Welcome to the Interviews page, to read interviews I have had recently go to the bottom of the page and click on the link. I will be interviewing an author or editor every month, so look out for announcements of who will be featured here. This month I interviewed talented author Lexxie Couper.

Kyla: Welcome, Lexxie. Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed by me. =) Can you tell us about your latest release?

Lexxie: Well, Shifting Lust 2: The Warlord's Vengeance was released on the 31st March. It's the sequel to my very first Changeling Press release, Shifting Lust 1 (funnily enough): The Chamelyon's Curse. In the first one, I created two characters so totally and utterly in love neither could exist without the other, so of course, for the sequel I tore them apart at the end of the first chapter . The story revolves around their fight to return to each other - despite a piss-off Deity, psychotic sex-slaver, devious High Priestess and obsessed War Lord. There's deception, danger and lots of wild sex. LOTS of wild sex .

Then next month I have my contribution to Changeling Press's, Deadly Sins series coming out: Anger. Now that's a dark, disturbed and twisted tale, I can tell you. Oh, and there's lots of wild sex too. LOTS of wild sex .

Kyla: Tell us what drew you to write erotic romance. Did you expect your career to take off in the way it has?

Lexxie: I love great stories, I love great romances and I love great sex. Combine the three and you've got erotic romance. It's such a wonderful genre to submerge yourself in - both as a reader and a writer. I mean, what could possibly be wrong with a story that leaves you breathless with excitement and horny as all hell? . And, better yet... the research is phenomenal! I remember when I was a kid reading my first Mills and Boon and thinking, "where are the naughty bits?" Sex was such a taboo subject in my house as I was growing up.... perhaps I'm making up for that now. Can't find the naughty bits? Go write them myself

As for my career taking off... lol! Perhaps one day some stuffy teacher somewhere will suspend a student for secretively reading a Lexxie Couper in class and we'll get to read about it in the papers. Now THAT would be a career high...

Kyla: You have written in different sub-genres. What is your favourite to write in and why? Who are your favourite characters?

Lexxie: I'm a sci-fi freak. It's a genre of endless possibilities. The only thing that slows down a journey into sci-fi is one's imagination. Want a character to defy physics? Shoot Scotty in the head and then have your character fly through a temporal worm-hole, or dimensional flux and WHAMMO, physics has been given the boot. (Can you tell I grew up on a diet of Star Trek, Dr Who and Battle Star Galactica? ). Having said that, I love just about any genre that grabs my attention and gives me a thrill. Stephen King is my favourite writer of all time so one day I'd love to write an out-right horror... of course, there'd be lots of wild sex in it too. LOTS of wild sex

My favourite characters I'VE created would be Raiven a'Tor and Kyra Issarei from the Shifting Lust series. Raiven's a dark, brooding hero who scares the crap out of just about every one (like my husband) and Kyra's a kick-ass heroine with a heart of gold (like me - sort of ). My fav character NOT created by me (but God damn, do I wish I had) is Roland of Gilead, from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Then of course there's Cat Marster's Ceyx, Marteeka Karland's Pyros, Steve Boiseman's Lars....

Kyla: Would you like to try something different with your writing? If you would, what would that be?

Lexxie: Would I like to do something deep and existential and world-changing? Yes. Am I deep enough to do so? Not on your life. But I'm totally OK with that. When it comes down to it, the world has enough deep, existential people in it to do plenty of damage now, and I really love writing sci-fi, beat 'em up, guns a-blazing, lots of wild sex erotic romance... so I guess everything balances out nicely. :)

I've never written a vamp tale, which surprises me cause I would have left my husband for Spike at the drop of a hat. I'd also love to try comedy - hot sex and laughter goes very well together, IMO. I've tried, but things seem to all ways get dark and twisted and disturbed in my works. My editor suggested I try to write a comedy last Christmas and the world ended up with Batteries Not Included - which basically had a malfunctioning sex-bot bite the dicks off two men.... As much as I'd like to be, I don't think I'm funny. At least not in my writing. My husband reckons I'm funny to look at, but that's only if he doesn't want to get laid for a while.

I'd love to play around with the tenses... jump from past to present in one story to make the reader feel disoriented. I've been fooling around with the concept for a while - two threads in one tale, one written in past tense set in contemporary time, the other thread written in present tense but set in the past. Does that make sense? There's a stalking pervert thrown into the mix who turns into a stalking ghost just to confuse every one. I'm a straight-plot kinda girl, but I'd love to mess with people's heads if I got the chance .

Kyla: Tell us who your favourite authors are, do you have any recommendations about books we just have to read?

Alexis: God, where to begin? OK, well, I've already mentioned Stephen King but the last time I looked he didn't write erotic romance so let's step away from him for a while. I love, love, love Cat Marsters. If anyone has captured the comedy of eroticism, it's Cat. Her pop-culture references are wonderful, her humour cracks me up and her sex is just down-right sizzling! If you haven't read her works yet then DO SO NOW!!! (and yes, I did mean to shout. Her books are that good!) Elayne S. Venton's Bonds of Justice series was my very first exposure to erotic romance and I've been hooked on her work ever since. I can still remember how quickly I jumped my husband's bones after finishing her Rapture . Emma Ray Garrett's Heaven and Hell series... *sigh* agro sex at its finest. Steve Boiseman... I know some people balk at a man writing erotica, but believe me, Steve knows how to do it very well. Check out his On Corridian Wings series for a hero to die for and a plot to sink your teeth into. I could go on and on... but I won't. What? I have? *sheepish grin* Sorry. Oh, and there's this very debauched Scottish writer I know.... Kyla something-or-other

As for recommendations of books you just have to read? Can I say mine?

Kyla: Please tell us where we can purchase your fabulous books and where we can find out all about your latest news.

Lexxie: My vast library of releases (that's FIVE. Count 'em FIVE) are all available at Changeling Press so the best place to buy them would be http://www.changelingpress.com/author.php?uid=62 (although, can I share a little secret? Hopefully, by the time this interview is online, I'll have a signed contract from another publisher for a tale of sex, drugs and the Sydney sailing world.... but that's all I'm saying about that ).

There's also my reader's loop that I share with Steve (aka - Deviant Boy). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LXCouper_SBoiseman/. Silliness doesn't describe what we get up to over there.

And there's also my own website http://lexxiecouper.com I try, try, try to keep it up to date.

I keep threatening to create a newsletter group too, but at the moment the masses are safe from that particular Lexxie Couper weirdness. Lucky masses.

Thank you to Lexxie for her interview answers. Look out for an interview with author Sierra Dafoe in June.

Watch this space for further announcements of who will be interviewed next.

Kyla