Sizzling July Interviews continues my lovelies!
Let me introduce to you, Leigh Jarrett!
Welcome to My Twisted
& Kinky World!
Let's start off by
telling everyone a little bit about you!
Not much to tell.
I'm a Canadian author of m/m contemporary and erotic romance. I grew up in Vancouver , BC , and spent
a lot of time on Davie Street West End as a teen, and in the clubs, dancing,
drinking and having far more sex than recommended in the user manual.
*laughs* That can't be a bad thing!
I've moved around
a bit over the years since my misspent youth and am currently doing a stint in
Kelowna, BC, while raising three very eccentric and gifted teenagers. It's been
interesting living in a beach resort town, but I can't wait to go home to Vancouver
So, I know when I sit
on writer panels I am always asked this question. When did you start writing?
I probably started writing stories (in my head) from the
time I was a small child; creating characters and scenarios, and running the
ideas through my mind in great detail until the story unfolded the way I wanted
it to. (I was an incorrigible daydreamer.) By the time I was eight, most of my
stories revolved around my imaginary childhood friend, Sebastian, and the
people he shared his life with. My fascination with him continued through my
teenaged years (I even named a cat after him), so I started making some notes
and then two years ago, I began writing his story.
Very cool.
The first book of Sebastian's story is titled CircleTrilogy – Book 1 – Age of Mycea and will be published July 2012. It is
the first book I wrote, but interestingly enough it will be the tenth book I've
published. I'm having a bit of trouble cutting the apron strings. "Book 2
– Age of Cardin" will be coming out October 2012 and "Book 3 – Age of
Truth" has no release date as of yet. (Shh… I haven't actually started
writing it.)
What made you decide
to write erotica?
It was all Sebastian's fault really. I knew from early on he
liked one of the other male
characters, Meshia, and as I got older, Sebastian became very visual as to what he and Meshia were up
to behind closed doors. Exploring that side of their relationship, and finally writing
about it, was a lot of fun (and extremely educational) so I kept writing gay
erotic fiction. There's something very appealing about men's raw sexual energy towards
each other. And the potential for a shifting power dynamic is author orgasm
material.
Oh so true on both
accounts! I think this is why there is a huge fan base and why we authors love
bringing these characters to live on the pages!
How would you
classify your erotic writing?
My books are all m/m, sometimes m/m/m, falling mostly into
the contemporary romance and erotic romance genres, but I also have one book Callum ofDrakkar Coven which is about a vampire, so definitely fantasy, and the
"Circle Trilogy" is based in another star system with plenty of
interplanetary conflict, space travel and interspecies romance. I feel
comfortable calling it sci-fi gay erotic romance.
Excellent book, by the way *smiles*
Do you have a
specific writing style?
When I write straight up erotica, I write in first person,
but most of my other books are written in third person limited narrative with
what I like to call omnipresent tendencies.
'Omnipresent
tendencies'… humm I may have to steal that phrase!
What is the process
you use for writing?
I try to work from an outline, but sometimes my characters
run amuck and start making their own decisions and having conversations about
things I'd never intended them to talk about. These events explicably lead to
changes in the outline. There are days my job feels more like character
wrangling than writing.
Chasing the
characters… I know how that feels!
Is there a message in
your novel(s) that you want your readers to grasp?
Yes! Absolutely yes! My primary message and motivation for
writing gay erotic romance is that "Love is Love" and I hope that
someday books like mine will be listed simply in the 'romantic fiction' section
without the 'gay' segregation. If I can get that one message across, I will be
perpetually ecstatic.
Yes, it is sad that
there has to be such segregation and we can't just have a good love story
between two people with out it being labeled. Maybe someday…
If you had to name
one character you have written that was the most like you, which character in
which book would that be?
I would have to say Attila Luka in SimplyMarvellous which is odd because I'm not a confused, cross-gender,
teenaged boy, and I didn't particularly like Attila as a person, but there's
something about his pain and vulnerability that spoke to me.
Are there certain
characters or stories you would like to go back to?
I think Timothy and Oleander from Callum
of Drakkar Coven will be getting their own book by early next year.
Oleander's endearing romantic gestures and Timothy's reluctance to fall for them
make them a couple I'd like to play with further.
Sounds like my kind
of story! Let me know when it comes out and I'll have you back to talk more
about it. *smiles*
What is your latest
release and where can readers find it?
Two Nights A Week
is my latest release. More information about this book and others can be found on my blog.
Is there anything
else you would like to say to your readers and fans?
Thank you so much and please keep the positive emails coming.
Writing in the gay erotic romance genre can draw a lot of negative criticism,
so it's encouraging to hear when someone actually likes what I'm doing, and it makes
my day to read that you, as a reader, have been inspired or touched in some way
by something I've written.
Thanks for dropping
by My Twisted & Kinky World!
*waves goodbye to
Leigh*
Don't forget to check
out these other Sizzling July Interviews!
Amara - July 1-3
Evan J. Xaiver - July
4-6
S.L. Armstrong - July
7-9
Brita Addams - July
10-12
Leigh Ellwood - July
13-15
Blaine Arden - July
16-18
Leigh Jarrett- July
19-24
A.D. Cooper - July
22-24
Giselle London - July
25-27
Rachel Haimowitz -
July 28-30
Aleksandr Voinov - July 31-Aug. 3
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Aleksandr Voinov - July 31-Aug. 3
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