Capri’s Fate by @DarylDevore a #fallingintolove Read #PNRblogfest

Author Daryl Devore is here today with an interview of Capril and Thrall, the hero and heroine of her erotic paranormal romance, Capri’s Fate. Welcome, Daryl.

Lyndi Lamont's Paranormal BlogfestHi everyone. So excited to be here. I brought along Capri and Thall from my erotic contemporary fantasy Capri’s Fate.

Capri, How did you first meet your writer?

She was sitting at her laptop wasting time on Facebook when I popped up, gave her a nudge and said, “You should be writing about me!”

If you could rewrite anything in your book, what would it be?

I have a few phobias and I really, really wish she hadn’t included those. I’m a Capricorn. We’re practical and focused. I’m also a corporate executive – very business minded. But still, she puts me on a private jet in a cyclone and then on a yacht and we gets us lost at sea. **sigh**

What are you proudest of?

I used to be proudest of my accomplishments. I’m 32 and made it to Junior Vice President in charge of Operations and was just promoted even higher up the chain. But now, I’m proudest of my love for Thall.

Thall, what do you do for a living?

I’m a Fate. Actually, I’m the seven hundred and sixteenth child of a Fate. Lachesis is my mother. We don’t have jobs like humans. We have people under our domains, so when someone says, “Let the Fates decide”, that’s when we go “to work”. Sadly no paycheck, but lots of job security.

What do you wear when you go to sleep?

Nothing. When I’m not in human form there is no need to wear clothes. Which I find extremely itchy. When I am human, I have to wear clothes. Seems you have this thing called indecency laws. But I still don’t sleep in anything because if I’m in human form that means Capri’s with me and there really isn’t a lot of sleeping going on.

What do you like most about where you live?

I exist in a different dimension that you humans do. Almost anything I want is there and all I need to do is think about it. I have been known to spend a lazy summer afternoon tossing a pebble into a brook, sitting under the Tree of Life. The only thing this world couldn’t provide for me was the woman I love, but we worked it out.

Capri's Fate coverBlurb – What’s a woman to do when a voice follows her home and makes mad, passionate love to her?

Corporate business woman, Capricious Gray, is dragged to a sex toy convention by her best friend. Once a shocking, mysterious disembodied voice helps her with her purchases, it follows her home. Passion ensues, leaving Capri torn between lust for her fantasy lover and the desperate need for reality in her life.

Thall, son of one of the Fates, harbors the irrepressible need to be with the woman he’s desired from afar for years. In order to make her his, once and for all, he must help Capri get past her fears, including the fear of what he represents – a fantasy.

Can fantasy become a reality for these two lovers?

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Excerpt:

My erotic adventure began the minute he whispered, “Do you happen to own a pair of red, fuzzy handcuffs?”

Well okay, it didn’t exactly start there. If I’m going to be perfectly honest, I think it started with Kat’s text: “Meet me at – insert name of five-star restaurant here.”

Kat is always getting me to take her out for expensive dinners. I don’t mind, I’m a high paid executive, in a very large corporation, while she’s a receptionist in a small dental office. Besides, I like good food and her company.

Kat and I have been BFFs since third grade. We were in each other’s wedding parties, and cried on each other’s shoulders at our subsequent divorces. Now, we’re each other’s go to person whenever the mood strikes. Obviously, the mood struck and it involved my credit card. I texted back a reply –”Xavier’s. 6 pm.”

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Kat waited outside the restaurant when my cab pulled up to the curb. “Timing or what? I just got here.”

After the requisite cheek kiss we stepped up to the Maitre D’. He smiled his, I-must-be-friendly-because-they’re-guests, smile and escorted us to our table. We ordered drinks and chatted. We talked about the weather, her new dress, my job—you know, just old—no, scratch old, put longtime—girlfriend stuff.

After a diet conscious meal, followed by a calorie-loaded dessert, we waited outside for a taxi.

“Do you trust me?” With a goofy grin on her face, Kat’s dark chocolate, mellowed-from-too-much-wine, eyes gazed at me.

Having seen that innocent demeanor before; it meant nothing but trouble. I was a bit wary. Okay, a lot wary! The last time she’d gawked at me like that and asked the same brainless question, we ended up at a frat house beer slosh during Homecoming and I wasn’t in college anymore.

A cab pulled up and stopped. She grabbed my arm and dragged me into it. “Convention Center.”

I slid next to her and shut the car door. “What’s at the convention center?”

“That’s the trust me bit.” She raised her hands and flicked two fingers up and down at the words “trust me”.

You have to love air-quotes.

I checked my Blackberry for messages then glanced at her. “Is this going to get me arrested? Again?”

She shook her head.

“Is it going to get me hit on—again—by horny, beer-soaked, college drunks?”

Kat giggled.

“Is that a yes or a no?”

Author Bio – Daryl Devore lives in an in old farmhouse in Ontario Canada, with her husband, two cats, a large salt water aquarium full of fish and some ghosts. Her daughter is grown and has flown the nest. Daryl loves to take long walks up her quiet country road, or snow shoe across the back acres and in the summer, kayak along the St. Lawrence River. She has touched a moon rock, been deep in the ocean in a submarine and used the ladies room in a royal palace. Life’s an adventure and Daryl’s having fun living it.

Where to find me –

Blog – http://myeroticnotions.blogspot.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/daryl.devore
Facebook Author Page – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daryl-Devore/280168402052520
Twitter – http://twitter.com/daryldevore
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Thanks, Daryl. I enjoyed the interview.

