Month: April 2017

A Treasured Find – Review

Hey look! Fan Art! And it is about that part where cake gets eaten! Hooray!

I normally don’t read slow burn romances, but for this book series I will make an exception. If you like the your romances with a little bit of diversity in the people kissing, this is the one for you! Hardly any of them were people, and that is how I personally like it.
Dragon shifters, elves, plot spoilers, this had all sorts of great ideas in it!

So if you like a more tender m/m romance that takes some time to build, try this one.

A Treasured Find is by Calvin Westbrook. You can grab it on Amazon!

An Interview with Siryn Sueng!
I bet you are wondering what that sexy art has to do with anything!
Today we have an interview – this time with author Siryn Sueng! So without delay, here is the interview so you can figure out why this Featured Image makes you tingle so!
CB Archer: Hello Siryn, thanks for taking some time to talk to me today for my blog! As per the mystical laws of interviewing someone we will need to complete 10 questions before being allowed to return to our normal lives! We will start with the obvious one.
 

1. Can you tell me a little about yourself and what you do?

Siryn Sueng: Let’s see, I’m a huge anime nerd. I love manga and have a small, but growing, collection of manga. I am currently working part time as a driver -it’s alright, I’d rather be writing 100% of the time though lol. I’m married to my wonderful husband of 13 years, no children yet. But maybe in the near future. I love fantasy, paranormal, and sci-fi and I’ve written in all three genres. Oh and I have two kitties, one of which is currently attempting to assist me with answering the question lol.

 
CB: Kitties you say? Aw, that is super cute! *Takes notes on how cute the kitties are*
 

Okay now a hard one.

 

2. Everyone I interview on my blog is allowed to pick what colour they want their text to be! I will manually be doing the colour changes this time to avoid any incidents, don’t worry. Just pick a colour!

 
SS: Oh my! That is hard! ^.^ Lol, let’s see well, another tid bit about me: green is my favorite color (I like blue too, it’s a close second though)
CB: I also like green, so we will need to coordinate which green we will be! Do you want more of a bright green, a dark green, sage?

SS: Dark green would be lovely.

CB: Done! *Takes notes on which dark green it is and on how the bright green is way too bright on the site so how he changed his colour to purple to make things easier to read!*

 

I need to ask an important question, but I am going to ask a less important question first, because it is a lead up question to the important question.

SS: Lol sounds good to me!

CB: 3. You write Paranormal, and fantasy stories. Do the characters in your books encounter mythical creatures and monsters? You know, in fantasy ways.

SS: They do. I’m currently writing a paranormal series that I’m totally in love with. Past stories have had all kinds of encounters. 

CB: Wonderful! I pretty much had an idea the answer was going to be yes! 😀

 

 *Takes notes on mythical creatures*

 

I’ll admit it! I needed to ask that before this question!

 
4. You also write erotica and contemporary stories (according to your twitter profile). So what my readers really want to know is – Do the characters in your books ‘encounter’ mythical creatures and monsters? You know, in sexy ways.

SS: Hehe, for the most part; most definitely. Got to have some spicy sex in there somewhere! Mostly their sexy encounters are with mythical creatures, very rarely with what we might consider monsters. For example, the book I’m currently working on for my paranormal series, the main character is smitten by a gargoyle. 😉

 

 In all sorts of ways hehe

CB: !!!

 

*Takes copious amounts of notes* Gargoyles you say? *Takes more notes*

SS: Oh yes. lol Ah, an incubus for the first book too, if that so intrigues you. 
 
CB: … so factoring in the rock abilities… and… oh, sorry, got distracted!
 

Incubus! *notes! notes! notes!*

 

Okay, things are heating up here.

 

5. Perhaps a question that will both calm things down, or maybe heat them back up! What is your favourite type of monster or mystical creature? (In general, or to write about, or to have sexy times with, whichever you wish to answer.)

SS: Hmm. That’s is definitely a tough question. I think this is going to keep things nice and hot here, so to explain why it’s quite hard to choose. The incubus in the first book is an intense lover. He knows all the ways to make it extremely erotic. However, the werewolf in book two is just as sexy with his love for bondage and toys. And those are just two out of the many I have planned to write about. Oh my… However, I think I can say I enjoyed writing the werewolf simply because of the bondage ^.^

 
CB: I see. *nods head while taking vigorous notes* That makes sense with the Incubus, as he would be a sex demon… and bondage you say?!

SS: Of course. Wolves are a bit wild to begin with lol.

CB: 6. We should get to the exciting news before we run out of questions because I spend them all talking about werewolf bondage!
You have a new book coming out soon called Louder than Words! Can you tell us a little bit about that?
SS: I do! Louder than Words is my first ever contemporary story. It’s a novella maxing at about 18,000 words. This one is extremely out of the box for me as I don’t normally write contemporary (I mean, mythical creatures are so very exciting!) So this one was a challenge for me. But I do love the story. It’s about a local teacher in Clearwater Florida who is crushing hard on a Starbucks barista. The barista is Alex and he has a disability: one vocal cord is paralyzed so he can’t talk loud enough for people to hear him. Thus, he uses sign language to communicate. However, our dear teacher, Derrek, doesn’t know this and when he goes to ask Alex on a date, he doesn’t get an answer. He learns later on that Alex uses sign language and after being prompted by his friend from work; Derrek asks Alex to teach him. And so begins their super sweet relationship.  

CB: That sounds interesting (I totally read the teaser on your website as well, so I kinda knew that, but the readers would want to know I’ll bet!)

SS: Aww thank you lol ^.^

CB: *Takes notes about cute baristas*

7. Okay, and this Derrick fellow, if he was going to choose sex with either a sexy god Incubus, or a Bondage Werewolf (That is their name now) which kind would he chose?

