Interview
and ‘Emily’ from The Para-Portage of Emily
by Muffy Wilson
Could you reveal any personal juicy stories
about you?
Thank you, so much, for
opening your cyber-home to me. It is a pleasure to be here with you, my dear
friend. Well, I was raised in a military family so there are plenty of stories
about men in uniform. Who doesn’t love that?! My father was a USAF Colonel
whose work took us to all points from Alaska to France. We moved every two or
three years, so I don’t have what most would refer to as a traditional
childhood, more like Leave it to Beaver meets the Jetsons. Many of my ‘firsts’ were in France as
my formative years developing were north of Paris. So, my first kiss, my first
taste of escargot, my first hot dog on a French baguette was at the top of the
Eiffel Tower, my first bikini (I was thirteen) was on the French Riviera and I
fell in love with a thirty-something lifeguard named Aldo. I thought my father
was going straight to an early grave. My mother thought it charming and funny
since I wound up looking like a blistered, crying lobster with the worst sunburn
ever. No need to worry about Aldo. A few years later, my mother and I were
shopping in Paris; it was the day she bought me an alligator handbag, a small
one, with a bright red leather interior. I still have it. We were on the Champs
Elysees on a corner and everyone was wailing and crying. It was 22 November
1963 and I was 14 years old. It was the day John F Kennedy was assassinated and
I witnessed as the world was crushed and Camelot fell. I think I grew up a lot
that day. We had to hurry home, 90 miles north. The Base was on lock-down and
red alert. It was a day the world stood still yet was fiercely frantic beneath
the surface.
You are a mother. Could you tell us about your role as a Mom?
I met my husband in California, on a day that I was none too
happy with men. I was thirty-five and working in San Francisco as a Sales
Manager for Honeywell and my father had a heart attack in Georgia. I wanted to explore the possibilities of
transferring to Georgia to be closer to the first man I ever loved, my dad.
“The Silver Fox,” as my boss at the time was fond of being called, made a pass
at me and told me ‘why bother, as my dad wasn’t going to live forever?’ I was
stunned and profoundly moved by a myriad of feelings. Funny that I should meet
the two most important men in my life from that day forward on a day like that
- my husband and his youngest son, then 13. It was the greatest gift. We got
married three months later and the three of us honeymooned in Niagara Falls. My
husband is from Buffalo, NY, and had been married twice before (his first wife
died and the second, VJr’s mother ended in divorce when he was just 6). I had
never been married, so they were my first. When I was very young, and in
college, I fell in love and got pregnant. He was my first, not my first love
but my first lover, and for all my worldly experience, I was still pretty naïve
- even in the ‘70s. Clearly, there is a whole lot more to this story but
suffice it to say that decisions you make in your youth affect one’s entire
life. I had an abortion and dropped out of college. The gift of my husband and
his son, who fast became my own son, I felt, was God’s way of forgiving me. So,
my role as a Mom is one I cherish, given it was my second chance and my
redemption. Life has been good to me because of them. He has enriched my life
beyond measure.
You have a very long list of projects consuming your time,
but I would like to offer you the chance to show off and promote your writing
career. You may include any exotic stories of your life if you wish.
I released The
Para-Portage of Emily on March 24, 2015 to a warm reception and wonderful
reviews. It was released in ebook format and will be released in print in June.
I have two more books that will be released by Summer 2015. If I am lucky, they
will all be available at once and cause a wonderful stir among fans of
literotica. Beyond that, I have a control list of about fifteen projects which
will be concluded throughout 2015-16 and 25-30 projects that will require my
attention for 2016-17. Only another Virgo will appreciate how organized I am
about my work. Some refer to it as being obsessive compulsive—anal, even. I can
role with that.
When did you decide to write? And what genre and style did
you prefer when you first started? What style and genre do you prefer to write
currently?
I have been in sales and marketing my entire business
career. Writing was a necessity and I was good at presenting technical detail.
English was always a love and focus of mine throughout my education, but I only
wrote proposals, presentations, technical material and project material. In
private I wrote poetry as a developing young woman. I really never thought
about writing personally’ until I met up with an old school chum, an old
boyfriend. It was never a calling to me as it is for some writers. He wrote and
it spurred me on. I slipped into the world of Erotica, not by choice or design,
but quite by accident…and I loved it. Turns out I was pretty good at it, too,
or so people commented. But, my style has changed, developed a lot since then.
