LUX ZAKARI

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

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.

Just another benefit to reading: Writing an entry about why you enjoyed one of the stories in the Racy Pages Surprise anthology (in which you can read my work Midnight Rodeo!) can put you in the running for a sweet iPod shuffle. Check out contest details here.

-Lux Zakari

Recently, I did a guest blog spot on Toni V. Sweeney’s blog about how an author can only be, at most, two of the three following adjectives: prolific, communicative or good. My friend Scott was the one who told me about this theory before, and I asked him where he’d heard it and he had no recollection of ever having this conversation with me, insisting that his memory loss can be blamed on the fact “MY BRAIN CELLS HAVE LONG BEEN BURNED OUT OF MY HEAD DUE TO DRUG USE” (emphasis not mine).

I reiterated the theory to him, and he asked what being “communicative” meant, and I explained it was taking advantage of social networking sites, blogging and undergoing all sorts of marketing antics.

Scott said, “Oh! You meant being commercially successful!”

YES! I do. I’d misspoken.

Now that mess has been cleared up (further proving the importance of utilizing the correct words and terms!), has anyone any thoughts on this Two of Three hypothesis? Can a writer be prolific, good and commercially successful all at once?

For the first post, visit the post at Toni V. Sweeney’s blog.

-LZ.