Monthly Archives: July 2010

Coercion: Five More Days

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At last, the release date for my novel Coercion is almost here — six more days! After a bit of a lazy summer lull (except in everything not writing), things are starting to pick up. Por ejemplo:

  • Coercion will be available for purchase on August 2, 2010 via its publisher Lyrical Press. The price is $5.50 for the e-book, and if it sells enough copies, it has a shot of going into print, so if you like it and want a hard copy, please don’t be shy about saying so!
  • Behold: the humble beginnings of my Amazon.com author page! Check it out at www.amazon.com/-/e/B003XDA3JY.
  • I’ll be in author Melodee Aaron’s Author Spotlight on the week of August 2 — be sure to see the interview and partake in the author chat!
  • I will also be a featured author on the Web site The Erotic Woman, where you can read a particularly explicit excerpt from Coercion…

In the meantime, more author interviews, playlists and stories are on the horizon, so it’s shaping up to be a busy–and hot–August!

-Lux Zakari

What To Do On 1977 Day?

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Coercion has a release date for August 2, 2010. Eee! I don’t think the fact that I’ll have a published novel out in the world will sink in until the aforementioned date rolls around.

We'll sit in the dark after robbing the hell out of NYC!

Since the story takes place during the span of ten months in 1974 to 1975, I told my friend Scott we should have a ’70s Day to celebrate the release, more specifically 1977 Day.

Initially, I suggested 1976, knowing Scott’s fear/hatred of all years concerning disco, and he shuns everything that happened past 1974 to the mid 1990s.

We will avoid this guy.

We agreed upon 1977 because, should the occasion arise, he will be able to watch Star Wars, and now we have a broader soundtrack that will include Rumours and Dreamboat Annie. But now I think about it, 1976 was the bicentennial and that was far more momentous… Hmm.

Further concerns: What will we do on 1977 Day? We don’t quite know what being in 1977 entails, only that it will involve going to great lengths to avoid technology.

(Scott: “So what do we do, write letters?”)

This means no cell phones or using computers, “unless,” Scott said, “they’re the size of Borders.”

We must hang out with all these people.

My friend Audrey Pomeroy suggested we climb a water tower a la That ’70s Show and that Scott enlist. Scott was not for the latter idea, but said he would’ve been down for protesting ’Nam but the war was over by ’77.

DONE AND DONE

As it turns out, even people who hung out in 1977 have no clue what to do on 1977 Day in 2010. One person said that when she was teen in 1977, she would smoke, take walks in the woods with her friend and drink beer.

I asked, “All at the same time?” and she laughed and said, “Pretty much!”

I teased her that she was the master of multitasking.

Any other ideas?

-Lux Zakari.

Interview: Heidi Champa

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Today’s installment of the Dirtyville/Kinkyville interview series features Heidi Champa, author of Today’s Special in the Dirtyville collection. She shares with us her thoughts on her story winning Filament Magazine’s Erotic Fiction of the year and her upcoming novella.

LUX ZAKARI: What initially prompted you to submit your story for the Dirtyville collection?

HEIDI CHAMPA: Well, basically, I’m just a big fan of Sommer Marsden, and when I saw her post the call, I couldn’t resist writing something up for her. My in-laws live in rural Maine and own a cafe, and it seemed the perfect setting for a small town story.

LZ: According to your blog, your story Cold Turkey won Filament Magazine’s Erotic Fiction of the Year—congratulations! Would you like to tell readers anything about that honor?

HC: When I wrote Cold Turkey, I really fell in love with it, and I was overwhelmed by the positive feedback I got for the story. When Suraya at Filament told me I had won their reader’s choice for Erotic Fiction of the Year, I was shocked. Filament puts out a tremendous magazine and the fiction selections are top notch. Having so many people vote for my story was a surprise, but I’m honored to be recognized like that. I am just so proud to be a part of such an amazing publication.

LZ: What is one of your favorite stories in either the Dirtyville or Kinkyville collection and why?

HC: I loved The Sweetshop Owner’s Daughter by Vida Bailey and Punishment Befitting the Crime by DL King. I just thought they were both so hot and got me going with so few words. Both collections are truly amazing!

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Interview: Jeremy Edwards

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Today’s installment of the Dirtyville/Kinkyville interview series features Jeremy Edwards, author of Water-Cooler Routine in the Dirtyville collection. He shares with us his thoughts on erotica vs. real-life sexual encounters, using humor when writing about sex and his upcoming live readings.

LUX ZAKARI: What initially prompted you to submit your story, Water-Cooler Routine, for the Dirtyville collection?

JEREMY EDWARDS: I knew right away that if Sommer Marsden was going to be founding a town called Dirtyville, I wanted to be one of the settlers! Her call for submissions suggested to me kinky goings-on behind closed doors and curtained windows, and so I turned to my favorite kind of kinkiness (women who piss à l’érotique).

LZ: Why is that one of your favorite kind of kinkiness?

JE: Well, I think that ultimately such turn-ons can’t be fully explained: there’s a component of mystery to why an individual finds a certain thing beautiful, arousing, or compelling. But I think I can at least describe the subjective appeal that this kink holds for me. To begin with, it has to do with the difference between the male and female peeing mechanisms, and their association with the sex organs. This seems to make female peeing a thing of great beauty to me, and a thing that is endowed with great erotic potential—especially when considered in the context of women who enjoy intense sensual and sexual pleasure before, during and after peeing… for whom the physical pleasures are coupled with psychological excitement… who perhaps are turned on by things like pissing in front of (or on) a lover, peeing in public, or sensuously and deliberately wetting their panties. So I write about such women a great deal.

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Play List #2: Making Out During Fireworks During the 1980s

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One of my many quirky hobbies is dreaming up very specific scenarios then prescribing a soundtrack for that very brief moment — as you can tell from the title of this post. As I’d said before, smaller play lists, specific themes. After much deliberating, I’ve narrowed down the ideal track listing for such an occasion:

Play List Title: “Making Out During Fireworks During the 1980s”

Mood: A summery night, fireworks exploding over your heads. You’re away from the crowd, somewhere up on the hill on a some well-worn, much-loved Coca Cola-print bed sheet, putting your lips to good use.

Tracklist:

  1. Blondie “Union City Blue” / Blondie “Dreaming”
    Note: It’s no use. I really can’t choose between the two. It’s the Libra in me.
  2. Journey “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’”
  3. The Outfield “Your Love”
  4. REO Speedwagon “Keep On Loving You”
  5. Talking Heads “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”
  6. The Cure “Just Like Heaven”
  7. Big Country “In A Big Country”
  8. Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over”

So should a time machine arrive and zip me back 21+ years to the Fourth of July, I’m ready!

-Lux Zakari.