Scandalous By: Alexis Kennedy

Scandalous

By: Alexis Kennedy

This book, did you see the cover? I love it! I have a similar painting like this is my craft room, without the girl, but its ships with an orange sky. What?! You don’t want to hear about that? Oh. The book. Got it, my bad.

Well, it takes place a long, long time ago in 1860. There’s this guy, whose name is Adrian Casimir. But in all honesty, he is really Captain Bain Navarre, who happens to be a pirate on the high seas. However, he has disguised himself as Adrian and as a shipping mogul.

Now, there’s this lady, her name is Farrah Devore, her father has recently been widowed, and he is a plantation owner. Farrah, is struggling with the loss of her mother, and a courtship to a man she doesn’t even want to be with: Ethan Abrams.

Farrah’s eye’s catch the view of the handsome pirate, and she can’t help but feel her insides stir, as her desires awaken, and needs she never even knew she had come alive.

Adrian has plenty up his sleeve, and everyone knows they are not meant to be, but when a woman has wants and needs, she isn’t about to let anything get in her way. However, even family will stop at nothing to interfere with her new-found desires.

And this is a time where a nation is being ripped apart by hatred, war is the answer for everything, and brothers will fight against brothers, and it doesn’t really matter who is right in the long run. So, let me ask you this, do you honestly think love can survive, and conquer all? And do you think it is meant to be? What will become of the pirate and Farrah if anything?

You must buy this book yourself to find out, I can’t just give you all of the answers! The only thing I will tell you, is this: Alexis Kennedy is a wonderful writer, and she will keep you guessing, and wanting more, as you follow her through her ‘Scandalous’ words. She promises an excellent read, and has done just that with an excellent five-star book, once again!

My questions for Alexis:

1. What made you write this book and how long did it take you?

          I wanted to try writing historical romance since it’s a new genre to me, and I really enjoyed it. It took me 24 days to write it.

2. Who designed this beautiful cover?

          I chose the photos, and The Magic Quill Graphics designed it.

3. Do you have any photos or descriptions of the characters that you can share with us?

          Farrah Devore is a strong willed and fearless young lady. She’s mourning her mother and trying to be a proper Southern belle for her father’s sake. When she meets Adrian Casimir, she feels the first feelings of desire and love. Opposed to the idea of marrying the man her father wants to force upon her, she runs away to find Adrian.

          Adrian Casimir is my favorite book boyfriend! He’s dashing, of course, strong, clever, kind, sexy, and courageous. He’s a shipping mogul in Arlington, Virginia, but he’s Bain Navarre, pirate captain of the Night Marauder, on the high seas.

4. What are you working on now?

          I’m writing Pin-Up Girl, a choose-your-own adventure book, at the moment. I used to love those books when I was a kid. 😊 Set in 1954, it is the adventure of wallflower Amelia Green as a photographer discovers her and helps her realize her dream of being a star.

5. Where do you get your story ideas from?

          I’ve always had an active imagination, but sometimes a movie or television show, or even just a conversation with someone, will inspire a book. Sometimes, I come up with the title first, like with Angry House, and then I’ll come up with the story to go with it.

6. Have you ever received a negative review? If so, why do you think people leave one star reviews? 

          Yes, I’ve had one-star reviews before; thankfully, not many. One that I remember is one where the reviewer admitted to not even reading the whole book. She skipped whole sections. In that case, I don’t feel the review was warranted. I understand that not every book is for everyone, but I believe in being fair with your reviews. If you didn’t even use the product, how can you honestly review it?

          Why do people leave one-star reviews? I’m not sure, but I guess they might be reading outside of their usual genre, and it just wasn’t for them. Also, maybe the characters seemed flat. I read a book once that had such a slow start, it took me about eight tries to finally read it, and then I liked it. She just needed to fix the beginning, which was boring.

7. Did you imagine yourself becoming an Author when you were younger? Was that one of your dreams as a child?

          No, I wanted to be a veterinarian or teacher when I was little. I became a teacher in the end. I’ve been writing poetry since I was 14 as a way to deal with my feelings when my older brother died. My first novel was a short story that I wrote for a boyfriend in 2009. I kept looking at it and decided it was good enough to turn into a book. Thus, Bound Through Blood came to fruition.

8. Have you ever thrown a manuscript away?

          No, not yet. 😊

9. What is your favorite thing about being a writer?

          When readers beg me for more. I also like escaping into worlds I can control when I feel like I’ve lost control of my life.

10. Do your characters ever tell ‘you’ what to write, per se?

          Yes, I don’t plot my stories out. I go with the flow and what my characters want. I like to watch everything unravel and reveal itself.

11. Who is your favorite Author of all time? 

          Shannon Drake

12. Please share with us your social media and book links:

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kennedy.author/

Amazon page: Author.to/AlexisKennedy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorAlexisK

Website: http://www.alexiskennedy.net

Good reads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5622152.Alexis_Kennedy

Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+authoralexiskennedy

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/authoralexiskennedy  

Newsletter: https://goo.gl/pXHKSp

Book links:

getBook.at/underthebloodmoon

getBook.at/boundthroughblood

getBook.at/ravaged

myBook.to/dejavu

getBook.at/cupid

getBook.at/twofaced    

getBook.at/AngryHouse     

getBook.at/Scandalous

13. Anything to add::

          Thank you for taking the time to do this 😊.

