This week I'm sitting down with another amazing author in the Paramour Collection: Elizabeth Coldwell. She's brought along a guest of her own, Kieran Vale. Please give them both a warm welcome.
Hi Ayla, and thanks for giving me the opportunity to
share an extract from Maestro, my
story from the Totally Bound Paramour Valentine’s collection, and
let you into a few secrets I managed to coax from its sexy, charming and very
dominant hero, Kieran Vale.
It’s not often I get to talk to an absolute superstar,
but I’ve been lucky enough to sit down for a one-to-one interview with world
renowned tenor – and one of the hottest men to come out of Canada – Kieran Vale
Liz: If I gave you an elephant and asked you to keep it a secret, where
would you hide it?
Kieran: OK, I can see the questions are going to be coming out of left
field today! Well, I figure I wouldn’t need to hide it, because everyone always
ignores the elephant in the room, right?
Liz: Good answer. So, something slightly easier now. What is your
favourite colour for socks?
Kieran: Black. You can't go wrong with plain black socks.
Liz: And boxers or briefs?
Kieran: Comfortable underwear is very important to me, so I go for shorts,
the cotton jersey kind. Of course, they don't always stay on for long.
Liz: Do tell me more.
Kieran: Hey, a guy's got to keep some secrets, right?
Liz: Of course, but you know I'll keep trying to find out. Dogs or cats?
Kieran: Because my schedule means I can be in Milan one week and New York
the next, pets are out of the question for me. But when I finally settle down
in one place, then I'd like to have a dog. And a proper guy's dog, a chocolate
Lab or something I can take for long walks, not one of those yappy little
things women like to keep in their purses.
Liz: Apart from Jax, what other famous person would you like to get
naughty with?
Kieran: Well, I've been linked to some pretty well-known women over the
years, from Jennifer Aniston to Taylor Swift. Though who hasn't been linked to
those two, right? But I've always looked for someone who's smart as well as
sexy, and who I can have a strong mental connection with. So maybe Angelina
Jolie - as long as I could prise her away from Brad for a little while. But
right now, Jax is pretty much all I need.
Liz: Would you ever take part in a TV reality show? Which one?
Kieran: Maybe I should be in the next series of Rupaul's Drag Race - let out a side of me no one's ever seen
before. (laughs) But seriously, if I was forced at gunpoint, because reality TV
is just so not me, you guys in England used to have a series called Popstar to Operastar? Mentoring someone,
and showing them techniques to get the best out of their voice would be pretty
cool.
Liz: Tell us something we don’t know about Jax Wiltshire?
Kieran: Well, apart from the fact she's one of the most talented costume
designers I've ever had the pleasure of giving me a fitting, she has a real
weakness for cookies and cream ice cream. It's great fun to feed it to her in
bed - but maybe I've already said too much...
Liz: Not at all; I'm sure the readers are fascinated by these sexy
snippets of information. Apart from ice cream, what will I find if I look in
your fridge?
Kieran: Cooked meats, cheese - I've spent a lot of time in Milan over the
years, and I've developed a real weakness for Italian food. Proper antipasti,
pasta, and risotto Milanese, that kind of thing. But I'll always have champagne
in the refrigerator, too - because why not?
Liz: What’s your worst quality?
Kieran: I guess I'm too driven at times. I've achieved a lot in a short
space of time, but I'm always looking for the next challenge, the next project.
I need to learn how to relax if I don't want to burn myself out, but maybe Jax
will help me do that.
Liz: What would you say was the best thing before sliced bread?
Kieran: Unsliced bread, I guess - toasted and buttered. Maybe you're
getting the impression I like my food here.
Liz: What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did as a kid?
Kieran: Oh man, now you're asking! I did a few bad things when I used to go
trick or treating - some friends and I once egged a neighbour's house, but the
guy was one of those grumpy old so-and-sos who really hated kids. He totally
deserved it.
Liz: Remind me never to get on the bad side of you...
Kieran: Oh, I’m a pussycat, really.
