Guest Blog Questions and Answers - Lucy Felthouse

Every now and then I love to open this blog up to other authors and this time is no exception. Over the coming weeks I've got a number of interviews by a wide range of authors. If you are an author and would like to be interviewed get in touch and I'll send you over the questions!

Now for the first interview of the series I'd like to introduce Lucy Felthouse she is a very prolific author and another Brit author!

What was it that got you into writing?

Writing in general is something I’ve done ever since I physically could. As a child I was constantly scribbling away in notepads. Then when I got my first computer I typed away.

Writing erotica started when I was at university, and someone dared me to write an erotic story.

What was your first piece of published work?

A short story called Wet & Willing, which appeared in an issue of Scarlet Magazine back in 2006.

Has the genre you write in had an impact on your everyday life and relationships?

No, absolutely not.

What was the first thing you did this morning?

Pressed ‘snooze’ on my alarm.

If you become stranded which one of your characters would you want to be stranded with and where would you be stranded?

Oooh, that’s a great question. I’m going to cheat and use a couple, because you wouldn’t have one without the other ;) It would have to be James and Logan from my upcoming book, Eyes Wide Open, because they’re just so incredibly hot, fun and naughty!

What are you working on now?

I’m working on a M/F erotic romance novella called Love Through a Lens. If it’s accepted, it’ll be available as part of a contemporary erotic romance boxed set. Watch this space ;) It’s set in the Peak District, so naturally is a very outdoorsy tale, which is a nice change of pace.

What got you into writing your current gene?

The dare I mentioned in the first question ;)

Coffee, Tea or Hot Chocolate?

Tea. Milk, three sugars, please.

What's the most valuable piece of advice you've been given about writing?

Learn to edit your own work. It needs to be as polished as possible to impress editors, especially right now when the genre is getting increasingly crowded.

What's the worst?

I don’t think I’ve ever been given poor advice. Or if I have I’ve not taken any notice, or just ignored it anyway!

Where can readers find you and your books?

The best place to find out about all my books is my website, http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk. It’s kept well up to date, and my blog is there too, so there’s plenty to keep you entertained!

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Lucy's most recent release is Sated - check it out now from Totaly Bound!

 

Blurb:

A human, a vampire and a werewolf walked into a bar. Sexy is what happens next.

Since getting together with her vampire boyfriend, Ace, Aneesa is enjoying a sex life she could never have with a human. Ace has skill, strength, stamina…and is massively adventurous. Aneesa is checking things off her sexual bucket list at a rate of knots. However, she hasn’t even come close to experiencing the ultimate item on her list. So when Ace beats her to it, proposing a threesome with his werewolf friend, Barton, Aneesa’s definitely up for it.

Barton is attractive, smart and sexy—almost too good to be true, in fact. Aneesa decides not to jump straight into things, but makes sure it’s what she truly wants. However, it turns out Barton’s not so easily dissuaded.

Will Aneesa get the ultimate erotic experience she’s desired for so long? Will she be truly sated, or is the plan doomed to failure?

Buy links: http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/published-works/sated/

Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25950736-sated

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Author Bio:

Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over 100 publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include several editions of Best Bondage Erotica, Best Women's Erotica 2013 and Best Erotic Romance 2014. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies, and also edits for a small publishing house. She owns Erotica For All, is book editor for Cliterati, and is one eighth of The Brit Babes. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9

Thank you so much to Lucy for popping by! Don't forget to go check her books out you won't be disapointed, and if you would like to be interviewed yourself get in touch!

New Release - Three's Company is now out

Well this has been a good start to the new year. So far we're only ten days in and already I've had two ebooks that I've written completely or submitted to published.

Three's Company contains my story Taking a Chance. As the cover and name may suggest the ebook is filled with stories about menages. 

I will be posting a bit more about my story in a few days so watch this space! In the meantime I would like to introduce Three's Company published by House of Erotica. This anthology contains stories by Nicole Gestalt (me!), Maxine Hooper, Ralph Greco Jr., Annabeth Leong and Naomi Bellina and Lucy Felthouse

It is available from:

Amazon (USA): http://amzn.com/B00HSO4R46

Amazon (UK): http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HSO4R46

All Romance Ebooks: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-three039scompany-1393143-354.html

End of a week

Phew well its been a busy week but I've managed to do a lot of things and with the acceptance half way through the week it's been a good week.