Scandalous by Alexis Kennedy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book, did you see the cover? I love it! I have a similar painting like this is my craft room, without the girl, but its ships with an orange sky. What?! You don’t want to hear about that? Oh. The book. Got it, my bad.

Well, it takes place a long, long time ago in 1860. There’s this guy, whose name is Adrian Casimir. But in all honesty, he is really Captain Bain Navarre, who happens to be a pirate on the high seas. However, he has disguised himself as Adrian and as a shipping mogul.

Now, there’s this lady, her name is Farrah Devore, her father has recently been widowed, and he is a plantation owner. Farrah, is struggling with the loss of her mother, and a courtship to a man she doesn’t even want to be with: Ethan Abrams.

Farrah’s eye’s catch the view of the handsome pirate, and she can’t help but feel her insides stir, as her desires awaken, and needs she never even knew she had come alive.

Adrian has plenty up his sleeve, and everyone knows they are not meant to be, but when a woman has wants and needs, she isn’t about to let anything get in her way. However, even family will stop at nothing to interfere with her new-found desires.

And this is a time where a nation is being ripped apart by hatred, war is the answer for everything, and brothers will fight against brothers, and it doesn’t really matter who is right in the long run. So, let me ask you this, do you honestly think love can survive, and conquer all? And do you think it is meant to be? What will become of the pirate and Farrah if anything?

You must buy this book yourself to find out, I can’t just give you all of the answers! The only thing I will tell you, is this: Alexis Kennedy is a wonderful writer, and she will keep you guessing, and wanting more, as you follow her through her ‘Scandalous’ words. She promises an excellent read, and has done just that with an excellent five-star book, once again!

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Sascha Illyvich~Burning for Derrick

Burning for Derrick

(Not yet released)

by Sascha Illyvich

My review of the Book:

As I began reading, I was immediately pulled in, which for me, takes a lot. Ordinarily I get bored easily, I won't lie. But right from the beginning, I am drawn into the book, and feel as if I am right there. Not as thought I am the Character, but as though I am sitting there watching him, as I read along through the pages, so much so, that I can smell the cigarette smoke in the air of the bar.....

The words aren't just words as I am reading them, it is written so intensely, so descriptive, it is as though I am there, I can feel, hear, smell, and even taste.

 

 The music being played in the bar, death metal, the drink he's drinking: Manhattan. He meets with the bartender, who had hired him, and agreed to give him free drinks, if he agreed to do the for him.

Derrick was just glad to be out of his house, he himself a single Shape shifting Puma. He was not into Death Metal Music, but something about the Music was making him notice it.

Here, live on the stage, a beautiful woman was singing her heart out, and she was doing something to Derrick. Calling him, making him-- he wanted to go to her-- fortunately Rob stopped him and told him, no, not until after, and fortunately Rob had brought Derrick back to his senses.

The woman on the stage, is Sonja, Rob's sister. She is who Derrick is being ask to protect. She is a Goddess Witch, with amazing powers, and there are people who want to seek her out and destroy her, or use her as their own weapon.

Human's do not like nor approve of Shape Shifters, and Witches aren't supposed to mate with them. The Russians want to use the Witch and her mighty power to end the race of Shape Shifters, and another Shape Shifter, is going to turn on the Russians, because she was made into a Shape Shifter, not born as one. 

This Shape Shifter is the most evil of them all, and just may cause the death of everyone. 

Within this book, there is so much to look for, watch for, and see, and worry about. There is magic, heart ache, love, romance, sex and even death. 

Your feelings will go in so many directions, you will not know which way to turn from one minute to the next. One minute your fantasizing about the romance and love making, and the next minute, your worrying if they will make it through the night. 

And at the end, the worst part is worrying, will she honestly sing her heart out, and do what they told her to. I was sitting there on the edge of my seat going, "Oh God, Sonja, please no, Don't do it. Don't do it!"    

I found this book a very edge of the seat, moving, I couldn't get enough-kind of book. I would've kept going, and reading forever, that's how pleased I was with the entire book!

 Five stars!

My Interview Questions for

Sascha Illyvich:

 

    

1. How long have you been writing?

 13 years roughly.

2. How many books have you written?

I think I'm actually at over 40 novellas right now.

3. Obviously erotica is your passion, but exactly what is your favorite part about writing about it?

I can't really say I have a favorite part about writing erotic stories other than the ability to use my imagination or play with fantasies I might be too chicken to live out.  Or in reality, there are no true shifters/vampires etc.  Not in the same sense of how we think of them anyway. 

4. What exactly led you to write erotica?

The more I thought about this the more the answer truly was "So I could get laid."  But not like one of them pretentious assholes who says they write highbrow erotica but someone who truly understands human sexuality. 

