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An Interview with Bridget Midway & Yvette Hines

   I attended Wrapped Up: A Corseted Event with Bridget Midway and Yvette Hines earlier this month. I had never met either of them before. All I can say is; I'm glad I went, I met some wonderful people, and those two ladies are pretty awesome. Yvette has a presence about her, you know she's there and she speaks her mind (love that!), and Bridget, I figured for a nice, down-to-earth woman, and she is, but she's also got this kinky as hell mind (love that too!).

Bridget, Laci, & Yvette

   The event was filled with candy (lots of candy), laughter, BDSM, corsets, and demos. It was a good day all around. In the swag bags Bridget and Yvette provided paperback books from their Decadent Treat anthology. I started on them a week later, and when I was finished I had questions for the two ladies about how these stories came about, and what was it like to work together on their project. Here's what we chatted about:

Laci: Thank you ladies for agreeing to this interview so soon after your new releases; Red Hots & Licorice Whips. I know how busy life can be, so I appreciate the time you both took to chat with me.

So tell me, how did this whole Decadent Series come about? Because the whole idea of brothers who co-own a candy shop by day, and are sexy Dom’s by night is intriguing.

Bridget: First of all, thank you so much, Laci, for coming to our event, reading our books (so quick!), and for this interview. I’m thrilled you want to interview us!

The series actually came about from our previous publisher, Whispers Publishing. We had done three three-author anthologies with them, Reignited, Taken, and Wonderland. Aliyah Burke, the third author in our threesome, had way too many publishing obligations to commit to another anthology. Since we write contemporary interracial BDSM anyway, we decided to continue with the project but just make it a two-author anthology. We loved our stories so we decided to expand them to full-length novels, and then release them during an in-person author event. 

Yvette: We first have to thank Dawn from Whispers Publishing. She came up and asked if we would do a candy shop story. She always wanted to see a book, series about a candy shop. Bridget and I who write BDSM messaged Dawn and told her we had an idea about two brothers that owned the shop and they were Doms. Dawn thought it was a great idea. We submitted our proposal and the Publisher closed shortly after. So, Bridget and I revamped the story and commenced to writing. Co-writing a series is an experience everyone should try at least once.

Throughout the two books you both do an excellent job, in my opinion, in keeping the brothers true to their own personalities. Did you use each other as a sounding board? Was there ever a point where one of you said, “My guy wouldn’t say/or do that.” 

Bridget: Thank you, Laci. We worked hard at developing our characters’ voices and keeping them consistent in both novels. There were only a few minor items that we had to iron out in our initial drafts. For example, in Licorice Whips, Masaun’s house had been described as having a large detached garage where the Halloween play party happened. Masaun’s house looked different in Red Hots so a compromise was made to keep the house consistent. Sweet in Licorice Whips does not smile. Any references to him smiling in Red Hots, since that is the first book in the series, had to be changed. Those are very minor. What helped us with the consistency was talking before we started writing where we detailed everything, from the characters’ looks to their internal and external conflicts, to the resolutions. What also helped is that we both read each other’s first drafts. We got the characters’ voices down and mannerisms. Definitely communication was the key.

Yvette: Of course, because we are two separate writers who have our own Muses telling us the story. I think naturally as a writer you feel you own all your characters in a story. So, when someone else is writing a story with your characters, especially your hero and heroine, you want to tweak here and there. And in somethings you just have to step away and let go, because it is the other author’s story too. You have to give them space to be creative.

How difficult was it to coordinate the brothers, and their duties in the candy shop and/or as Dom’s? Were you ever worried that you’d both have a similar idea?

Bridget: Because our writing styles and voices are so different, it really wasn’t that difficult to coordinate the brothers and their duties in the candy shop or in their BDSM world. Masaun in Red Hots had been set up as the business-minded brother who used to be an attorney, so it was a no-brainer to make him the, seemingly, more responsible one, a natural teacher. Since Sweet from Licorice Whips is the younger brother, it seemed natural to make him a little more carefree and impulsive.

There is an instance where the two brothers do the same joke in each book. Come on. They are brothers. They’re bound to have the same sense of humor, right? 