Accountability is something I need to focus on. Very often I assume I've written more then I actually have so to solve this I've been setting daily goals this week and reporting upon them. This has made sure that I hit the goals and it means that my writing productivity has increased.  I have finished two short stories this week and am on the third chapter of a pirate story, as well as getting deep into another short story. On top of this I've signed and sent off a contract and written some proposals for my other job - phew!

Writing isn't a 9-5 job, which is great. I don't really want a 9-5 job I'm not sure I could cope with how regular it is. I seem to thrive more on unpredictability and spontaneity and as much as this brings far more stress it does mean that writing is the perfect job for me. 

So whilst most people are about to enjoy two days off for the weekend I'll be busy working in my other job and fighting to hit my writing goals. *fingers crossed*

In the mean time whilst I'm busy why don't you all take time to check out my publishers blog with all the latest information, it has also recently had a bit of a make over and looks gorgeous just in time for winter!

http://hoerotica.blogspot.co.uk/

And with the winter nights drawing in the best way to keep warm is to curl up by the fire with a great book so why don't you all check out The House of Erotica Summer Scorchers. This great ebook has my story Jungle Calls in it and every story is sizzling with heat!

Here is the blurb from Amazon:

A collection of three summer-themed erotic stories by Nicole Gestalt, Lucy Felthouse and Angela Sargenti. These fresh summer tales are sure to get you all hot and bothered

Jungle Calls by Nicole Gestalt
On their wedding anniversary Samantha and Brian find a slightly different way to cool off.

Drawing a Crowd by Lucy Felthouse
When Samantha eats an ice cream on a tourist boat off the coast of Zante, she drives some of her fellow passengers wild. Years later, she uses her ice cream eating skills to snare herself some hot guys and tests her lips and tongue out on them, too.

Ellis in wonderland by Angela R. Sargenti
Josh invites his college roommate, Ellis, down for the weekend to let him meet a young woman he knows and wants to share with Ellis.

New Release - Summer Scorchers is now out

Today one of my stories has been released within the newest House of Erotica anthology collection the Summer Scorchers Collection.

Isn't the cover gorgeous! 

I share the anthology with Lucy Felthouse and Angela R. Sargenti with my story Jungle Calls.

Jungle Calls is a short story set in a the hot jungles of Bali. There a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary find an interesting way to cool off!

You can currently buy it from All Romance Ebooks: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thehouseoferoticasummerscorcherscollection-1259531-362.html
It is now available on Amazon UK here is the link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Erotica-Summer-Scorchers-Collection-ebook/dp/B00ED039B0/ref=sr_1_14?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376049928&sr=1-14

When it is available elsewhere I will put the links up here.

New Release - Absolute Lesbian Sex

Well many of you will know I have my own female/female anthology out called Wandering Lust, filled with stories staring women from all sorts of backgrounds and places. In the anthology there are seven stories to tantalise and tease the senses. You can find the link to buy it here:

Now why am I talking about that anthology when the new release is a completely different anthology? Well one of my stories (Lustful Intervention) from Wandering Lust is in Absolute Lesbian Sex and yes again this is an anthology filled with female/female stories by some of House of Erotica’s bestselling authors. 

So may I introduce Absolute Lesbian Sex staring: Leigh Clark, Lucy Felthouse, Nicole Gestalt, Vanessa de Sade, Ian Kidd, and  Vina Green

 

Now available from House of Erotica. Anthologies like these are a great way to find authors you haven't read before so pick a copy up today and then pop back and say hi!

You can buy it from here:

Amazon (USA): http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Lesbian-Sex-Erotica-ebook/dp/B00CH94FSU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1366832520&sr=1-1

Amazon (UK):http://www.amazon.co.uk/Absolute-Lesbian-Sex-Erotica-ebook/dp/B00CH94FSU/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1366832882&sr=8-6&keywords=nicole+gestalt

All Romance Ebooks: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-absolutelesbiansex-1169644-172.html

Sinful Saturdays - Lucy Felthouse

So this post is a little late going out due to yet another hectic day but here it is! Now unlike the other Sinful Saturday's which have been guest blogs by authors talking about their stories Lucy Felthouse has dropped in to talk with me from the editors point of view.

