Please Welcome Kele Moon who is blogging here today!

Beyond Eden, my first novel, just released from Ellora’s Cave September 8th. Laced with symbolism and the beauty of true love, three life long friends come together in this erotic Garden of Eden themed romance.

Despite the darker themes, Beyond Eden is, at its core, a very passionate love story. It’s unconventional, but no less potent because of it. Writing Danny, Paul and Eve’s journey was amazing. The characters had such strong voices and the writing process was extremely poignant for me. A lot of the feedback from readers was that of very strong emotions when reading Beyond Eden–laughter, passion, and tears.

It’s not surprising considering that writing it was a rollercoaster of emotions that literally changed my entire life. There were times when I laughed out loud and there were times when I sobbed. As for the passion, I found out I was pregnant just as I finalized the first draft. All joking aside (and I’ve heard a lot) I cannot tell you what an unexpected miracle my new daughter is. At a time when I thought I’d never be able to have another baby, she came into the world just when my dream of finally being a published writer was realized.

Now, a year later, with a new baby and the story I bled my soul into out in the world, it’s been an incredible ride. The feedback has been amazing, the support from my fellow writers, my publisher, my editor and agent has been overwhelmingly wonderful and I am so enjoying the journey!

Thank you for letting me share my joy with you and for taking the time to read a bit about the novel that has and still is changing my life for the better!

Here’s an excerpt for you to enjoy:

“Stand up and turn around,” Danny said and then leaned into Paul when he did so, blocking Eve’s view of his back.
He rested his cheek against Paul’s shoulder as his arm wrapped around his waist. Danny was bare-chested too, wearing jeans instead of black suit pants and together the two of them made Eve gape at their beauty.

With enough paint, canvas and film, Eve could use Paul and Danny to feed her muse for all time. That’s how beautiful they were together to her. Her mind stopped seeing beauty in the world outside the two of them standing there together and neither of them realized they had just ruined Eve’s art for the rest of her life. Nothing she ever created would be beautiful unless it had one or both of them in it somehow and it occurred to her that she was going to be selling her body to Danny an awful lot. She couldn’t bear the thought of not creating art and any art that didn’t capture the dark magnificence of two beautiful men who were slave and Master to each other seemed pointless and dull. She’d sooner die than paint anything less than what her artist eyes were seeing in front of her.

“You don’t want Evie to see these marks on your back, do you, Paul Guy?” Danny asked softly, whispering the words into the curve of Paul’s neck. “I want you to tell her why you don’t want her to see these.”
“Because I got them for refusing to give Eve to you,” Paul whispered in misery. “And now they’re useless.”
“Why are they useless?”
“Because I can’t feel them. I wanted to feel them forever.”
“Why?”
“Because I love her.”
“What?” Eve gasped, sucking in such a sharp breath of air she thought her lungs would burst.
“You knew that,” Paul said, turning around to glance at her over his other shoulder with a look on his face that told her he had assumed she had known it all along.
“I did?” Eve squeaked and her face scrunched up in a fight against completely breaking down in front of both of them.
“Yeah, I told you I’d love you forever.

For another excerpt of Beyond Eden visit Ellora’s Cave!

To find out more about Beyond Eden including book trailers, reviews and more please visit Kele’s website at:
http://www.kelemoon.com

Erotic Love

Love Is In Air . . .

“If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. ” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

C.S. Lewis in his book THE FOUR LOVES speaks to four different kinds of love. Let’s see how they are categorised by Lewis.

“Affection: Affection is fondness through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotive, and widely diffused of loves: natural in that it is present without coercion; emotive because it is the result of fondness due to familiarity; and most widely diffused because it pays the least attention to those characteristics deemed “valuable” or worthy of love and, as a result, is able to transcend most discriminating factors. Ironically, its strength, however, is what makes it vulnerable. Affection has the appearance of being “built-in” or “ready made”, says Lewis, and as a result people come to expect, even to demand, its presence—irrespective of their behavior and its natural consequences.”



“Friendship: Friendship, a strong bond existing between people who share a common interest or activity. Lewis explicitly says that his definition of friendship is narrower than mere companionship: friendship in his sense only exists if there is something for the friendship to be “about”. He calls Companionship or Clubbableness a matrix for friendship, as friendship can rise in the context of both. Friendship is the least natural of loves, states Lewis; i.e., it is not biologically necessary to progeny like either affection (e.g., rearing a child), eros (e.g., creating a child), or charity (e.g., providing for a child). It has the least association with impulse or emotion. In spite of these characteristics, it was the belief of the ancients, (and Lewis himself), that it was the most admirable of loves because it looked not at the beloved (like eros), but towards that “about”—that thing because of which the relationship was formed. This freed the participants in this friendship from self-consciousness.”