What I wrote in the beginning was raw and erotic. Now, I like to think I am
more of a literoticist in that I write erotic romance. The plot drives the story,
the story drives the characters and the erotic romance is really an extension
of the developing relationships. I don’t write groin-grinders, although they
have a place in our genre.
What genre, books, and authors do you like to read?
I love crime, thrillers, edge-of-your-seat whodunits. I also
love period pieces, non-fiction, poetry and autobiographies. When I was very
young and we lived in France, there was no television, at least not in English
or in our house. The only television available to us was in the local pub. I
will never forget seeing Steve McQueen say, “Sur la route”, in French on his Wanted! Dead or Alive series! I believe I giggled until I had cramps!
Anyway, I read everything, absolutely everything almost insatiably. I wanted to
be a criminologist or a medical examiner. Or a veterinarian. As well an actress
and Ella Fitzgerald! It was not until I was in high school that I wanted to
become a law enforcement officer—a Homicide Detective! But, I do love to read
good literotica. I am not a fan of jump-and-pump but a love story with great,
eloquently involved sex is a real page turner for me.
Barbra Streisand. I always wanted to sing. My aunt sang
torch songs and played piano in smoke filled supper clubs and piano bars. Isn‘t
that romantic, a la Billie Holiday? I always wanted to do that. When I was ten
or so, I was a little pudgette and my mother wanted to send be to dance classes;
I wanted singing lessons. We settled on a set of bongo drums. Many years later,
we were out schmoozing together at a piano bar and I took the mike with My Funny Valentine. Now, I just sounded
like me, but she dropped her jaw. It took her four more martini’s to recover.
She admitted I should have had singing lessons. We laughed our asses off, but
of course, that was the four more martini’s!
You have experienced many adventures in your life and have
lots of energy, but what would you like to do if you had any free time?
I would love to learn to play piano, learn Spanish and brush
up on my French. But I am enjoying my life now. I work in Real Estate in SW
Florida and try to find time to straighten my office. There’s that Virgo nag
again.
Could you tell us about your new book, The Para-Portage of Emily, and the story behind it? You may include
a brief synopsis and an excerpt. What or who inspired you to write your story?
My first book, Memories
& Kisses, released last year in September 2014. It was about love lost
and regained decades later. Do you have memories of a love that once was?...of
a love that was lost?...of, perhaps, a rekindled love that survived decades of
longing? I think we all have longings, not regrets so much as just simple, what
if’s? and that caused me to think in terms of a stronger longing not over
decades but centuries. I started Emily
in 2010, but I really did not know where she was going to take me until I
really got into Memories. Within a
month, Emily was done.
It is a haunting love story about a Great Lakes seafaring
captain that marries finally in his thirties to the daughter of one of his
suppliers on the St. Lawrence Seaway whom he has watched blossom and grow into
a beautiful woman since she was very young. He marries her and starts a life he
has planned with her on a small Island in Lake Michigan at his estate,
Mariner’s Maiden. The story is as much about them as it is about the young
woman who comes to settle her uncle’s estate, Mariner’s Maiden, after his
death. I love this story.
Blurb:
Emily
Macque, a young, beautiful junior partner in her father’s law firm, is but a
heartbeat away from love or destiny. Duty brings Emily to a frozen Island
estate two hundred and fifty miles north of Chicago. Devotion requires she
delve into the property history to settle an estate probate. Death lures her
into the arms of the shadows seduction created by the flickering light and dark
shadows.
What
flames the timeless passions spanning the decades? Love, desire or obsession?
Colin
Jorgenson, once a Great Lakes mariner, is a strong man haunted by love and
loss. How long will he return each night, gripped by desire, hoping to find the
woman he has loved for a century?
Beneath the pristine
Island beauty, passions hungered, lingered in the ardent darkness. His
passions, fueled by decades of loneliness and longing, could no longer be
denied. Will they face eternity together or love in secret as dark things are
to be loved between the shadows and the soul?