Liz: Final question. What’s on your iPod?
Kieran: I'm really into English rock music, and at the moment I'm listening
to a lot of Kasabian. I'm planning to record their song Empire on my next album, which will consist of covers of rock tunes
I really love. I'm looking forward to giving my fans the chance to see a
different side of me.
Liz: Well, if they read Maestro,
they'll certainly do that! Thanks so much for talking to me, Kieran.
Kieran: It's been a pleasure, Liz. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go
feed my elephant (grins).
More about Maestro:
She admires
his dominance on stage, but does Jax have the courage to let this gorgeous
young opera singer dominate her in the bedroom?
Opera is
Jaclyn ‘Jax’ Wiltshire’s great passion, and she loves her job as chief costume
designer for the prestigious London Opera Company. However, at forty she’s
still single, and she can’t help but envy her best friend Helen’s happy home
life with her husband and children.
Jaclyn’s
life is turned on its head when world-renowned tenor Kieran Vale arrives at the
opera house. The company’s artistic director sees the chance to stage a
production he hopes will be talked about for years, with a scene that requires
Kieran to strip naked on stage. The handsome, demanding Kieran is very
comfortable in his own skin, and when Jax begins to fit him for costumes, she
realises what a great body he has, and how attracted she is to him.
Kieran enjoys flirting with her. Their teasing
develops into something more intimate as she begins to realise he has a
distinctly dominant side. But she can’t really believe that a man eleven years
her junior would be seriously interested in her? Kieran makes it clear to Jax
he needs a woman who will submit to him. With a fiery leading lady who has the
hots for Kieran waiting in the wings, can Jax find the courage to let her guard
down and allow this gorgeous Dom to make her his?
Extract from Maestro:
Though I’d promised myself I wouldn’t talk shop
tonight, I couldn’t resist spilling the news that Kieran Vale had committed to
appearing in Perpetua.
“Oh, wow!” Helen exclaimed. “He was on the last Royal
Variety Performance. He’s a serious hottie.” “Hey!” Jack’s tone was one of
mock-offence.
Helen took her husband’s hand and gave it a squeeze.
“Darling, you know no one’s as hot as you are…”
The look they exchanged sent a pang of envy through
me, which I did my best to ignore. Helen and Jim were such a perfectly suited
couple, and even though their relationship had its ups and downs, it was
obvious they were as much in love now as when they’d married fourteen years
ago. From the hints Helen dropped, their sex life was still pretty spectacular,
too, particularly on those weekends when they packed the twins off to stay with
Jim’s mother on the Sussex coast.
As for me, I hadn’t expected still to be single at the
age of forty, but sometimes that’s the hand life deals. It wasn’t, as I’d
pointed out to Helen, that I had such ridiculously high standards no man would
ever be able to meet them. He just had to have certain characteristics, without
which he’d never be right for me. I’d never told her that in addition to being
witty, considerate, and not still living at home with his mother, he had to be able
to awake the submissive heart I kept buried deep inside me. I kept no other
secrets from my best friend, but somehow I didn’t feel able to explain that
what I needed more than anything was a man who would compel me to obey his
every command, and who would punish me with his palm, then soothe my hurt with
his words and his love.
More about the lovely Elizabeth
Coldwell:
Elizabeth
Coldwell is the author of numerous short stories and novellas and four
full-length novels. Her stories have appeared in the best-selling ‘Best Women’s
Erotica’ series and Black Lace’s popular ‘Wicked Words’ collections. Formerly
the editor of the UK edition of Forum magazine, she also contributed a
spicy monthly column, ‘The Cougar Chronicles’, to its pages. When she is not
busy writing, she is an avid supporter of Rotherham United Football Club and
can be regularly found on the terraces at weekends, cheering her boys to
victory (hopefully!).
Elizabeth loves to hear from readers. You can find her
contact information, website and author biography at http://www.totallybound.com.
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Thank you again to Elizabeth and Kieran for their lively interview, and thank you, dear reader, for stopping by for a visit.
~Ayla
