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Know the Heroine from The Master’s Mark by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai #RLFblog #Steampunk #Romance
Victorian engineer Gillian Smith and her colleagues in Toymakers Guild take on a near-impossible challenge in Lisabet Sarai’s steampunk erotic romance The Master’s Mark – building a life-sized female automaton intended to replace a client’s deceased paramour. It’s fortunate thatGillian is not one to give up—not even when events threaten the Guild’s very survival.
Lisabet, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We’re excited to find out more about your heroine, but first, tell us about The Master’s Mark.
The Master’s Mark by Lisabet Sarai
Genre Steampunk erotic romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Five flames
How do you train a steampunk sexbot?
Gillian Smith’s promotion to journeyman proves she’s ready to lead the Toymakers in producing astonishing new erotic artifacts. Creative, brilliant, and debauched, she’ll stretch her capabilities to the limit as she juggles a talent shortage and a pair of jealous rivals. Then there’s the challenge of their latest commission—a life-sized programmable sex doll intended to replace a client’s deceased paramour.
Normally she would consult the enigmatic Master Toymaker, but he seems preoccupied with his own concerns. Though her lusty crew of sexual renegades can offer technical and carnal assistance, Gillian is ultimately responsible for delivering the promised, near-impossible technology.
It’s fortunate she’s not one to give up—not even when events threaten the Guild’s very survival.
Know the Heroine from The Master’s Mark
Here are some fun questions to help us know your heroine.
Describe the kind of clothes she prefers to wear.
Gillian Smith is a no-nonsense young woman who has no interest in or patience with fashion. She wants practical clothing that isn’t likely to get damaged in the laboratory when she’s working on batteries or motors. Of course, in the Victorian period even “simple” clothes were complicated. Women wore long skirts and bodices with dozens of buttons, with several layers of undergarments. In polite society, hats were required. Going without a corset was considered scandalous.
Gillian really doesn’t care. With her slender figure, she doesn’t need a corset, and she certainly won’t agree to be uncomfortable for the sake of propriety. In fact, when she’s working, she prefers to don a sturdy, ankle-length, button-up-the-front lab coat – sometimes with nothing underneath!
Does she know how to fix things?
That is an understatement. It’s difficult to imagine something Gillian couldn’t fix. She is an engineering prodigy, a whiz with both mechanical and electrical systems. Her father and mother – deceased in an experimental balloon accident – were noted inventors who thoroughly schooled her in math and science as well as the use of tools and the fabrication of machines.
She tried to do something and it went badly. Tell us about it.
Even with her amazing talent, Gillian doesn’t always succeed in solving technical problems on the first try. For example, in The Master’s Mark, she tries to use an approach similar to modern machine learning to train the automaton they’re building. After multiple attempts, she concludes this isn’t possible, mostly because she can’t create sensors that are sufficiently precise.
Initially, this sort of setback will dampen her spirits. However, before long she will have come up with an alternative approach to solving her problems.
She’s quite involved with her work emotionally, so she takes failures to heart. On the other hand, she has an engineer’s typical optimism. Plus she’s extremely persistent.
What is she like first thing in the morning?
Gillian’s a morning person. She gets up early in order to get to work in the Toymakers Guild lab, and normally will be awake and alert the minute she opens her eyes.
Maid or takes care of herself?
Gillian’s family, like many entrepreneurs, never made much money from their inventions. So she’s quite used to taking care of herself. Given her casual approach to her appearance, this isn’t difficult.
After her parents’ death, she lived for several years with her wealthier aunt and uncle. Gillian treated their maid Leticia as her friend and confidante – not her servant.
Carriage or horseback?
Having grown up near London, Gillian didn’t have much equestrian experience until she moved to the Guild headquarters at Randerley Hall in Devon. However, her fellow journeyman Rafe Wystock persuaded her to go out riding on the moors. At first she was nervous about being on horseback, but she quickly discovered she loved riding – especially in Rafe’s company!
Thanks for helping us get to know your heroine!
