Interview
and ‘Emily’ Promotion for Muffy Wilson ~ May 2015
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
Where can we purchase The Para-Portage of Emil?
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!
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
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.
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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.
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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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