This
was Pynk’s 1st stop of her blog tour. We had a great discussion
about her writing, characters and possibly collaborating with other authors,
while eating chips and dip and sipping Moscato.
1 Do you have an unusual
writing rituals? It
would be sexy cool if I did, but my writing rituals are pretty boring. I prefer
to write from an outline so that I at least think I know where I'm going, I
write early in the morning, I write best when I have complete silence without
the sound of a TV or music (or another human being if possible), I
turn off the ringers on my phones, and I write best on my desktop in my
office, not on a laptop or iPad.
Yolanda: Lol, not on your iPad. But, I have a
crazy style as well. I write long hand first.
In Politics. Escorts
.Blackmail. who was your most complex character to write and why? My most complex character is Madam Money
Watts. Her parents, especially her father, are a different breed, and they set
the tone for her greedy and ruthless ways. Her father named her Money for a
reason. She has a heart, but so much is at stake if she exposes her softer side so she tucks it away. She is a shrewd businesswoman who trusts no one, and
when it comes to love, the same applies. I found her to be the perfectly flawed
character. Yes, she's a pimptress, but I also wanted the readers to
see her other dimensions. I hope I accomplished that.
Yolanda: You definitely did. When I first
started reading PES, I was scared of Madem Money. But, by the end of the story,
my heart broke a little for her. I didn’t expect some of the event that took
place. WOW!
How do you juggle
writing two different genres? I juggle the two, women's fiction and erotica, by not writing
them at the same time. For me, writing women's fiction is easier
than writing erotica. With erotica, you not only have the character arcs and
storyline, but you also have license to show their sexual choices on
another level, in living color, so to speak. Depending upon their personalities,
you must create and direct sex scenes. You must use a great deal of erotic
creativity, yet stay true to the characters. I prefer to not overlap when
writing the two genres. I write more than one title at a time, but only when it
comes to women's fiction, not erotica.
Yolanda: I must say you do a great job writing
from both genres.
What is one tip you
would give aspiring authors? The one tip I would give aspiring authors is to honor the fact
that writing is like architecture - you must build a story, and it takes time
and talent. Can you see it and feel it? Create a blueprint (if not a complete
outline, then perhaps a brief story map). Is there a foundation? Build the
walls, chapter by chapter, the roof, draft by draft, etc. Be an architect with
words and take it very seriously. It's more than a notion.
Yolanda: Great, great advice. Thank you for
always being willing to help aspiring authors.
I would love for you and
Mary Honey B Morrison to collaborate together. Will my wish ever come
true? Mary is an extremely
gifted and successful author, and a very dear and supportive friend. I would
love it as well. We have discussed this in the past with an idea in mind, but
our schedules have not allowed this to happen. Never say never. If we do, I
know it will be double fire - HoneyB and Pynk style!
Yolanda: I’ll continue
to say a prayer that my wish comes true.
3.
About
the author
Pynk
is the best-selling author of four erotica titles and one anthology. Pynk won the 2008 YOUnity award for Fastest Rising
Literary Star and Disilgold.com’s Most Outstanding Author of the Year award for
2009.
Grand Central released
the first Pynk novel, Erotic City, in November 2008. Erotic City was voted one of the Best
Reads for 2008 by lack Expressions and was a finalist for a 2009 African
American Literary Award in the category of erotica. The second title, Sexaholics, about four women addicted to
sex, hit the shelves on March 23, 2010, and was released to critical acclaim,
particularly for the tragic and gritty depictions of sexual addiction, and was
voted among the 2010 Best Books by the Sankofa Literary Society. The third
book, Sixty-Nine, is about three
sexually repressed women born in 1969 who vow to go beyond their own
self-imposed limits at the age of 40. Sixty-Nine
was nominated for a 2011 African American Literary Award and was a Top 20 Black
Expressions Bestseller.
Pynk
joined together with five bestselling authors, contributing to the hot
anthology, The Heat of the Night,
which was released on February 14, 2012 under Peace in the Storm Publishing.
The December 2012 novel by Pynk tackles the
topic of politics and the call-girl industry in New York City. It’s called POLITICS.ESCORTS.BLACKMAIL.
Each steamy Pynk
title is set in a different city: Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and the
2014 title, Sin in the City, is set
in Las Vegas.
Allow yourself to live
your sexy dreams responsibly through the words of Pynk,
whose characters are sure to make a fictional appearance in your city soon.
About
the book
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: December 11, 2012
ISBN-10: 044656334X
ISBN-13: 978-0446563345
This
erotic tale from national bestselling author Pynk explores the call girl
industry as it spills over into the world of politics in New York City.
POLITICS.ESCORTS.BLACKMAIL.
Madam
Money Watts’ exclusive top escort services operates under the name Lip Service,
and Midori Moody, Leilani Sutton, and male escort Kemba Price are her high-end
contractors who make a hefty living having sex for money.
Among
her clients are two New York senators who are the very officials voters have
elected to make decisions for others to abide by, yet these politicians play a different
set of rules, secretly paying top dollar for the forbidden girlfriend
experience. But when a freaky client takes it too far, a pimp wants in on some
of the action, and an escort gets greedy, the world of Money Watts is brought
to a head.
