Naked Reader Book Club Discussion: Red Velvet and Absinthe - Paranormal Erotic Romance, Edited by Mitzi Szereto (December 13, 8-10 PM EST)

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Welcome to the Naked Reader Book Club! The fabulous Sacchi Green will be our host this evening. Tonight we'll be discussing an eerily sexy anthology sure to keep us spellbound.

Red Velvet and Absinthe - Paranormal Erotic Romance
Edited by Mitzi Szereto

Explore Your Dark Desires

The supernatural: Think vampires, werewolves, ghosts…eerie sounds in the night, impassioned whispers teasing at the depths of sleep…Think red velvet, flickering candles, love and lust with otherworldly partners who unleash passion and desire far beyond that inspired by simple mortals. Editor Mitzi Szereto’s sensual stories provide thrills and chills of telltale hearts, redolent with romance and danger. Red Velvet and Absinthe will carry you away, conjuring up the romantic spirit of classic Gothic fiction with a generous dose of eroticism.
A lusty lady, ravaged, seeks comfort in the arms of her maidservent in Giselle Renarde’s rapacious “Milady’s Bath,” while bondage and desire enslave a wolf girl to her master in “Snowlight, Moonlight” by Rose de Fer. Janine Ashbless’s “Cover Him with Darkness” is an exquisite tale of secret love between an imprisoned fallen angel and the girl he seduces. Editor Mitzi Szereto’s vampire romance “The Blood Moon Kiss” is sexy Southern Gothic at its finest.

Whether you've read the book or not, everyone is welcome to join the Naked Reader Book Club discussion! If you have had a chance to read Red Velvet and Absinthe, feel free to drop in and give us your opinion on the story. less

Sometimes writers start out with characters, and sometimes with settings (and sometimes, even in erotica, with plots.) It's amazing what the mind can do with even subtle prompts from the surroundings. I asked Giselle Renarde (who can't be here tonight because she volunteers at a battered women's home) about her story "Milady's Bath, and she said:

I wrote Milady's Bath last year at Christmas-time, while "vacationing" at the house I grew up in. My mother's house isn't exactly a gothic setting, except in that it's full of empty rooms. Only one of my siblings still lives at home, and my mother let the rest of our old bedrooms fall into disuse. My childhood room doesn't have a bed in it anymore--it's just full of boxes--so over the holidays I took over one of my sisters' bedrooms. I wrote Milady's Bath sitting at the rather ornate desk she'd left behind, and looking out across the snowy expanse of a mid-winter yard. less

Sometimes writers start out with characters, and sometimes with settings (and sometimes, even in erotica, with plots.) It's amazing what the mind can do with even subtle prompts from the surroundings. I asked Giselle Renarde (who can't be here tonight because she volunteers at a battered women's home) about her story "Milady's Bath, and she said:

I wrote Milady's Bath last year at Christmas-time, while "vacationing" at the house I grew up in. My mother's house isn't exactly a gothic setting, except in that it's full of empty rooms. Only one of my siblings still lives at home, and my mother let the rest of our old bedrooms fall into disuse. My childhood room doesn't have a bed in it anymore--it's just full of boxes--so over the holidays I took over one of my sisters' bedrooms. I wrote Milady's Bath sitting at the rather ornate desk she'd left behind, and looking out across the snowy expanse of a mid-winter yard. less