Today we have a special guest author with us, Linda Nightingale. I had the pleasure of reviewing her book, Black Swan, and posted it here last Saturday.
After 15 years of writing and submitting, I contracted a short story with The Wild Rose Press, so writers hang in there. I have since been asked for rewrites on two erotic pieces. My latest effort I, Lucifer took third in the Launch a Star Contest and finalled in the SARA Merritt Contest, and since it is rather controversial, I’m delighted!
I had been published in on-line magazines and, once when I bred and showed Andalusian horses, the national magazine Equus bought an article on my stallion Bonito.
A snippet about me: I’m a Legal Assistant at a world-famous cancer hospital. I love sports cars, pianos (I own a self-player baby grand but can’t play a note myself), travel and reading. I have two wonderful sons, one of whom lives in Jolly Old England. I tend to be a pantster when it comes to writing, letting my characters introduce themselves and tell me the story. I admit I do sometimes throw away a lot of pages spent in getting to know the characters.
Since the erotic stories are just that—erotic—I’d like to introduce you to the hero in Black Swan.
Black Swan is a story about mortals who willingly submit to the vampire in order to experience the euphoria and sexual ecstasy of the Kiss.
EXCERPT:
The fact that the man she loved was in bed with another woman ceased to be important when Holly saw the blood.
Her heart, which had been running on empty until she met Tristan, stuttered and stalled. Horror freeze-framed time—the shutter snaps of images flooding her brain almost audible. She couldn’t breathe or move, knew she hadn’t made a sound, but Tristan's head snapped up. Wild red eyes honed in on her. Blood smeared his mouth, drizzled from two wounds on his partner's throat. The woman he'd been screwing was deathly pale and deadly still.
She should run before he shouted, "What the hell are you doing here?" but fear had turned her to ice. Holly hadn't blinked but Tristan stood on his feet. Her heart tripped over a beat. No one could move that fast. He shook back his mane of black hair and, holding her prisoner in his gaze, and glided toward her. The last rays of the dying sun bronzed his body. How incredibly beautiful he was. How she loved him. How dare he do this to her?
She wanted to scream, “You SOB! Saturday you said you loved me. Monday you're banging another woman!"
Humiliation, jealousy and grief burned like fire beneath her skin. She tried, but failed to tear her gaze from his. Tristan's eyes were luminous azure not scarlet. The blood on his mouth had somehow disappeared, or, please, God maybe she’d imagined it.. His naked body blocked Holly's view of the bed but she knew the woman still lay there. Why hadn't she said something, jumped up or grabbed her clothes and slammed the door? Blood.
Her heard gave a dizzy spin. Maybe the woman was dead. Fear broke Holly’s paralysis.
Black Swan is available from The Wild Rose Press. http://thewildrosepress.com/
Please visit my web site for a continuing story, Vampire Hunt. http://www.lindanightingale.com/
Leave a comment to be entered in a drawing for a Black Swan coffee mug!
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8 Moonbeams (comments):
black Swan was one of the best shorts I have ever read. It got me going! I want to be bit on the neck. I want to join the club. Only he has to be with just me!
Hey, Linda! You have such a way with vampires and other paranormal beings. Can't wait to see what you do with the newest erotica stories.
(Linda's writing is lush and evocative and her vampires are YUM!)
Thanks Mary and Mary! And thanks Gracen for letting me join you today. I enjoyed writing Black Swan, much more than the erotic story I'm struggling with now. However, I'm sure once it is done I'll say I enjoyed writing it too.
Nightingale, I went to your site to read the story... Aaaaah! We have to wait a whole month for more???
You've got more of the story on the website? I've been waiting to read more! It's a great story and lured me right into the vampire world. I will zip right over to read the next installment. It is a must read.
Ahhhhhh, Black Swan is the greatest vampire read I've seen in a long, long time. Wait, I'm giving away my age, take back one of those longs, but you get my drift. You've just got to read it. Nightingale sings with the sweetest voice, make that writes.
Thanks everyone for stopping by to read my little blog. And Barbara I'm delighted that you like Vampire Hunt. Scarlet, I've been slow getting them posted. My son (web designer) has a new job and a new girlfriend.
Nightingale has her feathers all preened with all the nice comments about Black Swan. Hey another bird in the avery! (Bad joke!)
Barbara is the winner of the Black Swan mug!!
Gads, I misspelled aviary. Avery is a character in my Morgan stories.
Thanks Gracen for inviting me to your blog.
Congrats and fingers crossed on the new story, Linda. I'm drinking my coffee out of my Black Swan mug right now!
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