 

What I Look for in a Story by Lucy Felthouse

When it comes to editing anthologies, I can only really speak for myself in terms of what I look for in a story. When it comes to editing the Smut anthologies (which currently include Smut by the Sea Volume 1, Smut in the City, Smut Alfresco and Smut by the Sea Volume 2), the one thing Victoria Blisse and I both look for is fun, light-hearted stories. To us, that’s what the Smut anthologies are all about, and we’ve even included this requirement in our calls for submissions.

Now, onto the stuff where I’m just speaking for myself. Writers should know I don’t have a checklist or anything like that, I just dive into a story and see how I feel about it when I come out of the other end. Pernickety things are things like presentation: make sure you’ve got your title and pen name (be clear on which is which, you don’t want the wrong one ending up in the final anthology!) both on the document, and as the title of the document. The last thing an editor wants is to read a story, really enjoy it, and have absolutely no idea who wrote it. If we can’t find out, you could well be losing out on a story sale. 

Adhere to what’s been asked for. As a writer, I’ll print out a call for submissions and before I submit my story, I’ll go through it with a fine toothcomb to make sure I’m doing everything that’s been asked for, i.e. using the correct font and size, indents, etc. Your story won’t be rejected if you haven’t paid attention, but it doesn’t do you any favours if you can’t follow the instructions. Good formatting also makes the story much easier to read—if an editor can’t concentrate on your story because of poor formatting, again, you’re not doing yourself any favours.

Checking your grammar and spellings should be a given, but sadly, people do submit stories that haven’t been thoroughly edited. Yes, we’re the editors and we’ll pick up on this stuff, but you should still send a story that’s as perfect as it can be before it leaves your computer. It just makes a good impression. Also – make sure you haven’t changed your character names halfway through a story. I’ve been guilty of this in the past, which is why I always write the names down on the top of my document or a piece of paper to make sure I’m not randomly changing them, or altering the spelling.

Okay, now onto the less pernickety things. Make sure the story flows and makes sense. I know from experience when you’re writing a story that just because things make sense in your head, doesn’t always translate to the page. Read your story again and try and imagine you don’t know who the characters are, what’s going to happen, and so on, and make sure an outsider will get it.

For the Smut anthologies in particular, make sure your characters are likeable. Or at least ones we love to hate. We don’t want dark, nasty characters. Not that there’s anything wrong with them, but they’re just not what we’re looking for in this particular series. We truly want fun, sexy, smutty stories, and we’ve rejected brilliant submissions just because they didn’t fit into the tone we’re aiming for.

Try and be different. Luckily, we haven’t had many stories sent in which have been set in the same places, so we haven’t had to worry about that. But give yourself the best chance, and set your story somewhere unusual, or give the tale a quirky slant. Having said that, in Smut in the City, we accepted two stories set on the London Underground—but if you read the anthology, you’ll see that they were so different and so brilliant that we took them both anyway.

Make it sexy! This may seem like the most ridiculously obvious piece of advice, but it’s relevant. We have had stories in that haven’t been sexy. Maybe they’ve finished before the erotic part starts, or there’s no eroticism at all. This would be fine for a romance anthology, perhaps, but this is Smut and smut means sex, or masturbation, or at the very least, a graphic daydream. However, try and avoid “and it was all a dream” if at all possible. It’s been done quite a lot, and we want something different.

Pull us in. This is probably the most important thing of all. In a short story, you don’t have that much time to grab your reader and yank them into the story, so you’ve got to do it fast, and do it well. We want stories where we’re intrigued, fascinated and excited, and eager to know how it’s going to end. If we get to the end of a story and nothing much has happened, or it was just “meh” then it’s not going to get into the anthology. Knock our socks off.

Make sure what you send is actually a story. By that, I mean something with a beginning, a middle and an end. Not just a sex scene. We want to know why the characters are having sex (or solo sex!), other than just because they fancy each other, of course. Are they a couple, have they just met, are they friends to lovers? The word counts we’re looking for in the Smut anthologies give you enough time to develop this, as well as writing in some damn good, hot sex.

We like romance, too! Yes, we’re looking for erotic stories, but we also love erotic romance. So if you can make us go “aww” as well as “ooh” then we’d like to hear from you, too.

