It is my pleasure to share a guest post by author Luki Belle, who explains...
What do you think is the strongest attraction about
the genre(s) you like to write in?
LB: I truly love this question! I am currently
focusing on paranormal, dark, fantasy and erotic genres.
The dark and the paranormal intrigue me because as a child I
was super scared of the dark, dark rooms, dark places, the night and along with
that, terrified of ghosts and anything that made noise without a cause :)
As I grew older, I became fascinated by psychology and the
things that the mind can do subconsciously and consciously to stir the
unconscious essence in a person. I speak to this fascination in the author bio
of this book.
I also believe in the ability of the mind to manifest things
if the desire or distress is powerful enough and endures long enough. A key
part of this has to do with the power of observation or focusing on something
in day-to-day life which could be a physical thing, an emotional thing, or a
mental thought.
In my paranormal themed stories, I explore the play between
paranormal entities and their interaction with mortal humans, the play of the
other worldly with the mind of the worldly.
When it comes to the dark and the erotica themes, I like to
explore the forbidden and the unknown through my characters. The gothic nature
of my stories is enticing to me because I would love to read my stories on gray
rainy days or by the fireside on a cold winter day.
The coziness of sensuality, the daringness of sexuality
combined with the bleak nature of a plot would make a good reading companion in
a perfectly comfortable home setting with a glass of fine wine and some
delicious chocolates! :) I like making my stories fit this profile for such a
reader.
The genre of fantasy and the paranormal gives me the
opportunity to create my own rules in the world I set up around my characters.
However, this can sometimes become challenging because I must be very detail
oriented to set up the rules, under all circumstances of interaction, with
paranormal or supernatural entities and the mortal beings in my stories. These
rules must be adhered to throughout the story for it to be compelling to my
reader. I like this challenge, it is that of an architect, my own virtual
world, like a dollhouse where imagination has no bounds, only the limits that I
create :)
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The Sexy Seven Supernaturals
ADULT title
by
Luki Belle
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GENRE: Fiction - Short Stories, Fantasy, Paranormal,
Erotica
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BLURB:
Seven
haunting tales of women, young female adults, and an adolescent girl whose
lives change irreversibly because of entities who come into the lives of these
female protagonists, mysteriously, invited by yearnings and distresses that
exist in these women and girls -
1) The Photo and the Letter: Larissa, a heartbroken young woman, finds a
captivating photo of an elderly friend and becomes compelled to discover more
about the bitterly written letter that was addressed to the elderly woman, who
had a fascinating past.
2)
Strength of Feathers: Vanessa, an orphan, who struggled her entire life to
survive and achieve professional success, decides one night to overcome her
fear of heights and her reluctance to be spontaneous when she meets an
enigmatic, wealthy woman who has ulterior motives.
3)
The Aunt: Anika, a teenage girl, niece of a notable and authoritative commander
of her nation’s army, finds herself in a precarious situation when at a bloody
crossroads of her nation’s history, she falls for a young, ambitious, and
ruthless military man from a long-rival nation, who is about to take over
rulership of Anika’s nation and her uncle’s army.
4) Ravenous: Sabrina, a young adult, daughter of a coalminer, is forced to
leave her hometown with her father and siblings. Her family is taken in by a
kind doctor who has mixed intentions for helping the homeless father and his
three children.
5) The Bride’s Matchmaker: Mylakena, a young rural woman, comes to live in a
dynamic, metropolitan city with her uncle, when she falls for two handsome,
rich, and athletic young city men and realizes that her innocent infatuation
has severe consequences.
6) The Picture Ghost: Elsa, a young adult daughter of a farmer, starts
attending college far away from her hometown. Her poor grades lead her to a
professor whose art collection draws Elsa uncomfortably close to an enigmatic
stranger from the past.
7) The Old Willow Tree: Helen, a highly successful businesswoman, retires in a
foreign country where, while searching for a permanent home with a garden, she
falls in love with a stunning willow tree on a property that she desperately
wants to buy.
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EXCERPT
6) The Picture Ghost
When Eugene came into his teenage years, the merchant used
the handsome lad’s innocent charms to attract single, female guests at social
events. The women were made to believe by Eugene that his benefactor, the rich
merchant, was a lonely, generous, and warmhearted man. Thus, the adolescent
enabled several affairs under such pretenses, for the merchant. The man, never
having had the talent for pursuing women found in Eugene an indebted being who
was willing to do anything for the person who gave the boy education and
luxuries. Their relationship became so close that the merchant practically
bought Eugene from his father, telling the fisherman that his son no longer
wished to maintain ties with the village. To this Eugene did not raise much
objection. However, he may have been coerced to break all ties with his
biological father.
7) The Old Willow Tree
The house belonged to an architect who had built many of the
prominent business structures in the country, including a famous public
greenhouse in their city that showcased exotic flowers and endangered trees.
The architect had designed his house and lived in it with his two sisters and
wife. The latter died at childbirth along with her baby. Following the tragic
event, the architect put his house up for sale. And then the facts became
stories. Helen could tell that the friend was adding his own imagination and
fabrications to what seemed to have happened next. However, one thing was
clear. At a certain point in time, the architect had given up or had decided
not to sell the house. The friend was certain it had something to do with the
property. Prospective buyers had rumored about feeling uncomfortable on the
premises and some had even heard a woman’s voice speaking to them and others
had heard a baby crying.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Luki
Belle works in the media industry. Storytelling was a fixture from childhood
when she would listen to stories told by her grandparents, parents, sisters,
and cousins, who would read to her from diverse cultural fiction books. Scary
and ghost stories in particular, captured Luki as a child and led to her
fascination with the concept of feeling haunted or being haunted by something
or someone, whether desirably or whether uninvited. In the Sexy Seven
Supernaturals, Luki explores the amalgamation between the psychological and the
paranormal, enabled by the human mind through its power to imagine, visualize,
and yearn. The female characters in this book each have strong or subtle
conscious desires created or triggered by subconscious or unconscious distresses,
leading each of them to unexpected fates.
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