Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Announcing Publication of The Secret Empire

AT last! 13 months from when we began to write this exciting Steam Punk Historical Romance set in Atlantis here it is!

We have aimed to give readers a delightful fast paced read - Wilbur Smith style.
A mysterious and scientifically advanced society lives a sequestered and pampered life in the brutal bronze age on a hidden archipelago of islands in the central Mediterranean Sea. 
Atlantea is a xenophobic Steam Punk empire, where science rules and steam and electricity are in ascendance. Their navy are equipped with steamships and cannon, charged to protect the technology and racial purity of their empire with homicidal ferocity.
Klaus Meinbach is one of their proudest scions, captain of the battleship Heiglund and the most eligible bachelor of the fabled city of Atlantis.
A late summer storm brings the Heiglund to a foundering Greek merchant ship and the surviving crew are taken prisoner. 
Among them is Helena of Delphi, a proud and beautiful young priestess of Apollo. She is horrified to discover they are to be enslaved or murdered by these uniformed men unless she can persuade the handsome stern captain of the ship to spare her and her crew.
When Captain Meinbach discovers the bewitching foreigner may be of Atlantean blood his mind is made up. He will request the Atlantean genetic purity courts grant his petition to grant Helena citizenship.
Klaus and Helena share danger and adventures on land and at sea as they fight to save Helena's life. 
Klaus is forced to make a terrible choice between duty to his country and love for his woman in the courts of Atlantis. Which will he choose?
Reviews:- 
“Oh.... I so love your new book. Started reading this afternoon and almost swore when a friend interrupted me. As soon as he was gone, I was back reading and didn't stop till finished. Haven't eaten tea yet. (9.30pm) Enjoyable reading. Loved the descriptiveness of everything. Gave my imagination clear views of the ship, characters, mountains etc, and I'm sure I've met the male judge before. Laughed out loud when the scheming mother was thinking of the hero, while screwing him. Your knowledge of sailing really enhanced the story for me, as well. I really enjoyed reading it. So thanks again.” Review by Jeanette Currie.

“Thoroughly enjoyable” Colleen Pearson.

Contains mild sexual references, no cursing and little bloodshed.


Sunday, 22 January 2012

ASTRIDE Ch 7 male strippers:- Honest NZ Erotica XXX rated


Chapter 7 Ladies’ night Part 1 - Anne and Tina watch male strippers strut their stuff

