Title: AleXXXa
Author: D.T. Dyllin
Series: Standalone
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Tik Tok Press
Cover artist: Lindsay Tiry
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Synopsis
Love and sex, sex and love… Can you have one without the other? As a world famous porn star, Alexa James thinks she has everything all figured out. But what happens when someone who gets paid to have sex has an existential crisis? Suddenly sex isn’t enough, and love seems out of reach. Will Alexa’s career choice permanently crush her spirit? Or will she discover that real love is about more than just the physical?
About the Author
D.T. was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Black & Gold for life, baby!) She now lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and two spoiled GSDs.
What/Who
inspires you to write the most?
Most of my
inspiration comes to me from nightmares. For example, the idea for
M-Day came to me from a pretty graphic dream about my ex-boyfriend
and myself. Even though we haven’t been together for well over a
decade, apparently my subconscious still wanted me to work out some
issues. He was the type of guy who was extremely emotional abusive,
and he continued to torment me well after I broke up with him. Having
the nightmare about him continuing to stalk me and then turning the
entire premise into the post M-Day world…very cathartic. I may not
be Max, but Ricki, her ex-husband…was definitely my ex-boyfriend to
me. I enjoyed writing the last scene between them, probably a little
too much. That’s all I can say about that part, without giving any
spoilers to those of you who haven’t read it. Clearly not all of my
inspiration comes to me from nightmares, but the torture I put all of
my characters through in all of my books is ripped from pieces of my
own life in much the same way.
Although the more
that I think about it, I suppose I could say my own personal demons
are what truly inspire me to write more than anything else. I mean,
those demons are what cause the nightmares. Writing is a way for me
to rid myself of the insanity. Alexxxa was no different. Sure I
decided to make a porn star for a heroine for a reason, but parts of
Alexa’s inner angst about things are also taken from my own life.
Like I said, every one of my books has pieces of me in them, but I
wouldn’t know how to write any other way. I don’t think I could
have written romance before I met my husband because I probably would
have killed everyone off at the end of every book. No one would have
ended up together and there would have been no real romance to speak
of. Aaalriiight… I’m going to be sappy now and say that my Hubs
inspires me to write as well. So the ingredients that inspire me to
write the most are: Nightmares, inner demons, and my Hubby. I know
I’m supposed to pick one thing above all the others, buuuut… I
think without that combo I wouldn’t be a writer at all.
Read Shona's review of Alexxxa here.
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