Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My full name is about a mile long so I prefer to use the shortened version below, which is my pen name. A P von K’Ory is easier on the tongue and memory. And now we come to the part where I talk of myself in the third person – a quirk of mine, so please bear with me.
A P von K’Ory is the winner of six Awards from four continents, the last one being the Achievers Award for African Writer Of The Year 2013 in the Netherlands. The Selmere Integration Prize was awarded her in 2014 for her engagement in helping African Women in the Diaspora cope with a variety of domestic and social problems. The Proposal, her short story, won the Cook Communications first prize in 2010, and is published in an American collections of anthology Africa 2012. In 2012 she won the Karl Ziegler Prize for her commitment to bring African culture to the Western society in various papers, theses and lectures. Again in 2012 her book was nominated for the 2012 Caine Prize by the Author-me Group, Sanford, and in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
A P von K’Ory studied Economics, Literature and Journalism in London; Germanistics and German-specific Economics and Socio-Philosophy in Germany. Her most recent personal achievement is her Ph.D. in Sociology and Geo-Politics in Germany, making her total number of doctorates rise to five – she regards knowledge as a lifelong quest of learning something new.
Apart from her numerous and published articles, theses and papers, her first novel in German: Khiras Traum was published in 2004. There followed eight romance novels: the award winning trilogy Bound to Tradition Book 1 The Dream; Bound to Tradition Book 2 The Initiation; and Bound to Tradition Book 3 The Separation. Secret Shades Book 1: Aroused; Secret Shades Book 2: Revealed; Dark Desires Obsession’s First Lap; Dark Desires Obsession’s Second Lap; Dar Desires 1: Obsession which is the first two Dark Desires books combined in a single book. Dark Desires: Aflame is coming out in spring 2015. Her nonfiction book Darkest Europe and Africa’s Nightmare: A Critical Observation of Neighboring Continents was published in New York.
She is married to the Baron von Wimpfen and lives in Germany, France, Cyprus and Greece with her husband, son and two grandsons.
Visit her at http://akinyi-princess.de
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dark desires: Obsession, is my first venture into the world of erotica. I was intrigued and wondered if my literary preference style could also work when used in an erotica context. I mean, as a writer, words are my sword and I need to have such a good command of my craft that I can apply my swordsmanship in any situation. Et voilà! Once I jumped in I found myself swimming away like a fish in its own waters. It now over to my readers to cheer me and offer me the medal at the end of the race. Here’s a bedroom scene with Roman and Svadishana (Shana), and you have the liberty to tell me if it’s erotic, or rather literary:
I kissed her tenderly and nibbled on her lower lip. “You belong to me.”
“Yes.”
Her surrender, at last, reeled my mind. I gently raised her legs, still wrapped around me, by moving on my knees towards the headboard. I held her by the hips and started to enter her. Slow and gentle. She cried out with pleasure. She scalded my crown with her heat. I lowed like a bull. It was like trying to force a log into a golf hole. I looked at her. Her long curls tumbled all over the place.
I inched in some, stretching her. “Tell me when it hurts, okay?”
“It’s beautiful. You’re gorgeous, Shiva. Oh God, this is… Roman!”
“You’re sensational, my consort.” I’d gone in far enough to feel the stretch of membrane. I tested against it, watching her face. Her eyes were mere slits now.
And there you are. Instead of the the c-words and f-words I’m off to the golf course with lowing bulls! Other times I’m border-line purple prose, but do throw in the f-word after all:
I had bliss on a golden platter. She cried out, juddered, yelped, trembled, whimpered and screamed her ecstasy. She whispered my name, then screamed it. She bit my neck like she had just enrolled for her first lesson in the vampire evening classes, coaxing unknown sounds from me.
Then licked and gently kissed where she’d bit. Insanity.
She repeated all of the above again in her own chosen mix.
We had a nice orchestra going. Crescendos, back to diminuendos, on to another set of crescendos, then on to roaring fortissimos. Repeat. Multiply by—
She grabbed my hair and pulled my head off her nipple. She fixed me with her gaze, trembled and quivered and said, “Now, my Rome.”
I felt her ripple again up and down my shaft in maddening waves. I was her empire, she my empress goddess with two lethal weapons on her face.
I hissed a strained, “Yes.” And I was off the cliff. “Oh Shana. Fuck!”
We came together and I emptied myself dry as deep as I could get in her core. Still pressing hard against her mons veneris, I closed my eyes and saw stars as she continued sucking me in and vibrating.
Her tsunami orgasms. They turned her mauve and fuchsia from cheeks down to her neck and the space between her breasts and around her navel.
Divine fortissimos. Raging fortissimos. Back and forth. On and on and on.
I finally gathered her on my lap again, kneeling, sitting back on my heels, still joined. I rocked her again, swaying gently with her clinging on me like a baby straddling its mother. Swayed her on my lap until the screaming and the whimpering and the vibrating finally abated.
I loved her.
“You’re the best anything that ever happened to me, Golden,” I murmured as I rocked her, kneeling on the messy bedcover.
I’d never said anything like that to any woman but the one who brought me into the world. I’d never felt what I was feeling for my golden goddess. I’ve had women I lusted after. Others who were great fun and fucks. Others still who were not the most stable columns in the Forum.
But my Svadishana made me think of forever.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
For one thing, I’m the kind of writer who loves the sound of silence when I’m working. Perhaps the occasional muted classical or other instrumentals in the background, nothing else. So I have to schedule my writing time to fall outside of the family time.
Another quirk of mine is how I manage the dreaded Block – I take a walk in our forest. All year round. Forests have their own special kind of noisy quietude that awakens my Muse. I normally take the walks alone, other times with my husband where we walk with arms around each other but mostly in silence. I enact whole scenes and chapters in my head during that time.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
What are you working on now?
The third book of the Dark Desires series, Dark Desires: Gilded. The second book, Dark Desires: Aflame is with my editorsandwillb e out in spring 2015. And my series, as I mentioned above, are full books, not novellas. You see, I jumped into the erotica waters and I’m still swimming away happily ever after. So the Dark Desires series is still very much an on-going project. Roman and Svadishana still have a load of obstacles to face and overcome, both with themselves, their pasts, their present environments and their families.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’d say I prefer Blogs, which is rarther time-consuming. So I also do a lot of social media promotions. My disadvantages here are time and technology. As I live in Germany,my closest readers in terms of time zone are in the UK. But the big market is in the USA and Canada, so that I’m asleep when the majority of my readers are awake, and vice versa. That means I have to rely on technology and use places like HootSuite to schedule my posts.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Pay no attention to rejections (you’d be gobsmacked at how many agents and publishers out there are looking for the quick buck, not art), so simply do what you do best – write. Bestsellers are hardly written, in my opinion, they’re concocted more or less in the fashion of reality TV. Simply believe in yourself, persevere, self-pub GREAT works and writing skills and the jackpot is at your doorsteps.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The one from my grandmother – she told me to marry the man who lovesme rather than the I love!
What are you reading now?
Lee Child’s Personal. I love Jack Reacher. Now, there’s a chap I’d adore taming – sorry Grandma.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m working on a nonfiction project – parallel to my fiction writing – and that demands extensive and specialised research for stats, history and so on. No walks in the forest would help much there.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
My own Bound to Tradition Trilogy: Bound to Tradition Book 1: The Dream, Bound to Tradition Book2: The Initiation, and Bound to Tradition Book 3: The Separation. With these three I’D have enough to dream about, get initiated in order to turn the dreams into reality and finally the reality would save me and separate me from the desert island. Then for the fourth thing I’d bring along Dark Desires for when the nights get chilly…
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