Today’s author is Eden Bradley, the awesome chick who recently sold to Bantam and Berkeley. *cough* bitch *cough* She’s pimping her new e-book, Isle of Desire, out with Phaze this month. Interview time!
1. What is your favorite word?
‘Exquisite’. It can describe so many things.
2. What is your least favorite word?
I have several that some erotica authors use, but which I don’t find sexy or pretty in any way. I like sex to be wicked, sensual, but never vulgar.
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Music has been a great inspiration lately. Particular songs can set a sensual mood, energize me, or make me want to cry. There’s a lot of power in that.
4. What turns you off?
On a world-wide level, cruelty. In erotic fiction specifically, I don’t like anal sex scenes, or anal stimulation of any kind. I know it’s popular, but it just doesn’t work for me at all. But I’m pretty sure that doesn’t mean I’m a prude. Just read some of my books to find out!
5. What is your favorite curse word?
If I’m going to curse, I’m really going to mean it. Fuck is an all-around term that works in almost any curse-worthy situation, and it can be said with such force!
6. If you could live in any time period other than this one, who would you sleep with in that time and why?
There was a German painter in the Renaissance named Albrecht Durer who did a number of self-portraits. He was a beautiful man, and incredibly talented. He also traveled extensively, kept detailed diaries, and apparently had a wonderful sense of humor. He had a true sensual sensibility, which most people repressed during that time.
7. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three books would you like to have with you?
Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, and….only three, huh? Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden was one of the best books I’ve ever read.
8. What is the ugliest rejection you have ever gotten from a publisher/editor/agent?
I got an absolutely scathing rejection from an editor recently on a novella which had just sold to another publisher. This story contains some edgy material that I knew not everyone would be comfortable with, but I must have really pushed a button with her! The rant went on for several paragraphs. She missed the point of the story entirely.
I know this is a terrible thing to admit, but I did feel a bit smug about the fact that the story had just sold to someone else. But if it hadn’t, I probably would have been crushed.
9. What sound or noise do you love?
I love the sound of falling rain, it’s the most soothing sound in the world. And water is always sexy to me, for some reason.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
That everyone I love who has passed before me is in there, waiting to see me again. Oh, and that I’m being allowed in! Currently, I’m a bit doubtful.
Book Pimpage Info:
11. The information for your most recent or upcoming release:
Isle of Desire
Phaze Publishing
release date: end of July/ early September
contemporary erotic romance
12. Describe the premise of your book in three sentences or less:
On a beach on the small Venezuelan island of Isla de Margarita, Isabel Asher meets once more the love of her life, Rafael Cruz, the man she left behind twelve years earlier. Desire ignites, but can the sultry tropical nights spent in his bed lead them back to love? She’s about to find out, and maybe to have her heart broken in the process.
13. Your website or blog.
www.EdenBradleyErotica.com
http://www.edenbradley.blogspot.com/
