Blog Tour--From Whence Jasmine Blooms

Today I welcome with open arms my friend and fellow author, C. Desert Rose to speak a little bit about her upcoming release, "From Whence Jasmine Blooms." She will be with us all week long, so please don't miss out on learning more about this amazing novelette she's written.

Rose, after you ...

Thank you, Adonis.

Since today marks the beginning of this blog tour as well as the cover reveal, I would like to talk a little bit about how I the idea and premise of "From Whence Jasmine Bloom" came.

One day I woke up with an image stuck in my head—I couldn’t shake it. The picture was vivid and it felt profound to me, as if it were tied to something that was on the cusp of being realized.

Some may call it a vision or revelation. Honestly, I’d be pushing the envelope too far if I said that it was divinely inspired, for I can’t say that with certainty. But one thing I can say with absoluteness is that I saw this depiction in my mind’s eye as clear as day.

That day I met with my publisher and her representatives and talked a little bit about this image I’d had stuck in my psyche. Immediately the graphic designer put pen to paper and perfectly duplicated the picture I’d seen. It was a flower laying atop a dark surface, but in the background was a transparent, hardly noticeable hourglass.

“Rose, what’s it for?” she asked.

“I have no idea.” I replied sincerely.

The VP interjected. “It’s for a story, obviously.”

“What story? I don’t have anything I am working, nothing outlines. Nothing.”

“You will.” she retorted assuredly.

“Um, okay. I guess.” saving the image I set all these thoughts side and continued on other things that I’d been working on.

Then I had a dream.

The night had fallen and in their quiet neighborhood crickets sang their evening tune. The wetness left behind from the night's prior rain fogged the windows slightly.

A pink pegasus with a unicorn horn and a rainbow mane picked her up at the sliding glass door located in the dining room. I already knew why she was there.

After a furious fight with my father at that very moment my brother helped calm me whilst sitting at the dining room table. With the corner of my eye I caught sight of the luminescence that alerted me of the pegasus' presence. 

When I stepped outside I realized that I was not alone.

"Do you see this?" I asked my brother.

"Yeah." he responded, simultaneously flabbergasted and stupefied.

"So this isn't in my head ...?"

"Nope."

The pegasus neighed impatiently. A whimsical woman seated on the pegasus' back extended her hand towards me. "Come. We've got no time to waste. You have a long night ahead of you."

In that instance, from an indiscernible distance down glided another pegasus—this one with yellow fur—with two girls on her back.

In a state of disbelief I grabbed the angelic lady’s hand and mounted the creature.

"Come now ladies, prepare yourself for the flight. It may be a bit turbulent."

The girls on the second pegasus murmured amongst each other, chattering about the adventure that awaited them all. I said nothing.

With a nod of the head, the pegasus beat her front hooves, took a few leaps forward and just as simply ascended into the air.

Closely behind was the yellow pegasus.

Unmoved, and as if these things were an everyday occurrence, the magical lady spoke loud enough for everyone to hear. "Hold on tight!"

I gripped the lady's waste as hard as I could.

The lady spoke again. "My name is Amelia-Aurora. I was sent to get you. In approximately 50,000 feet you will feel a shift in your vision. You will no longer perceive things as a human. You will instantly obtain angelic vision and see things as we do."

"So ..." I gulped. "you are an angel?"

"Of course. What else would I be?"

I nodded. A second later, my vision went blurry, static and then refocused. Then the whole of the world was now painted in a hue that resembled night vision goggles.

"At this point your vision should have changed."

The girls on the second pegasus confirmed. I nodded again. "Ehem ... yeah."

"One thousand more feet and we'll traverse The Wall."

"'The Wall'?" Asked one of the girls.

"Yes, the clouds." Just as promised, in a matter of seconds we were floating amongst the clouds. Skillfully, Amelia-Aurora navigated the beast. We traversed The Wall and made it to the Heavenly Gates.

That’s when I woke up.

After several days of discussion with my fellow authors and under the impression that the story could be a contribution to an anthology I began to write it. In the story I supplemented myself for a character called Jasmine and as if by pure instinct the rest of the narrative just came to me. I wrote the entire story in the matter of a week.

A few days later the All Authors VP read a portion of the story and said, “There it is. The story that goes with the cover.”

She was right.

That was when “From Whence Jasmine Blooms” was born—a coming of age story of a girl on a time sensitive adventure to discover her purpose in the world.

COMING TO AMAZON

SEPTEMBER 2ND 2019!

Book Release

Today we celebrate the release of a new anthology by author Synful Desire.

What is "Amoresels"?

"Amore", Italian for love.

"Moresels", a yummy tidbit.

"Amoresels" is a short story anothology that take the reader on a trip to all sorts of sexy senarios. In "Amoresels" there is no fetish too crazy, and no desire too taboo. From the everyday to the not so common, Synful Desire take the reader on quick trips to all things sensual.

