Never really left - but I AM BACK FOR SURE

Hi all

Sultry is back and soon I'll be releasing more of my fantasies, romances and science-fiction to let you escape with me into my rather - far away imagination. I'd love to hear for you all so please feel free to post on the blog.

Star TyGer is finished and going to Midnight Showcase within the next few days - hopefully they'll still be as happy with it and the sequel as they were when they contracted it.

Mae Powers has been great about allowing me a little more time to get it finished because of our move.

We are in North Carolina now - up in the glorious mountains, getting ready for fall and looking forward to winter. I plan to write a great deal and when not doing that - I'm going to sew and make jewelry and - yes - yes I'm going to get my oils out and paint. A long ignored talent we live in a community where it is very encouraged and there are a lot of artists.

Actually is a great place to live. They have festivals almost every weekend, motorcycle gatherings and bicycle roadies everywhere here that train for the big races like the Tour' de' France. Actually Lance Armstrong at times trains in this general area. This ara is just plain COOL and in the winter it is cool in more ways than one. Our daughter - still in collage has already found four 5 caret rubies in the road that leads up the mountain to our driveway. They look like they recently have broken from the geode and just need a quick polish to be set. Beautiful stones. I plan to go digging in the local stream less than a mile away. We also had a bat sneak into the house through a hole next to the rocked fire place. We carefully caught him and put him back outside. Cute little fellow, didn't even attempt to bite (we did wear heavy gloves)

We've also made Blackberry and Peach Perseves - Yummy!For now that's about it. Look for more information soon.

Sultry

Interview at The Romance Studio

Hi to all

Click over to The Romance Studio - Blue and read the my interview featuring TROJAN GOLD my latest release. Get a peek inside the reasons behind the book and the books coming. I'd like to thank Holly for her time and insightful questions and of course The Romance Studio for their interview. http://www.theromancestudio.com/blue/who9.php

Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys: Why do I read more male SF writers?

Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys: Why do I read more male SF writers?
I hope I've clicked on the right link to comment - I tend to be much like you, I'm not into Tupperware parties, or tea parties either. At a mixed party I gravitate toward the men and their conversations finding a more rewarding venue of discussion there than talking about the latest starlet who hasn't been eating or rather what's she has been purging. I also write Science Fiction/Fantasy - I do write with an erotic flare. I don't drop my plots and allow the sex to take over! However more and more my books which are more Science Fiction/Fantasy are becoming less erotic, more toward romance as a tool and the former becoming the more important genre of the book. Yes being a woman, I love the romance and yes sex is great but without the PLOT being driven by a plot not by the sex (if its the other way around) I feel its more porn with a twist, small as it generally is in such cases. I am very pleased to have found your blog, now I know I'm not alone in this big, new opening genre where a woman's imagination can and IS coming up to speed with those we have read and loved since childhood namely H.G. Wells, Julies Verne and of course the numerous and more recent authors which I won't bore everyone by naming. With the exception of a couple of reaches into contemporary that I've done, all my books are either Science Fiction or Fantasy based and yes, all have erotic scenes when I write as Sultry Summers. Longer works which I hope to bring out - upon polishing, under my own name, Sheila Eskew will be romance and more Science Fiction and Fantasy.
As an author who has, in the passed also reviewed, I've given books low scores when they've been dubbed as Sci/fi or Fantasy and the author has spent so many pages on the sex the characters couldn't possibly have had time for anything else yet the book did have the Sci/fi elements and a promising plot which was horrible butchered because the author became too focused on sex. One in particular (which will remain unnamed) comes to mind, started well, had great promise but so many protocols for new planetary exploration were broken, or not addressed to explain why and in the end - well there wasn't one, the characters were too busy with other matters and the plot forgotten. I keep hoping for some true Science Fiction from women authors. We are beginning to see it and yes with those sex and romance elements included - I think it can be done and done right.
To sum it up, I love your blog's lead in post and agree with you completely. I was so glad to open you post and find this link.
Thanks
Sultry

What is YOUR favorite Myth?

I'm always interested in what my readers like to read - what author isn't? Since writing "new" myths is one of my favoite topics I've a question - what is YOUR favorite myth. Drop me an e-mail at waterwit44@gmail.com please put "favorite myth" in the subject line and let me know OR just post on the blog. I'm always open to a new idea for a "new" myth. I have several working but there are so many around the world - I can alway use another.

TROJAN GOLD - DON'T MISS THIS MYTH

Once again TROJAN GOLD is available, it was out for such a short time with Venus Press, but it did get wonderful reviews. Check my review page at www.sqpens.com/TrojanGoldreviews.html while you're there check out the excerpts.

For now, I've posted the cover and a short blurb:

An erotic myth of youth regained, a life saved, and love found by the grace of the god Apollo and the wisdom of Zeus. One mortal woman's compassion and bravery after the fall of Troy changes the course of history. Her courage and dedication touches the heart of a love desolate god when he at last finds love in her arms. No obstacles, even the queen of heaven, can stand in the way of their happiness that will last through eternity.

Go See AVATAR

Normally I don't review movies. I absolutely loved the new Star Trek movie and thought J. J. Abrams did a wonderful job as did all the actors on the movie. I very much look forward to the NEXT one already contracted. However, tonight I had the most wonderful cinema treat - I saw Avatar in 3D! IF you hadn't planned to see this movie at the theaters - I encourage you to do so! Not only are the special effects worth it but the plot and acting are excellent. I really hope to see it again - even though, in 3D it does cost a little more and in these times that hurts. This movie is an adventure into another world - duh, but in 3D you really feel like you are a part of it. Talk about SHOW instead of tell, this movie does that and so much more. Each of the main characters, and that includes the bad guys, you feel their side - even when you don't like them. It was a great experience. On the regular "Big Screen" it would still be good, even great, but 3D makes it, well - something - MORE!

Mistress Says Faster Now at Fictionwise

Click on over to Fictionwise -

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b95446/Mistress-Says-Faster/Sultry-Summers/?si=0
Read the great review by Books You Gotta Read and the first chapter. Rev up your engines for fall and get your blush the color of the fall leafs with Sultry Summers' first contemporary.
Sultry