5. Do you answer fan mail, and if so, and yes I'm being serious, because you write erotica, have you ever had any letters where people have written to you saying sexual things to you? (You don't have to answer this, if you don't want to!)

I do answer fan mail.  And let's say I've had some interesting email conversations over the years. 

6. Out of curiosity, does writing erotica ever "turn you on?" as you are writing it? (feel free to ignore this question if it offends....)

If it's a really hot scene and the inspiration is from someone I love or care about (or have fantasized about) then yeah I do get the urge to take matters into my own hands just so I can diffuse my pressure.  Warning, all people are fodder for writers. 

7. When you read books, do you too, visualize the scene in your mind?

Yes I do indeed.  If the writer has done their job well then this is easy. 

8. Do you read erotica?

Not so much these days.  Mostly I read erotic romance, cigar and wine trade magazines, when I have time to read.  Which, isn't a lot sadly.

9. Who is/are your favorite Author(s)?

I'm really loving Rhyannan Byrd's BloodRunners series.  Before that, JR Ward, Joey W. Hill have special places in my heart. 

10. Where did the idea for this book about "Burning for Derrick" come from?

Oddly this may read like an episode of Burn Notice but the idea for this story started a few years back.  There was a former publisher this was targeted at because I knew the editor and she promised me a slot.  The premise originally had to do with a drink (an Old Fashioned) and how the bartender set up odd couples.  Over time my plate became full on other current projects so I put this one back because I had nothing more than just that idea.  It would be two characters that shared a common goal, to be in old fashioned love.   Somehow, over time I grew angrier with life and the story took a different road as I realized it just needed to be written.  My two characters became jaded, real.  The heroine grew into a witch who fronts one of the larger Death Metal bands in the US, the hero, an ex spy. 

11. Why did you make Derrick a Puma?

Might have something to do with pumas being something I like and are different enough for the readers who enjoy shifter romances.  I had been teasing a friend about writing a puma story for months and when this idea had time to be written, it had a different title.  One afternoon I was smoking a cigar, in fact it was the "Puma" by Gran Habano from their Azteca line.  When I realized what I'd done and the timing of both writing the book and smoking the cigar it just seemed funny and kinda like fate stepped in.

12. The cigar smell described in this book, cocoa and something else, is "that" what "you" smoke?

Yes.  Those cigars are Don Cervantes, put out by ACC Cigar.  Cocoa, earth, sweetness, dark chocolate.  That'd be the flavor profile of the Tres Maduro which Max smokes.  Derrick is more of a Masterpiece Platinum guy because he enjoys the slightly earthier notes.  Plus, the maker of the Don Cervantes line is a friend of mine and a chance to name drop for him is one I'll take when I can. 

13. The character Sonja where did the idea of her come from?

I just started listening to Devildriver and Katatonia about the time I started this book.  I wanted a vocalist for the heroine, one who could sing as well as scream.  But the scream had to work for me, because I’m very picky about my music.  Mostly vocalists.  I wanted a singer who could be believed could carry the power she had, plus go forth with the Slayer tribute at the end.  I wanted someone who possessed Angela Goscow's terrifying screams to meld with the power I created behind the heroine.  She needed to be a little unsteady too.

14. Why did you choose Russians to come after them?

Why not?  In Communist Russia, They come after the Russians! 

15. As you were writing the ending, were indecisive as to what choice you would personally make for the ending?

You must have heard my rant about killing off people.  The final non Russian villain is actually based on someone I had the misfortune of meeting online.  I'd make a stupid comment about a certain holiday in May that involves drinking and piñatas and she branded me a racist.  Seeing how that's not true, I decided my villain would be racist and I'd kill her because she hated shifters.  Believed they were an abomination and Gods Will was to kill them.  What I WANTED to do was violently kill someone who pissed me off.  I wanted to kill her violently, sort of in the style of what you'd find on Metalocalypse.   The book after all is a "heavy metal" romance.  But I didn't want readers feeling the brutality would eclipse the romance I built up, so she just got knocked out and taken into custody.

16. Can you please provide for me all of the information as to where to find this book, links etc? (If it hasn't yet been released, can you provide a release date or estimated one?)
Currently, this book is in the loving hands of Saritza Hernandez of Corvisiero Literary Agency and is being shopped around.   I imagine it'll probably have a Winter 2013 release or early Spring 2014 release.  By the way, I'm currently editing Max's story.  I think you'll enjoy that one as much as you loved Burning for Derrick, since it's Derrick's brother's story.

17. Any last words or thoughts you would like to share:

Nothing really special.  I'd like to thank all of my readers, both old and new.  You make this career worth every agonizing minute and I'm forever grateful. 

18.. Now can you provide for me your own personal links, web site information, etc, so readers can learn more about you:

https://www.amazon.com/author/saschaillyvich

http://saschaillyvichauthor.com

http://www.write-sex.com

http://www.facebook.com/saschaillyvich

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2928546.Sascha_Illyvich (I do read as much as I can when I'm enjoying a cigar and libation)

   

Thank you Sascha, for allowing me to do this for and with you, it has truly been an honor. I have learned a great deal, and had a wonderful time while doing so!

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