Alien Sex

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"Could I interest you in alien sex?" Now that I've caught your interest, here's where that question came from.

Those are the words I shouted out to everyone who walked by my table at my first Romantic Times booksale in New York City. Of course, the fact that I had the original painting for the cover art of The Huntress helped stop readers in their tracks too.

The Huntress was my first foray into the world of Erotic SF. Prior to that I wrote SF/Romance with my first two books of Down Came a Blackbird and Covenants.

I've been a SF and Fantasy geek since I was seven years old and read George MacDonald's The Light Princess, about a princess whose "gravity" had been taken away from her at birth by an evil witch. Not only did this princess never cry, she floated all the time because she was weightless. George MacDonald was a master punster and he explored all the meanings of the word gravity in this whimiscal story. I loved it because it didn't talk down to me and I learned all kinds of new words like gravity and melancholy.

If anyone is interested in reading the book that started me on the road to ruin with SF and Fantasy, here's the url where you can read that delightful fairy tale written by George MacDonald back in 1865.

You can find many classic books at this website, including Lousia May Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, Jane Austin, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne and even Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's original novel about Dr. Frankenstein.

The first story I ever wrote was for my baby sister Mary. I must have been about fourteen years old then because Mary was about eight. In this story, I sent Abbott and Costello over the rainbow into the land of Oz. Of course, I no longer have that story, although my sister still remembers how thrilled she was because I wrote a story that was just for her reading pleasure

I never thought it was anything special, just a little thing I scribbled down to entertain my sister. For years and years I was an avid bookworm. I devoured books like candy.

I'm a late bloomer to writing and now I'm making up for lost time by creating my own version of Erotic SF, starting with Rulagh, the reptilian exo-biologist from The Huntress.

I wanted a real alien hero, not a Fabio clone. So, when I researched the chupacabras or goatsuckers for The Huntress, I also researched reptilian reproduction and found out that for most reptile species, the males have a double penis.

Needless to say, when The Huntress debuted I received rave reviews. Then at Fictionwise, The Huntress zoomed to the Number One position in Erotica for eight straight weeks and against all the genres, zoomed to the Number two slot beating out Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code during those eight weeks. Then, on August 16, 2005, on my baby sister's birthday, The Huntress won First Place in the Dream Realm Awards for Best SF Erotica.

Thank you for blogging with me. Now that I've rambled about my past and about The Huntress, I want to offer a special prize drawing. All you have to do is email me at selkiewife@verizon.net with Silver Expressions Drawing in the subject line. I'll pick out one winner for an autographed Trade Paperback copy of The Huntress and contact this lucky winner in order to send this autographed book via snail mail.

Barbara Karmazin