Erotic Horror Story Smoke and Mirrors – Out Now!

Yay! My collaboration with Fleur T Reid, Smoke and Mirrors , was released yesterday. It’s part of the Scared Stiff collection (classy title, I know!), and if you buy it from Total-E-Bound’s website, you’ll be entered into the draw to win five ebooks of your choice.

Writing with Fleur was such an awesome experience… and I’d just like to blame all the really screwed up parts on her. No doubt she’d say the exact same thing about me, though, so I’ll leave you to decide who’s lying…

When the circus comes to town, what will you see on the other side of the mirror?

Max has always been able to see things that aren’t there…or perhaps his visions show people’s true natures, in their reflections.

When he visits the circus one night, the last thing he expects is to fall in lust with the sexy knife-thrower, Lady Stiletto. But when he follows her into the funhouse – and into the hall of mirrors – they are both sucked into a warped and twisted world where time moves differently and nothing is what it seems…

Can Max find Lady Stiletto and save her from the madness of the mirror world? Or will he find only an echo, driven mad by the carnival of horrors they’ve been plunged into?

Smoke and Mirrors – Erotica Horror with Fleur T. Reid

You might remember that I was collaborating with the lovely Fleur T. Reid on an erotic horror story, as part of the Scared Stiff anthology. Well, it’s now up as Coming Soon at Total-E-Bound, and we’re very excited to see how it goes down…

Check out the cover art and blurb for our sexy, scary novella…

When the circus comes to town, what will you see on the other side of the mirror?

Max has always been able to see things that aren’t there…or perhaps his visions show people’s true natures, in their reflections.

When he visits the circus one night, the last thing he expects is to fall in lust with the sexy knife-thrower, Lady Stiletto. But when he follows her into the funhouse – and into the hall of mirrors – they are both sucked into a warped and twisted world where time move differently and nothing is what it seems…

Can Max find Lady Stiletto and save her from the madness of the mirror world? Or will he find only an echo, driven mad by the carnival of horrors they’ve been plunged into?

 

Paige Turner on Collaboration

My co-author and awesome friend, Paige Turner, is guest blogging today about our erotic horror short, and collaboration in general. I can also really recommend her debut novella, Temporary Trouble, because I’ve read it and it’s amazing!

Over to Paige:

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Thank you to the lovely Amy Valenti for inviting me to guest blog with her to promote my new release, Temporary Trouble. It’s available for pre-order here.

If contemporary ménage with a dollop of funny and a smidgen of kinky isn’t your cup of tea, Amy and I are collaborating on a creepy story for submission to Total-E-Bound’s Scared Stiff collection. It’s a learning experience.

For example, I have learned that I should not write horror stories after dark, unless I want to spend the next few hours in a state of terrified sleeplessness, convinced that something ghastly is going to leap out and eat me.

But I’ve also learned about collaboration. It’s a slightly strange process. I’m so used to having complete control of my stories, knowing in advance, more or less, where the story is going. While Amy and I did thrash out the plot before we started writing, she still manages to take the characters in directions I would never have anticipated.

It’s awesome. It challenges me out of my comfort zone and makes me really stretch my imagination and experiment with scenarios I would never have come up with by myself.

German composer Klaus Schulze said, “As always in a musical collaboration: You have to like each other. As simple as that.” Tom Clancy, on the other hand, holds that, “Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.”

And there you have Amy and me in a nutshell – we like each other, and we’re interested in unnatural acts. The first makes for a successful collaboration. The second, hopefully, will make for a thoroughly creepy and very hot read.

Do you like to collaborate, or do you prefer to keep complete control over your characters? Let us know in the comments!