Where to buy The Master’s Mark
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Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Blog https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
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Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lisabetsarai/beyond-romance-blog-posts/
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Once Upon a Blizzard by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai #RLFblog #NewRelease #SecondChanceRomance #HolidayRomance
A mistletoe kiss rekindles an old spark in Lisabet Sarai’s second chance holiday romance Once upon a Blizzard. Suzanne finds some things do indeed get better with age, but when her high school crush Gino rescues her from a blizzard, she discovers that she’s not the only love in his lifeLisabet, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Once upon a Blizzard.
Once Upon a Blizzard by Lisabet Sarai
Genre MMF second chance holiday romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R/NCNo electricity. No water. Plenty of heat.
Suzanne and Gino have a history going back to high school, but for more than a decade the workaholic CEO has been thousands of miles from her New England home town.
A mistletoe kiss at a Christmas party rekindles the old spark and Suzanne finds some things do indeed get better with age. When Gino rescues her from a blizzard, though, she discovers that she’s not the only love in his life. Gino shares his bed and his colonial-era farm house with taciturn painter Harris Steele.
Snowed in with two lusty men who truly seem to care, she wonders why she’s so determined to return to her lonely West Coast life. Is there really a chance for a holiday happy ending?Note: this book was previously published by Totally Entwined with the title Almost Home. It has been revised and re-edited for this edition.
Why did you write this book?
For the past two decades I’ve resided in the tropics of Southeast Asia, but before we moved here, my husband and I lived in a rural town in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. The region offers fantastic natural beauty, wonderful local food, and a culture of easy-going individualism that suited us well. However, it also requires a certain level of fortitude from its inhabitants. One spends a significant amount of time and effort dealing with the environment: battling undergrowth, pulling weeds, raking leaves, shoveling snow, cleaning gutters, installing or removing storm windows and snow tires, checking the anti-freeze in the radiator and the oil in the furnace tank, storing summer clothing while exhuming winter garb and vice versa, catching and evicting mice and squirrels, and so on. Folks in the Pioneer Valley have to be tough.
New England winters are not as cold as some parts of the U.S., like Wisconsin or Minnesota, but they’re far less predictable. I can remember sixty degree weather on Christmas Eve in some years, temperatures below zero in others. Ice storms are a real menace; one year an ice-laded bough snapped off one of our trees and thoroughly crushed the roof of my car. Then there was the morning I skidded on a snowy road on my way to work and rammed into a tree, crumpling the front end like tin foil. Scary indeed.
No, New England was not for the faint of heart. After the easy life here in Asia, I can’t imagine ever going back.
Nevertheless, I have incredibly vivid memories of New England’s unique charms and I do find myself becoming nostalgic. One of the joys of being a writer that I can channel this nostalgia into my stories.
Once Upon a Blizzard draws heavily from my own experience. The farm house occupied by Gino and Harris is based on the home of our close neighbor (although they didn’t have a hot tub in their back yard). The crispness of the winter air, the clarity of the winter sky, the distant clank of the snow plows when they finally arrive – I’ve been there.
The strangely freeing experience of being snowed in, without electricity, heat or running water is something I remember well. It’s almost like a holiday. Time is suspended. You’re forced to let go. You’ll get dug out, eventually. You’re not that worried, because of course you’re prepared with wood for the fireplace, propane for the stove, candles and flash lights. That’s just how New Englanders are.
My heroine in Once Upon a Blizzard grew up in the Pioneer Valley, but she has been working in Silicon Valley for a decade. In writing this story I was rediscovering, with her, the special magic of New England.
What is your favorite genre to read?
When I read for pleasure, I like variety. So I’m partial to many genres: science fiction, historical fiction, paranormal/urban fantasy, mysteries and of course romance and erotica.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
I’m sure my answer to this question would vary from one day to the next. Some likely candidates include Sherlock Holmes and Jane Eyre.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am within one chapter of finishing The Master’s Mark, the third volume in my erotic steampunk trilogy The Toymaker’s Guild. I’ve been working on this book since the beginning of 2022. I very much hope to finish it before the New Year’s ball drops in Time Square!
What books will we see from you in coming months?
My plan is to release The Master’s Mark on January 31, 2023, which is my birthday – actually a very significant one. After that, I have plans for a third volume in my Elemental Passions series, which includes Hot Spell and Rough Weather. I also will be revisiting the Las Vegas setting of my Vegas Babes series, bringing together two characters from two different story worlds — by reader request!
