Devil's Doorbell Blog Tour
Welcome to the Devil's Doorbell Blog Tour! Jeffe stopped by for a little Q&A before you see a little excerpt. @jeffekennedy
La
Crimson Femme: Is there an area that is kink-related that you haven't written
about yet that you're interested in?
Jeffe
Kennedy: Oh yes! To me kink is a vast universe, limited only by human
imagination, so there’s tons I haven’t yet played with. That said, I have ideas
about dubious and non-consent scenarios that remain alluring to me, but I
haven’t touched because they’re problematic.
La
Crimson Femme: I can understand why. What's the most surprising piece of
feedback you've ever received from a fan of your writing?
Jeffe
Kennedy: A reader told me she took one of her books with her to bed
several nights running after her house was robbed. She lived alone and my
heroine helped her not be afraid. I was surprised and hugely warmed by that.
La
Crimson Femme: Wow! That is pretty awesome!
When you're writing, is there a particular movie or music that you might
watch or listen to that helps you get in that frame of mind?
Jeffe
Kennedy: Almost never! I used to listen to movie soundtracks a lot when I
was a newbie writer, but now I mostly want utter and complete silence. The one
recent exception was RUBY. I
made a playlist of New Orleans music to help me get in the groove.
La
Crimson Femme: If someone new to your work is going to start with a story,
which one would you recommend they read first?
Jeffe
Kennedy: It depends on if they prefer fantasy or contemporary erotic
romance. For fantasy, start with THE MARK OF THE TALA. For
contemporary erotic, GOING
UNDER is a great place to start, or with the story in the upcoming
anthology, THE DEVIL’S DOORBELL.
Though short, my story in there, EXACT WARM UNHOLY, gives a good feel for what
I write.
La
Crimson Femme: Nice! Now a totally off topic question - what is your favorite
flavor ice cream?
Jeffe Kennedy: I’m not a fan of ice
cream – it hurts my teeth! Give me a good brownie, cookie or lemon bar any
time!
La
Crimson Femme: Thanks for dropping by! We'll have to provide some lemon bars next time. I love them too. Now on to our excerpt.
Excerpt from
Exact Warm Unholy
by Jeffe Kennedy
Tonight,
my name is Mary.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary. That calls for fiery red, steampunk crimson carved into long, perfect
ringlets. Not a corset, though. Not for Circle2, a bar that tends
toward the conservative, at least so far as cosplay is concerned, unless it’s
Halloween or something. Instead I choose the black sheath dress with the deep
vee neckline to show off the inner curves of my breasts, and advertise that I’m
not wearing a bra. Or anything else beneath.
Have
to set the bait properly, after all. And Mary can do what I never could.
For
makeup, I go with a retro vibe. I have to layer it on thick anyway, to make
myself into Mary, so the heavy stuff works best. Theater pancake in the fairest
tone to complement the hair. False lashes and black eyeliner, with a cat’s eye
flair. Bright green contact lenses. Lipstick in screaming scarlet, just shades
darker than the wig. Amazing, really, how redrawing the lines of lips and eyes
change a face entirely.
No
one ever recognizes me, not even me. Maybe G_d does, but we’ve had a falling
out and I don’t care.
At
the last moment I go for boots instead of stilettos. High heels, black leather,
over-the-knee. Maybe I’ll let him fuck me in just the boots. Whoever he’ll be
tonight.
The
night air slaps chill on my bare arms, so I hurry the few blocks to Circle2.
I don’t like to wear a coat. They’re too expensive to wear a different one
every time and I’d rather spend the money on wigs. Too bad there’s not a wig
wear-and-return system, as I never wear the same one twice.
I
don’t mind the coolness either. It helps combat the heat. I’m alive with the
anticipation, already wet, primed for the release to come.
Tonight
I pick out a stool at the bar. Mary is the sort who’d do that. I cross my legs
so my hem rides up to show a strip of skin above my boot, turning sideways to
display my cleavage.
Come and get it, gentlemen.
“What’ll
you have?” the bartender asks. He’s a genial sort, always ready with a friendly
smile. Never hits on me, no matter who I am that night, which makes me think he
doesn’t take advantage of the women who come to the bar. That’s part of the
reason I go to Circle2. It sets a tone to the hookups, I
think, as the men who frequent the place are generally clean and polite.
He’s
always working, six nights a week. The bar is closed on Mondays. I suspect he
owns it, but we don’t have conversations. At least, not connected ones. I’m
always a stranger to him. He smiles, asks what I’ll have, then leaves me alone.
Tonight
it’s Prosecco and he gives it to me in a tall flute. He’s wearing a shirt that
says “The book was better.”
