Please welcome
Author Draven St. James onto the Road to Hell. Draven St. James is the author
of Grey’s Hidden Fire.
Now, it’s time to
create a little hell and get to the good stuff by revealing all of Draven St. James’s wicked secrets
while on the Road to Hell. LOL Yeah, you
wish! ;-D
Grab your
favorite drink, sink your teeth into something decadent, sit back, relax and
enjoy getting to know Draven St. James…
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GRACEN: Tell me three things about yourself that we
cannot find on the internet or in your bio?
DRAVEN ST.
JAMES: Wow, so you want me to know what
lies behind the public façade, huh?
Well, the first night I went out when I turned twenty-one I attended a
fetish ball. That was definitely an eye opener!
I’d do just about anything for a slice of cheesecake dripping with
cherry sauce. I suppose, lastly, a good
eighteen year scotch goes a long way toward soothing the nerves of a bad day.
GRACEN: What
hobbies and interests do you participate in when you’re not writing?
DRAVEN ST.
JAMES: There are times when I’m not
writing? Oh, in those rare moments I’m
generally researching or spending time with my family and friends. I think a
huge part of the joy of writing is having a fantastic excuse to go do crazy
things in the name of studying a certain topic for my books.
GRACEN: Do you
have any writing quirks or certain things you MUST have or do before beginning
the writing process?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
First and formost I must have my coffee in the morning. Without my coffee my characters just cannot
get it up. That is primarily my only
writing quirk.
GRACEN: If you
were plotting to take over the world, how would you do it?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
I’d send all the kids to Disney land and slip a powerful aphrodisiac to the
adults so that while they were all getting their sexy on I could become the
ruler of the world. J
GRACEN: If you
could make one statement that the entire planet would hear and remember, what
would it be?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES: Never be afraid to write what you love.
GRACEN: What
genre do you write and why that genre?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
Grey’s Hidden Fire is M/M contemporary.
I write in that genre because I love the fact that men have both
powerful external and internal emotional responses. There resides so much
action and passion without filters. It is rough and raw without apology.
GRACEN: For those
who are not yet familiar with DRAVEN ST. JAMES, can you please give us some
details about the book and/or series?
DRAVEN ST.
JAMES: Grey’s Hidden Fire will be part
of a series on firefighters who deal with the prejudice of finding love and
being gay in their profession. I plan
to branch off into related fields but I’m going to let my characters develop
with each book and lead me there.
GRACEN: Do you have any new stories in the works and
can you tell us a bit about it/them?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
I have a m/m paranormal book in the works. I also have a sequel to Grey’s
Hidden Fire working its way through my mind and onto the screen.
GRACEN: If you
could describe your writing with one word or brief phrase, what would it be?
Please delve into the core of your writing to tell us what word or phrase you
want readers to take with them when they’ve finished reading your story.
DRAVEN ST.
JAMES: Unbound.
GRACEN: What, in
your opinion, makes your story unique and what makes it stand out from other
stories in your genre? Think of this as a pitch to convince readers to pick up
your books.
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
I think my story has a unique twist in that it is about one man discovering is
sexuality late in life with the introduction of one particular man into his
life.
GRACEN: What’s
the weirdest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
I dressed in dom gear and went to fetish night to try to get an idea of what
those interactions were really like off of the page.
GRACEN: Of all
your books, which character did you have the most fun creating and why?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
I’m going to take the easy answer here because I love all my characters. I
couldn’t write them if I didn’t. Now, I am looking forward to developing some
of them maybe a little more. Outside of
Grey and Mica, I am having a great time
developing Simon’s story. He’s just a fun quirky character and to put depth and
deminsion within his personality has been exciting. I love molding characters
because when their personality are complete the story almost folds around them.
GRACEN: If you
had the opportunity to meet just one of your characters in real life, who would
it be and why?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
I think I’d like to meet Mica. He just has those qualities of being both
serious but with a wicked sense of humor. I believe he’s one of those people
you could get into a lot of fun trouble with.
GRACEN: Which of
your characters would you never want to meet under any circumstance and why?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
Oh, I would never want to meet the villains, but to name them would kind of
give away the story. So you’ll just have
to read the book to understand why! J
GRACEN: If you were interviewing yourself, what is
the one question you would ask yourself and please give us the answer to that
question?
DRAVEN ST. JAMES:
Why do I write?
I write because
my mind is constantly buzzing with worlds and people who are shouting their
stories. I think that some people get bored in life and need an escape from the
humdrum of it all. I have always wanted to provide that for others. I have a
degree in psychology, so I suppose it is just in my nature to want to lift
peoples’ spirits and help them find their bliss.
GRACEN: Thanks so much for joining us, DRAVEN ST.
JAMES! It’s been a treat getting to know
you better!
Website: http://dravenstjames.wordpress.com
Buy Link: www.loose-id.com
Gmail:
Dravenstjames@gmail.com
BLURB:
Grey's
entire life is wrapped around his job as a firefighter. It is all he has ever
wanted. That is until his new coworker Mica Cruz saunters through the door with
his smoldering dark looks and dimpled grin. Suddenly he finds himself wanting
to get to know what Mica looks like out of his gear and between the sheets.
Mica has
one rule…keep his work life and his personal life separate. It was easy enough
to follow until he meets Grey and finds that his rule can't stand up to the
fire that Grey ignites. There's one big thing standing in the way of all of his
lust filled musings. Grey is straight.
In a profession where being gay is often kept quiet Grey must come to
terms with his growing attraction to Mica. How much is he willing to sacrifice?
Can they come together before someone's hatred threatens to destroy them both?