In addition, I’ll be reclaiming the rights and republishing a number of my romance works in 2023. RLF readers will probably be most excited by the reboot of my paranormal erotic romance The Eyes of Bast, a rather unusual shifter story.
Where to buy Once upon a Blizzard
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPMPZ7NG
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Kinky Literature https://kinkyliterature.com/book/906-once-upon-a-blizzard-a-bisexual-holiday-romance/Lisabet Sarai Social Media
Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Website https://www.lisabetsarai.com
Blog https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/LisabetSarai
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lisabetsarai/beyond-romance-blog-posts/
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Read Goldberg Variations by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai #RLFblog #Romance
A gorgeous and exquisitely talented cellist becomes the apex of a love triangle in Lisabet Sarai’s polyamorous romance Goldberg Variations. Al and Harv Goldberg each fall for the newest member of the respected Goldberg Trio, unaware that they’re both targets for her affections.Lisabet, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Goldberg Variations.
Goldberg Variations by Lisabet Sarai
Genre Erotic romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
All great music is born of passion
A violinist, a violist and a seductress.
For twenty-two years the Goldberg brothers – Richard on cello, Harvey on viola and Albert on violin – have made music together, earning a decent living and a modicum of respect in the classical music community. When Richard’s sudden demise forces Harvey and Al to find a replacement cellist, neither can imagine how their new colleague will shake up their middle-aged lives.
Deidre Rasinovsky-Corbatta is an unlikely addition to the Goldberg Trio, a shapely siren with purple hair, scarlet lips and a rose tattooed on her ample breasts – but she plays cello like an angel. The passion she pours into her music spills over into her relationships with the two brothers. When both Al and Harv fall in love with her, will this tear the trio apart – or transform it?
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Do you write more than one genre? If so, what are they?
Actually, there are only a few romance genres that I have not written. My back list includes contemporary, historical, paranormal, steam punk, science fiction. LGBTQ, power exchange, ménage, multicultural – pretty much everything except Western romance and sports romance. I haven’t written any motorcycle club romance or mafia romance either, but I would not rule out the possibility that I might in the future.
My reading tastes are diverse and eclectic, and that carries over into my writing. I love experimenting with new genres. From an author branding perspective this probably isn’t the best strategy, but at least my readers are not likely to get bored.
How do you come up with ideas?
I have dozens of ideas rattling around in my head or jotted down in my notebook. Almost anything can serve as the seed for a story: personal experiences (especially travel), a stranger I catch sight of in the distance, a song. Sometimes a title will pop into my mind, and the tale with follow. Sometimes the trigger is a “what if” question or some news article.
When I was writing for a publisher (as opposed to self-publishing), I’d often respond to their calls for anthology submissions. I liked the challenge of finding a creative, distinctive approach to these calls, something beyond what the publisher might have expected.
Actually quite a few of my books had their beginnings as reactions to established genre tropes. I love taking the stereotypes and turning them upside down. I want to surprise and delight anyone who picks up one of my books. The worst thing I can imagine is for readers to consider my work predictable.
What is the single most important part of writing for you?
I love the process of writing, taking some vague inspiration and shaping it into a story. Sometimes it’s painful, trying to get the ideas out of my mind and onto the page, but at times it feels like magic. The words flow freely from my imagination to the page. The internal critic is silent. This is such an intoxicating experience – like an altered state of consciousness or waking dream. Sometimes after a writing session like that, I read the results and simply marvel, wondering where this marvelous prose came from.
The other thing I love is hearing from readers who’ve enjoyed my work. Writing is wonderful, but so is being read and appreciated.
When did you write your first book?
I’ve been writing stories and poetry all my life, but my first novel, Raw Silk, was published by Black Lace Books in 1999. That book is now in its fourth edition. To be honest, I’ve kind of lost track of how many novels, novellas and short stories I’ve released since then. In such a long career, books go in and out of “print”, stories get revised and republished – what’s important to me is that I continue to create new work.
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Leather or lace? Considering the climate where I live (in the tropics), it’s got to be lace
Black or red? Red, without a doubt. Crimson, scarlet, vermilion…
Satin sheets or smooth cotton? Smooth cotton.
