As of now my new book TGirls Encounters is available on Kindle.
The novella has two short stories.
The Artist
A married man intends to seduce his wife’s friend. What he doesn’t know is that the wife and her friend have their own secrets.
The Photographer
A lonely divorcee gets a new neighbor, and when she asks him to take some photos of her he finds out she has a secret.
http://www.amazon.com/TGirls-Encounters-Natasha-Tsarina-ebook/dp/B00GZV7T70/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385766003&sr=8-3&keywords=Natasha+Tsarina
Friday, November 29, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
When fiction contradicts reality.
I love reading the reviews from the people that buy my
books. It’s very interesting to read what they liked and what they don’t like
about my writing. Putting aside the grammar and spelling issues I focus on the
story itself. Did they like it? Why? And if they didn’t like it, why not?
The other day I got a review from a person who in general
like the stories but had an issue with how the characters interacted. The book
in question is TGirls, which is a collection of stories about men meeting
Transvestites and ending up in the sack with them. The reviewer says that it's
not very likely a man would gladly have sex with a transvestite just after
finding out about the “surprise”, a more natural behavior would be to get
dressed and get out of Dodge.
I agree with him, but that’s where literal freedom comes in,
I as the author decides on how the characters act. I think if I wrote about
reality, then this book wouldn’t have been written in the first place. I have
thought about how I would react if I met a man and then a few hours later and
several glasses of wine he takes his clothes off and he has a vagina instead of
a penis. Depending on if I like the person for who he is, which would be hard
after just a few hours I might put the genital issue to the side and have fun. I’m
always open for something new, and I think I wouldn’t run away.
Some might argue that it’s not the same thing, because men
have a natural instinct to run from other dicks, and we women have a more
curious mind. Meaning that it would be much easier for a woman to put aside the
fact that the person she is about to have sex with turns out to be another
woman instead of the hot man she thought he was when they met.
To a certain extent they would be right, but I do believe
that a lot of men have fantasies about being with a Transvestite. I base this
on the amount of TGirls hanging around the beaches and the clubs here in the summer.
If there weren’t men interested in them, they wouldn’t be here, would they?
What if a woman for some reason or another decides to try
same sex with another woman, and while on a business trip she meets this gorgeous
young thing and two days later after a nice dinner they decide to go back to
the hotel room, and when they get naked the woman gets the surprise of her lifetime,
what would she do?
Food for thought.
Erotica or Porn
I haven’t been writing for a couple
of weeks and the reason for that is I have been getting ready for winter. Summer
clothes have been going into boxes and taken to my storage unit and there I
picked up the winter clothes and brought them back home.
I live in a small apartment overlooking
the ocean making it quite cold this time of year. I suppose when they built the
building they thought it would be used by summer vacationers instead of struggling
authors so the windows are not double glazed and there are spaces between
windows and walls half an inch wide.
Anyway, on my last visit to the
storage I decided to clean out a bit and I found a small box with various photos
from way back when. In there was a picture of an ex boyfriend of mine, we dated
for about half a year back in the 90’s, we are talking last millennium now,
that far back. This guy used to buy Playboy and sometimes Hustler once a month.
It never bothered me and I actually had a look at them a few times, and read
some of the short stories.
I never felt that those stories
were pornographic; sure there were some very detailed descriptions of things
going in, and liquids coming out. One night I had a girlfriend come by for
dinner and girl talk and apparently I had forgotten to put away one of these magazines
and she saw it. While I was pouring wine she had a read, and when I came in
with the glasses she asked me, ‘who is reading this smut?’
I told her it was my boyfriends and
I didn’t think it was smutty at all. She asked if it didn’t bother me that he
read it, and if her boyfriend would read such magazines she would either throw
him or the magazines out, his choice.
The point of this is, what is smut
and what is Erotica?
I think it depends on the reader
more than on the author. Some readers like it more detailed, and other like
less, so how do we as authors know what readers we have? If they write a review
and comment we know at least a little, but most of the times we don’t. Some
might argue that if the book is returned then it was too smutty, but I
disagree. People might return the book for another reason, maybe it wasn’t the
genre they were looking for or maybe they just clicked the wrong button.
Whatever the reason, I think we as
authors have to put the “smut filter” on, and decide what we find acceptable,
if people like it, great, if not there are thousands of other writers who might
be more suitable.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Reviews-how to become better authors.
During the last few days I have had several reviews on a few of my books and I think they have been very helpful to me.
Sometimes people just write a sentence or two, saying things like “a good read, but would have liked it to be longer”.
The latest ones I have got have actually been very thought out and the reader tells me what they liked and what they didn’t like. I think that sometimes we writers are a bit too proud to want to make changes to the way we write, but this is wrong. Who do we write for? Some will say to ourselves which is true if the story ends up in a drawer but as soon as we put a price tag on it and sell it, we write for a reader.
We can continue to write the way we have done but I think we should listen to our readers and take note of their suggestions, especially if we want to keep them coming back and buy another book.
Sometimes people just write a sentence or two, saying things like “a good read, but would have liked it to be longer”.
The latest ones I have got have actually been very thought out and the reader tells me what they liked and what they didn’t like. I think that sometimes we writers are a bit too proud to want to make changes to the way we write, but this is wrong. Who do we write for? Some will say to ourselves which is true if the story ends up in a drawer but as soon as we put a price tag on it and sell it, we write for a reader.
We can continue to write the way we have done but I think we should listen to our readers and take note of their suggestions, especially if we want to keep them coming back and buy another book.
I for one will make some adjustments to my writing for the next books.
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