I am delighted to be speaking with Inna Spice today. Thanks for chatting with us today and welcome to FAR!

To start, will you please tell us a little bit about your upcoming projects?

Julia’s Aquarium is coming out at Ruthie’s Club on October 2, 2006. It is a story about a young woman who is extra sensitive in the water. For her, sex in the water triggers some mental revelations and helps her in making a life altering decision. The aquarium is her head where her thoughts float, and it is also her home where she spends most of her time. Ideally, Julia’s Aquarium would be a part of an upcoming collection of my short stories titled Kaleidoscope of a Married Girl. The collection would appeal to anyone who had ever tried a long-term committed relationship and it will deal with great passion and jealousy.

I am also working on a couple of absolutely wicked stories that have nothing to do with each other. The first one is titled Things Aren’t Always What They Seem; this doesn’t give you any idea what it is about, does it? So let’s keep it a mystery for now. The second one is titled The Fire Devil and it would also fit nicely into the Kaleidoscope of a Married Girl.

You have a new story up at Sensual Venus called Sea Anemone. Can you tell us about this story and what other stories we can find there?

Sea Anemone is actually a sequel to Julia’s Aquarium. Tangerine Magic is an erotic trip in the memory of a woman. Clueless shows emotions of a woman who is fighting with her lover. And Love’s Arm is a vignette about depth and reason of a woman’s love.

How has being published changed your life, if at all?

Being published in erotica stimulates me a great deal for more writing; it made me really believe in myself and my ideas.

Any advice for aspiring authors?

Start with writing what you know. If you can see what you write and feel the emotions, chances are you’ll end up with a few very authentic stories and the readers will feel them too.

How much of your personality and life experiences are in your writing?

As to my life experiences, there are some but I couldn’t have lived through as much as my characters, I would have been dead a few times by now.

I think some of my personality would always come through in my writing, but what comes through to a large degree is the reservoir of my emotions or emotional memory as Stanislavski would have called it. I’ll explain about this. A Russian actor, director, and theatre administrator Konstantin Stanislavski (1863- 1938) founded the first acting system, the Stanislavski System. His System held that an actor’s main responsibility was to be believed, and to reach this believable truth Stanislavski employed “emotional memory.” For example, to prepare for a role that involves fear, an actor must remember something frightening that had happened to her/him and attempt to act the part in the emotional space of that fear s/he once felt. The same goes for pain, love, and other emotions. Stanislavski believed that the actor needed to take her/his own personality onto the stage when s/he began to play a character. I believe writing fiction is similar to acting. You have to believe what you ! write and you have to live through your characters, and undoubtedly, they will take on some of your personality.

Upside Down is also out from Phaze as part of the Surge series. Can you tell us about both the book and series?

Surge series features erotic romance, in which electricity is rampant; the sort of “stick-your-finger-in-a-light-socket, get-struck-by-lightning actual amperage.”
In Upside Down, Sheila and Heisam meet in a car accident by a twist of fate. They are thrown off into another realm where they struggle to survive while finding a way to return to their regular lives. Coming from two completely opposite worlds they are fascinated by their differences and crave to learn more about the forbidden fruit of each other’s existence. Excited, they return home determined to change the world, but are met by totalitarism of their nations. It is up to the reader to figure out whether their love is strong enough to make a difference.

This story is meant to illustrate the unfairness and frustration gay people felt while waiting for the law permitting gay marriages.

I’ve also learned from your website that you write children’s books. Can you tell us about what you have coming out?

I have been concentrating on marketing erotica, so my children’s books have been neglected and I still have to find a publisher.

Do your fans' comments and letters influence you in any way?

It’s great to receive feedback and see how other people interpret my stories. It’s interesting because sometimes the readers get a different idea from what I had in mind. So next time I try to express it more clearly. Positive comments, of course, make me feel on top of the world; it’s so good to know you’ve made someone’s day.

What’s one thing you would like your readers to know about you?

Actually, I love to remain mysterious. But if they want to put the puzzle of my life together, they can always visit my web site and look for clues.

Of all things you have accomplished, is there one accomplishment you are most proud of?

I am proud of how far I was able to come in writing and getting published in my second language – English. I am, however, most proud of my daughters.

What would you like to accomplish with your writing career?

My dream is to write and publish a book of erotica in French, which would be my fifth language.

You find yourself stranded on a desert island, what things could you not survive without?

A nice, hot, scented bubble bath and vanilla ice cream. Then I’d love to have a man to share them with.

Is there anything else you would like to share with us today?

Everyone is always welcome to my world and my website and… Gelato rocks!
And Thanks for talking to me.

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer some questions for us today! Readers can learn more about Inna and her books on her website

Interviewed by: Tammy