Ocean or mountains? Ocean heals my soul.
City life or country life? These days, I’m a city gal. I love the convenience.
Party life or evening at home? How about a party at home?
Dogs or cats? Cats. How can you even consider asking?Where to buy Goldberg Variations
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/goldberg-variations-lisabet-sarai/1141999234
iBooks https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id6443274647
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Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61952496-goldberg-variationsLisabet Sarai Social Media
Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Website https://www.lisabetsarai.com
Blog https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/LisabetSarai
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lisabetsarai/beyond-romance-blog-posts/
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83387.Lisabet_Sarai
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Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/author/lisabetsarai
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Fiction Furbaby: Meet Heathcliff from Incognito by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai @RobsRescues #Romance #RLFblog #Pets
Betrayed and abandoned by her first lover, Miranda freezes when someone she knows tries to become intimate. In Lisabet Sarai’s erotic romance Incognito, Miranda learns that lust and trust aren’t antithetical.Lisabet, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We support all furbabies, real life or fictional. We want to know all about your Fiction Furbaby, but first, please tell us about Incognito.
Incognito: Secret Lives, Forbidden Loves by Lisabet Sarai
Genre Erotic romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): X
Shy and serious by day—insatiable by night.
During the day, Miranda Cahill works diligently on her doctoral thesis. At night, she has sex with strangers.
Public coupling, multiple partners, age play, spankings, bondage, lesbian lust—each salacious adventure exposes new dimensions of her depravity. Her secret life explodes when she realizes her masked partner at a kink club and the charismatic colleague courting her are in fact the same man.
Dickens scholar Mark Anderson seems like an affable, uncomplicated Midwesterner, but he has hidden depths, myriad talents, and an unlimited appetite for erotic variety. With Mark as her guide, Miranda comes to accept the intricacy of her own desires, as well as to trust her heart.
Reader Advisory: This novel is an erotic romance featuring a committed relationship and culminating in a wedding. Nevertheless, the main characters participate in a wide range of taboo sexual activities, both together and separately.
Meet Heathcliff from Incognito
Full name: Heathcliff
Nickname: Kitten
Gender: Neutered Male
Species: Feline
Physical description: Heathcliff is a short-haired ginger tabby with golden eyes. He’s about four years old.
Relationship to main character: Lives with the heroine Miranda in her Beacon Hill apartment
Relationship to the villain/antagonist: N/A
Where this furbaby came from: Miranda adopted Heathcliff from the MSPCA when she moved to Boston to start her doctoral work. She has always loved cats, but as an undergraduate she wasn’t allowed to keep pets in her dorm.
What inspired you to create this character?
Miranda’s a bit of a grind and a loner. I felt Heathcliff would help balance her solitary inclinations. Plus I had a plot idea that required a cat to implement.
What does the main character think about this furbaby?
She adores him, though he’s sometimes mischievous or demanding (like all cats). Without realizing it, Miranda also judges other people by how Heathcliff reacts to them. When the orange tom cozies up to Mark, she’s suitably impressed.
How do other characters react to or interact with this furbaby?
Mark Anderson, the hero and love interest, knows exactly how to make Heathcliff purr. He’s an easy-going, sociable guy who loves both cats and dogs. Still he understands that being accepted by Heathcliff is an important step toward winning Miranda’s affection and trust.
What does this furbaby add to the story?
Heathcliff plays a critical role in the plot. In the process of seeking attention from a pre-occupied Miranda, he inadvertently reveals a secret that shapes the rest of the story. What secret? Readers will have to get the book to find out! (Or search my blog, where I’ve actually published this snippet!)
Please share an interesting fact or tidbit about this furbaby.
Heathcliff is named for the dark, emotionally-tortured anti-hero in Wuthering Heights, one of Miranda’s favorite books. Since she’s working on her Ph.D. in literature, it’s not surprising she’d mine the canon for a name. However, Heathcliff’s personality isn’t at all like Emily Bronte’s character.
About Katsu and Soba
This post is called Fiction Furbaby, but perhaps your own pet does not have fur. If you have a pet that has fins, wings, scales, or other features, please tell us about them here.
Which, if any of the pets in your writing are modeled after your own pets? In what way?
