1st Day of DragonCON

Man what a clusterfuck!  LOL!  Seriously, got into Atlanta with no problem but the person who was supposed to have a room reserved for himself, another woman my handler and I was a no show.  It took a bit of wheeling and dealing on my handler’s part but she managed to get us a room at the Marriott Marquis, only to have us move the next night to Doubletree…by the AIRPORT!

It was a place to crash and again luck was on our side when said third friend, ie the new woman I’m hanging with at this con has another friend with a car!  HUZZAH!  LOL!

Friday night’s WriteSEX/Tantric Tentacles panel went off well.  We covered a lot of ground, everything from how to get published in erotica and why it’s still a viable genre all the way to a little more of the nitty gritty, thanks to Kiernan Kelly and I moderating that panel.

I HAD to eat better this year around so I managed to find places where I could a decent meal.  Truva, right near Peachtree Center and off Andrew Young International fit the bill for lunch/breakfast.  Handler, Attilia and I went out, had a lovely meal and then parted as they’re con-goers and I’m a worker LOL!

Afterwards, went to reg to pick up my badge, took Attilia since I wanted my handler to actually ENJOY? the con for one, and second, she works registration and could get me through the disabilities line.  I’d like to take a second to give a hearty special shout out to Mary Hardin-Moore, one of my dearest readers whom as a fan I enjoy.  She graciously gave me her badge since she couldn’t take it this year.

Badge picked up, time to meet up with author Elizabeth J. Kolodziej – one of my rising stars.  Liz is the author of Demon Protection Plan, a short in the anthology Sexiest Time of the Year.  She’s got another story coming out from Sizzler Editions sitting on her editor’s (mine) desk as soon as he returns from whatever shit hit him from the con.

We hung out, drank, talked, drank, headed to the hotel where Attilia, my Handler and I were sharing a room, drank, then Liz ditched out for a bit while i found food and prepped for WriteSEX.

It was DEFINITELY a long day and I’m pretty sure we all ended up in bed sometime around 5 AM…

Thus ends day one.  Make sure to check out Demon Protection Plan by Elizabeth J. Kolodziej, a complementary addition to Lani Rhea/JP Archer and Clarice Clique
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Published in: on September 6, 2012 at 11:02 am  Comments (1)  
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Holy hell, dragoncon is a blast

I haven’t been able to post because of all the extra traffic jamming cellphone signals from over 80 thousand other attendees in Atlanta. But Monday was the last day of Dragoncon.

I spent too much time drinking and talking and working but met some really cool folks who wanted to actually meet me. I was pretty pleased!

The cigar herf was pretty sweet.  Had a few folks show up for that, light up premium handrolled cigars and smoke for about two hours.  Watching a beautiful woman serve was nice, then having her massage my wrists was even sweeter!

I’d like to thank Cynnara Tregarth, Kiernan Kelly, Gail Z. Norman, Stella Price and all the people who attended our EFF writer panels.  Without you, it would just be us.  And we’re all boring LOL!

The BDSM 201 panel was incredible.  People asked tough questions that required a LOT of courage to even word, let alone stand in line to ask us.

Now that I’m sick, I get to spend a day of resting before I start work at Grants Tobacconist.

Damn I’m tired though.  Whew!  Oh, and I’m sick.  Con Crud.
AND I’m feeling like shit, depressed.  Top Drop/Con Drop.

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More to come!

Published in: on September 4, 2012 at 11:00 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Guest Post from Elizabeth J. Kolodziej – DragonCON Cherries!

I have no flipping clue how to start this blog post so I’m going to go simple.

 

One word. Dragoncon. Hellz yeah I’m going! And to top it off it is my first dragon…con. I’m getting my dragon cherry popped! LoL. Hindsight, maybe I should have started with that. It’s kind of funny. But whatevs.

 

So for the big awesome fun part of the post: where can you find me? I say we make it a scavenger hunt! Are you in?!? Can YOU DIG IT?!? I think I’m sleep deprived or drank too much coffee. That or I’m running on the fact that a certain person gave me a two and a half hour notice that I was going to be writing this post. Who knows!

 

I say we do it!

 

For a prize the winner gets a…$25.00 gift certificate from Visa to spend where ever they like. They still have those right? Plus! A book. Hmmm. How about one of Sascha’s? I bet he would LOVE to donate.

Whatever, you’ll be getting a prize so here we go!

First task: Get a picture with Sascha Illyvich. It’s what cell phones are made for.

Second task: Get Stella Price OR Kiernan Kelly to autograph some part of your body (remember to bring a Sharpie!).

Third task: I will have Vampyre Kisses bookmarks with me, ask me for one.

Fourth task: Go to Stephanie Burke and get a flyer, postcard, bookmark or business card. She should be handing something out for free.

