Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am ANGE.
I am a retired “worker” and I now appear as an erotic writer. I’ve written a lot of books, but I’m reworking and publishing them right only now.
It seems that in life, we don’t do what matters most until too late, for various reasons.
I have already published two books and two more will follow in the coming months.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “Trans Hotel”. Staying awake until late in the night inspired me. I mean staying up late at night, out of bed, out in the blue, sometimes hoping that dawn never comes because that moment is magical. I like to go to public places at night like highway restaurants, or a laundromat that never closes, or a hotel lobby. One night, I was sitting in the lobby of a cheap hotel, sipping a mini-bottle of Jack Daniel’s, snow started to fall. The concierge looked bored. We were in the stillness of the blue. It was the beginning of my novel “Trans Hotel”. The magic but also the despair that brings solitude. I imagined ghosts and people with deep stories who had nowhere to go.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I wander in hotels’ lobby. I pretend that I have a room there. I do the same in airports, pretending that I am waiting for my flight.
I take an extraordinarily long time to shop something at convenience stores to listen to what people say.
I go to municipal zoos and study animals’ habits.
I drink very fancy and expensive vinagars. That’s how I avoid drinking too much alcohol.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lots.
I love Jack London and Hemingway. There is also Flaubert. All of them have deep influence on me.
I also love deeply Mary Oliver for her poetry. And Robert Frost, of course. These are the author I am made of.
What are you working on now?
I am working on a book that goes in the opposite direction of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”. The main character is a woman who turns into an elephant instead of an “ugly” beetle. She won’t finish in a trash can like Kafka’s insect but travel the world. She will free herself after a devastating marriage. She will be the antithesis of Kafka. All the crazy sex you can experience with a trunk as a very dominant woman!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don’t know. After all, despite my age, I am a new author! It can’t be Amazon itself since I write erotic porn and Amazon doesn’t allow advertising for this category. So, I am trying elsewhere. This site seems nice and not very costly for an indie.
As an erotic porn writer, there may be erotic show or salons. We’ll see.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes, not only for the writing but in general in life:
What you do must make SENSE to you.
Don’t care much about the rest. Mary Oliver was telling that you can live with just what it takes to feed a chicken and be cheerful with it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Watch out!
No, more seriously, it may be quite the opposite: don’t care too much about it.
What are you reading now?
I am re-reading “The Matamorphosis” by Franz Kafka. I frequently read a poem by Robert Frost. I am also reading a book for children : “The Magician’s Elephant” by Kate DiCamillo. Maybe someday, I’ll write for children. For the time being, I like sex too much and it drives my writing feverishly.
On the erotic side, I just read “Taken by the Burlesque Dancer” by Margeaux Adler that is very very well done.
There is also an indie writer who usually writes romance named R.B. O’Brien. I just read very good poetry from her “Ruin my Lipstick.”
What’s next for you as a writer?
I think I will stay in the hard-core erotic niche for quite a while. It drives my energy. I know there is a lot of very bad writing in this category. But a good porn story is very powerful. This is my goal to achieve.
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?
1. The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
Because it gives me hope that life is possible without something big (a fish here) even though you catch it, the purpose is elsewhere.
2. The Homer’s Osyssey.
Since in your question, I am alone on a desert island, it makes a lot of sense.
3. Trois Contes by Gustave Flaubert (Three Tales)
The writing is so perfect that I think I could discover more and more in it on my desert Island
4. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
I couldn’t live without darkness. And this is the darkest. Even the title is dark since it states that darkness comes from outside.
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