Hi Everyone!
Today I have Jordan St. Johns visiting my blog for the first time ever today. Jordan just came out with a new book titled The Colonel's Woman. It's a great story, I must say! Welcome Jordan! Let's get this interview started.
What made you decide to write a historical story set in Idaho?
There were several
things. First, I know the area and it’s always easier to visualize the story in
a geographical setting you know. Second, I wanted the suffragette angle and
Idaho had one made to order in 1896, a statewide referendum. This was about the
same time that Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch rode in Wyoming, so I had a model of
sorts for the Prado clan.
You're definitely right that it is much easier to write about a place if you can visualize it in your head. Did you have to do a lot of research for your story?
I did do some
research to place events in the right time frame, such as the coming of the
Union Pacific in 1894. I did take liberties, however, with some locations.
There is no town known as Elkhorn that is up near Galena. Elkhorn Valley is a
development near Ketchum. I also did some research into firearms of the era, so
that my characters were properly armed.
Did you have any inspirations
that inspired your characters?
I kept visualizing
Sam Elliot in Tombstone as the colonel and Diane Lane in Lonesome Dove as Emma.
Do you have any authors that inspire you or are kind of like role
models to you?
Lots of them. I like Lee Child for
action, directness and brevity, John D. MacDonald and Preston and Child for
plotting, Hitchcock for wry twists (technically not an author), Elmore Leonard
for dialog, and Will Henry and Paul Little for the steamy spanko stuff.
Now for my favorite question to ask new authors who come on to my blog, what is your writing process?
I have an idea for the general
story, usually including how it will end. I write a cut down draft, sort of a
Readers Digest version first, then I go back and fill, adding scenes, adding
detail. I’ll end up with a number of scene files then I paste them all
together.
You self publish stories and also publish some stories with a
publisher. Do you think it's beneficial to do that? You get the best of both
worlds?
I may be wrong, but
it’s been my belief that erotica that is in the spanking genre specifically is
best self-published. The reader base is not big enough to sustain the costs a
publisher incurs. I do it for next to nothing, so it’s all profit. If some
publisher thinks otherwise, give me a jingle.
When you aren't writing spanking stories, what are you doing?
For now I still have a day job as
an IP attorney and I’m also a jazz musician.
You're a jazz musician? That's so cool!! Now it's time for my favorite game, The Five Question Game!
What is your favorite color?
Green. Went well with what used to
be my red hair.
What is one of your guilty pleasure reads or authors?
The ones I mentioned above plus
Robert Crais, Thomas Perry, Nelson Demille, Michael Koryta, Don Winslow and
many others.
Who is your favorite Lord of the Rings character?
Samwise Gamgee. He’s facing down
someone to protect Frodo and this guy sneers at him and says “who are you, his
bodyguard?” and Sam says, “No. I’m his gardener.”
Sam is my favorite character too! I feel like he didn't get near as much credit as he deserved, even if he was just a gardener. What is your favorite food?
Always been a well prepared rib eye
steak.
What is the last song that you listened to?
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Thank you for answering those questions. Now do you think that you could give us a snippet from your story?
When Laura Lee and Luke had
left, Emma and Nate snuggled on the loveseat in the parlor with the curtains
drawn for the night. Emma put her head on Nate’s shoulder. She sighed, a long
drawn out sigh that told Nate something was up.
“Now what was that big sigh
about?” said Nate.
“They seem so happy,” said Emma.
“Sometimes I wish… “
“I know what you’re going to
say, and I wish it, too. But you’ve lost one husband and maybe you don’t want
to lose another.”
“Whatever do you mean?” said
Emma, startled.
“When I took this job, I had no
idea. I thought this area was mostly settled down, different from the old
mining days when every man carried a six gun, and claim jumpers and robbers
made trouble night and day. But now I find out that criminal gangs like the
Prados are working the area, dealing in all kinds of misery. It’s dangerous and
things need to be cleaned up. Look, I don’t want to leave a widow two times
over. I love you, Emma. I hope you know that, but until this town is safe, the
future looks a mite perilous. Besides,” he said, trying to lighten the tone,
“you are one feisty woman. I don’t know if I’m up to taming you.”
“Tame me? Why, Nathan Bradford,
whatever makes you think you can tame me?” She said it with a sense of mock
outrage. Secretly she was thrilled. He had just told her he loved her. She
didn’t care about anything else.
“So,” she said, pulling away and
sitting straight up. She huffed her chest out and put her hands on her hips.
“Just how do you propose to tame me?”
Nathan understood when a challenge
was being issued. He narrowed his eyes. Remembering what she had told him about
her desires, he countered: “I imagine a well warmed bottom or two might do the
trick.”
“You’re a cad and you wouldn’t
dare!”
Now that was a
challenge if there ever was one, he thought. “That’s where you’re wrong, Mrs. Weston.” In a
single smooth motion he took her by the wrist and pulled her across his lap.
“Eeek!” she squealed, fluttering her
arms about.
She thrust out her hands to stop
her forward motion which permitted Nate to toss her skirts up in back without
interference. Underneath she had on lacy drawers.
“You stop,” she said, squirming.
“Stop it at once!”
Smack! Nate’s palm struck Emma’s
shapely bottom in rapid succession. They were light spanks, calculated to
excite and tease. For Nate, the feel of Emma’s satiny bottom, rippling
sensuously as his hand spanked, was enough to cause his manhood to rise.
Thank you for that snippet!
The Colonel's Woman Blurb
Earning
an honest living is a challenge for a woman on her own in the rough and tumble
western town of Ketchum, Idaho in 1896, and given her circumstances, renting
rooms to a few boarders seemed like a good option for a young widow like Emma
Weston. But Emma never counted on a man like Colonel Nathan Bradford taking up
residence with her.
Colonel
Bradford’s commanding presence quickly proves useful for keeping order in Emma’s
home—as does his willingness to take misbehaving young ladies out to the
woodshed—but soon enough it is Emma herself who finds her bottom bared for a
sound strapping from the firm-handed officer. Her sore bottom only further
kindles her growing desire for the handsome colonel, and his dominant
lovemaking awakens her passion as nothing ever has before.
But just
as love starts to bloom between Emma and the colonel, the harsh realities of
the west intrude upon their romance. When the town is attacked and Emma is
captured by a notorious band of outlaws, Colonel Bradford will need every bit
of his skill, his courage, and his fighting instincts to bring them to justice
and take back his woman.
Publisher’s
Note: The Colonel’s Woman is an erotic
romance novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, anal play, and more. If
such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
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Thanks for visiting today Jordan!
Happy Thursday Everyone!
