Author Carmilla Voiez-WiHM (Women in Horror Month)

Today on The Eldon Blog, I have the lovely Carmilla Voiez. Tell us about the first book in your Starblood series.

The first book is called Starblood. It begins with Satori, a man whose girlfriend, Star, has recently left him. He is a magical practitioner who follows the left hand path and in his warped logic he believes the only way to get her back is to use a demon’s power. His magical ritual goes wrong and a far more powerful and uncontrollable demon, Lilith, steps into his room.

She plays games with him and each of his friends driving them to madness and despair as the story progresses Satori searches for ways to defeat Lilith.

It looks at the dark, controlling and obsessive sides of sex and love.

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Tell us about PSYCHONAUT.

Psychonaut is the sequel to Starblood. It continues where Starblood finishes. To save the woman he loves Satori must cross dangerous lands which exist within his mind and outside accepted reality. He meets monsters and gods on his journey and finds that the most difficult barrier to overcome is his self.

It’s a story about growth, about becoming a man. His quest is to save Star from Lilith’s crutches, but can he save her when he seems unable to save himself?

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Anything else you have planned for this series?

I am writing the third book in the trilogy. I have almost finished the first draft. It promises to be the darkest, most frightening and most exciting book I have written so far. It will be called Black Sun.

What is it that drew to horror?

I have always loved horror. Even as a child I always wanted to read stories about ghosts and monsters. My fondest childhood memories, apart from reading, are sitting with my father late into the evening watching Hammer Horror films on our television.

Any other works after, the Starblood series on the horizon?

I am working on a horror anthology, Broken Mirrors, Fractured Minds, taking the best that indie writers and artists have to offer. It should be released around the same time as Black Sun, Fall 2013.

Thank you for joining me, Carmilla.

Carmilla's Bio:

I was born in Bristol, South West England in the 1970's. Now I live by the sea in North East Scotland with a husband, two kids and three cats. I've studied English and Creative Writing with the Open University. I'm a Goth and used to run and design clothing for a Gothic company before I became a full-time writer.

The Starblood Trilogy is an erotic horror/dark fantasy/paranormal romance trilogy. The first two books have been published by Vamptasy. Starblood was the first book and has been critically acclaimed and nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize. Psychonaut was released on Kindle December 2012 and will be out in paperback in January 2013. It is the second book in the trilogy and continues the stories of the Gothic characters and a demon. Psychonaut has been endorsed by horror writing maestro Graham Masterton.

The trilogy is about a group of friends, one of which accidently unleashes a demon who starts a murder spree. It's very much about how the characters and the story develop in interconnected ways. Although it is both comfortable in the horror and erotica genre, it's primarily a series of books about people. Flawed, beautiful, intelligent and highly sexed people.

I'm working on the third book at the moment. I'm also hoping to release a collection of spooky stories in 2013. I have a short story on Kindle called "A Christmas Carole" which is light-hearted lesbian erotica.

My favourite authors are Clive Barker, Storm Constantine and Graham Masterton (in the horror and fantasy genres). Outside the horror and fantasy genres I love Sarah Waters, Leo Tolstoy and Zadie Smith.

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