Welcome back, Maidens! We've got erotica author, Eve Berlin with us today chatting about her hot new release, Desire's Edge! If you don't know, Eve also writes under another pen name called Eden Bradley. You can check out more information on Eve here on her website!
Thank so much Eve for taking the time out of your schedule to be with us today! Congratulations on your newest release, Desire's Edge! What can readers expect from your latest book with Berkley Heat?
DESIRE’S EDGE is my second Heat book, and it’s definitely hot! The hero, Dante De Matteo, is the best friend of Alec from PLEASURE’S EDGE, so readers may have had a small peek at him before. My ‘Edge’ books are a little dark, very kinky, and very romantic. Some people think kink and romance are mutually exclusive, but I don’t agree at all! A couple exploring their darkest desires together makes for an extremely intense relationship, and that intensity is there between Dante and Kara.
Some of my favorite things about this book are:
~Dante. Spanish and Italian. Tall, dark and handsome. That flawless blend of naturally dominant alpha male with a touch of gentleness. *girlish sigh*
~The scenes where he bends Kara over his desk and spanks her. What is it about this classic spanking scenario that’s so sexy?
~Dante’s li’l water fetish. There’s always something hot about sex in the shower.
~The romance! This is an incredibly romantic, emotional story.
Kara and Dante have amazing, sizzling chemistry! What would you say is the easiest part of making a relationship work? What's the hardest?
The easiest part is, perhaps, that chemistry—that’s just nature. The hard part is the rest-lol! I think the biggest obstacle in any relationship is working past our fears to allow that intimate connection.
What are your must haves when writing?
Chocolate is a writer’s best friend! I also have to have absolute silence (I used to write to music, let it set the mood, but that hasn’t worked for the last year or so), and I must be at home, at my desk—I can’t go to a cafe and write, as so many writers do. I’m too easily distracted. The last thing is my fuzzy slippers, winter or summer.
Out of Dylan Ivory, the heroine of Pleasure's Edge and Kara Crawford of Desire's Edge, who would you say is closest to you in personality?
Out of Dylan Ivory, the heroine of Pleasure's Edge and Kara Crawford of Desire's Edge, who would you say is closest to you in personality?
Probably Dylan. She’s an erotica author, for one thing, but also Kara has a much lighter personality. She tends to be an optimist, very logical, while Dylan is darker, more creative and more emotional, even though she doesn’t like to admit it. We creative types are always a bit neurotic.
What are your favorite kind of books to read?
I like almost everything. I’m a long-time sci-fi fan and have always loved a good vampire story. I also love erotica and erotic romance, of course, as well as dark women’s fiction and the occasional sweet romance, and I adore a good romantic comedy. I’ve also been reading a ton of YA the last two years. I don’t have a favorite type of book—I just love a good story.
What's the most rewarding thing about being an author?
Getting feedback from readers, when they tell me something I’ve written has touched them in some way, whether I’ve made them cry, helped them process some issue they have in common with one of my characters, or helped them to feel that exploring their own desires is okay.
Temptation's Edge is your next book set to be released in 2012 with Berkley Heat. What can you tell us about this next installment?
TEMPTATION’S EDGE will be the most edgy of the Edge books. The heroine, Mischa, is a tattoo artist who owns a shop in San Francisco. She’s also Dylan’s best friend (she appeared in PLEASURE’S EDGE), and in this story she’s come to Seattle for a few weeks to help Dylan with wedding plans, and to look into opening another shop there. At Dylan and Alec’s engagement party she meets Connor, a friend of Alec’s from the Pleasure Dome, the BDSM club that appears in all of the Edge books. Connor is a big, gorgeous Irishman with a lovely accent and an even lovelier wicked streak. Mischa has experimented with some sensation and power play before, but she’s never met a man who can really make her want to submit—until Connor.
Things get complicated fast, and there’s a lot of tug-of-war—between the two of them, as well as for each of them individually as their growing feelings war with the baggage of their pasts. And in between there’s a lot of mind-blowing sex and sensual forays into extreme forms of kink.
Fun questions! Let's say Alec Walker (from Pleasure's Edge) and Dante De Matteo both asked you out on a date, which one out of the two would you say yes to and why?
Fun questions! Let's say Alec Walker (from Pleasure's Edge) and Dante De Matteo both asked you out on a date, which one out of the two would you say yes to and why?
No—don’t make me choose-lol! They’re both so damn sexy, and both those perfect doms—the kind who will spank you until you cry, then kiss your tears away. Of course, since I wrote them, they’re both different aspects of my fantasy man, so either would be perfect for me. Can’t I have both?
If you could collaborate with another erotica author, who would you pick and why?
If you could collaborate with another erotica author, who would you pick and why?
Tanith Lee. She writes the most gorgeous prose! I’d be star-struck into being totally mute (nearly impossible for me—I’m a talker!) if she ever even spoke to me, since she’s my favorite author ever, but a girl can dream.
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