Yvette: It is funny, Laci… the whole book was a similar idea. We did talk extensively on the phone about the make-up of the book and who our heroes and heroines were, who worked in the candy shop, what we sold and delivered…etc. However, not all the storyline stuff or how we were going to write it. So, when we both finished and exchanged books to read for continuity, we were like. “Oh, gracious, I saw him like this and I was thinking the same thing.” That was a little scary. LOL. 

Laci: And I think that's why you guys were able to pull it off so well! 

The use of candy in some scenes was, um…let’s say, unconventional. Did you experiment hands-on with these ideas, or was it purely imagination that fueled your muse?

Bridget: The candy playing scene in Licorice Whips came about by pure imagination, especially the Pop Rocks and the candy rings. Okay, there was one experimentation with the candy rings, but that’s it. 

Yvette: Ah, this is Bridget’s department. She got the ‘fun’ brother. He was the candy maker, so I think she did right in using Sweet’s imagination and dominant personality in such a way. 

Are there more Decadent books in the works? If so, how many? If not, do you plan to collaborate on something else in the future?

Bridget: There are only two brothers so this series may be over with these two books. However, we are planning another project. We can’t say a lot about it now. You’ll just have to stay tuned.

Yvette: There aren’t any more Decadent books in the works. However, Bridget and my goal and desire to provide great BDSM books and other hot contemporary romances to our readers will always lead the door open for one of us to say… “Hey, what about…” Next summer we do have something in mind we are planning to do for the readers together, but it is top secret squirrel coded.

Laci: LOL Top secret squirrel coded! That made me laugh, for more reasons than one. My daughter was bit by a squirrel last week, and since then it seems I'm being hit with squirrel references left and right.

Share three things about yourself that not many people know:

Bridget: 
1. I’m the youngest of five children.

2. I’ve met the governor of Virginia. I have a picture to prove it!

3. Although I write BDSM erotic romances, I’m not in the Lifestyle. I just learn from a local group. 
Yvette:

1.I’m a control freak.

2. I love to laugh, deep belly laughs until I am crying. However, I can’t write romantic comedy worth and damn.

3. I give until it hurts way to often.

One word answers:
Bridget:

Tea or coffee?  Coffee (I don’t drink either. I like the way coffee smells.)

Red or black?  Black (It hides a multitude of sins.)

Cats or dogs?  Cats (But love both.)

Winter or summer?  Summer

Vanilla or chocolate? Vanilla 
Yvette: 
Tea or coffee?  Tea

Red or black? Both

Cats or dogs?  Cats

Winter or summer?  Summer

Vanilla or chocolate? Vanilla

Bridget: Laci, thank you, again, for interviewing us! This was a blast! 
Laci: Not a problem, anytime! Loved having you guys.


 

Bridget Midway is a Best-selling author of interracial BDSM erotic romance. She has been published since 2005 with more than over four different small press and electronic publishers including Phaze Books, Parker Publishing, Loose Id, and Liquid Silver Books. The multi-award winning and award-nominated author has found her niche with readers with her scintillating interracial BDSM erotic romance including the EPPIE Award finalist, Love My Way, and Romance Slam Jam Steamy Novel of the Year finalist, Corporate Needs. With more than 24 published short stories, novellas, and novels under her belt, she shows no signs of stopping. For more information on Bridget Midway, go to her website at HERE

Licorice Whips is available at:

Phaze

B&N

Amazon

Books-A-Million

And other fine online book retailers.

Yvette is an erotica author that loves pleasurable hours between the sheets. Whether it is a blended tale of interracial lovers, the clandestine bite and wicked passion of a paranormal mates or the sting of a commanding whip against tender flesh. Even better, make her day and toss in two gorgeously, decadent men who only want to pleasure their woman. She writes Short and Sexy, Sensual Erotica (SASSE). Occasionally, you may get a full length novel from her. She's been penning erotic tales since 2006, on the hedonistic side of the romance genre.

She's married to her best friend. A guy that makes her laugh 'til she can't breathe and one who steals her breath every time he walks into a room. She believes in happily ever after like the rising of the sun depended on it.

Visit Yvette's website: HERE and you can purchase Red Hots on Amazon

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Brie Embraces the Heart of Submission: After Graduation by Red Phoenix Blog Tour

Brie Embraces the Heart of Submission: After Graduation by Red Phoenix Blog Tour


Book Description:
On the night of graduation, Brie Bennett offered her collar to the man who’d won her devotion during her time at the Submissive Training Center.

