :) My F/F/F short in the Once Upon A Threesomes was my first foray into lesbian and my M/M short in Tightends was my very first gay!!
@Dana -- I want a piece of that brass ring!!
Jack, you may be onto something here with the neo-Victorian comment. And no, none of us are crazy-a great many other things, but never crazy.
Cranky, because going too long without writing makes me that way also. Even if it's just jotting down notes or playing with characters, I have to do something.
I'm glad I didn't miss a Ravenous Wednesday! It's always so much fun reading about other writer's lives.
Rebecca, one day I'd love to go to Hawaii, but probably not any time in the future. I love your new stories, I read your entry in Once Upon a Threesome, I read all the stories in that one, since it's also my first entry. The 50s hold such a special time in people's thinking. Nice use of the stereotype!
Heya, Kristabel! When are YOU going to write me a post for Un:Bound?!
Aloha Kristabel! Thanks for stoppig by!! I'm so happy we share the historical threesomes anthology -- all the stories are so super hot!!
The island is calling your name . . .
And may I say, Rebecca, you are doing a stellar job of participating as our guest author!
Practicing attorney, first class author, romantic beach girl. She certainly is a stellar addition to the RR heavens. It's always great to join such a scintillating bunch of genuinely good people. I hope this goes on..well until the stars fall.
@ Jack -- you are a romantic at heart, aren't you?
@Dana -- hee hee, I try to learn from the best (insert the names David and Dana here)!!
Jack is the quintessential romantic, ain't he? :-)
I try to be a good influence to all of my beloved RR children. :-)
Wheh! FINALLY I get here! Sorry Reb; I'm running around like crazy getting ready for this year's Atheist Film Fest - but so nice to be here! Kate didn't drink all the Dutch beer, did she? I could so go for an Abdijbier or an Aventinus doppelbock...
I just wanted to say for the record that I've loved everything I've read of Rebecca's so far (Tea Time? OMG, so hot! Tight Ends? Ditto!), and I'm delighted to see her career taking off like this! Hulo!!!
Yeah, I definitely think a trip to Hawaii - sorry, a Writer's Conference- is definitely in order!
-D
aka Kawika
My secret is out. I confess. I am a romantic. I'll even own up to the quintessestial description.And thank you, Dana and Rebecca for that high compliment. Love you both!
@ Dana -- you're my Mama Inara!
@David -- yeah, finally! I was hoping you'd stop by. I'm blushing. You're so fabulous -- I love everything that sexy friend of yours Kilt writes!!
2011 Ravenous Romance Writer's Conference, Waikiki!!!!!
It's almost noon here (finally) so let the drinks flow freely :)
We never run out of ANYthing at Un:Bound, Dave. Plenty of Dutch beer left, even after a hit and run visit by Kate! :-)
Back atcha, Jack!
Then how about a mango margarita to start off the evening?
Welcome late or early Dave. Time to srop running around and just relax a bit. I'm sure the film festival will be a success.
Hawaii sounds like a perfect venue for the 2011 RR Conference. Getting all of you romantically inclined folks there should result in a gusher of love that will sweep the world.
Mango margarita coming right up!
My uncanny RR sense was tingling - and here you all are! Thanks for the love and support, Rebecca! Can I just say your stories blew my socks off - and that can be dangerous when you're in a kilt!
"The Outlaw" is so good it makes me want to contribute to the upcoming RR Steampunk anthology - are you going to write something for it? Wouldn't that be fun?
Btw, if there's any Jameson Whiskey I wouldn't say no to just a stab of it...
-Kilt
Hello gorgeous!
Sounds like we have so much in common with balancing those little ones -- I have two -- with work and hubby. On top of all that is writing!
Ever wonder -- one day -- what your children will think of your writing? My oldest is a bit "dark" herself -- fav. film since like 3 was Nightmare Before Christmas!
Of COURSE there's whiskey, Kilt! You know Inara knows what you like... and she's always to be found where I'm around...
Hi, Louisa! What can I get you?
I was a very dark child in terms of what I liked - horror all the way... I bet your daughter will appreciate the hell out of your writing...although I wonder if kids go through periods of being embarrassed by their parents.
I sometimes made notes while driving. Husband begged I stop. So, now I wait until I stop to jot things down. :D However I only did it on a road that is mostly deserted.
Thanks for the margarita and pineapple. Yum. Success to you on all the books!
Okay, I'm off for home now and will check in later! Jack, you're in charge of the food and drink! And so is anyone else who wants something. :-)
After a little lunch break I should be much more able to hold my liquor -- ** pours some more vodka **
@ Kilt --- awwwww, shucks! You know I'm going to buy hubby one of those. YUMMY! I am definitely considering contributing to the steampunk anth -- we should all share in on that one!!
@Louisa -- wow, the parallel lives we lead :) Juggle, juggle. I've had friends & family ask me ** aghast ** if I would ever let my kids read what I write. My immediate no stutter answer is Hell, Yes! When they are old enough and into this sort of thing -- LOL. I'd be proud! Although my 11 year old is already going on 16 and entering the "her parents embarass her at ever turn" phase"!
@M Pax -- there's not moving violation for what I'm doing is there?? LOL.
Bravo! If your kids want to read what you write you should be proud. And if they don't you still have nothing to be ashamed of. Just do your best and fly as high as you can.
Hi everyone! It's evening on the coast and I still have lots to do so, but it's been a hell of a day. I'll take an Starbucks Expresso Martini. That'll get me through the rest of my work.
Aloha Rebecca! Great Post. Love your work. Can't wait to read "No Brainer".
Bravo to that Jack!
PQ -- good to see you here, thansk for dropping by! Mmmmm, that sounds like a fab drink combo -- gotta have one :)
Me hopes you get to read No Brainer!!
Sorry to arrive so late...and there's an erotic football anthology?!!!! How is it that I didn't know about this?!
M. Pax, you and Rebecca scare me... :-) So more vodka et al for everyone!
P. Queen, you challenge my bartending skills. I am up for hte challenge. :-)
Oh, Lisa, my bad... there is an erotic football anthology!
ah hem, gay erotic football anthology!
those quarterbacks and their tight ends!!
An early morning 'thank you' to everyone who showed up to support Rebecca!!! See you in two weeks!
Thank you also to everyone from me :)
Thanks to the blog powers that be for hosting me!!
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