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This is Amber's first visit to Romance with SASS. We both write for Sizzler Editions and I hope you'll give her a warm welcome.

Who is Amber Rose Thompson?

By day I am a librarian, by night an erotic writer with romantic overtones to my work. I wish there was a purple cape to wear while I write. It feels like I’m a covert librarian writing the very material my library would never carry. I have been married for fifteen years to the person of my dreams which is probably why I write erotica. I want to get her turned on. The odd thing about our marriage is that we both are transgendered. When we got married we were in different bodies with different genders. Talk about your odd marriage, but that changes we went through and the experiences garnered infiltrate and affect my writing, giving me an intriguing view on what women and men experience at the height of erotic tension and passion.

And now for the scary interview questions!

 Pooches or Kitties?

Before I upset anyone, I want to make it very, very clear I love animals. It isn’t for lack of trying that we don’t share our one bedroom apartment with an otter and a penguin. My wife keeps saying no. I need to find a better way of black mailing her I think, but she always uses logic like flowing water and ice. Anyway, cats and dogs rock….but must side with the kitties. And yes, I have smelled kitty breath but I still love them, even when my girl kitty wakes me up in the middle of the night with a swat to my face. She doesn’t get consensual versus non-consensual at all or good touch/bad touch.

You’re in the Miss World Pageant. They ask the big question, “If I become Miss World, I want to…”

Sweaty palms are in check since I don’t want to stain my red satin and sequin dress. The dress, by the way, is so skin tight that any water from my palms might shrink it more, necessitating scissors to remove it. So I force my hands to my side, walk up to the mike with an elongated neck and say, “I want to become a man.” By that point, the people on stage with me have gone paralytic and the news crews have me on every ten seconds. I might not become Miss World, but the world will know about me.

The things that make me want to go postal.


I’ve had this one since I was a teenager. You’ll probably laugh at me when you find out and think me weird, but I hate, hate, hate being told to smile. There you have it, the one thing that is most likely to make me go postal inside the confines of my head. The glare that it ensues probably clues people into a small taste of what I am thinking, and it is best they don’t have telepathy or I’d be told to get a thesaurus to add variety to my swear words. The thing is the first time someone said this to me, I was really happy and giddy in my internal dialogue. Stupid me to realize you must wear a sign in neon so other people know you are happy. Sigh, and I still get people telling me this all the time.

Do you use your personal sex life for fodder for your books?

Sure. I can’t write about something I don’t have some experience with. Before I write a scene, I must first smell it, taste it, hear it, and see it- the characters are talking, the streets or bedroom have their noises, bodies are radiating heat and pheromones. Any time I write without first experiencing the scene in my mind, I end up deleting what I’ve written. And the best way to experience my scenes is to draw from personal experience at least in some form. It might be a look, a sigh, a rustle of the sheets, but there is a part of me in everything I write.

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Tell us something unexpected about yourself.

I spent a month at a Zen Monastery. In fact I try to still meditate every day but my full time job, commuting, and writing make it hard to fit it in as much as I would like. I do think meditation and orgasms have a lot in common. At the climax of both, the mind is shed of external thought and there is a moment blissful silence, then the moans return.

Do you have to get in the mood to write a love scene?

For me it isn’t so much a mood as a context. Because I can use my laptop while on lunch, break, or during commuting times, I can write outside my house. When I can tune out the sounds around me and feel unexposed, then I can write love scenes. Since this is harder to do outside my house, I tend to write my hottest scenes at home. There have been times I have written really hot stuff when in public, but I feel like everyone knows and I am exhibiting. Don’t mind this so much on the subway or ferry, but at work I get a creepy feeling about doing it.

Favorite time of day to write.

Really late at night into the early A.M. I lie propped up in bed with my laptop on my knees and type by the light of my backlit screen. The room has a blue haze to it from my computer lights. My wife is sleeping next to me, the cats are at the foot of the bed, and the world outside my window is quiet with only an occasional car going by. There is a peace at night when most of the world is asleep around you. I find my thoughts flow right onto the page with gleeful abandon.

Do your characters speak to you?

Yes, which is both good and bad. They sometimes speak to me at very inopportune times. The characters don’t care if I’m helping an elderly woman learn how to open an email account, their saucy and vindictive words start coming to me and I can’t even defend myself by attacking them on the page. Just kidding. I would never attack my characters. I do have to sleep sometime and would never want them ganging up on me in my sleep. I wouldn’t put it past some of them. On the good side, they do help with the dialog, but then again they also take the dialog away from me and say the oddest things at times.

What do friends and family think of your books?

Well most of my friends seem to rate my books by the number of orgasms they get from reading my novellas or how long it takes them to get through a scene because they have to stop and care for their own needs. I’d say that is very positive. Some even ask for particular scenes in the future. I find that charming. It means I’m getting to see the fantasy world of people I care about who trust me with their own fantasies.
 
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The thing that creeps me out the most.

Is why we still have starvation and unemployment in a country with billionaires and so many resources.

Thanks for coming to Romance With SASS today, Amber!  I wish you the best of luck with your newest book, Scheherazade's Gift!

Keep up with Amber and buy her book here:

Erotic Romance- http://amberrosethompson.wordpress.com/

Facebook- Amber Rose Thompson Erotic, BDSM Romance Writer (Page) and Amber Rose Thompson Erotic Romance Novels (Group)
Twitter- BDSMErotica

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