Happy Friday, everyone! Today I'm very happy to welcome erotic romance author Siobhan Muir. She's published with Evernight and Siren and her brand new book, The Beltane Witch, was just published this week! Siobhan has very kindly allowed me to ask her five nosy questions, so let's get started!
The rest of the story to that statement is I asked him
to let me try – and he graciously let me prove him wrong. He doesn’t believe
romance is bunk unless it doesn’t have a good story to go with it. And I stay
away from phrases like “his throbbing manhood”, lol. Mr. SM is incredibly
supportive of my writing career and even helps me when I get stuck on a plot
point. He periodically calls me his “sugar mama” and often walks around wearing
a t-shirt with my books on it. He really believes in what I’m doing.
2. That's so awesome. Your bio mentions that you've "hiked to top
of Mount St. Helens and to the bottom of Meteor Crater". How long have you
been hiking and is there any place you'd like to hike where you haven't yet?
I’ve been hiking since I was 2 years old. My folks
used to take my brother and I camping and hiking all over the western US, and I
love it. I really want to go to Machu Pichu in Peru and hike to the amazing
ruins in the Andes. Not sure when I’ll get to do that, but it’s on my bucket
list.
3. Your romance Not a Dragon's Standard Virgin features Isabelle, who wants to lose
her virginity to avoid becoming a virgin sacrifice to a local dragon while Julianna
of Queen Bitch of the Callowwood Pack must
pass seven tests to prove she's worthy to be an alpha werewolf's mate. Both books seem to harken back to
mythological themes: the virgin sacrifice of Iphigenia and the Labors of
Hercules. Does mythology play an important part in your writing?
Mythology does play a role, but it’s of my own making.
The mythologies that carry through all my stories surround the Mother Goddess,
a deity who has brought understanding and beginning to the elder races
(werewolves, vampires, dragons, goblins, etc.). Queen Bitch of the Callowwood
Pack even has the Moon Singer Creation Myth. I wanted that connection, the
divinity allowing for magic in all the creatures.
The dragon sacrifice is the tradition we’ve all in
European medieval stories and I used that as the background for a more pressing
question of the double standard handed to men and women regarding sex before
marriage. For Queen Bitch, our society in general makes you work and compete
for things you want – you don’t generally get positions for free. And the tests
were truly political, to ascertain if Julianna could handle being a leader in
challenging times. Most of the tests pertained to grace under pressure.
4. Your book Her
Devoted Vampire features Fredrick MacGregor, who falls for and wants to protect
Bridget. Do you have a favorite vampire from film or fiction?
I got into reading paranormal romance and vampire
tales in general from reading Guilty
Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton, and while I didn’t like where the series
went, that first book had me sucked in and curious about her vampires. Then
Lynsay Sands came up with the idea that the vampires were actually Atlanteans
who had nanotechnology that required them to ingest blood to keep functioning.
That grabbed the scientist in me. So Fredrick MacGregor has a science aspect to
him – his vampirism is caused by a genetic mutation in his genes. Had he not
died at war, he would have lived a normal life and died like normal people. But
because of his traumatic death, the gene kicked in and changed his whole
lifestyle. I have more vampire stories coming that show the origins more
clearly, but they’re only in the beginning stages.
5. We can't wait to learn more about your recent
release or an upcoming title. Would you care to share? *Giving you big puppy
dog eyes*
My new release is the second in the Cloudburst
Colorado series and just came out this week! It’s called The Beltane Witch and here is the blurb:
Magic,
mayhem, and motherhood… a witch’s work is never done, but Sabrina draws the
line at the Fae.
After almost two
decades as a practicing witch in Cloudburst, Colorado, Sabrina Foxglove is done
with men, magic, and the fertility rituals of High Beltane. She’s dealt with
all three before and ended up with a young daughter and no partner. Twice. She’s
looking forward to a magic-free May Day,
with nothing more exciting than making brownies for a kindergarten class and
decorating a May Pole. She definitely doesn’t have time for a handsome,
Fae-touched man.
After almost two centuries as the human chamberlain to the Fae’s Summer Court, Darius Winterbourne is a man accustomed to getting his way. So when the Summer Queen tasks him with finding a witch to perform the annual rituals and strengthen the ancient warding magicks, he figures it should be easy. He doesn’t expect Sabrina’s hardheaded refusal, her untrained abilities, or his attraction to her. With less than a week to Beltane, he must gain Sabrina’s trust before he loses his home, his position…and his heart.
Purchase The Beltane Witch at Smashwords and All Romance ebooks!
Also: the first book in Siobhan's Cloudburst series, A Hell Hound's Fire, is available FREE at various locations. Check Siobhan's website for links.
After almost two centuries as the human chamberlain to the Fae’s Summer Court, Darius Winterbourne is a man accustomed to getting his way. So when the Summer Queen tasks him with finding a witch to perform the annual rituals and strengthen the ancient warding magicks, he figures it should be easy. He doesn’t expect Sabrina’s hardheaded refusal, her untrained abilities, or his attraction to her. With less than a week to Beltane, he must gain Sabrina’s trust before he loses his home, his position…and his heart.
Purchase The Beltane Witch at Smashwords and All Romance ebooks!
Also: the first book in Siobhan's Cloudburst series, A Hell Hound's Fire, is available FREE at various locations. Check Siobhan's website for links.
Sabrina is a single mom just trying to make her way
through the world and she’s given up her abilities in the hopes of living
quietly and surviving. Darius throws her for a loop, but at least she gets him
back with her simple determination to take care of her little family. There is
magic and the Goddess in this tale as well, but at the heart it’s a story about
finding your path and believing in yourself when no one else will. I hope you
enjoy Sabrina and Darius’s story. I really enjoyed writing it.
Thank you so much for having me here today on Divas of
Desire, Nona.
Thanks so much for being here, Siobhan. It's been great!
Thanks so much for being here, Siobhan. It's been great!
Siobhan's links:
Website: http://siobhanmuir.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/siobhan.muir.35
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SiobhanMuir
Google Plus: http://plus.google.com/u/0/118081545120488658410/posts
Have a wonderful weekend, all!
Nona Raines
Hot Contemporary Romance
Edgy ~ Emotional ~ Erotic
www.nonaraines.com
Have a wonderful weekend, all!
Nona Raines
Hot Contemporary Romance
Edgy ~ Emotional ~ Erotic
www.nonaraines.com
Thanks again for having me here today, Nona. I really appreciate it. :)
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