All this month on the Logical-Lust blog we will have interviews from the authors of The Cougar Book, edited by Jolie du Pre. Today is Madeline Moore, author of “Get Up, Stand Up!”
Madeline Moore is the author of three Black Lace novels: Wild Card, Amanda’s Young Men and Sarah’s Education. Madeline won The Erotica Awards ‘Best Story Teller of the Year, 2011, for her story in The Cougar Book, “Get Up! Stand Up!”
What made you decide to submit your work for inclusion in The Cougar Book?
Jolie du Pre struck me as one powerhouse of a woman and I wanted to work with her. Her previous e-book, Swing!, was her first anthology and I thought she did a terrific job with it, all around. It was well publicized and the e-book was followed by a print edition.
As well, my second book for the now defunct Black Lace imprint, Amanda’s Young Men was the tale of a cougar and her conquests. If the name Madeline Moore eventually comes up in a discussion about the topic of cougars, all the better for me. But I’d never submitted to an e-book anthology before, and the main reason I did was to work with Jolie.
Tell us about your story. Give us a little teaser.
I’d had the first sentence of my story, “Get Up, Stand Up!” rattling around in my head for at least a year. The image was firmly fixed in my mind: A woman looking out her closed balcony doors at a boy, crouched outside in the rain.
Now, in my opinion there’s a predatory quality to the kind of women who rightly fit the term ‘cougar.’ It wasn’t until Jolie’s call for submissions to The Cougar Book appeared that the woman in the image took on that predatory quality and the rest of the story fell into place.
Could you see yourself being a cougar?
I think if I wanted a young man, I’d do something similar to what my characters does in the story.
Does your writing turn you on?
I had to think about this for a minute. I like it when my work sneaks up on me and surprises me with a sexual thrill. Sometimes when I’m dug in deep and I’m working on the nuts and bolts of the machinery driving the story, the resulting piece, when I read it as a whole, jumps my bones and turns me on. Of course, I get a sexual thrill from words too. Like my new favourite word: aubergine.
The Cougar Book release is in print and ebook formats. With ebook readers becoming more and more popular, what are your views on ebooks and their effect on the publishing industry?
Ebooks are here to stay. I don’t like to see publishers go out of business, pointing their fingers at e-publishing as the culprit. Actually, I don’t believe it to be true. I don’t believe print books will cease to exist, either. Basically it’s a case of ‘different strokes for different folks,’ and I think once print publishing has finished shifting to accommodate this new delivery system for books, everything will settle nicely.
What do you find difficult about writing? What comes easy for you?
Dialogue has always come easily to me. I work in film so I’ve had a lot of practise, but one of the reasons I became a screenwriter was because I was a natural at dialogue.
Plot is tough. I’m not a huge ideas person. That’s one of the things I like about answering a call for submissions – the parameters of the piece are already in place. Description used to be difficult but I think it’s my favourite now.
Your birthday has been declared a national holiday. How do you want people to celebrate?
People should stay in bed all day and do whatever they want to do most. Might be reading, might be fucking, might be sleeping. In the movie Apocalypse Now there’s a great scene where all the guys going up river get off the boat and go into the forest and are chased by a tiger. When they’re safely back on the boat they repeat to each other, ‘Don’t get off the boat. Don’t get off the boat.’ I have a similar motto. ‘Don’t get off the bed.’
You’re stranded on a desert island and you can only have one book, one album/CD, and one person with you—what would they be?
I’d take Felix Baron with me because he’s my true love. The album would have to be Van Morrison, probably Enlightenment. It’s hell to have to pick one book, though. How about, The Collected Works of Shakespeare. That’d keep me busy for awhile. Although on second thought, I’d have to go with Surviving on a Desert Island For Dummies.
What are you working on now? Do you have a current release or a new release coming soon?
I’m really excited about my latest work – it’s a crime story called The Women’s Club. I co-wrote it with Felix for Maxim Jakubowski’s new imprint, MaxCrime, from John Blake Publishing. Our real names will be on it!
The book was tons of fun to write and Maxim is a terrific editor. It’ll be released in Fall, 2010.
It was funny writing it because, when we’d get to a sex scene, where usually we’d gird our loins and pound out a nice, juicy, fucky chapter, we’d cut to the next morning, as they do in G-rated movies.
It was a very different experience, writing in the crime genre, and I loved it.
Where can we find you on the Web? Do you have a website or blog(s)? Any social networks?
I confess I do not have a website. I have a blog:
http://moremadelinemoore.blogspot.com/
And I’m often on Facebook tending to my virtual farm. Anyone wishing to communicate me is welcome to email me at: telltale(at)primus.ca
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