Ask the Author: Liz Adams
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Liz Adams
My most recent book, Alice's Story of O: The Princess and the Pea: An Interactive Spicy Fairytale, came about when I noticed some of my readers felt shame for having rape fantasies. Just for clarity here, consent is good, non-consent is bad. There's no way to have a rape fantasy without your consent, so they fall under the consent category. Anyhow, I wanted to lift the shame that came with having such fantasies, but in the same way people can't unsee disturbing scenes in movies, people can't unread disturbing scenes in books. That's why I made it a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-type book, giving the reader the option of skipping the disturbing scenes without missing out on the storyline.
Liz Adams
I think of two random things and make a story out of them. For example. Wrench and limerick. I don't know what story that could be, but let's try it. "A woman strapped to a table begs for her dom to wrench her nipples but the dom demands she recite limericks for his every application of wrench pleasure." I would need to add backstory, the meet cute, and the stakes/conflict, but it's a start!
Liz Adams
I'm editing "Alice's Study in Little Deaths: Aesop's Fables". When Alice is in university and a fellow student is murdered, she must take portals into a variety of erotic fables to find clues to who the murderer is. The book is HUGE. It's over 140,000 words. But when it comes to editing erotica, I can easily put my full attention on it, body and soul.
Liz Adams
Don't give up. You got this. The secret sauce for success is: Write, Publish, Repeat.
Liz Adams
The best thing about being a writer is that I get to write the stories I want to read.
Liz Adams
I tell myself, "Write crap, but make sure you have fun doing it. Otherwise, the reader won't have fun reading it." I worry about polishing it later.
Liz Adams
From outside, he watched her take off her clothes, he watched her shower, he watched her stare transfixed at her naked body for a half-hour. When his arousal took control over him, he smashed into her home, threatened her with a knife to do what he wanted, and didn't expect her to rip his head apart while saying, "Brains, yum."
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