Hi!
Thanks so much for having me visit with you today. I hope to make some new
friends and share our mutual love of reading and writing! Please feel free to
contact me at any of the links I’ve provided below.
The
Freedom of a Pen Name
According
to Wikipedia, “a pen name, nom de plume,
or literary double, is a pseudonym
adopted by an author”. I decided a few months back to embrace the concept
never guessing what a journey of words would
follow my entry into this world. I came to the decision because as a teacher,
even writing a simple sweet love scene, I felt the hard breath of critics
standing behind my shoulder. It was such a fine line between acceptable and not
acceptable it was stifling. Hence the pen name. But a curious thing happened
after I introduced my new ego onto the internet, she began to collect more
friends than me! And it was without a personal photograph because I can’t show
“me” or I lose the anonymity. That I found strange. I think I’m jealous!
I
have been driven for some time now by my characters and my books. A day without
some time spent writing feels wasteful and I have fully embraced my need to
tell stories. I keep thinking I won’t have enough time to get it all down.
(Possibly because I lost two precious brothers so young.) Time spent doing
other things feels like just time getting ready to go back to my writing fresh
again and sometimes it’s just annoying that other things need to be done. I’m
going to assume this is normal for writers because a lot of us are an obsessive
Type “A” personalities. I’ve blogged about balance in life before and how hard
it is to achieve. I’m still working on it. It’s helped that my wonderful
husband is aware of my obsession and encourages me to keep control of it. With
just a few words he can remind me that having a life is also valuable and will
only help my writing.
Happy
reading, Angelina J. Windsor
Seventh Son
Dragonstone Wolves Series
Book One
Angelina J. Windsor
Genre: Gothic Paranormal Historical Erotica
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave Publishing
Date of Publication: August 2015
ISBN: 9781419994401
Number of pages: 73
Word Count: 23,000
Book Description:
An ancient curse. A darkly handsome lord. A desperate woman.
Hungry and homeless, Isobelle refuses to sell her only possession, her body. When she is finally driven to end her suffering, Lord Bram Snowdon rescues her.
Bram lives under a curse, one that's driven him to become a creature in hiding, knowing every full moon will turn him into a monster.
Bram and Isobelle both have demons to fight, and their struggles soon turn to lust...and love. But destiny awaits them: they are fated to help the Dragonstone clan reclaim its birthright. This mission puts Isobelle's life in peril and worse, puts Bram's trust in her at risk.
Morganas, daughter of the Merlin, mage of Dragonstone and Avalon, offers to be a source of the purest help to Isobelle but also becomes her darkest temptation.
An adult historical romance from Ellora’s Cave
Inside Scoop: This story contains a scorching-hot f/f scene.
Reader Advisory: This story has graphic sexual language and scenes—no closed bedroom doors (or other rooms) here!
Excerpt:
Chapter One
Millions of
spiritual creatures walk the Earth,
Unseen, both
when we wake, and when we sleep.
John Milton,
Paradise Lost, Book IV
A sound. A
shadow. The breath stilled in my lungs. I froze mid-stride, icy tentacles of
fear twisted around my desperate heart. I waited with every fiber of my body
alert to my surroundings. This close to my goal I could not, nay, would not, be
denied. A board creaked. The certainty I was not alone slithered through my
mind. Evil surely awaited in the rising mist of the gloaming. It crept silently
in over the water and beclouded the bottom of the river below. I had to hurry.
I willed my body to move and lurched to the dark wooden railing, grasping it
with stiffened fingers. Looking down, I could see the mist rising thicker and
settling on the cold rushing water. I shuddered. I fancied the swirling mist
forming itself into the searching fingers of death. A macabre welcome surely
awaited me with absolution for my sins, an end to the agony that my life had
become. I felt no hesitation in my mission.
A creak. Someone
was on the bridge with me. I panicked and looked back towards the muffled
footfalls and barely discernible creaks that echoed loudly in my head. The mist
felt a living entity as it pursued me over the wide wooden planks and obscured
my view. Wait. The deep voice pierced my head a split second before I threw a
leg up over the wooden railing and hoisted myself upwards. No time to waste.
Just a couple more seconds and my pain would be over forever. The devil would
not win my soul.
Strong arms
pulled me off balance and I tumbled off the railing against a hard body. I
screeched with anger and agony, fighting the interference tooth and nail with
my clenched fists. Food and shelter cost too dearly. I wanted no part of any
rescue.
“Let me go! I
want to die!”
“Hush, no one
wants to die,” a low throaty voice soothed.
His body
radiated heat and calmed my tormented mind. I found I wanted to stay within the
confines of his arms and be warmed. What had happened to my death wish? Was a
warm man enough to turn me away from a choice that had seemed inevitable and
well-chosen only moments ago? That I had promised myself this very night. I
couldn’t go back. No one could make me. I would not, could not let that happen,
but still I did not struggle. I let myself be embraced by the stranger while my
mind raced.
He held me for
an indeterminable amount of time ’til my thoughts finally quieted. I could hear
the water as it rushed over the rocks fifty feet below. I breathed in his fresh
woodsy odor of pine and wood smoke and I began to recover. I become aware that
he was far taller than I for my head was tucked in well below his chin. As he
held me thoughts came into my mind, thoughts of not being hungry and not having
been reduced to consider begging for a single hard crust of bread in exchange
for sexual favors. Thoughts instead of what it felt like to have a full belly
and lie in a warm bed. Luxuries I had not had thought existed for me anymore.
The man’s arms were indeed magical if they could offer such comfort, fleeting
though it might be.
“Are ye feeling
better, lass?”
His lilting
accent further soothed me as I recognized a fellow countryman.
“Aye,” I
answered simply, surprised that I was. I should have pulled away but I found I
could not. I wanted to stay in his embrace. My arms crept around him of their
own volition and I hugged him closer. His breathing slowed while his lower body
pressed hard into mine. I felt his manhood firm against my stomach and it sent
the first real excitement I had ever felt for a man coursing through my body. I
was alive. Life was still possible. My body wanted to celebrate its victory.
About the Author:
Angelina J. Windsor, Sugar and Spice and Everything…Naughty, hails from Canada. Married to the love of her life, she has combined her love of romance and the paranormal with her interest in exploring highly charged erotica in a historical setting in her newest book, Seventh Son, first book in the Dragonstone Wolves Series.
A love of reading and writing sent her on her life’s quest to connect with others over the written word, “for having our voices heard is akin to sharing our souls”. She hopes her characters will touch your heart and help you escape the bonds of this Earth as she surrounds you with an otherworldly experience where werewolves and goddesses roam freely and break all the rules. She loves to be approached about the journey of writing.
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1 comment:
I can see how a pen name can be invaluable.
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