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Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Guest Post and Giveaway: The Girl Upstairs by Maree Caleste

Published: March 20th, 2014

Description:

Michael is an average, unassuming sort of fellow no one would especially take any notice of. He works hard at his dead-end office job and goes home alone to a shared house filled with eccentric oddities all of whom have far more exciting lives than him. Each night he is forced to listen to the passionate, tumultuous and often thunderous exploits of the girl upstairs. 

Crystal lives directly above Michael. She is a Gothic vixen; a nymphomaniac. She is quite possibly the most incredible girl he has ever seen and he ‘fancies the pants off her’, except Crystal seems oblivious to Michael and his lustrous desires. Michael cannot escape her sordid escapades and is often close enough to hear every groan and whimper. But if he can’t have her is it enough to hear her ‘being had’?

GUEST POST
What Inspired me to Write My Book 

When I wrote The Girl Upstairs my friends and family immediately started looking at me with pained expressions. They would ask me if “everything was alright at home” or they would, in some cases, stare at me incredulously, waiting for me to do something impulsive and improper there and then. I tried to explain to them that I was merely fascinated with the topic but of course that led a few people to look at me with somewhat jaded ideas of what precisely about erotica so fascinated me. Like I was a deviant or something. 

Not that I have issue with that, I merely preferred not to discuss those sort of details with my parents! But after a long while of similar lines of questioning I did start to wonder why I wrote this book and what inspired me. The absolute honest truth is I wrote the book because I could. I found I was temporarily out of service, that is to say I was injured and my parents looked after my girls for a protracted period of time whilst I recovered. During that relatively small amount of time, about one month, I decided to give it a go. 

I normally like to write fantasy which I would then read to my girls for bedtime stories and as they have to be fairly tame for a five year old (and about dragons and magic rather than bullets and rabbits) I seized the chance to write something a little more grown-up. I had never read the Shades of Grey series as, to be honest, I find very little time to read in quiet anyway, but the way those books captured the imaginations of the masses, and the repressed, I seriously considered it a venture I would like to take. 

So in a nutshell I wrote The Girl Upstairs because I could, and I wrote it because I felt the world might be ready for something a little raunchier than Mr Grey and his many colourful shades. When I say the world I didn’t really mean my parents! Note to self; they are definitely not ready for a sequel.


About the author:

Maree Caleste lives in the south of London, England, where she supplements her mundane working life with penning erotic stories and reading fantasy. She is as happy on the terraces of her favorite soccer team as she is being wined and dined in exotic, upmarket hotels in the city. She is happily married and enjoys snuggling on the couch with a good movie, a large glass of a wine and her cat Sheldon.


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