I’m a huge ailurophile. I can’t imagine living with a couple of cats. That being the case, it’s a bit surprising that I haven’t written more fiction fur babies.
Heathcliff isn’t that much like my own current cats, from a personality perspective. Katsu and Soba are more energetic, even though they’re about Heathcliff’s age. In the morning and evening they play-wrestle and run around chasing each other. (Sometimes they do that in the middle of the night, too!) Heathcliff, in contrast, just likes to relax while keeping Miranda company.
What do your pets do when you are writing?
Sometimes Soba (black male with white toes and whiskers) sits on my lap. Katsu (tiger female) will occasionally jump up into my lap to see what I’m up to, but even though I scratch her behind the ears, she rarely settles down.
It’s not unusual for both of them to curl up together on my desk. They’re very close, though they’re not siblings. One of Soba’s tricks is to wander around behind my monitor and disturb the cable connection, so that all of a sudden everything on my screen turns green! Meanwhile, if she’s in the mood, Katsu likes to bat at my stuff and knock it onto the floor – pens, USB drives, and sometimes my eyeglasses. She also used to chew through my mouse cables. I finally had to switch to using a wireless mouse!
What’s the most unusual pet you ever had?
I had a white mouse when I was in grade school. Unfortunately, mice are rather fragile, so that didn’t last long.
Where did you find your pet?
We adopted both Katsu and Soba from animal rescue organizations. Katsu was about three months old. Soba was about ten months. Both had been homeless.
What do you feed your pet?
Nothing special, just commercial cat food. They’re not picky. Oh, and when I make tuna fish salad, they get the liquid from the can. They love that!
Describe a toy or favorite item your pet loves.
When he’s in the right mood, Soba loves to chase crumpled-up grocery receipts. He’ll bat them around, throw them into the air then leap up after them, or push them under the rug then frantically dig them out.
On the other hand, sometimes I’ll throw one and he’ll just look at me, as if to say, “Yeah? What am I supposed to do with that?”
Where to buy Incognito
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1N7CTMQ
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Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61138791-incognito
Lisabet Sarai Social Media
Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Website https://www.lisabetsarai.com
Blog https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/LisabetSarai
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lisabetsarai/beyond-romance-blog-posts/
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83387.Lisabet_Sarai
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Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/author/lisabetsarai
Get to know Lisabet Sarai better by signing up for her email list: https://btn.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmghShout out to Rob’s Rescues – founded by a 9-year-old animal activist
Rob’s Rescues is a non-profit organization in Georgia helping people in need care for and feed their pets. It was founded in 2014 by a then nine-year-old boy. Rob’s Rescues is dedicated to collecting pet food for people in need to reduce shelter surrenders, and to advocating for the adoption of shelter pets. Rob writes monthly articles advocating for shelter animals in the Around About Local Media magazine publications. His column was first published in 2014. He also has pet food collection sites for people in need in the community and interviews amazing people. His interviews appear online once they are published in his column.
Rob volunteers for Pet Buddies Food Pantry, the Cherokee County Animal Shelter and Cobb County Animal Control and collects pet food for these organizations and the communities they serve. He also wants to bring attention to smaller, rural shelters. Mostly he wants to get kids to be Rob’s Rangers to teach kids that they can help shelter animals. Rob has also talked to kids in a classroom setting.
Rob’s Rescues is a Non-Profit Corporation and all donations are tax deductible.
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Read Rough Weather by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai #RLFblog #ParanormalRomance #PNR
A young woman is forced to acknowledge her true nature in Lisabet Sarai’s new paranormal erotic romance Rough Weather, when a dark stranger who kindles uncanny desire insists that she is his eternal mate.Lisabet Sarai, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Rough Weather.
Rough Weather: Elemental Passions Book 2 by Lisabet Sarai
Genre Paranormal erotic romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Rated X
Destiny hides in the tempest’s heart
A fated encounter. A familiar stranger. A storm of passion. Can Ondine release her fear, surrender to Marut’s power, and claim her own?
Marine biologist Ondine Ambrose has always felt at home in the sea. Orphaned at birth and raised by her grandmother on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, she has never really questioned her extraordinary affinity for the watery world.