‘Hey girl! There’s a ladies’ night on downtown in the pub. Wanna go?’
Anne sighed; Tina was trying to get her out on the town again. ‘You know that I can’t get time off, Tina. I could ask mum if she’ll come round and look after the kids for the evening but she’s working this week. Why would I want to go to a ladies’ night? What would it do for me?’
‘Awwww . . . well.’ Tina seemed to be inventing a good reason, ‘I know you haven’t got a lot of experience of men and it’ll be an opportunity for you to get a good look at some spunky naked blokes. Hell, it might turn you on to men again. It’s been a whole year and a bit now, hasn’t it? You’ve had enough time to get over Joe, surely.’ Tina was wheedling now. ‘I’ll talk to your mum, ask her myself eh?’
Anne groaned, imagining Tina persuading her weary mum to look after her kids one just more time.
‘If your mum agrees to babysit will you come with me?’
‘OK, I’ll come. But only if you shout me. I haven’t got any money at all. I don’t even know how I’m going to keep Sara at school, I’m that short of cash.’
‘OK, OK, I’ll shout you too. I really want you to come with me, I need the company. So I’ll phone your mum now, right?’ Tina sounded delighted. Anne was smiling in resignation; just as well Tina had a good job and could afford to take her out.
Anne and Tina lined up with dozens of women outside the pub, waiting to get inside to see the show. Anne felt nervous and slightly embarrassed at the thought of seeing nude men, or almost nude. She suspected that when it came down to it she wouldn’t get to see any cocks. No lovely erect penises on display.
She had loved Joe’s cock. Sometimes when he was asleep she would gently reach over and hold it as he slept. She loved the silken feel of that special skin, so different from the rest of his body. She loved the beauty of Jamie’s tiny erection too. Anne blushed and looked at her tatty trainer-clad toes.
Tina was babbling on about the men in the programme. ‘I saw that one, calls himself Gary, last year. He’s a real spunk. You’ll think so too, Anne, I promise you.’ Anne looked absently at the photograph of the glossy, muscular, grinning strippers. She thought of her mum, back at the cottage, reading the kids a goodnight story. It felt entirely too wicked, like she was shirking her duty as a mother, standing here waiting in line to watch a bunch of blokes strip their clothes off for the enjoyment of women.
She shivered, rubbing her cold hands up and down her upper arms to try to warm them. It was embarrassing to think that she’d only ever seen one nude man in her whole life and there was no chance that Joe would ever have stripped sexily for her enjoyment. His idea of alluring was to sniff his armpits and growl inarticulately before grabbing her and pushing her down on the bed.
Ann thought about the strippers; they must be different. Maybe they were blokes who liked women, who wanted to show off for women and give them the gift of a fit, muscular, rippling body, an enthusiastic smile. Give back to women the possibility of having a lustful desire for men when most of them were used to their men dressed in checked bush shirts, ripped jeans and underpants full of holes. Oil-soaked overalls, grubby jerseys and beer-flabbed bellies were what a lot of these women were going home to later tonight. Lucky me, thought Anne. Just a safe cosy empty bed to climb into and the kids again in the morning. She sighed.
Tina looked relaxed. Chewing gum, hanging out in her high heels, fishnet tights, leather miniskirt and crop top. She looked rather stunning. ‘Why are you dressed like that?’ asked Anne when Tina picked her up. ‘I’m OK in jeans and this top, aren’t I?’
‘Yeah, course you are! I have plans,’ Tina said determinedly. ‘My main aim is to get laid tonight.’ She grinned as she drove them into town and parked near the pub, refusing to answer any of Anne’s questions. She had a heavy leather handbag which she plonked on the ground at her feet with a clank.
Inside the pub the women were drinking. Some were having more than a few. Almost everyone was talking loudly, preening, highly excited. There were odd couples who stood around quietly, not looking the part. Middle-aged girlfriends just waiting for the show, Anne thought. It took an hour of drinking to get the women warmed up until at 8 pm the organisers turned all the lights out for ten minutes or so.
By the time the act started Anne was almost dying of excitement. She rubbed her hands together but the chill wouldn’t go away from her nervous skin. Tina turned and smiled at her friend, her lips glistening and her teeth a greenish white in the exit light - then she suddenly leaned over and kissed Anne on the cheek and laughed, exhilarated.
‘Thanks for keeping me company, Anne,’ she said. ‘I was a bit nervous about tonight.’ It seemed like all the audience were laughing, breathing deeply, anticipating the men, the sex, the clothes – the excitement, the fulfilling of a fantasy of lovely sexy muscular young men performing for us, just for women. Instead of us performing for men.