“I’ll
get that for the lady.” A tall man, dark skin, pretty brown eyes, makes the
offer hopefully. He’s wearing a good suit, has nice hands, long fingers. I’ve
never seen him in here before. Yes. Yes, he’ll do nicely.
The Devil's Doorbell
A
woman's pleasure is a dangerous thing. A primal appetite that, once awakened,
can never be sated. A secret that gives power to those who know it. A magic
that, once unleashed, can never be contained.
Some
say the clitoris is the devil's doorbell, set to summon him forth at the merest
touch...
It's time to ring the bell.
It's time to ring the bell.
Here
are seven tales of sexual empowerment and erotic defiance, featuring the
hottest storytellers of erotic fiction.
Anne Calhoun
Christine d'Abo
Delphine Dryden
Megan Hart
Jeffe Kennedy
Megan Mulry
M. O'Keefe
Coming April 26, 2016!
Anne Calhoun
Christine d'Abo
Delphine Dryden
Megan Hart
Jeffe Kennedy
Megan Mulry
M. O'Keefe
Coming April 26, 2016!
In
the Garden, by Anne Calhoun
Forbidden fruit is the most delicious...
A wedding in the bucolic English countryside
offers Kelsey ripe temptation in the form of a hot groomsman, Julian. Will the
illicit attraction satisfy an old craving or stoke a new desire?
Exact
Warm Unholy, by Jeffe Kennedy
Tonight my name is
Mary...
Or is it? Sometimes
she’s Tiffany or Syd or Bobbi. But whatever face she wears, she returns to the
same bar, to find a new man and seduce him, safe in the knowledge that no one
will recognize her. Until one man does.
Red
Leather, by Delphine Dryden
Some activities
are definitely not safe for work.
Maggie's sadness
over being dumped quickly turns to relief and excitement when she discovers a
new freedom...a new Maggie she could have never been with her ex. Combine New
Maggie with Tim the Hot Mailroom Guy and an unexpected vibrator...and the
office supply room door becomes the portal to a world of devilish fun.
Drowning
on Dry Land, by Megan Hart
Some doors stay open until you close them.
Moving on from a past love, Bette Douglas
has discovered a whole new world of satisfaction and contentment with her boy
Damian...but when the past comes knocking, Bette's decision to answer it could
change everything.
Devil
in the Dark, by Christine d’Abo
When developer Shona
needs to beta test her new app - The Devil's Doorbell - she goes out on the prowl for a man who will fulfil her wildest
fantasies - oral sex in public. What could possibly go wrong when she finds her
devil in the dark?
London
Calling, by Megan Mulry
"Face-sitter wanted, in exchange for
free accommodation in Mayfair." -Craigslist
She hadn't planned on being quite so
adventurous when she decided to spend the year in London, but when she read the
ad, she couldn't resist.
We
Are All Found Things, by M. O'Keefe
Rennie's trying to forget her past; her
mysterious new tenant is trying to keep his past a secret. But when Rennie
finds out the truth about Luka she discovers as much about herself as she does
her innocent lover.
Author Websites:
Anne Calhoun - http://www.annecalhoun.com/
Christine d'Abo -
http://christinedabo.com/
Delphine Dryden -
http://www.delphinedryden.com/
Megan Hart - http://meganhart.com/
Jeffe Kennedy - http://www.jeffekennedy.com/
Megan Mulry - http://meganmulry.com/
M. O'Keefe - http://www.molly-okeefe.com/
Cover by Book Beautiful - http://www.bookbeautiful.com/
Buy links:
Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include
non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, and novels. She has been a Ucross
Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and
was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. Her essays have appeared
in many publications, including Redbook.
Her most recent works include a number of fiction series:
the fantasy romance novels of A Covenant of
Thorns; the contemporary BDSM novellas of the Facets of Passion,
and an erotic contemporary serial novel, Master of the
Opera. A fourth series, the fantasy trilogy The Twelve
Kingdoms, hit the shelves starting in May 2014 and book 1, The Mark of the
Tala, received a starred Library Journal review was nominated
for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the
Rose was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014
and the third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015.
Two more books will follow in this world, beginning with The Pages of the Mind May 2016. A fifth
series, the erotic romance trilogy, Falling Under,
started with Going Under,
and was followed by Under His Touch
and Under Contract.
She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats,
plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.
Jeffe can be found online at her website:
JeffeKennedy.com, every Sunday at the popular Word Whores blog, on Facebook, on Goodreads and pretty much constantly on
Twitter @jeffekennedy. She is represented by Connor
Goldsmith of Fuse Literary.
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