When she encounters an attractive but arrogant engineer on her private beach, surveying the site for a prospective off-shore wind farm, anger is her first reaction. A casual touch, however, transforms that emotion to incomprehensible, irresistible, terrifying lust.
Ebony-skinned Marut has his own talents—aside from his uncanny ability to swamp Ondine with desire. He can control the winds and summon storms. When he insists that they are both more than human, and that she is his destined mate, Ondine responds with skepticism. She tries to resist the charismatic Haitian, but ultimately she cannot deny the evidence of her senses—and her heart.
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Do you write more than one genre? If so, what are they?…
My publication history includes contemporary, paranormal, science fiction, steam punk, historical, interracial/multicultural, mystery and suspense, BDSM, LGBTQ (both FF and MM), menage and polyamory, and romantic erotica. About the only genres that I don’t write are Christian, Western and sports romances. And who knows – I might tackle those at some point! I love to stretch myself and try new things.
The disadvantage of this genre multiplicity is that I don’t have a clear brand. That makes marketing a major pain. The advantage – my readers can always expect something new and exciting!
How do you come up with ideas?…
That varies tremendously depending on the book. Sometimes a title will pop into my head, demanding that I wrap a story around it. Sometimes a book will begin with a character’s voice haranguing me. Not infrequently I’ll start a book as a reaction to some other book, event or trend. For instance, my contemporary romance The Gazillionaire and the Virgin was inspired by my frustration with the flood of billionaire BDSM romances that followed the success of Fifty Shades. I had the perverse desire to twist all those tropes beyond recognition.
Rough Weather was inspired by my writing of another book about elementals entitled Hot Spell. I hadn’t really expected this, but the characters of Ondine and Marut showed up at the end of that romance and demanded a chance to tell their own story.
What is the single most important part of writing for you?…
I guess I’d have to say the intense joy that accompanies being “in the zone” – when the words and ideas flow and writing seems effortless. That’s an incredibly intoxicating and fulfilling experience. (Too bad writing isn’t always like that!)
A close second has to be connecting with readers. When a reader emails me, telling me she enjoyed my story, or someone leaves a review that shows she really “got” what I was trying to express, that can make my entire week.
When did you write your first book?…
My first novel, Raw Silk, was written and published in 1999. It is now in its fourth edition. I’ve been writing continuously since then.
Of course, like most authors, I did a lot of writing before I ever considered publication, simply for fun or to amuse my private readers.
Note: To celebrate the release of Rough Weather, the first book in the series, Hot Spell, is on sale for only 99 cents
https://www.lisabetsarai.com/hotspellbook.htmlFUN
Leather or lace? Lace for me, leather for my characters
Black or red? Red, if I have to choose.
Satin sheets or smooth cotton? Cotton, unquestionably. I live in the tropics.
Ocean or mountains? Ocean – with mountains in the distance!
City life or country life? When I was younger, I lived in a rural village, but now I appreciate the convenience of city life.
Party life or evening at home? Evenings at home make me appreciate the occasional party.
Dogs or cats? Cats, no question. I’m happily owned by two at the moment.
Where to buy Rough Weather
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y2P7741
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rough-weather-lisabet-sarai/1141360464
Apple Books https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1619557657
Kobo https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Search?Query=9781005160470
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1142402
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60820375-rough-weather
Note: To celebrate the release of Rough Weather, the first book in the series, Hot Spell, is on sale for only 99 cents https://www.lisabetsarai.com/hotspellbook.htmlLisabet Sarai Social Media
Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Website https://www.lisabetsarai.com
Blog https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/LisabetSarai
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lisabetsarai/beyond-romance-blog-posts/
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83387.Lisabet_Sarai
BookBub https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lisabet-sarai
Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/author/lisabetsarai
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Lisabet Sarai, author of The Gazillionaire and the Virgin shares a #TechTip for using graphics in your blog @LisabetSarai #RLFblog
CEO Rachel Zelinsky just wants a business deal with geeky Theo Moore in Lisabet Sarai’s new erotic romance The Gazillionaire and the Virgin. Instead she finds herself aching to protect the sensitive, awkward genius – and to surrender to his kinky desires.Lisabet Sarai, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We want to hear your tech tip, but first, please tell us about The Gazillionaire and the Virgin.