The first guy to leap onto the stage was dressed as a matador, swinging his cloak, with music which started out in a boring classical style. As the music gradually hyped up he paraded up and down with two other guys in leotards gyrating their bodies beside him. Gradually he began moving faster, spinning on his high Spanish boot heels. It seemed to Anne that his clothes began slowly and then swiftly to move, to leave his body, as the music got louder and more and more heavy and modern. By this time he was down to his rippling glossy muscles and G-string; tantalising us, having us on, grinning with those lovely white teeth as he played all of us like a female piano. Our acreage rising and falling with his presence, his closeness to us, that sweet mysterious bulge in his groin – at the last Anne and Tina were screaming and holding hands, pressing thighs vibrating to the male.
Pumped up with the music and the sight of a perfect male body rutting, showing off, shamelessly strutting his sexual self and loving us. It was his love that had us loving him. The smell of sex was in the air as he ran down into the audience. A contrast to the women seated there, with his slick brown skin, long dark curled hair and stripped muscles. He reappeared having picked up a woman out of her chair. We gasped as he carried her in his arms up onto the stage. He was talking to her, we couldn’t hear his words but when he set her down she stood behind him and began to run her hands all over him while he undulated and purred all round her. She seemed to be almost fainting from happiness and embarrassment. As Anne watched the woman violate ‘Aaron’s’ perfect spotlighted body with her hands she could feel the energy of all the other women around her, radiating: ‘I wish I could be up there in her place. I’d do that better than her. Ohhhhh now if it was me . . . I’d die if that was me . . .’
Anne’s body vibrated to her core, she’d never been this turned on before. She longed for and simultaneously dreaded the possibility that one of the strippers would choose her and carry her up on stage. Everyone would see her dull scrappy hair and tatty gym shoes then. But she wouldn’t care. She’d get to touch him, smell him, talk to him and hear his voice. Just the thought of it made her tremble uncontrollably.
As each man did his performance – riding in on a Harley, pretending to be a private detective or Cark Gable, acting out every romantic fantasy Anne had ever had and more – she became more and more aroused, restless, feeling nervous, out of control. Jailed by her circumstances. She secretly wished that she could ‘get laid’ tonight like Tina. But what was Tina going to do to get her man? She shuddered to think.
During the interval Tina sat beside Anne, sipping wine. ‘Anne?’ she said thoughtfully. ‘You’ll have to take my car home. Don’t worry about me, I’ll get a taxi.’
‘Why? Aren’t you coming home with me?’ asked Anne, wishing she had the same autonomy. The show was running later than she had expected and she had promised her mother to be home by 11 at the latest. This was worse than being a teenager, being a mother responsible for little kids. Tina shook her head and grinned, shifting her heavy bag further under her seat.
Anne took a gulp of wine and shifted uneasily in the hard chair. Her body tingled from the accumulated sight and sound of men, men and more men. Plus the tension, the hot sexual tension of a big room full of sexually aroused women. You could smell the lust radiating from their bodies. What must it be like for those men up on stage, parading around, the focus of all this sexual desire?
‘No. I’ve seen who I want and I’m going to have him. Tonight. Soooo’ Tina paused, then grinned. ‘I don’t think I’ll be done with him before you have to be home for the kids. I know I won’t be finished by then. We may not have even begun.’
‘Is it – Gary?’ asked Anne tentatively. He had been on twice in the first half and she remembered his stocky muscular body clearly. Especially when he had ridden onto the stage in the saddle of a huge black and silver Harley. Wooah! Did he know how to strut his stuff?
‘Yeahhhh,’ said Tina with a low sigh of satisfaction. ‘I want him and I know just what he likes.’ She sounded intense and husky.
Anne was bewildered. ‘He was very sexy but – how do you know you can have him? Won’t there be other women who want him too?’
‘Oh yes. Heaps probably. But that won’t stop me,’ said Tina, leaning back in her chair and stretching. ‘Oh God! I’m so horny – aren’t you?’
Anne blushed. ‘Yes, I suppose I am,’ she admitted reluctantly. ‘But I wouldn’t want one of those strippers – no way! They must have dozens of women every week. I wouldn’t want a guy like that!’
‘Depends on what you want him for,’ Tina said with a wolfish grin. ‘I want Gary for sex – the way I want it.’ She sipped her drink. ‘I’m going to get it too, I can just about taste it.’ She looked longingly in the direction of the stage. No, Tina, she told herself, now is not the time to go man-hunting. But after the show guess who will be elbowing her way backstage? The lights dimmed, the music pumped up the volume of a rock’n’roll rhythm and ‘Dwight’ leaped into the spotlight dressed as Lawrence of Arabia.
Anne watched, her fingers pressed deep between her thighs. She gently rocked back and forth to the beat of the music, the strides of the stripper’s body, the lights strobing through the audience. Exquisite sensations ran through her body. She felt awake, alive for the first time in years. Ecstatic without being able to say why – just that she was enjoying every moment of this show; and as Lawrence of Arabia slid off his many robes, unveiling his polished exquisite body, she allowed her fingers to press deeper into her crotch.
Compressing and rocking where it felt the best...... 