The most savory and steamy can be found in the tiniest most unexpected locations.

Amoresels is an erotic flash fiction anthology crafted to satiate the rush for the ultimate stimuli quickie. Ranging from tantalizing teasers to eye opening kinks, Amoresels is a bold, unapologetic cornucopia of sensual liberation.

Featured stories include:

“The Desktop Surprise”, “The Gamers’ Disruption”, “Laundry Day”, “Taste on the Move”, “GFY”, “Bookworm”, “Build-A-Mate”, “The Infomercial Purchase”, “House of Mirrors”, “Tree of Lust”, “Curves Gym”, “Suds and Such”, “Moments in Time”, “Moments in Time”, “Full Circle”, “Whale of a Sale”, “Scentacular”, “Pleasure’s Blur”, “Party Monster”, “Royals’ Delight”, and “Amoresels”.

 

 

 

Synful Desire Bring Us "Amoresels Q&A"

The word is getting around and now a lot of people know about the upcoming release of author Synful Desire's anthology collection called "Amoresels". On this day I am blessed to have the privildge of having Ms. Desire grace my blog with "Amoresels Q&A".

 

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What was the inspiration behind the title of the work? Please elaborate.

It was pretty simple, to be honest. Each story was relatively short, indicative of a “morsel” one would savor. The connecting factor between all the stories was love—whether it was from an object or concept, hence the “amore”. The fusion of the two formed Amoresels.

Was there a science behind the composition of the pieces? If so, please expand.
The only science involved was numbers, then alphabets. I put them in order from shortest to longest. In a position where the stories were the same length, then alphabetical order took precedence. The only exception was the title story, which I wanted to not only be the longest story but I also wanted it to be the final story.

What, do you surmise, could have served as an alternative title for the work?

Hmmm … I honestly didn’t have an alternate title picked out for this work. Maybe Hot Flashes but that reminds me too much of a woman experiencing menopause. Or Syncopation of Sensual Intensity. However, I think people may get that mixed up with your work, Adonis. No, I do feel Amoresels is perfect.

If you could rate the work yourself, based on the better-known 4 Star rating scale, what would you give it and why?

Four star? What happened to five? Did I miss the changes?

I can’t answer this question because I don’t believe in rating my own work. Reason being, why put writing out there if you don’t feel as if it’s your absolute best? I’ve never been one to do so. Now, putting out an upgraded or extended version of something I’ve already written, certainly. Never some “trash to treasure” shenanigans.

In my experience, it can take quite some time to compile an anthology. Did you find this was true for you also? If so or if not, please explain?

This was not the case for me, mostly because Amoresels is a flash fiction project. That was on purpose because it was reminiscent of my debut in writing. My debut was the short story entitled “Kona” that was fueled by imagination and a cup of java. The juggling act was when I was going to put out Amoresels because of my commitment to two other collaborative efforts, Concordant Vibrancy 4 and Divergent Ink 3. My initial plan was to do Amoresels after I finished my contribution to CV4 but I kept getting inspiration which led to a new story in Amoresels. That is when I realized that Amoresels would get completed quicker than anticipated, which led to my moving up the release date from the original 2020 projection. In total, Amoresels took about two months and some change to complete.

I find that we authors normally go into writing a project with a target audience in mind. Was this true for you when writing “Amoresels”?

The target audience for Amoresels is the erotically open minded, the unconventional reader, and just for those who are tired of reading the same old doldrum fuckfests that exist in the Erotica genre. Outside of that, I wrote Amoresels to reconnect with my origins as a contemporary erotica writer.

Can we expect a follow up to this work?

As tempting as this sounds, I’m going to resist my compulsion for “All Things Serial”. I have too many serial works in progress as it is.

How abstract, if at all, do you think the stories are?

If you mean abstract, in the sense of writer development, then that accounts for almost all of them. Most of the stories in Amoresels lose their abstractness once they were put on the page.

How short is the shortest story and how long is the longest, and why?

The shortest story is “The Desktop Surprise” with a word count of 491. The longest ones are “Royals Delight” and “Amoresels”, tied at 1500. There’s really no explanation as to why. Where the story ends is where it ends. The only restriction I put on myself is that the story doesn’t exceed 1500 words.

If you were a reader and had no idea “Amoresels” existed, but happened to come across it at the bookstore, would you buy it? If so or if not, why?

Amoresels isn’t for everyone. I think that the lips on the cover are highly intriguing and would make you want to reach for the book, just to see what it’s about. I wanted to be whimsical in description on purpose to mainly peak curiosity. I would buy it because I like to expand my reading repertoire.

One who isn’t into erotica at all or who lacks the open mindedness to embrace opposing ideals on sexuality shouldn’t buy this book. It really is for a specific audience. It’s how I had Amoresels designed. Amoresels is for liberation of the erotic doldrums, not for people who want to stick with safe bets.


As always Adonis, thanks for having me.


Until next time,