Fifth task: Lastly, get a picture of whoever you think as the best most craziest costume on. If your in it the better if not that’s ok too.

To make it a TAD easy on you, you can find us at these events:

Friday August 31st – 10 PM – WriteSEX/Tantric Tentacles
Saturday September 1st – 10 PM – Kirk’s Communicator – Where should I submit?
Sunday September 2nd – 4 PM  – Down and Dirty Marketing
Sunday September 2nd – 11 PM – BDSM 201
Monday September 3rd – 1 PM – 50 Years, The Future!

 

Events I will be at for sure:
Saturday September 1st – 4 PM – Vampires, Demons and Werewolves—Oh, My!
Sunday September 2nd – 3 PM – What makes a villain?
Sunday September 2nd – 11 PM – BDSM 201
Monday September 3rd – 12 PM – Steampunk 101

On Monday send me an email with the pictures of all the stuff you got and pictures with people. We will do a drawing that following Saturday and pick a winner out of everyone who got every item on the list.

Editor’s Note – Sascha may donate, but it won’t be a book.  It’ll be something much sexier…if you can catch Sascha.

Published in: on August 28, 2012 at 12:40 pm  Leave a Comment  
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DragonCON 2012!

This month I’m gearing up for my 4th DragonCON, another almost week long event in Atlanta, GA!  We’ve four panels scheduled on the EFF forums, I’m also appearing on the Writers Track forums plus the Fetish BDSM 201 panel. I’ll have a complete schedule posted once I know it all but as of now:

Friday August 31 – 10 PM – WriteSEX/Tantric Tentacles
Saturday September 1st – 10 PM – Kirk’s Communicator – Where should I submit?
Oh, I think Saturday Sept 1st we’re doing a Cigar Hef
Sunday Sept 2nd 4 PM  – Down and Dirty Marketing
Sunday Sept 2nd 11 PM – BDSM 201
Monday September 3rd 1 PM – 50 Years, The Future!

Minus the BDSM panel, panelists will include, Kiernan Kelly, Shakir Rashaan, Stella Price, Cynnara Tregarth, Kayelle Allen, Stephanie Burke and more.

It promises to be a BLAST!

Published in: on August 5, 2012 at 1:48 pm  Comments (6)  
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DragonCON Photos

Thought I’d post a few pictures from recent DragaoCONs.  I didn’t get to get too many this past year because my phone crapped out much of the time, but I have photos from previous years of people who repeated their costumes.  Some of the things people spend money on are amazing!  The time put into the costumes seems endless and the reward, well you’ll have to see.

 

DragonCON 2009 Warning, I’m not the best photographer of all.  In fact, I suck quite frankly but my friend Kayelle Allen got a ton of photos from the previous years at DragonCON and those photos are amazing.  She’s much better at that sort of thing than I am.  The variety of costumes though isn’t limited to just science fiction/fantasy, hell we saw Lt. Dangle from Reno 911 there!

My purpose the last three years has been to promote myself, Sizzler Editions and be on panels.  I think after this last year I’ve firmly established myself as an erotic author expert, being on the panels with Kayelle Allen, Kiernan Kelly, Shadowdance (BDSM Panels) and other wonderful people.  This past year I was enthusiastic to know one of my new friends is Gigi, a staffer who helped me out tremendously in planning for next year’s DragonCON.

 

The official count of the convention lists around 50,000 people but I’ve been around that many people.  (It’s overwhelming!) but I’d say the numbers were closer to 90,000 people.  Yet, you’re constantly around your closets, geekiest and in some cases, kinkiest friends.

The fun is in trying to navigate the different tracks, get through the large crowds and still see everything you want to see.  I spent a lot of time outside smoking cigars and drinking with friends, new fans and old ones while talking about my books, their favorite authors, what brought them to DragonCON and more.

I have to post the next picture for my friend Stella Price as she and I are both avid Venture Bros. Fans.  But she’s hardcore!  This past year she spent most of her time at the Venture track!  He and Dr. Girlfriend were represented as was 21.

This is probably THE convention I look forward to all year long actually. Thank Goddess for my handler and roommate, Meowwl, for all her support, help and in keeping me calm after dealing with so many people…

2012 is going to be badass…

Published in: on September 26, 2011 at 4:56 am  Leave a Comment  
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DragonCON 2011

I’ll be attending and on panels at this year’s DragonCON in Atlanta, GA.  I leave early Thursday morning and won’t return until Tuesday night late.  Beauty of this convention is all the fascinating people I’ll get to meet and see.  Oh and let’s not forget the parties ;)

For those not in the know, DragonCON is the largest science fiction/fantasy convention in America and has gone on for twenty five years this year!  Held every year in downtown Atlanta Georgia, sprawled out between four hotels, this convention has something for everyone,

Seriously, between panels I’ll more than likely be found on the Hyatt Smoking section by the bar.

motherfuckin bad ass authors

Joining me this year for panel participation are the following lovely authors:

Stella Price, Kiernan Kelly, Marie LaCroix, Stephanie Burke, Susan Sizemore, and possibly Oceania.  We’ll be out signing books for fans, talking about WriteSEX, doing writer education panels and checking out all the hot cosplay and things to see over the course of the weekend between four hotels.