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Five of the best things I discovered on the internet in 2011

Five of the best things I discovered on the internet in 2011 in no particular order:

  1. Kanye West -  My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Yeah, not the kind of music my demographic are supposed to like but I saw it trending on Twitter so checked it out on YouTube. Wow. A delightful combination of samples from all kinds of classic music including King Crimson from the 70s. But these simply expertly background the comment, rhythm and virtuosity of KW. I can easily compare this music to the virtuosity of Stairway to Heaven


and Bohemian Rhapsody.

What do you think?
 Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield gave it five out of five stars, citing it as West's best album and "his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus [...] Nobody else is making music this daring and weird".[127]  source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Beautiful_Dark_Twisted_Fantasy
Well not this daring and weird since King Crimson huh? Wow from the calm in the centre of the storm 1969.

2.  https://twitter.com/ I joined twitter - not really expecting anything. Found that I can talk to people around the world freely, find them, find people with my interests. Find anything at all I could possibly think to look for, ask about, and find more than I could ever imagine cause the people on twitter are into anything imaginable. And most are friendly, and talk about themselves and their interests and if they are lonely, or happy, they give good advice, quote from their own thoughts and those of famous others, share recipes and knitting patterns, hates and loves, create trends based around hash tags and titles, soccer players, rugby games and movies or television programs. Discuss live internationally and online if x should have been red-carded or not, if the Kardashians have their support or have set some kind of example.... the opportunities to get involved in the veins of the world are there - only on Twitter.

3. http://www.goodreads.com/   This is a superb site for anyone who reads or writes. Which maybe half the population of the developed world. 
Of course there are lots of people who can read and write but never actually do those skills - with the exception of texting, perhaps which I do count as writing and reading. LOL
So hey - Check out this amazing and illuminating website - which I have tested to the max by adding all kinds of literature to my profile and - yep - they had a link somewhere to the book. 
A BIG improvement on my childhood in Southland NZ where if I wanted a book of a classical work I had to ask and then the librarian would find a fusty volume in the basement! Now of course libraries simply turf out books when the withdrawals become below a certain point and kids who want to read Plato or Suetonius or Vergil - as I did, can download it free from my next fave website and Awesome Project:-


4.  The Gutenberg Project.http://www.gutenberg.org/
Firstly, let's celebrate the inventor of the ebook 
Michael S. Hart (1947-2011)
Project Gutenberg's founder, Michael Hart, passed away September 6. 
Here is a Brief Obituary 
Wow, how many authors like myself are benefiting by this young man's vision back in 1971? 
I like this man, he and GBS are like me, we want the world on our own terms:
'A lifetime intellectual, Hart was inspired by his parents, both professors at the University of Illinois, to seek truth and to question authority. One of his favorite recent quotes, credited to George Bernard Shaw, is characteristic of his approach to life:
 "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.  Unreasonable
 people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.  All progress,
 therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
Michael prided himself on being unreasonable, and only in the later years of life did he mellow sufficiently to occasionally refrain from debate. Yet, his passion for life, and all the things in it, never abated.'
All authors and readers light a candle for this talented man and support the project as thousands of classic books are being made into ebooks and not for profit, like Google Books scanning project no doubt is for.

5. http://jakonrath.blogspot.com   Joe Konrath is a kick-ass author, gun promoter and very successful writer from every angle you observe him.
I had the longest belly laughing session ever at Joe and DWS 'fisking' a memo from Hatchette publishing co. This would only be hilarious to ppl like myself who have been published by big trade publishers and have watched the employees - paid handsomly from OUR book sales - trying to prove why their jobs are necessary to anyone.
Anyone considering a career in writing or publishing would be wise to read his entire blog.
Any author trade published would be advised to read his blog as well as that of http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?page_id=860 and buying this book http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/

I launched my small publishing company Quintessence Publications and published eight books since March 2011. 
I will get more books published in 2012 but these fine people and many others who are available in links from their blogs are enormously helpful to me and hundreds of other authors, wanna-be authors and people who simply want to express themselves.
Thanks Joe K, David G, Dean Smith and his wife Kris.
Awesome people - setting an example of helpfulness and caring - spreading the love of writing and helping others throughout the world. 

Enjoy this list and watch this space for more marvelous authentic voices from New Zealand and the rest of the world whom I will be publishing in 2012.
Happy New Year
Christine Leov Lealand