Today I have David Russell with me and he's answering some short questions I had for him. Come meet him and then check out the wonderful and exciting romances he has for us!
Do you use a pen name? No
What is your favorite thing about being a writer? Getting feedback from intelligent readers
What type of scene give you the most satisfaction when you
write? A climactic sex scene
What genre do you write? Romance
and Speculative Fiction
What is the hardest part about being a writer? Struggling for ideas, and sustaining continuity
How does your family view your writing? They have only seen my speculative writing, which they
found obscure
Do you let them read it? Why/Why not? I haven’t told them about my romance writing. I think it
would be mutually embarrassing
When did you first publish? In
1969, with a collection of poems and proses
What type of books do you prefer to read? History
What did you do before becoming a writer? I was a librarian and a teacher
What is the best thing about your life? Feeling that I have some merit as a writer
What is the worst thing about your life? My lack of first-hand experience of the world
Do you use any of your personal experiences in your stories?
Yes; one of my stories An Ecstatic Rendezvous is based on personal experience
How many do you have published? 8
titles, including my latest
Have you written for magazines or newspapers? Yes; including book reviews
If you were able to do any career, what would it be? Perhaps a literary critic or a translator
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you
go? Madagascar
What would be your ultimate car to own? (I’m a bit of a
motorhead!) Cadillac
What country do you live in? United
Kingdom
Wow! I guess we can learn even more about David if we read about some of his adventures in An Ecstatic Rendezvous. So let's see what else he has for us!
Thank you David, for sharing a bit about yourself!
Many a dream can be realised with a little forethought. The
characters in this quartet of stories are intelligent, sensitive and literary.
They are also supremely voyeuristic and open-minded. Their intelligence is
counterbalanced by inhibitions, which they can only lose by premeditated
seduction scenarios, which relate intimately to their professional, creative
and cultural lives. The great effort each couple puts into arranging a scenario
seems to enhance the quality of the experience. A great source of inspiration
for this and other works has been the novel The
Girl Beneath the Lion by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
Seductive Semaphore: Fashion Designer Bethesda and journalist
Hector live opposite each other, with windows facing. They make initial contact
through visible, provocative gestures. Soon afterwards, they get direct contact
when Hector assists Bethesda with her folio. She invites him round to model for
some of her fashion creations, and proceeds to seduce him. The seduction
continues with a ritual visit to a sports centre, and then to a beach. They
leave it open as to whether their relationship could ever become long-term.
The Heroine and the Author: Dreamer Hecate discovers she has a terminal
illness. She wants to make the most of the time she has left by being
celebrated in literature as a charismatic, legendary figure. She meets
Ferdinand, a ghost writer, who is happy to undertake this massive project with
her. In the process, She gets an idea of his physique through jogging and the
fitness centre. Then there is a seduction scene inspired by the literary models
of Sappho and Donne. Being ‘open-minded’, they make a pact for each one to go
and have a sexual adventure – his hetero, hers lesbian. Their relationship is
enhanced by this extra dimension.
Dreamtime Sensuality: Romona, highly literary and highly inhibited,
goes to an exotic island location. She deeply desires a passionate encounter.
At the Pension where she stays, she meets Stefano, who fulfils her requirements
exactly. The proprietress of the Pension picks up on Romona’s shyness, and
gives her reassurance, including some practice in the art of kissing. Romona
orchestrates an elaborate beach seduction scenario, and they are both
fulfilled. They never meet again, but their exchange of emails and text
messages goes on indefinitely.
Dancing with Danger: Verona is a Scriptwriter and Gareth an
archaeologist. They both have ‘retreats’ near the coast, and discover their
common interests. Verona contrives a half-seduction on a deserted beach,
wearing 18th century retro gear – related to their common interests.
After some further encounters, they give each other a ‘dare’ to go and have a
really risky encounter with someone really dodgy. Gareth finds a young woman on
the run. Verona has a rapturous encounter with someone who gets hauled in by
the police, suspected of terrorism. She uses her charm on the interrogating
police officer to extricate herself. So Verona and Gareth both meet up again,
to tell their respective tales.
Excerpt:
Hecate read some verses of Sappho,
which she felt totally appropriate to his slender grace, so nearly androgynous.
She quoted a phrase demanding his fixed, concentrated
stare into her eyes. The eye contact was clinched Hecate’s introduction was a
quote from her.
Ferdinand responded to the prompt; he knew what he had to do—gradually,
at intervals, he removed his garments one by one as she breathily read the
hypnotic, seductive phrases.
His garments came off with ease and
grace, he obviously had some long-repressed desire to do this. At last, he
stood before her, beautiful, naked, and slender. Somehow, his spirit prevailed
over his earlier reticence, he shed his shyness with his clothing. Since she
saw him in trunks, Hecate anticipated this moment with such relish. If the pool
had been empty when they were there, she would have taken them off there, or in
the shower. Perhaps something could happen, or even be premeditated in the
future, on a deserted beach, secluded amid the dunes.
She handed him a volume of the
collected poems of John Donne. “Now, I think you know which one I want you to
read me. Hmm…while we’ve been working together, I bet you’ve had some reveries
of me undressing, you undressing me.”
“I have to admit that is so and I
know which poem you mean, it’s Elegy Nineteen—To His Mistress Going to Bed.
“We really are on the same
wavelength darling. I had learned of that poem as a young girl, with a
desperate desire one day to enact it. Every word of it struck home as I
disrobed alone, for years I yearned for that lovely partner to give me those
instructions live.”
Ferdinand beamed, then quoted from
near the end of the poem referring to the poet’s nakedness at the beginning of
the action. Then he proceeded to read, with his lovely, hypnotic voice.
He really made Hecate’s
girdle feel like Saturn’s rings As she undid her sash and cast it down, she
felt her abdomen was bathed in heavenly light, visible only to spiritual eyes.
The
request to remove her ‘breastplate’ gave her an etheric shudder. Taking off the
brooch at the top of her dress felt like casting away a shield, affirming that
strife and combat had been replaced by love.
In response to the exhortation to unlace, she felt deliciously nervous
as her fingers twitched on her zips and buttons.
As the gown went off following the next command, Hecate felt she had
emerged from a perennial cocoon, that she was the sun liberated from the
constricting veils of night.
As for a ‘coronet’, Hecate
was only wearing a slide, but removing it certainly helped her locks flow
freely.
It was
great to feel liberated from footwear; earlier on her high heels had felt so
sexy. But now her stockinged feet tingled with electric desire.
With her underwear, admittedly
she found nylon, calico and silk sexier than linen, but the word, so sensually
uttered, really relevant. (from The
Heroine and the Author – Story 2)
Book Links: Dreamtime Sensuality Antho
- Devine Destinies
www.devinedestinies.com/Dreamtime-Sensuality-Antho/
Manic Readers - Dreamtime Sensuality by David S Russell ...
www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=bookDetail&bookid=47878
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Author
Bio: b. 1940. Resident in the UK. Writer of poetry, literary
criticism, speculative fiction and romance. Main poetry collection Prickling Counterpoints (1998); poems
published in online International Times.
Main speculative works High Wired On (2002);
Rock Bottom (2005). Translation of
Spanish epic La Araucana, Amazon
2013. Romances: Self’s Blossom; Explorations; Further Explorations; Therapy
Rapture; Darlene, An Ecstatic
Rendezvous (all pub Extasy (Devine Destinies). Singer-songwriter/guitarist.
Main CD albums Bacteria Shrapnel and Kaleidoscope Concentrate. Many tracks on
You Tube, under
‘Dave Russell’
Author
Links: www.davidrussell-author.blogspot.co.uk
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