The entire weekend will be jam packed with all sorts of reader and writer debauchery ;)   I can promise that. Oh did I mention I’m teaching a singletail workshop for the Kinky geeksters among us?  Yeah, that’ll be fun.  I have a friend who is going to be my demo dolly and if she’s busy I’ll just have to beat Marianne Lacroix!  I’ll be sure to take a lot of pics from this year’s DragonCON and post them!

Published in: on August 28, 2011 at 11:15 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Heavenly Bodies – A Science Fiction/Fantasy Romance

My first book to go into print was actually a collection of three stories, a vampire romance,  (first one I ever wrote) a time travel story dealing with greek gods, and then a Faery story known as Echo’s Odyssey.

The vampire story got cut due to length and word count specified by the publisher but it’ll see print soon.

An erotic science fiction/fantasy romoance“Real erotica, full of pain intermingled with pleasure. Love makes the sexual scenes more powerful. Sensuality Level: Scorching.” raves Ann Leveille of Sensual Reviews. Two exceptional novellas of fantasy and eros by the author Coffee Time Romance calls “Amazing!” and rates “Four Stars!”

In “Sacrifice,” Ares, the God of War, is banished from Olympus, falls in love with a mortal woman and is called upon to make a very unusual sacrifice if he wants to keep her.

In “Echo s Odyssey,” the wars of faery are over, but for the assassin Echo and his lover Alexandrya, a new war is just beginning. They return to faery expecting to be reunited with the third member of their triad, the princess Serenissa, only to find she and faery itself are threatened by even greater peril. Heavenly Bodies is a pair of erotic, romantic adventures dealing with carnal love between humans and gods and fairies with their heavenly bodies! Sascha Illyvich is the author of the novels “The Gift of Her Submission,” “Light and Shadow” and “Dark Traders,” among others. His short fiction has appeared on Literotica, and in many anthologies, including “Nectar of the Gods” and “Caught in the Middle.”

“The sensual tone of the story flowed … the language and situations were believable. Fans will enjoy [his] heart-touching romances.” says Coffee Time Romance Reviews. “Sascha Illyvich is a wonderful, erotic storyteller. He turns you on and tugs your heartstrings- at the same time!” Sabrina Smith Moses, author.

Buy from Amazon

PS, I have like 5 copies left from MARCON that I’d be more than happy to sign, send out for $20, which includes postage.

Published in: on June 13, 2011 at 3:48 am  Leave a Comment  
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Book Review: Need Me by Shelli Stevens

Nika has trained her body into a deadly weapon – the better to take what she wants from any world, especially the well-protected planet Belton. But the moment she sees Lt. Brendon Marshall, her weapon is turned against her. A man like him could incinerate a woman’s priorities with one look. And since he’s guarding the very object of her desire, it could be so simple to use him and never look back. As long as she can ignore a more intense pleasure than she’s ever known – and a wilder need than she’s ever imagined.

As a reader I was quickly intrigued by the opening sex scene between the unnamed woman and Lt. Brendon Marshall. The pace was pretty quick and characterization developed. I did feel the universe was outdated but that’s my problem, not Miss Stevens. The plot twisted with predictability for any writer but as a reader I’d have hoped that Molly would have listened to Emmett in the secondary sub plot but ultimately that secondary plot helped to bring out more from Nika’s character. Give this book a read if you want SMOKING HOT SEX!

Published in: on June 3, 2011 at 4:37 am  Leave a Comment  
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MarCON 46 – Home now!

I had a lot of fun at MarCON, the Multiple Alternate Realities Con in Columbus OH.

Got into LAX, changed planes, set in for a long flight and I can’t remember if I ate on that flight or if I was fine from the scant (and I do mean scant, only had one beer) alcohol in my system at this point. Either way when I landed in Chicago, I made a B line for breakfast. Pancakes, bacon, Guiness. That did the trick since I was trying to keep caffeine consumption low.  For those not aware, I sort of have a bad heart.

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Landed in Columbus slightly early I think and Tiffani was there on time to pick me up. She dropped me off at the hotel where Kim (Shadowdance) met me and hugged me pretty tightly. I got to meet Avery in person too though I’m sure we met at DragonCON the year before when I sat on a panel with her. He and I left back to their house so I could nap for a few hours. What a difference THAT made.