“Charity: Charity is the love that brings forth caring regardless of circumstance. Lewis recognizes this as the greatest of loves, and sees it as a specifically Christian virtue. The chapter on the subject focuses on the need of subordinating the natural loves to the love of God, who is full of charitable love. Lewis states that “He is so full, in fact, that it overflows, and He can’t help but love us.” Lewis compares love with a garden, charity with the gardening utensils, the lover as the gardener, and God as the elements of nature. God’s love and guidance act on our natural love (that cannot remain what it is by itself) as the sun and rain act on a garden: without either, the object (metaphorically the garden; realistically love itself) would cease to be beautiful or worthy. Lewis warns that those who exhibit charity must constantly check themselves that they do not flaunt—and thereby warp—this love.”

“Eros: EROS is love in the sense of ‘being in love’. This is distinct from sexuality, which Lewis calls VENUS, although he does spend time discussing sexual activity and its spiritual significance in both a pagan and a Christian sense. He identifies eros as indifferent. This is good because it promotes appreciation of the beloved regardless of any pleasure that can be obtained from them. It can be bad, however, because this blind devotion has been at the root of many of history’s most abominable tragedies. In keeping with his warning that “love begins to be a demon the moment it begins to be a god”, he warns against the danger of elevating eros to the status of a god.”

Ah, Eros, the “sense of being in love”. For centuries, men have fought wars over love, i.e. Helen of Troy, the woman whose face launched a thousand ships. And what about the scandalous love triangles between King Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot, or Anthony, Cleopatra and Caesar?

Here’s hoping you find bundles of love in your world, whether it’s formed on friendship, charity, affection or the most potent of all, EROS.

Namaste, Keta Diablo

Author Web site Keta’s Haunt: http://www.ketadiablo.com

Keta writes erotic romance and gay fiction for Decadent Publishing, Noble Romance, Amber Quill Press and Phaze Publishing.

Please follow her erotic romance blog: Keta’s Keep, http://ketaskeep.blogspot.com

Thanks Keta, what an interesting blog, I hope you’ll come back again soon!

I was 19 when I met Mit but I didn’t see him straight away, you see we met in an internet chatroom many moons ago. It was love at first arse pinch and a matter of weeks later we met in the real world and from there on in we made weekly trips to visit each other as we couldn’t bear to be apart any longer than that.

In 2000 we married on the 23rd September. It was a bright but chilly and windy day.

It was a very simple affair, just how we wanted it and the memory of the day will last forever.

So, as you’ve worked out by now, today is my 10th wedding anniversary. In ten years alot as happened. We’ve moved several times, I gave birth to a cute little girl in 2001 and she’s growing up so fast but she’s still wonderfully cute. We’ve shared wonderful holidays and gone through several crises and illnesses and through it all we’ve stuck together.

I count myself extremely blessed to have met such a wonderful and loving man, my life is better for having him in it. And you should all thank him because without him I’d not be an author now. He’s the guy who inspires me, who fills my heart with romance and he also helps me edit and comes up with all my best titles.

So thank you, dearest husband for the past 10 happy years and here’s to many, many more.

Just a very quick one today ladies and gents to direct you to a little interview with Ms Blisse (yep, that’s me, not some other Blisse girly) over at Naughty Editions.

So if you facy five minutes with me, check it out!

And today Sasca Ilyvich has some hints and tips for blog writers! I hope you enjoy it.

Voice in your blogs

We talked at length during a panel at Cybernet Expo about social media and the best use of it. For the Adult industry, and this includes us, it’s challenging to design blogs and copy that not only draw in an audience but convert sales. In our case as erotic romance authors, we’re aiming for readers who are viral and just as excited about our newest romance stories as the adult folks are about their favorite actress or actor.

The best way to get traffic is to have that unique voice. It doesn’t matter what you say but how you say it that brings in the readers. Are you smart? Do you have a little bit of sass in your posts? Are you prone to ranting? Are you sweet? And lastly, are you consistent?

Your blog voice can vary but readers are expecting to feel a certain emotion out of your posts. Usually it’s relevant to whatever your profession is. For example, as an author, to build readership and establish author credibility, I use my frank and honest voice over at http://saschaillyvichauthor.com whereas any blogs tied to SaschaIllyvich.com are kinky and have that definite DOM tone involved. Any writing about cigars online has a distinguishably different voice that’s geared towards that audience.

The next tip on blogging involves consistency. I cover this at Saritza Hernandez’s blog geared towards literary agents. You must update your blog once a week at least. More if you can and when you do update, you must consider SEO in your blog though there is some debate about that now due to Google Instant.

In a rehash from the blog done for ePubAgent (an agent at Lori Perkins Agency) I also covered being clear about content. Nobody will search for Sascha Illyvich unless I pop up all over the web as I’m doing lately. But they’ll search for erotic romance and that’s ME! I AM the hotness of this genre! Especially considering that I’m a kilt wearing male, I’m definitely hot! Rawr!

Lastly, have fun with your blog. Sure you’re writing for your audience but if it bores you, then why bother, right? The goal of authors is wealth AND happiness.

Much success!

Sascha Illyvich
Romance Writer – http://saschaillyvichauthor.com
Fetishist – http://www.saschaillyvich.com
Erotic Expert – http://www.writesex.net
Radio Host – http://shows.radiodentata.com/shows/unnamed-romance-show/
Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/saschaillyvich

Thanks Sascha!