Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Welcome BH Dark!

    by Christie Kelley

    Hi Everyone!

    Today, I'm pleased to welcome two very special guests, Eve Green and Cassandra Elliot, the heroines of the new novel, Close Encounters by B.H. Dark.

    But first, the back cover blurb:

    Odilia is a nice planet. The sky is purple, the grass is yellow, the property prices aren’t that bad. But reproduction is painful, solitary, and asexual. Which is why the Odilians find the recently discovered “X-rated” disks from Earth so fascinating. And why the money-making scheme they’re hatching is so brilliant.

    The plan is simple: abduct four Earthlings and juice them up on a heady pheromone cocktail. Then plop them in a variety of titillating holographic scenarios and market the results as reality entertainment—for vast profits.

    The four chosen humans are strangers to each other, but not to life’s disappointments. Leandros, a lounge singer who’s never committed to anything longer than an Elvis medley. Eve, an interior designer who’s living a life much more beige than bold. Beau, a laid-back car mechanic who wants more from life than oil changes. And Cassandra, an innocent debutante who’s learned most of her sexual know-how from self-help books.

    As unwilling—okay, sort of willing—stars of the Odilians’ budding intergalactic porn empire, the four of them consider their options. Relax and enjoy the ride?

    Try to escape?

    How about fall in love?


    Welcome Eve and Cassandra. Please tell us a bit about yourselves.

    Eve: Well, I used to be an interior designer from Boston, but now, well, we're apparently the stars of an intergalactic porn empire.

    Cassandra: Oh no, Eve. Do we have to tell these nice people about all of that?

    I think our readers would be very interested in hearing about your current situation, if you’re comfortable talking about it.

    Eve: Cassie, I think we should tell them. After all, this might be a chance to get help to escape. I mean these people are on Earth. You are on Earth, aren't you?

    Umm, yeah.

    Cassandra: Okay. I guess that does make sense. But it’s really quite embarrassing. You see, we--we were abducted by aliens. And the aliens are like asexual or something, so they think that watching humans have sex is great entertainment, and they’re filming us.

    Eve: Yes, apparently we’re a part of some intergalactic reality show. Kind of like American Idol or Dancing With The Stars.

    Cassie: Except we don't sing or dance. We--well, you know. Perform. In different holographic scenarios.

    Eve: I kind of danced once. I was in a nightclub at least. A holographic nightclub called Studio 69. Although mostly I was doing the horizontal bop.

    Wow, that's pretty amazing.

    Eve: It’s hard to believe. I’m not really the kind of person who would have wild crazy sex with a virtual stranger on a dancefloor. But this place sort of does that to you.

    So they have you on holodecks, or something? There are others on the spaceship with you?

    Cassie: Yes, there are four of us. We were abducted with two men, Beau and Leandros. We’d never met them before.

    Eve: Yes, right up until the minute we were sprayed with pheremones and forced to have sex with each other, we were total strangers. Things like that tend to make you get to know someone really fast, though.


    What are your relationships with the men like? How are they handling the situation?

    Cassie: Beau is wonderful. He's brave and kind, and he's very smart. Which surprised me at first because of his looks. Long hair and ripped jeans and a great body. I--I mean, I'd just never met anyone like him before. He's the main reason I haven't fallen apart completely.

    Eve: Leandros is totally different from the types of men I know too. He's a lounge singer from Vegas, and I'm sure you have an image of what a person like that would be like. I know I did. But Leandros is nothing like that image--well, aside from the clothes. He does like his shirts unbuttoned. But the look actually works for him. He's helped me survive this situation too. He's protective and funny and well, sexy as hell, really.

    It sounds as if you both have crushes on these guys.

    Eve: Given what we are doing with them, it would be hard not to feel something. So yes, I think it's safe to say I have a crush.

    Cassie: I've read that men and women can separate sex and love. But I'm not sure I'm the type who can do that. I'm not sure if Beau is or not. I think--I think he feels something more than attraction for me.

    Eve: He does.

    So what will you do when you get off the spaceship?

    Eve: I don't know. Try to go back to my normal life, I guess.

    Cassie: I don't think I’m ever going to be normal again.


    B.H. Dark is the pen name of award-winning authors Julie Cohen and Kathy Love. Close Encounters is their first release and available from Samhain Publishing.
    http://www.mybookstoreandmore.com/shop/product.da/close-encounters

    Also please check out B.H.'s blog at…
    http://bhdark.blogspot.com/
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