Excerpt from ‘Still’

“So, you live here now?”

“Yes.” She glanced at him then back at the road. “I bought some land outside of Austin.”

“Where at?”

“Southwest of Lakeway. Where are you calling home?”

He fiddled with the door. “Right now, just an apartment down by Buda.”

“Is that where your family is? I remember you mentioning something about your mother being a high school teacher in Buda.”

Surprise crossed his weary, but still handsome features. “Yeah. I didn’t realize you were paying attention.”

“Wyatt, I’ve always paid attention to everything you said.”

“Me too, Doc, me too.” He shifted like he was going to touch her, then clenched his hands together in his lap. “So how’re ya liking Austin?”

“It’s nice.”

She glanced over at him and her heartbeat picked up. From the moment she saw him she wanted him but, first, he needed to know some things about her. She wasn’t going to change who she was but, at the same time, she really wanted to get to know Wyatt better. Something about him called to her heart, and to her soul, in a way she hadn’t felt in years.

“I found a local club that I go to now and again.”

“Really? What club? Maybe I could meet you there sometime.” He cleared his throat and quickly added. “You know, to catch up and stuff.”

“It’s called Lila’s.” She waited for his reaction, half expecting him to say that yes he did, indeed, know of the BDSM club and went there often. It wouldn’t surprise her one bit to find out that he was a Dom.

“Never heard of it.”

A Smutty Research Nerd

The other day I was talking with a reader about one of my books, Sodom and the Phoenix, in which I did a rather creative scene involving some heavy virtual reality role playing in a BDSM themed virtual zoo. She asked me in a very excited whisper if I’d ever been to a real zoo like that. I could tell by her expression that she was hoping the answer was yes, and that I’d let her know where it was so she could attend. Sadly I had to break the news that I’d never been to a real zoo like that, but not wanting to crush her dreams I assured her that somewhere there probably was such a place.

I was extremely flattered that she asked me this question because it told me that I had written that book well enough that she actually believed it was real and that I had visited there. For an author that is a huge compliment. We want you to feel like not only are you living that book, but that it such a fantastical place could actually exists. For those that have read my work you know I write just about every genre of romance there is, from historical to sci-fi. One over lapping theme to all of these stories is that I try to make the characters as realistic as possible, have them be living people who you can identify with no matter how strange and new the world they live in is to you.