Featured Author–Laura Tolomei
About Laura Tolomei
After my African experience, I was ready to tackle the US. I lived in Atlanta, GA, five teen-age years, attending the Crestwood High School, where I started my writing career by publishing a short story Nostalgia on the Crestwood Journal. Very thrilled about discovering my new talent, I went ahead during college, writing for the Emory University journal The Phoenix.
After my American experience, I moved back to Rome, but still kept living from time to time abroad, spending several months in Mumbay India, a country I always felt very close to me in more ways than one.Today, I write both in Italian and English, mostly fiction of various genres, from fantasy erotica, to mysteries up to plain ordinary life stories.
My achievements so far include:
Slave for Sex, short story, fantsy, gay, sci-fi in eXtasy Anthology Emerald Envisage
Sacrificial Sex, novella, Science Fiction, Gay, Horror, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal, publisher eXtasy Books
Divinitas, novel, Gay, M/M, Lesbian, Menage, Paranormal, Deities, Historical, Dark Fantasy, publisher eXtasy Books
Trespassing All Hallows Eve, novel, Gay, Lesbian, Adventure, Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Halloween, publisher eXtasy Books
Hunted, short story, gay, horror, dark fantasy, shape shifter, mystery in eXtasy Anthology Sanguinary Seductions
The Moon Priestess, short story, gay, ménage, fantasy, science-fiction in eXtasy Anthology Atlantis Allure Coming soon: Re-Scue, novel, gay, lesbian ménage, dark fantasy, science-fiction, contemporary, paranormal, publisher FDWP, Firedrake Weyr Publishing
Roman Seduction, fantasy game, gay, historical, adventure, publisher eXtasy Books
Spying th Alcove, novella, gay, historical, paranormal, publisher eXtasy Books
Virtus: Erotic Empowerment, novel, series, gay, lesbian ménage, fantasy, science-fiction, paranormal, adventure
Virtus: Erotic Control, novel, series, gay, lesbian ménage, fantasy, science-fiction, paranormal, adventure
Blood Lust, novel, gay, horror, paranormal, dark fantasy, Halloween, publisher eXtasy Books
To Seduce a Soulmate, novel, gay, contemporary, Christmas, publisher eXtasy Books
Fun Facts about Laura |
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| What is your greatest achievement to this date? My greatest achievement is Divinitas, a powerful tale spanning time and space, using myths and legends of the old days to map a quest for the divine. I know it doesn’t say much, but it’s very hard to define a book that by its nature escapes conventional categories. It explores important topics that are very dear to me and readers can easily frind in all my works, from re-incarnation to destiny, to love and betrayal. If I had to give a definition, it would be of an erotic book with an intellectual content that addresses central themes in our beliefs about life, after-life and our connection to spirituality. So it’s not just a recap of ancient myths and legends, most forgotten by now, because I talk about real-life people struggling through the same battles we all face everyday. Us-Yri has to learn to master his uncontrollable passion for his friend Set in order to understand his spiritual side. Mitra, too, tries to fight against his lust for Vayu only to find that total acceptance of his love is the only thing that will make him free of earthly ties.But Divinitas goes even further. Its greatest message is perhaps that everyone has a divine connection within as long as they don’t lose touch with their spiritual side. And analyzing the succession of religious myths, it becomes crystal-clear that spirituality is a force man’s been reckoning with ever since he walked the Earth. True, times, spaces and even names change, but the tale they tell is always the same, a love so great that even if betrayed, it will find the strength to save himself and mankind. If I wasn’t a writer I’d be: A musician. Fave writing style:Gay, ménage, fantasy, historical |
Worst writing habit:I get too involved in my stories to the point of neglecting everything else. What puts you in a great mood?Music, making love, my incredible mate, cats.Music - certainly one of my favourite pleasures in the world. Can’t do much without it!Making love - do I need to explain that?My incredible mate - He stood by me for the last 25 years, believing in me much more than I ever believed in myself, my true inspiration for most of my male characters. And though for a long time he had to put up with my half-hearted love, waiting patiently for me to understand how great out connection was and had been despite me, in the end he earned it all!Cats – they’re the greatest animals on Earth! I love their sensuality, their elegance, their beauty and their independence. Like many Buddhist say, I want to be reborn as a cat because that’s the highest form of re-incarnation possible. What motivates you to finish a draft?I would never start a draft I wasn’t sure I’d finish because I start writing after I hear the story in my head. It starts as an idea at first, but then the characters define themselves, the plot takes a definite shape and I follow it through its conclusion, first in my head, then on paper. If I give you a roll of duct tape what would you do with it?If I could, I’d wrap up the television so I wouldn’t have to listen to bad or worse news day after day. Life is terrible enough as it is without someone making it its job to broadcast it 24-7 to the world. Places where we can find you online?Facebook –http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/home.php?ref=homeMySpace –http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=152533159 |
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Sacrificial Sex
Will the handsome stranger convince the bloodthirsty sorcerer to stop vicious human sacrifices? But can he afford to pay the price to fulfil his quest?Blurb:
A young man, thrown in a primitive world where blood and sex are sacrificed to sanguinary gods in a vicious ritual, tries to stop the sorcerer from satisfying his own bloodlust and sexual cravings on innocent virgins. An intended victim himself, the handsome stranger will use sexual persuasion to gain his trust without revealing the truth behind the bloody offerings. But in his dangerous quest to save the virgins, Rowen will get more blood, sex and cruelty than he has bargained for.

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