Birthdays

Two of them today and two lovely people celebrating.

Happy Birthday theamusedone and marys_scribbles.

May the day bring you all a birthday should, in abundance, with joy to spare.

::hugs you both::

Cheetahs and Tigers and Panthers, Oh My

I'm one of the authors featured in Animal Attraction 2, available tomorrow from Torquere, edited by the lovely vdiamond.

My story is, unusually for me, not a contemporary, but one set in Hollywood of the late 1920s/early 1930s. Prohibition time. When I had to choose an animal, being a cat lover, my thoughts turned to the big cats and I recalled vaguely that there was a Hollywood star who used to walk a big cat along the streets of L.A. as other people would walk a dog. Cool.

But what sort of cat?

So I researched that lady online (Pola Negri, exotic, smoldering, bisexual, one of Valentino's lovers) and read her autobiography which my local library owned a copy of.

And I still couldn't narrow it down; different sites said different animals and she didn't mention it in her book at all.

I got around that ::g:: I'm an author; improvising is what we do and it wasn't as if I was going to be writing about Pola herself.

So my story in the anthology is about the fabulous star Destiny Delancourt (born Doris O'Toole), or, to be precise, her long suffering manager, Kerr, and her bodyguard, Tony, who discover that they share more in common than they'd thought in one wild night.

Mix bootleg whiskey with wandering panthers, add a spice of kink and shake it up.

Here's a worksafe taste.

( Driven by Destiny )