Great idea! Ask Erastes!

[erastes]

Yes, detractors, Vaughn R Demont IS a man and here he is doing an absolutely stellar piece of promotion, a you tube “readers questions” video which he’s going to be doing regularly. Well done, Vaughn.  And what ARE you drinking?

I’m going to blatantly steal the idea and do a voice post thing along the same lines, now that it’s not so hugely expensive to do here in the UK.  I don’t, sadly have a mate with a camera, or a working webcam, and I’d rather not have my mug online anyway until I’m a lot thinner.  So voice post it is.

So, please feel free to ask me anything at all, preferably to do with writing and my books, but if you want to ask me anything else, I’ll be happy to do that too. Relationship advice, what’s the windspeed of a coconut laden swallow, what’s the meaning of life….Although I don’t promise to either answer a personal question, or be at all honest about it.

Please let me know if you want me to withhold your name. And if you don’t want to post here, email me on erastes at erastes dot com.

I’ll post (if I get enough questions) a few questions each week. Hurrah!  Ask away!

Comments

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

He's obviously a man full of good ideas; free fiction friday is another. There needs to be a petition to Torquere re the paypal question. *nods and goes to ponder what question to ask*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i would love to provide more free fiction, but i write so slowly, sadly, that I simply can't do it.

I agree, TQ needs to sort out the PP thing - I've now ordered a topup Visa card which solves the problem, means AT LAST i can order stuff from them, and from Amazon USA.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

A top up visa card? I must investigate this.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, from paypal - it's VERY useful.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

What's a topup Visa card?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

From paypal - if you don't have a visa card, you can get a card from paypal which you can then put money into, as it were, and use on any site that takes Visa, which is great for me as i don't - and won't - have a credit card in the house.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/general/PPTUCHome-outside

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

OK, so now I've showered and put the towels in the washer...

Were you always a writer? By that I mean did you always consider yourself as one even though your first novel was still in your head? Were you wordy at school or did your ability mysteriously appear later on in life?

Do you 'pick' the images of your characters before you write about them or do they appear as you write?

Yes, that's two. I am norty ;)

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

Here's a question, which I'm sure you never hear (har har) But seriously, I'm curious.

Why M/M romance? Did you write other types of things before settling into this genre? OK, that's two.

For the record, I also write M/M (and F/F and F/M), though not romance. I have specific reasons for writing in those genres, and I'm curious about fellow writers' reasons, whether they're the same or different.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Hee. I like this. I may shamelessly nick this of you sometime soon.

Thinks.

So - besides writing, what is your favourite thing to do on this planet?

If you were an animal - what would you be (self deprecate at your peril here).

So, in a fire - who would you save? Your harem or your minions? (feel free to waxy lyrical about both)

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

Erastes, if a man likes pink glittery things, does it mean he is less manly?

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

LOL. Is that a bad thing?

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

Ok...

What book are you reading at the moment, and what do you think about it?

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

What do you think is the most misunderstood era in English history, and why?