The intimate encounters Brie enjoys with her new Master are hot and deliciously challenging. On the flipside, despite her newly acquired skills, she discovers that being a sub also requires maturity, intelligence and willing sacrifice.

Her Master has a tragic past that he has kept hidden. She is unaware that someone is waiting in the wings, plotting to return and rip his world apart. Brie has troubles of her own, including an obsessive Dom who won’t let her go, parents who refuse to accept her new lifestyle, and a film that is struggling to see the light of day.

Brie’s journey with her Master brings both sweet ecstasy and unbearable pain. Friendships deepen and love grows, even as her life begins to crumble around her. To survive, Brie will need the strength of a love that binds her securely—heart and soul.

You can purchase, Brie Embraces the Heart of Submission: After Graduation HERE.

  

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GemKqzILV4w

This song inspired me whenever I wrote Tono’s scenes. His gentle spirit brings Brie peace, his rope brings her great pleasure. Tono is content just to slow down and “be” with Brie. Unlike Faelan, he respects the sanctity of the collar but his is a love that will never die.

Excerpt from Brie Embraces the Heart of Submission (Tono Teaches Brie):

“Toriko…” Tono called from the other room.

The sound of a lone flute floated in the air, letting her know what was about to take place. She took a deep breath before rejoining him. Brie bit her lip when she saw Tono sitting on the mat in his black kimono, with jute in his hand.

She joined him on the mat, kneeling before him. Her stomach jumped when his fingers made contact with her skin. Without asking, he took her wrist and wrapped the jute around it.

“Observe what I do, toriko. I want you to understand the intricacies of the bindings. These are basic, but can still be used for more complicated designs.”

Her heart rate sped up as she watched him bind one wrist to the other. He then began a pattern, weaving the rope between each of her fingers, caressing her skin sensually with the jute. She longed to close her eyes and give in to the feeling as she listened to the lone flute call her, but it was not what he had asked of her.

When Tono was done, he held up her hands so she could see the intricate work before he untied it and bound her again so that she could observe it a second time. He left her wrists bound when he was finished, starting on her legs next.

He told her to sit with her ankles together and, using a new rope, proceeded to bind them together. She watched in fascination as he tugged and pulled at the rope, creating tight yet beautiful bonds with simple knots. He untied it, and repeated the procedure for her benefit.

Tono then got up and retrieved something from the bedroom before kneeling behind her. “Breathe with me, toriko.” His words brought a smile to her lips. Brie closed her eyes, embracing the sensual feeling of the bindings as she matched the rhythm of his breaths. He explored her skin with his hands while lightly kissing the back of her neck. “I will bring the release you need…”

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There is a special Sir’s POV from the Collaring Ceremony Red has written and is on the following blogs in this order:  

Monday POV:  Love Between the Sheets

Tuesday POV:  My Fictional Boyfriend & Book Whore

Wednesday POV:   Sugar & Spice Book Review

Thursday POV:  Anas Attic

Friday POV: Twinsie Talk

On Saturday I will have the full POV on  Stephanie’s Book Reports

 

About the Author

Red Phoenix is an award-winning indie author who began her writing career in December of 2011. She caught the imagination of readers with her little novelette, Brie’s First Day of Submissive Training, which was published in March, 2012. Since then, fans have been riding the Brie wave with the sociable author. In October of the same year, Red published the wildly popular eBook serial into novel form, Brie Learns the Art of Submission. She recently finished Brie’s continuing journey in the book titled, Brie Embraces the Heart of Submission: After Graduation. The epic novel, 542 pages of seductive fun, was published the end of October, 2013.

Lifeless by J.M. LaRocca Cover Re-Reveal

Book Description:
After graduating from the University of South Alabama, Scarlett Moore discovers her boyfriend of five months is actually married with a child on the way. Feeling used and heartbroken, she decides it’s time to take her best friend Jules’ advice to move to Atlanta and live with her. There, Jules helps her get a job at Entertainment Atlanta, where she works as an entertainment insurance agent. It’s not Scarlett’s dream job, but it’s better than not having a job at all, and who wouldn’t mind working with famous people, right?