SS: Lol! That’s awsome.  Sexy god Incubus because he’s a sensual lover.  

CB: I see, I see… *Takes more notes to add to the ever growing pile of notes that is slightly becoming alarming in size*

 

8. Right after this interview you are going to be doing a live cover reveal for Louder than Words. How exciting!

 

…

 

I mean, how exciting is that?

SS: Yes! I’m so very excited.
 

I can’t wait to share the cover and more about the story. ☺

CB: Wonderful! So… cover is coming, *makes a note about how cover is coming and to add it here later because this reveal already happened and now it can be shown around.*

LTR - Web PNG

 

Getting to some of the later and more serious questions now, so I hope you are ready!

SS: Definitely! 
CB: 9. Okay, the question everyone has been waiting for! You have been selected by an invading alien race of supreme overlords as one of the combatants to fight in a gladiatorial tournament for the survival of the human race. Hundreds of other alien races are fighting for their races in this tournament. What do you do to survive and allow the human race to keep on living? Oh, and what weapon do you take from the gladiatorial pile?!

SS: Ooh! So exciting! (Am I the only one who would be excited for this? >.>) In any case! I would fight to the death! And a weapon… hmm a bow. I’m not too bad with one either lol. I’d like to think I’d stand a chance with a bow rather than up close and personal with a sword ^.^

 

Unless, there’s a gun in that pile >.> I’d take a sniping rifle lol.

CB: I see! *Writes notes about gladiatorial alien overlord tournaments. *
 

No, I think the alien overlords don’t allow guns, as they don’t believe the fighting races are civilized enough to have them, but laser-guided-bow-rifle-casters are fair game!

SS: Sweet!
CB: Good choice, bows would be my weapon as well!
 

Same colour, same favourite weapon, same mythical creature banging! *Writes notes about matches made in heaven.*

SS: Hehe! 

CB: I just noticed that I appear to have barricaded the door with a mountain of dangerously stacked notes!

 
SS: Oh no!
 

CB: I’m sure it will be fine! It isn’t like my interviews *always* end with death…

 

10. I snooped over your website (gratuitous link to website http://sirynsueng.wixsite.com/sirynsueng) and noticed that one of your hobbies is a hobby very dear to my heart – Games. What is your favourite game of all time?

SS: Oh I love games. I play quite the array. From Otome Novels to PC games, to console games. I prefer JRPG’s, though one of my all time favorites on the console has been the Dragon Age series. I’ve played all three all the way through and multiple times over. Another on to that is the Tales games. I’ve played two of them so far as I don’t have all the consoles needed to play all the other ones (I wish they’d just cross-platform). The Fire Emblem series is another love of mine too. Oh my… it seems I can’t really pick an all time favorite! There’s so many!

CB: I know it is really hard to pick favourites! Those are all good choices! I choose to ‘Ride the Bull’ in Dragon Age: Inquisition though, cause that was an easy choice!

SS: Me to! He’s my favorite to romance lol.
CB: * Runs out of paper to write notes about Iron Bull and absent mindedly takes an old note from the middle of the stack. A key, load bearing note.*
 

Oh biscuits. I’ve probably doomed us both! Quick. Bonus question! Do you have any questions for me before this pile of notes that surrounds us tips over and crushes us?

SS: Oh no! Ah, I do have a question. If you could summon a mythical creature to save us from our impending doom, which would it be?

CB: You have done it! With your question you have possibly saved us!
 

What kind of creature could save us from this problem? Oh, I know!

 

*Summons forth two creatures*

 

The first is a Bondage Werewolf. He uses his skills of bondage to tie back the wave of impending doom notes. (Death notes if you will.)

 

The second is a sexy skilled Incubus that can use his demon fire cock to sear all the notes to ashes!

SS: LOL! Yay we’ve been saved! And we now have sexy company too.
CB: This is the first interview in a long time where I didn’t need to flee in terror! Great job!
 

I can’t decide which to hug first! *drool*

 SS: Aww thank you lol. Haha yes, I can see the dilemma, I wouldn’t know either.
 
CB: Well thank you so much for the interview Siryn! (I’ll take the incubus first, I decided, so you can cuddle the werewolf and then…)
SS: You’re very welcome, thank you so much for having me! I will enjoy cuddling with the werewolf lol, though he might get jealous of the incubus… which might turn into a rather interesting menage >.>
CB: !!!
 

*Starts taking new notes*

 

You can meet Siryn here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Siryn_Sueng
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sirynsueng/
Webpage: http://sirynsueng.wixsite.com/sirynsueng
(Excerpts for Louder than Words and Incubus Touch can be found here and they are great fun!)

Author Bio:

Siryn Sueng is an erotica M/M romance writer. Mostly she writes in the fantasy, paranormal, and even Sci-Fi genres. Louder than Words, though, is her first ever contemporary work. She’s married to her wonderful husband of 13 years, and they have two cute kittens, Anubis and Kida, who drive them crazy almost all the time. Anubis fancies himself the destroyer of the elusive red dot…

Siryn is a lover of games on a wide range of platforms. She plays on the PC, console, and hand-held devices (her 3DS currently). She also plays otome novels on her tablet. Dragon Age, the Fire Emblem series, and the Tale’s series are her favorite games. Japan is where she would love to visit sometime. She’s a huge fan of Japan, including manga and anime. Siryn loves to read, though she’s been writing more than reading as of late. And she has a deep love for dragons. She has a very large collection of dragon statues in her house.

 

Book Links:

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34663806-louder-than-words

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/712887

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRQ85YS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490117728&sr=8-1&keywords=Siryn+Sueng