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Futuristic Erotic Romance

Bondage and Exhibitionism

Zandia

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published by Samhain Publishing

ebook isbn:  978-1-593746681

paperback isbn:  978-1599987996

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A sneak peek at something that inspired this tale...

There are quite a few things that stimulated my mind in writing this story.  There’s the World Cup, Wimbledon, and the ongoing women's quest for equal footing at the workplace.

Phrew, an interesting stew to say the least, especially when you know the main plot of the series is:  women striving for an existence that means something.  Yup, any kind of discrimination is a dirty aspect of reality and yes it's still around today.  This is a part of life that is rarely pretty when put under the glare of the spotlight.  However, to put it in a romance without making either gender look bad was a challenge I couldn’t pass up.  For such a serious endeavor, it has a rather benign beginning in my fertile imagination.

There I was, watching the World Cup [football/soccer] with my cutie and niece, really enjoying the competition’s international appeal and thought about doing a story with a Universal event as a part of it.  Feeling my creative juices flowing, I watched the game and started to loosely plot "Zandia", even wrote down a few notes so when I could focus on it the things I’d thought of were still fresh.  

Ahhh, but life never works that easily for a writer.  Around this same time, the big cheeses at Wimbledon announced, for the first time ever, the top men’s and women’s prizes would be the same.  I was stunned because I hadn’t realized that they weren’t level.  There were a few vocal dissenters who claimed women didn’t have to play as many games as the men, so it shouldn’t be the same.  Grrr!  This brought another couple of notes for the file, placed right in front of those from the World Cup and once I read through them again, it all started to jell together.