About me:
This is me. As you may know I write under the pen name of Scarlett Flame.
Why do I write? Writing and reading are my two main passions. My interests include reading ,writing, especially the genres Paranormal Romance, Thrillers, Sci-fi and anything that involves fantastical beings. I also like going to the gym, especially weight training and Pilates! Music is a bit of a passion of mine, so I include information of venues and live music. You can follow me on twitter (@ScarlettFlame2) and you will often find me playing at being a DJ.
Like I said before, I really love reading. Surprisingly, some of my favourite books are The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings Trilogy and books by authors such as Anne Rice and Dean Koontz.
Let me tell you a bit about my current book. The title of my first book is "The Prophecy Unfolds (Dragon Queen)". This is the first in a series of books and is an erotic paranormal romance set on a steampunk world called "Syros". In my book there are werewolves, dragons, dragon riders and many other paranormal characters.
Why do I write? Writing and reading are my two main passions. My interests include reading ,writing, especially the genres Paranormal Romance, Thrillers, Sci-fi and anything that involves fantastical beings. I also like going to the gym, especially weight training and Pilates! Music is a bit of a passion of mine, so I include information of venues and live music. You can follow me on twitter (@ScarlettFlame2) and you will often find me playing at being a DJ.
Like I said before, I really love reading. Surprisingly, some of my favourite books are The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings Trilogy and books by authors such as Anne Rice and Dean Koontz.
Let me tell you a bit about my current book. The title of my first book is "The Prophecy Unfolds (Dragon Queen)". This is the first in a series of books and is an erotic paranormal romance set on a steampunk world called "Syros". In my book there are werewolves, dragons, dragon riders and many other paranormal characters.
The plot of my story involves our heroine Alex. Alex gets kidnapped and taken to a distant planet called Syros by three werewolves. There is a prophecy on this world and Alex is the hinge pin of the entire prophecy. Once on Syros, Alex continues to have numerous adventures (including many sexual and erotic ones) involving the fantastical creatures that exist there. Especially involving the werewolves, dragons and their dragon riders. As this is only the first in a series of books about Syros it is a continuing story.
Now many of you may be confused at this point. Erotic, paranormal, romance, steampunk. That's a mix of genres isn't it? How is that going to work? Yes indeed, this is a weird and wonderful mix of genres, until you dig into the sub genres. Paranormal romance frequently is accompanied by sexual exploits and erotic encounters. It is the very sexual natures of both werewolves and dragons and their riders and their animalistic natures that lead to this meld working so well.
Basically with the werewolves and dragons they are animals, and the dragon riders are bound to their dragons so they also pick up on these base urges too.
Now then, let me tell you about the setting. The planet Syros has been linked to Earth for millennia via portals that exist on both planets. The animals on Syros are the animals we find in our legends and myths. They include (of course!) dragons, werewolves and enormous dragonflies that roam the planet (and many more mythical creatures as yet to be unveiled!) The legends we have exist because of "accidents" whereby some of these creatures of legend have slipped unnoticed through the portals. These have then been recaptured and returned to Syros, leaving only their sightings and no actual evidence of the creatures to verify their existence.
To be honest, I used to find it quite hard (excuse the pun) to write erotica, and used to write in secret in my bedroom when writing my erotic scenes. I also used to hide the fact that I was writing anything, let alone erotica for a long while! Then, I sort of came out of the closet and declared to family and friends that I write erotica. Although my mother has absolutely no clue. She would be mortified if she knew I wrote in this genre as she abhors it so much; and doesn't keep it a secret either. Every time we walk past a book rack holding racy books she makes a comment.
My writing has also evolved a lot recently (I have been told in a good way) due to some friends of mine who are on good old Twitter. My friends read my first short story and all said the same thing "It reads like a woman wrote it!" Ermm last time I checked I was a woman, but I realised what they were saying so asked if there were any words I could use to change that and between the three of them they let me have some naughty "boy" words to use. I then also took a look at other erotic authors use of words and voila! So to cut a long story short I did and having been doing so ever since. It was pretty liberating in a way as some are words I have never used before, or if I did it was in my head!
The friends are (I hope they don't mind me naming and shaming them) are Nate Smith (a screenwriter, producer, director from Perth), Gareth Young (Spartacus on Twitter) and of course my buddy Erotic Jake (writer of erotic stories and Blogger). I suppose I have to attribute my growing fan base down to these gorgeous guys. Thank you boys mwah!
https://twitter.com/ScarlettFlame2
Now many of you may be confused at this point. Erotic, paranormal, romance, steampunk. That's a mix of genres isn't it? How is that going to work? Yes indeed, this is a weird and wonderful mix of genres, until you dig into the sub genres. Paranormal romance frequently is accompanied by sexual exploits and erotic encounters. It is the very sexual natures of both werewolves and dragons and their riders and their animalistic natures that lead to this meld working so well.
Basically with the werewolves and dragons they are animals, and the dragon riders are bound to their dragons so they also pick up on these base urges too.
Now then, let me tell you about the setting. The planet Syros has been linked to Earth for millennia via portals that exist on both planets. The animals on Syros are the animals we find in our legends and myths. They include (of course!) dragons, werewolves and enormous dragonflies that roam the planet (and many more mythical creatures as yet to be unveiled!) The legends we have exist because of "accidents" whereby some of these creatures of legend have slipped unnoticed through the portals. These have then been recaptured and returned to Syros, leaving only their sightings and no actual evidence of the creatures to verify their existence.
To be honest, I used to find it quite hard (excuse the pun) to write erotica, and used to write in secret in my bedroom when writing my erotic scenes. I also used to hide the fact that I was writing anything, let alone erotica for a long while! Then, I sort of came out of the closet and declared to family and friends that I write erotica. Although my mother has absolutely no clue. She would be mortified if she knew I wrote in this genre as she abhors it so much; and doesn't keep it a secret either. Every time we walk past a book rack holding racy books she makes a comment.
My writing has also evolved a lot recently (I have been told in a good way) due to some friends of mine who are on good old Twitter. My friends read my first short story and all said the same thing "It reads like a woman wrote it!" Ermm last time I checked I was a woman, but I realised what they were saying so asked if there were any words I could use to change that and between the three of them they let me have some naughty "boy" words to use. I then also took a look at other erotic authors use of words and voila! So to cut a long story short I did and having been doing so ever since. It was pretty liberating in a way as some are words I have never used before, or if I did it was in my head!
The friends are (I hope they don't mind me naming and shaming them) are Nate Smith (a screenwriter, producer, director from Perth), Gareth Young (Spartacus on Twitter) and of course my buddy Erotic Jake (writer of erotic stories and Blogger). I suppose I have to attribute my growing fan base down to these gorgeous guys. Thank you boys mwah!
https://twitter.com/ScarlettFlame2