WHO IS LEXI POST?
Lexi Post spent years in higher education taking and teaching
courses about classical literature. From the Medieval work "The
Pearl" to the 20th century American epic The Grapes of Wrath, from War
and Peace to the Bhagavad Gita, she's read, studied, and taught
great classic literature. But Lexi's first love is romance novels. In an effort to marry her two first loves, she started writing erotic romance inspired by the classics and found she loved it. Lexi feels there is no end to the romantic inspiration she can find in great classic literature.
Lexi lives with her husband and cat in the Caribbean where gorgeous sunsets, warm weather, and driving on the left are the norm.
MASQUE
Rena Mills plans to turn an abandoned abbey into a haunted
bed-and-breakfast to prove she can be successful without her ex-fiancé. What
she finds inside is Synn MacAllistair, the distinguished, self-proclaimed Ghost
Keeper. Her dreams soon fill with sexual cravings for him. But are they dreams?
Synn, born in 1828, is determined to free the souls of the
resident spirits, blaming himself for bringing the Red Death that killed them.
When Rena steps into the old Pleasure Palace, he’s sure he can take her through
the after-midnight Pleasure Rooms and stoke her passion to complete the Masque
so the souls can cross over. Her innocent fire makes him crave more, but it’s
far too late for him.
As Rena begins her erotic journey, her heart becomes more involved with every sensual caress until she discovers by completing the Masque she would lose her ghosts. Synn’s betrayal wars with her compassion for her ghostly friends. Torn, she must make a choice between her financial security and freeing seventy-three trapped souls. Either way, she could lose her Synn.
WHAT’S UP NEXT FOR LEXI?
I plan to submit to my
editor this month, and I hope she likes it, To Bea Rappaccini which is inspired
by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Only my Bea
Rappaccini must have sex to expel the poisons her body produces. Either that or
die. Unfortunately, her poisons also make men extremely ill and she has
unintentionally sent one into a coma! So when she falls for Zach, things get
interesting.
AND NOW FOR THE Q & A:
ALEXA: Why did you choose the classics to inspire your erotic
romances?
LEXI:
I’ve always loved reading and my father was an English major so I was pretty
much destined to read great literature. I was an English major in all my
degrees and I still teach literature today. There was only one thing missing
from all the wonderful literature I read . . . a happy ending. My instinct for
romance wanted the happy ending, so when I decided to write erotic romance, I
thought why not give my favorites a happy ending only in today’s world? At
first I was a bit concerned that a few authors may turn over in their graves,
but if I just one person decided to re-read the original story before reading
mine, maybe they could forgive me.
ALEXA: How often do you get lost
in a story?
LEXI: All the time! When I’m reading, I could
experience an earthquake and not realize it. I tune everything out . . . if it’s a good romance novel.
ALEXA: What’s your favorite fairy tale?
LEXI: Beauty and the Beast. I
love the idea of a woman falling in love with a hero because of who he is and
not because of how he looks.
LEXI: I love silence. I know, very strange in a day of iPods and MP3 players. But the fact is, I enjoy the calmness of quiet and my own thoughts. Much easier to create characters that way. Of course, living only 50 feet of sand from the Caribbean ocean means that I have come to love the sound of the waves lapping at the shore.
ALEXA: What turns you off like
nothing else?
LEXI: People who live in this
world and simply take from it, never add to it, and suck away life from others.
ALEXA: Can you tell us about a
real-life hero you've met?
LEXI:Yes. I married him. No,
really. He was military police in the Air Force and became a sharp shooter and
a guard for generals. Then he was an EMT before becoming a fire fighter. As a
Fire Chief he never lost a man. On his off-time, I have witnessed him run into
two burning buildings and single-handedly get the fire under control. He’s also stubbornly honorable
and a real rule stickler. Just ask the Coast Guard guys he’s working with now J In addition, he swept me
off my feet in Scotland, sings my praises to everyone he meets, and to this day
cooks me dinner every night. That’s beyond my definition of a real-life hero.
ALEXA: Fairy Tale or Action
Adventure?
LEXI: Either one as long as it
has a happy ending. I will no longer read books or watch movies that don’t end happily. There is
enough heart ache and horror in our reality. I see no reason to spend my
entertainment time dwelling on that.
ALEXA: What is your biggest vice?
LEXI: Ice cream.
ALEXA: What do you do to unwind
and relax?
LEXI: The closest I get to
unwinding is lying on the beach in the warm Caribbean sun. The only reason I
say closest is because that is where a lot of my story scenes happen in my head,
so I’m not sure that’s relaxing. I used to relax
in a hot tub, but don’t own one anymore L The fact is, when I want
to relax, I go to sleep. I can sleep anywhere at any time.
ALEXA: What would you say is your
most interesting quirk?
LEXI: I don’t know if it is a quirk,
but it is something that people know me for and makes them smile. I wear very
bright colors, usually in solids with hats and shoes/boots to match. For my professional
photo as an erotic romance author, I pulled out a suit I had deep in my closet
because I wanted to look serious. I’m not sure it worked. I still have my 5 year-old
looking nose and dimples.
ALEXA: Lexi, thanks so much for coming to hang out with us today. Before you go, do you have a question for your fans?
LEXI: Yes. What classic story would you like to see inspiring an
erotic romance?
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