The Gazillionaire and the Virgin by Lisabet Sarai
Genre Contemporary BDSM Erotic Romance
Book heat level: X
She’s the billionaire. He’s the virgin. Still, he knows how to make her melt.
When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rachel Zelinsky meets reclusive genius Theo Moore, she has a single objective — a deal to incorporate his AI software into her company’s popular virtual world. She finds Theo to be arrogant, sensitive and socially awkward, but his aura of power speaks to her carefully-hidden submissive side. Confused and aroused, she falls under his geeky spell.
Theo Moore can’t be bought. His past battles with poverty make him deeply suspicious of the billionaire CEO, though Rachel’s voluptuous curves and brilliant mind embody his ultimate fantasy. Too bad his knowledge about sex derives from extensive research and a stash of kinky porn rather than real-world experience.
Rachel may be Theo’s first lover, but Theo is her first true Master. One word from him, one touch, and she surrenders to bliss. It seems that love and complementary desire may harmonize their differing values, until Rachel’s unwitting violation of Theo’s trust tears them apart.
Tech Tip
Most blog platforms and website builders give you options for specifying the size of the images you use in your posts or on your pages. On Blogger, for instance, you can specify that an image should be small, medium, large, extra large, or original size, So even if your cover is 2000 pixels wide, too big to fit in your blog frame, you can make it display as only 400 pixels.
Given how busy we authors are, it’s tempting to be lazy and let the platform control the visual size of your images. However, this is a bad idea for several reasons. First of all, it slows down the loading of your posts, because the full-sized image will be transmitted over the network to the browser, even if the display has reduced resolution. (A typical 2000×3000 cover is close to one MB in size.) Second, it uses up your disk quota (if you’re using Blogger, at least), since Google stores all blog images as part of your “Photos”. Finally, and most importantly, the dynamic visual resizing of your images is not guaranteed to work with all browsers or display platforms. For instance, big images in posts sent to Triberr will sometimes show up in the feed at full resolution, which makes your post look terrible.
The solution is to resize your images before you add them to your blog or website. And my recommendation for doing this, at least if you use Windows, is a fantastic little program called IrfanView.
This is a brilliantly designed graphics utility package, with lots of functionality but a very easy and intuitive user interface. I couldn’t self-publish or blog without it. (Oh, and it’s free for non-commercial use.)
And here’s a bonus tip: when you are resizing an image (with any program), be sure you select “Preserve aspect ratio”. If you don’t, your image can end up looking stretched or squashed. “Aspect ratio” means the ratio of the width divided by the height (or vice versa). So common cover sizes of 2000×3000 and 1600×2400 both have the same aspect ratio (2:3), as do the common reduced sizes of 400×600 or 200×300. When you resize preserving the ratio, you only specify one dimension; the other will be adjusted automatically.
Occasionally you may want to alter the width and height independently but be careful as the results may be ugly. For instance, I use thumbnails that are 200×320 rather than 200×300 on my website, because that matches the aspect ratio used by one of my publishers. My self-published books, though, have a 2:3 aspect ratio. So I need to make the thumbnails for those books a bit taller than they’d be with a proportional resizing.
For more tech tips, you can download my free ebook Naughty Bits: The Erotogeek’s Guide for Technologically-Challenged Authors. It dates from 2013, and quite a bit has changed since then, but I think the content is still quite useful.
Where to buy The Gazillionaire and the Virgin
NOTE: The ebook is on sale during February for only 99 cents!
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SDY5XJ5/
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1132432
Kinky Literature https://www.kinkyliterature.com/book/811-the-gazillionaire-and-the-virgin-/
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60397753-the-gazillionaire-and-the-virgin
Amazon (Audiobook)
https://www.amazon.com/The-Gazillionaire-and-the-Virgin/dp/B075WZS3TN/
Audible (Audiobook) https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Gazillionaire-and-the-Virgin-Audiobook/B075X1XN87Lisabet Sarai Social Media
Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Website https://www.lisabetsarai.com
Blog https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/LisabetSarai
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lisabetsarai/beyond-romance-blog-posts/
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83387.Lisabet_Sarai
BookBub https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lisabet-sarai
Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/author/lisabetsarai
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