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An Interview with a 500-Year-Old Vampire by @MicheleDrier #PNRblogfest

Lyndi Lamont's Paranormal BlogfestToday author Michele Drier interviews Jean-Louis, a 500-year-old Hungarian vampire.

Interview With A Vampire by Michele Drier

Jean-Louis is a five hundred year old vampire and today I’m talking to him about the past, the future and (ahem) his love life.

handsome vampire in sepia

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MD: First, let’s get the name out of the way. You just go by Jean-Louis. Do you have a last name?

J-L: I did. I was born Jean-Louis Lemend. I was, hmm…thirty-three when Stefan turned me. It’s just been easier for all of us to use Kandesky if we need a last name. We seldom do, though.

MD: Stefan turned you? Is that the Baron Kandesky?

J-L: Yes. He’d been a vampire for about a hundred and fifty years when I went to work for him. He needed a regular to handle all the affairs for his expanding trading business. He was still killing for most of his food and didn’t trust himself away from his home base.

MD: Were you happy when you were turned?

J-L: Oh lord no! I was appalled when Stefan did it. He had to keep me tied to the bed and almost unconscious for weeks until my body adapted to living off blood. And when I faced the inevitable, I insisted we stop killing for food.

MD: Stopped killing? Do you mean you don’t any more?

J-L: We haven’t killed for food for hundreds of years! We use donors and people are happy to donate to us when they feel the rush for the first time. Maxie claims it’s the closest thing to an orgasm. We also use animal blood and today don’t have any shortages. It allows us to give dinner parties with regulars…they have a five course meal; we have borscht, steak tartare and blood pudding.

MD: Ah, Maxie! Is she first woman you loved?

J-L: No, but she’ll be the last (laughs). I was married once before for more than a century. Her name was Magda and when she was killed I swore I’d never marry again.

MD: It sounds as though you haven’t been involved with many women.

J-L: Oh, I have. With a lot. My problem is that I’m attracted to regulars. They’re new and fresh and their skin is so soft and creamy. But none of them have been permanent. I never cared enough for any to turn them and live with them for eternity. And if I didn’t turn them, they’d get old. I didn’t want to stick around and watch them die. I know that family members, particularly the women, were tired of my choosing regulars then dumping them. Most of those women never met the family…and a lot of them wanted to meet Stefan.

MD: Why Stefan?

J-L: Because he’s the Baron Stefan Kandesky and, on paper, owns SNAP. You know, the international celebrity gossip conglomerate? They’d all love to get a centerpiece spread in the magazine or five minutes on the TV shows.

MD: Don’t you work for SNAP?

J-L: As far as much of the public knows, I’m the art director. I’m the second-in-command of the family, oversee all of our businesses and Stefan is the public face. We do that because he’s established a reputation as a reclusive European Baron living quietly in his castle in Hungary.

MD: Out of all the times you’ve lived through, what’s been your favorite?

J-L: Ahhh, I enjoyed the eighteenth century. Our business was growing, I was traveling over much of Europe and the Middle East, there was an explosion of art and music happening, we’d reached a truce with our enemies the Huszars, and of course I’d met Magda. I have to honestly say, though I’m embracing the current. I love all the technology, the instant information, the travel. We’ve built our wealth—I tease Maxie that she loves me because I have centuries of experience with women and am richer than Bill Gates. She threatens to retaliate by finding a portrait of me in satin knee breeches. Hah, I had the demons burn all of them!

MD: What’s next?

J-L: Expanding the reach of SNAP, broadening our coverage beyond just celebrity gossip, loving and living with Maxie for eternity. She’s contemporary and I believe she’s so bright and so curious that she’ll always be finding challenging new things for us. We have the ages to explore together.

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Editor’s Note: You can read Jean-Louis’ story in the two novellas, Plague: A Love Story and Danube: A Tale of Murder. Maxie and Jean-Louis’ story is being told in the SNAP novels. Number nine, SNAP: I, Vampire will be available in early 2015.

Snap coverBlurb for SNAP: All That Jazz

Nik and Jazz, both employees of Kandesky Enterprises and passionate lovers, are having a tumultuous time. Are their differences too great? She’s a contemporary, hip, young career woman working in the fast-changing world of celebrity gossip journalism in Los Angeles. He’s a 500-year old vampire living in Kiev, Ukraine and running the Kandesky Munitions factories. She deals with celebs and sun, he deals with terrorists and dark.

Is their overpowering attraction enough to build a life-long future, or will their relationship fizzle out before Maxie’s and Jean-Louis’ wedding, dying faster than a Fourth of July sparkler?

author Michele DrierMichele Drier was born in Santa Cruz and is a fifth generation Californian. She’s lived and worked all over the state, calling both Southern and Northern California home. During her career in journalism—as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers—she won awards for producing investigative series.

SNAP: All That Jazz, Book Eight of The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, was published June 30, 2014. The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles paranormal romance series include SNAP: The World Unfolds, SNAP: New Talent, Plague: A Love Story, DANUBE: A Tale of Murder, SNAP: Love for Blood, SNAP: Happily Ever After?, SNAP: White Night and SNAP: All That Jazz. SNAP: I, Vampire, Book Ten in the Kandesky Vampire Chronicles is scheduled for publication early 2015. She also writes the Amy Hobbes Newspaper mysteries, Edited for Death and Labeled for Death. A third book, Delta for Death, is coming in 2014.

Visit Michele at: Website: http://www.micheledrier.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AuthorMicheleDrier
Amazon Author Page: http://amzn.com/e/B005D2YC8G or email her at [email protected]

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