Anya Bast writes erotic fantasy & paranormal romance. Primarily, she writes happily-ever-afters with lots of steamy sex.
After all, happily-ever-afters with lots of sex are the very best kind.
She lives in the country with her husband of ten years. They share their lives with eight cats and one perplexed dog.
A native of one of the colder states, she loves to ice skate and watch hockey. She has fascination for crows, ravens
and birds of prey, (especially owls). She enjoys the study of Eastern philosophy, Celtic myth, dreaming, and shamanism
and incorporates what she learns into her paranormal stories.
Anya got her start writing fantasy romance. Since writing a little hotter seemed to come naturally to her, she had
no trouble making the move to erotic romance. She loves writing books that are heavy on plot, emotion and character
development, and also have spicy, no-holds-barred sex scenes. Exploring the elements of dark sexual fantasy in her
writing is what Anya does best.
Anya is happy to announce that she has sold two books to Berkley Sensation. The first one will be entitled Witch Fire
and is the story of a woman who is being hunted for her special brand of magick and the man who guards her. Watch
for more details soon.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
I know I've said it before, but I LOVE writing the villain. I don't mean a cardboard mustache-twirler though. I mean a bad guy with depth. A man (or woman, man in the story I'm writing now) who's bad and knows he's bad. A man who has the motivation to be bad, at least in his own twisted reality. He's doing malevolent, eeeevul things because he has a reason. If it's done right, the reader can maybe almost--almost--sympathize with him.
And the only thing I like more than writing the bad guy is having the bad guy reap his karma.
posted by Anya Bast, 9:50 AM
Comments:
Yes he might do evil things we maybe don't like, but he is so convinced of the reasons to do it, that we can accept him doing that, we love when his plans go right (at least to defore the last second where the heroe ruins the plans by some unexplainable occurrence)