Then she gets assigned to EA’s newest client, Kade Evans, rock star turned actor. Not only is he a drug addict, he’s also known for never dating the same girl twice. He’s tall, dark, and handsome, has an amazing voice, and good acting skills, but he’s also arrogant and intense.

At their first meeting, the chemistry between them is undeniable.

The love that comes later is unexpected.

But Kade’s life is full of secrets. His past has now intruded on his present and when Scarlett finds out what his secrets are, the real deception begins.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQAG226

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DQAG226

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lifeless-jm-la-rocca/1115915629

Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/lifeless-2

Author Bio: 

 

J.M. La Rocca was born in Chicago, IL. At an early age, her family relocated to lower Alabama where she began her love for writing. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and twin sons.

As a stay at home mom, La Rocca was able to pursue her love for writing in GA. It was always an unrealized dream to write her own book. With the encouragement of her mother, La Rocca began to set to paper her ideas for her first book.

Seal The Deal, by JoAnne Kenrick

After being ditched at the altar, Finn Kneale isolates himself at Port St. Mary’s magnificent lighthouse. A violent storm ravishes the coastline, pitching the maritime tower into the Irish sea and transforming Finn into a seal. Carefree at first, he soon longs to walk as a man again. When leap year arrives, bathing land and sea in magic, Finn temporarily regains his human form. If he can’t find his soul mate in twenty-four hours, he’ll be back to cavorting among the waves.

Anne Ward—resident midwife and newcomer to Port St. Mary, Isle of Man—guards some wild secrets of her own while avoiding entanglements with married doctors. A believer in fate, she seeks out
Madame Eve’s exclusive agency to help find her destined mate. 1Night Stand matches these two lonely souls. But will their extraordinary date allow Finn and Anne to open their hearts to magical possibilities and Seal the Deal?

Find all buy links: HERE

Excerpt (steamy)

His stomach muscles pulled taut and lust pulsed through his groin, slamming the need home. So long he’d waited. His breeks grew tight, bringing attention to what he wanted—needed with growing desperation. He had to have her.

Now.

Finn yanked her in, closing all distance between them, and swept his tongue over hers. His swollen shaft pressed against her. The hair on his nape prickled. He wasn’t sure what excited him more, the prospect of making love to her, of having skin to skin contact, or her ability to end his curse.

He thrust forward, groaning.

“Slow down.” She panted and shoved, palms flat against his chest, but he stood firm and she stumbled back a few steps, landing on the bed with her legs apart. She peered up at him from behind her tousled curls, her low gaze focused on his lips. Moonlight bounced from her locks, shimmering deep-red low-lights and reflecting a warm tint over her perfect complexion.

If this was how he’d spent the rest of his years, he couldn’t wait to get started, to see her naked. To feast upon her beauty as she walked down the aisle.

The temptress had said slow down, but her almond-shaped eyes and her pout begged him to keep trying. No retreat, this is it. Giving up is not an option.

       A new found confidence rushed through him, and a grin broke free. Boundaries usually standing between him and pleasure were nowhere in sight, his desire to invoke their connection too strong to deny, to let his awkwardness get in the way. He dared to drop over her, caging her in and pushing her into the mattress. Hazel eyes held him captive. He couldn’t steal away if he wanted to. 

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About JoAnne Kenrick

JoAnne Kenrick is a multi-published author who writes both contemporaries and paranormals. Her Irish Kisses series earned her the title of a Bookstrand bestselling author, and contemporary romance bestselling author at ARe and Amazon. When JoAnne's not writing, she enjoys creating book adverts and crafting.

"Another magical read from JoAnne Kenrick. Passion, thrills, and romance, this book has it all. A must read!" ~ USA Today Bestselling Author, Marie Harte.

"JoAnne Kenrick transports her readers to that land between myth and reality where romance is all the magic you need. Don't miss your chance to visit!" ~ Heather Long, bestselling author of the Always a Marine series.

"Ms. Kenrick created a magical, romantic, and sexy world with vivid details that pull you in and make you beg for more. Seal the Deal is a wonderful, steamy addition to the 1Night Stand series and a must read." ~ Bestselling romance author, Lia Davis.

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