The best thing you can do to get an idea of what we want for the Smut anthologies is to read a couple of them. You’ll quickly get the hang of the tone we want, the heat level, the types of tales. So soak it all up and then let your imagination run away with you. We look forward to reading your stories!

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Sex in the great outdoors is the theme of this erotic anthology, edited by Victoria Blisse and Lucy Felthouse.

From the dramatic gritstone escarpments of Derbyshire’s Peak District, to a quiet caravan site in deepest Wales, Smut Alfresco has it all. Whatever your interpretation of frisky outdoor fun, there’s something nestling between the covers for you.

Sexy woodsmen, daring couples, rock stars, cougars, map enthusiasts, mattresses, ex-lovers, tour guides, hunky sheriffs and nature reserve rangers all appear in this hot collection of stories from erotica’s finest authors.

Includes stories from: Violet Fields, Demelza Hart, Victoria Blisse, Jacqueline Brocker, Wendi Zwaduk, K T Red, Tilly Hunter, Bel Anderson, Lucy Felthouse, Kay Jaybee, Tenille Brown, Cass Peterson, Jenny Lyn and Nicole Gestalt.

More info, excerpt and buy links: http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/published-works/smut-alfresco/

 

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Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over seventy publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and 2013, and Best Women's Erotica 2013. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies. She owns Erotica For All, and is book editor for Cliterati. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9

I have to admit I was curious and it was fun finding out what was behind her decision in the latest anthology Smut Alfresco in which I have the story When the Rains Come.  So thank you very much to Lucy for stopping by!

Workspace Wednesday - Lucy Felthouse

Well these Wednesdays sure do come round quick. I've spent majority of the week hiding in the house away from all the snow that has been falling. Luckily we've not lost power like some places and we have a lovely gas fire by which to snuggle.

This week I've got an author whom I currently share two anthologies in common with (Smut Alfresco and Smut for Chocoholics) and whose work I have admired for a long time. So without further ado let me introduce Lucy Felthouse to talk about her workspace!

My Workspace by Lucy Felthouse

I admit that, at the moment, my workspace is long overdue a tidy up. I’m so busy that I just jump from one project to the next and don’t have much time for tidying up, or cleaning. But a big clean is on my list for the very near future. 

So, a brief description. I work in the spare room in our house, which was converted to an office several years ago. It’s pretty small, but there’s only me so it doesn’t really matter. I have my beloved laptop, of course, lots of pens, my iPhone dock so I can play music, drinks, tissues (bloody hayfever!), magazine racks, my pinboard and much, much more. Eagle-eyed folk will have noticed the eye candy photos on the pinboard and wall, with Jeremy Renner in a starring role *drools.* I also have my Lord of the Rings film cells and meerkats, with Alexander in a starring role. Hehe. To my left and right is more stuff, like racks holding printer paper and stuff, pen pots, my to-do lists, my Kindle, the window. Behind me is my bookshelf which is full to bursting.

The thing I love most: I love the fact that it is just my room. I don’t share it with anyone, nobody interferes, nobody moves stuff around, and, except when the neighbours are being noisy, it’s pretty quiet. My pipe dream is to have my own house and an office with a view, but for now, this little room serves its purpose and I do what needs to be done!

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Sensual, sinful chocolately indulgence is the theme of this erotic anthology, edited by Kevin Mitnik, with assistance from Victoria Blisse.

Smut for Chocoholics is all about indulgence, taking wicked delight in the erotic consumption and use of chocolate, with tales from some of erotica’s finest authors.. Whatever your relationship with the seductive cocoa, there’s something nestling between the covers for you.

Contains tales from Victoria Blisse, Giselle Renarde, Lexie Bay, Annabeth Leong, Lily Harlem, Violet Fields, Nicole Gestalt, Tamsin Flowers, Tenille Brown, Vanessa de Sade, Wendi Zwaduk and Lucy Felthouse.

More info, excerpt and buy links: http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/published-works/smut-for-chocoholics/

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Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over seventy publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and 2013, and Best Women's Erotica 2013. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies. She owns Erotica For All, and is book editor for Cliterati. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9

Thanks for dropping by Lucy I adore the little meerkat!