Passion's Poison by Lexi Post- Meet Lexi and Giveaway!

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by to read the first interview and giveaway to be done here on The Page Princess. I loved Passion's Poison by Lexi Post and was beyond excited to have the opportunity to interview her and be able to do this giveaway. Now onto the interview.

Hi Lexi! Thank you so much for stopping by The Page Princess.

What made you start to write?

I’ve been reading romance novels since 8th grade, in between all the classic literature I had to read in honors English. I absolutely love romance because unlike the classics, it has a happy ending. After getting a couple degrees, I was between school and a job and felt the urge to write my own romance. I had no clue what I was doing and that particular manuscript is safely tucked under the bed. But after discovering the Romance Writers of America and all that they could teach me, I was hooked!

How did you pick erotica?

Two amazing friends of mine in my Valley of the Sun romance writers group were writing erotic. I hadn’t even heard of it, but to support them I bought their books. One was Cassie Ryan and the other was Allyson James. Wow, were those romances hot, but they also kept the romance. Quite frankly, I wanted to try it. I took a workshop by Vhonda Sinclair on how to write hot and she said I had what it took, so I decided to try it, but I wanted to do something different from everyone else. That’s why I use the classic literature I studied and now teach to inspire my erotic romances.

Where did the inspiration come from for Passion's Poison?

Passion’s Poison was actually the first erotic romance I wrote. I thought I would need a classic story that focused on a woman and so I chose Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” I discovered with the next book I wrote, Masque, that a woman in the original was not a requirement J

Hawthorne’s Beatrice Rappaccini takes care of her father’s scientific experiments — poisonous flowers. She has become poisonous herself, though the reader is never sure if her father created her that way or if it was from the flowers. My Beatrice is also poisonous, only she must expel her poisons through sex in order to survive. The problem is, when she does, it makes her partners very ill, and she actually sent her first boyfriend into a coma! So she is careful to keep her relationships to one-night stands. That is until she meets Zach.

How did you know how hot you wanted to go with the love scenes?

This story was unique in that I had a heroine who was used to one night-stands with only one purpose, to have intercourse and expel her poisons. So when she meets Zach and really likes him, she wants to have sex with him, but doesn’t want to poison him. This forced me to be creative while still allowing these two to enjoy themselves. Because the details around Bea’s poison transfer are important, I had no choice but to make the sex scenes detailed. The fun part was making Bea navigate all these new sexual experiences she was so naïve about simply because she had always been in survival mode and didn’t have time to get creative. It was fun having a sexually experienced but naïve heroine. It was also fulfilling to have Zach show her that sex could be a lot more than what she’d always known J

Will there be any more books following the Rappaccini curse?

I never say never.

What are you working on now?

My next contracted book, Passion of Sleepy Hollow is going to my editor at the end of this month! This means it should come out in early 2014. In this story, the hero is the present day Headless Horseman and the heroine is the original Katrina Van Tassel from the 1790s. Obviously, these two encounter a few problems that strain the relationship such as a time glitch, ghosts, and disappearing pumpkins. But the real problem is their pasts, and in Sleepy Hollow, the past is everything.

Thanks so much Lexi!

About Lexi Post

Lexi Post spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about the classical

literature she loved. From the Medieval work “The Pearl” to the 20th century American epic The Grapes of Wrath, from War and Peace to the Bhagavad Gita, she’s read, studied, and taught wonderful classics.

But Lexi’s first love is romance novels. In an effort to marry her two first loves, she started writing erotic romance inspired by the classics and found she loved it. Lexi feels there is no end to the romantic inspiration she can find in great literature.

Lexi lives with her husband and cat in the beautiful Virgin Islands where gorgeous sunsets, warm weather, and driving on the left are the norm.

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