Name: Hank Quense Name of Book: Falstaff’s Big Gamble Guest Post for The Story Behind the Book: I love writing Shakespearean spoofs. I’ve redone Romeo and Juliet, the Merchant of Venice and I wrote a sequel to MacBeth using the Wyrd Sisters. All of those were short stories. For a long time, I’ve wanted to…
I’m also a filmmaker as well as a writer and Fem Dom was inspired by Mondo Bondo – a documentary I made back in 2008. It was a film about the psychology behind bondage and looked at why some people enjoy being tied up and punished for sexual pleasure. During the filming I interviewed several…
The Story Behind The Coop By Rebecca Reid Inspiration? I see inspiration as a shapeshifter, for each and every one of us it has varying forms, alternating this way and that depending on the moment in which you catch it. For me it is more often than not, transparent. It is there, I feel it,…
The Story Behind The Third Grace By Deb Elkink I stood in the golden sunlight filtering through the courtyard windows of the Louvre Museum in Paris, transfixed by the life-sized marble statue grouping elevated before me. It was 1989 and I was in my glory on my long-anticipated first trip to Europe, surrounded by the…
When I was eleven or twelve, I happened to catch The Nightfighters on television. I was confused by the film’s plot about Irishmen fighting the English during World War II and asked my father about it. He dismissively reminded me that the “Irish always need to fight about something.” Still inquisitive, I looked up the…
I have always been a huge fan of the fantasy genre. When I decided to write a book I subconsciously ended up choosing the fantasy genre. What attracted me to this genre were the limitless possibilities it presented. Imaginative literature has such immense scope that it is one of the most exciting genres. Besides…
The first story is that to a certain extent, writing a novel started out as somewhat of an economic decision. I’d written screenplays for a number of years and had made several half-hearted attempts at a novel, but I’d always found it so much harder than writing a screenplay, probably because at the time, I…
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