Where can we purchase The
Para-Portage of Emily?
You are so kind to ask. Thank you, I would be honored. If
readers are interested, they can buy my work at the following retailers or on
my website:
Do you have future writing projects you plan to publish?
Yes, so many! I am releasing Moonbeams of Unintended Consequences in May 2015 and Cheerleaders in Heat this summer. My
brain explodes with ideas and always when I don’t have a pen or paper handy!
Please share your recent publications.
Released
March 2015
The Para-Portage of
Emily
Buy Link at Amazon
Released September 2014:
Memories & Kisses has three
stories of old loves remembered; a grieving woman rescued from the sea, two
childhood friends growing old friendship into passionate loving, and two long
separated teenagers finding that time has mellowed them both and maturity has
brought a passionate intensity they had never imagined. All three stories are
of rekindled love that survived decades of longing and is now ready to burst
into flame.
What do you think? Is she thinking about memories of love
lost? Perhaps the memories made trying to forget a lost love? Even old memories
revisited by old friends, united in a kiss that rekindles flames, passions and
desire, too. Old memories are like old red wine - all the richer for time
passed. And the kisses taste sweeter too. Three romantic and very sexy
stories take us back to things as they once were, and forward to the wonderful
times to come. Buy Link at Amazon
Released
October 2014:
Also featuring Muffy's work in this anthology of
of adult Grimm's Fairy Tales, Once
Upon a Menage: An Anthology of Fairy Tale Threesomes edited by Rachel
Kenley (Ravenous Romance), Muffy has two erotic adaptations, “The Prince,
The Mermaid and The Siren” ('The Little Mermaid') and “The Prurient
Puss” ('Puss and Boots'). They are sexy, just a little naughty and best of
all, they are threesomes!! Buy Link at Amazon
Released
Christmas 2014
The
Naughty List features six Yellow Silk Dreams authors, including Muffy Wilson plus guest
writer Nina Pierce, got together to compile a sparkling ezine in celebration of
Christmas. Or any other day of the year you feel you need to dip into a good
read.
Offered here to our followers - sign up for the
Yellow Silk Dreams newsletter and start reading immediately. FreeDownload
Previously Published:
Oysters & Chocolate, Decadent Publishing, Secret
Cravings, Ravenous Romance, Yellow Silk Dreams
Author Profile:
Muffy, author
of erotic, romantic stories about love, sex, hope and passion, was born in San
Antonio, Texas, to traditional parents. With two older brothers, she was the
youngest, the family "princess," indulged and pampered. She adored
her older brothers, following them everywhere and was surrounded by love,
stimulation, and pets. Her father was a career Colonel and pilot in the U.S.
Air Force which required the family to travel extensively. The family lived in
most points between Alaska and France. Muffy spent her formative years in
Europe and came of age in France.
Returning from France with her family, Muffy finished high
school in Northern California and attended the University of California, Davis,
and majored in Business Management. Muffy entered the work force, independent
with a fierce work ethic reaching the pinnacle of her success when, at 36, she
became the Mid-West Regional Director in the Real Estate and Construction
Division for IBM and retired at 39. She and her husband moved to a small Island
in northern Wisconsin where they owned a historic tavern, restaurant and resort
business which they since have sold. They now live a charmed life by the water
in SW Florida. Muffy pretends to be a serious real estate business person but,
in real life, indulges her private interest in writing sexy short stories and
sensual literotica. ~ Live, Laugh,
Love with Passion is her fondest belief.
How may your fans contact you? Tell us the many links where
you can find Muffy Wilson?
Website | Blog | Twitter | Email | Facebook | FB
Fan Page | MailingList Sign-Up | Google+ |
Triberr | Wordpress | Amazon | Ganxy | XinXii | Kobo Books | iTunes Books | Barnesand Noble | AllRomance eBooks | Smashwords
| Goodreads
| YellowSilk Dreams Publishing | Secret Cravings Publishing
|
Thank you, for hosting this wonderful interview. It was very
kind and generous of you. I appreciate the time your fans and readers have
spent with me, sharing my life, my family and work, as well as my inspirations
and life. It has been a pleasure and an honor.
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