EXCERPT:
Mica walked
into the dark room that contained two bunk beds. Grey’s huddled form made a
silhouette against the darkness on one of the lower bunks, and Mica stretched
out on the other. Grey’s shifting sent the sounds of a creaky mattress across
the small space.
“Are you
gay?” Grey’s words shattered the silence with their quiet intensity.
Mica felt
like all the air had been sucked from the room. No one had ever out-and-out
asked him if he was gay. He was fairly certain it was because he didn’t look
like the stereotypical gay man. He also didn’t act like what his
coworkers had always described as a gay man. He wasn’t effeminate. They were
never cruel, but there was a level of mocking when they spoke about the topic.
The reaction to the answer to this one question could screw his whole world up,
but he didn’t feel like he could lie to Grey.
“Yes,” he
responded in a low voice. He held his breath and waited for some kind of verbal
or physical explosive response. There was nothing, just the soft sound of
Grey’s breath.
“Was I any
good?” Grey asked.
Mica sat up
and stared into the darkness, his mouth hanging open. “What?” he asked in a
loud whisper.
“In your
fantasy, I must have been pretty good, right?” There was humor in the other
man’s voice. Humor, but not ridicule.
“Yeah, you
were pretty good,” Mica conceded. He lay back on his bed and laughed softly.
“You were really good.”
“Is that
what you are? Dominant?”
“What do
you mean?”
“I…” Grey
hesitated. “Are you a top?”
Mica
snickered and smiled broadly at Grey for having the courage to ask that kind of
question. “Yes and no.”
Grey
chuckled. “How does that work?”
“I wouldn’t
mind bottoming for the right guy,” Mica confessed. He had never said that to anyone.
He had actually never bottomed, but if given a chance with Grey…he’d be
tempted.
“Oh…” Grey
murmured.
Mica glared
hard into the darkness. He wished he could look into Grey’s eyes, see what was
in Grey’s mind. It was damn difficult to judge what a man was thinking simply
by the tone of his voice. Grey didn’t seem to have much of a problem with
Mica’s being gay. If anything, he sounded intrigued.
“I take it
you’re straight?” Mica asked.
The weight
of the silence was heavy. Had Grey gone to sleep that quickly? Mica wanted to
get up and turn on the light, but he didn’t think Grey would appreciate it. It
would feel too much like a spotlight during an interrogation.
“Yes,” Grey
admitted. Although the brief moment of hesitation was curious.
“Thank you,
then, for not freaking out about earlier,” Mica said into the void. His face
heated at the words. He wanted to add to that, but he didn’t know what to say.
Apologizing for using someone to get off was a new thing to him. In his early
days of coming out he’d had his one-night stands with no apology. Somehow this
entire situation held a higher level of intimacy. Maybe it was the sharing of
secret thoughts in the dark.
Grey
shuffled. “Mica?”
“Yeah?”
“What was I
doing?”
Mica’s eyes
widened. He couldn’t have heard that right, or he’d processed it incorrectly.
“Huh?”
“I mean,
what was your… What was the whole fantasy?”
Mica had to
sit up to hear the whispered words. “In the shower?”
“Yeah.”
Grey sighed. “I mean, I know I was…I mean…in the end…sucking…”
Mica could
practically feel the heat of the other man blushing across the room.
“Are you
seriously asking for the setting of my jack-off session?” Mica chuckled.
“Well, when
you say it like that…” Grey’s voice filled with discomfort. “I guess it was an
odd question. Never mind.”
Grey
sounded mortified. Mica didn’t know what drove Grey to ask the question, but
Mica wanted to share the fantasy with him. After all, Grey had asked. No one
could fault him for handing over information that had been requested.
Mica lay
back and closed his eyes. “You came into the locker room as I was taking off my
T-shirt. You wanted to know if I needed any help cleaning up, or if I had any
pain from the fire.”
He paused
to see if Grey would stop him. If Grey had changed his mind about wanting to
know Mica’s hot fantasy. A fantasy where Grey was the star. He heard nothing
but Grey’s breathing. “Are you with me?”
“Yes.”
If Mica
hadn’t been listening so closely, he wouldn’t have heard the response.
“Okay, so I
told you my shoulder was really hurting from when I pushed against the door
frame to make it outside. You came up behind me and ran your fingers over my
shoulders, massaging. I could detect the faintest touch on my neck, where it
felt like you’d kissed me. My cock twitched, and I barely managed to keep from
groaning. You felt my body tense, so you pulled away and turned me around. You
asked if I was okay, if I needed any other help.” His voice became hoarse with
arousal.
“That’s
when you looked down and saw my cock, rock hard against my briefs. You reached
down to lightly stroke it through the fabric and asked if I required help
taking care of any other special needs.”
Grey
chuckled softly and said, “Sounds like a line from a porn video.”
“Well, it
is a fantasy. Give me a break.” Mica laughed. “Anyway, of course I was shocked
by your offer, but so fucking hard because your hand was stroking my dick that
I nodded. You pushed my briefs down and wrapped your fingers around my cock.
Your hand felt amazing. It was so warm and rough. I rocked my hips into it.”
His cock leaked. The arousal was ten times what it had been in the shower.
Describing the fantasy for Grey was hotter than he could have imagined.
“And?” Grey
asked, his voice ragged.
Mica
propped himself up on his elbow. Was it his imagination, or did Grey sound
turned on?
“Then you
swiped your finger over the head of my dick, getting a drop of precum. You
brought it to your lips and sucked it off. You told me it tasted sweet and
salty and that you wanted more.”
Grey’s
breath came faster from across the room. Holy shit. Just the thought of
Grey getting hot from the fantasy was enough to make Mica’s cock throb.
“Then
what?” Grey whispered.
1 comment:
Great interview!! Really can't wait for this book! :-)
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