Friday’s schedule:

7:00 – Author Signing.  That didn’t go over too well, mostly due to lack of traffic and extra cold air conditioning in the hotel.
10:00 Paranormal Romance (apparently I was the moderator but didn’t know it until last night)
11:30 – Reading with TammyJo Eckhart.  We read from three different pieces.  I read from Heavenly Bodies, Siddella’s Surrender, and Bound to Her from Over the Moon anthology.

Afterwards, bed. At 3 AM. would have been earlier but Shadow stayed up and we talked.

Next day up by 11 AM, thought I’d smoke a cigar and eat and go but ended up eating thanks to Avery making me bacon and toast, sucked down water, pills, we left and I was on time for my panel on Trends in Fiction. That was pretty fun, being there with Rosemary Laurey and two others, but I think next time some better direction (in both panels0 would have been nice. Last two weeks were crazyfucked up. So my mind was a wreck.

Afterwards, found Shadow, Jojo, somehow acquired another fangirl I’ll most likely never see again (damn redheads) and then decided it was time for my Saturday ritual: SIt back, light up and relax.

Ended up attracting a few more crazies…hell there were even homeless people in Columbus! Also it seems odd that to so many strippers I seem familiar. I’ve been in a total of four strip clubs total, two were for “work” purposes (I used to flyer promo) one was with Rob and the other was at Cybernet 2009 cause I wanted to see what Larry Flynt had actually done.

Otherwise I don’t really care for overpriced drinks, girls who flirt for a half assed seduction and wouldn’t understand if I wanted to break out the floggers…

Had 11:00 Panel on Why Kink. Here’s the rub. It was “moderated by Sascha Illyvich and whoever shows up”

Guess who was to talk to about 30 mostly non kinky people about what and why kink exists and how popular it is. Thank GODDESS I was a Toastmaster. I talked, wore my voice out after an hour and a half. The Fetlife meet and greet was scheduled for same time as the panel but the man who scheduled it ended up in my panel so he moved it to after the discussion. We covered what kink is, definition of bdsm and how it differs, sexuality and kink, why kink of course, a typical BDSM scene or how a kinky sex scene might go, took some Q/A.  Well we is the royal we.  I mean me.

After that, I raced around to the various groups in the room, asked what they thought, got some good positive feedback and then met Shadow and Avery downstairs where I knocked back two more scotch and sodas in tribute to Simon Templer.

Bed again at 3 AM. Up the next day at 11:00, at the Con at 1 PM. Rosemary and we had lunch together. It was nice to talk to her, get her opinion on some of the industry, RWA, and just bullshit. Again, someone I’ve known for ten years and are glad to call comrade.

Last panel was on Writing gay Characters. Guess who got stuck moderating that too? Yours truly. It was fun though as Denise Verrico and Rosemary were beside me. This is called “menage” LOL!

Overall it was a pretty fun experience and though the date is changing for next year I look forward to it once again.

Published in: on June 1, 2011 at 6:14 pm  Leave a Comment  
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New Release from Renaisance E-books

Heavenly Bodies
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Sizzler (April 13, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615082158
ISBN-13: 978-1615082155

Buy NOW

“Real erotica, full of pain intermingled with pleasure. Love makes the sexual scenes more powerful. Sensuality Level: Scorching.” raves Ann Leveille of Sensual Reviews.

Two exceptional novellas of fantasy and eros by the author Coffee Time Romance calls “Amazing!” and rates “Four Stars!”

In “Sacrifice,” Ares, the God of War, is banished from Olympus, falls in love with a mortal woman and is called upon to make a very unusual sacrifice if he wants to keep her.

In “Echo s Odyssey,” the wars of faery are over, but for the assassin Echo and his lover Alexandrya, a new war is just beginning. They return to faery expecting to be reunited with the third member of their triad, the princess Serenissa, only to find she and faery itself are threatened by even greater peril.

Heavenly Bodies is a pair of erotic, romantic adventures dealing with carnal love between humans and gods and fairies with their heavenly bodies!

Sascha Illyvich is the author of the novels “The Gift of Her Submission,” “Light and Shadow” and “Dark Traders,” among others. His short fiction has appeared on Literotica, and in many anthologies, including “Nectar of the Gods” and “Caught in the Middle.” “The sensual tone of the story flowed … the language and situations were believable. Fans will enjoy [his] heart-touching romances.” says Coffee Time Romance Reviews. “Sascha Illyvich is a wonderful, erotic storyteller. He turns you on and tugs your heartstrings- at the same time!” Sabrina Smith Moses, author.

Read an Excerpt

Published in: on May 28, 2010 at 7:40 pm  Leave a Comment  
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