Featured Interview With V.W. Singer
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Before I became a full time writer I was a Chartered Accountant, CFO, and Project Director. I spent my early years in London, England, and then followed my parents to the Far East. I’ve lived and worked in numerous countries ranging from Guam to Jakarta. In my time I’ve faced hurricanes on small Pacific Islands, been to secret military bases, and been chased and shot at by machete wielding mobs.
I currently live in Bangkok, Thailand. At the moment I don’t have any pets, but over the years I’ve had a number of dogs, large and small, and I have a liking for poodles, who are brave, smart, and loving.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve loved reading from the time I first learned how. Starting with comics, I quickly became a voracious reader, consuming books by Lobsang Rampa, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells, and much more, although I soon discovered a particular liking for Science Fiction and Erotica, especially Victorian Erotica.
I started writing at least thirty years ago, dashing out short stories and trying various styles and subjects. With the coming of the Internet, I began putting out short stories featuring SM erotica. The more I read and learned about BDSM, the more I realised that no one was writing the kind of stories I wanted to read, adventure stories that involved solid plots, real characters, and of course detailed and explicit SM sex. So I published my first SM erotica novel about seven years ago, and now have over thirty books in publication.
Two years ago, I decided to give Science Fiction a try, and from that came (so far) two novels in the “Vampire-Tech” series published under the pen name Bryan Romer. Despite the title, they are SF in the classical style with no paranormal or urban fantasy elements.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like military SF, so David Drake, David Weber, Chris Bunch and Allen Cole, David Sherman and Dan Cragg and authors I like a lot. I also like historical warfare, so Bernard Cornwell is also a great favourite. Naturally there are loads more authors that I have left out.
When it comes to BDSM erotica I like authors like Aran Ashe, F.E. Campbell, Richard Manton, and that great favourite, Anonymous.
All kinds of things inspire me. In SF, it is the ideas, the “what ifs” that drive me to write. It is important to me that everything is affected by change in a logical way when writing of the future. For instance, how many SF films have we seen where TV screens that look exactly like the ones of today are used, or people still use cell phones and look at printed photographs.
In my erotica, I create both male and female characters that are not just strong, but intelligent and possessed of common sense and a healthy self interest. Too many female submissives are portrayed as either helpless virtual punching bags, or being stupidly defiant without their own motives and desires that would lead them into such a sexual encounter. In addition, I believe that erotic novels, like any other genre, should have a gripping and extensive plot that blends seamlessly with the sex. Both should drive the other.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest SF novel is Vampire-Tech 2 – Infestation. It is the sequel to Vampire-Tech, and features female test pilot Tara Harker, who has been changed by and accident of alien science into what anyone would call a vampire. Others have also been infected, but have been changed into werewolves, or creatures that fit all the traditional descriptions of such creatures. Now a wave of werewolf attacks terrify London and all of Britain, while a huge multi-national corporation attempts to gain sole control of this new development and who deploy teams of mercenaries to either kill anyone who gets in their way – like Tara, her father and her friends, including a man that was once known as Dracula.
My latest work of erotica is “Port Royal”. This is a set in the 17th century Caribbean, in “the most sinful city in the world”, Port Royal, Jamaica, home base of the infamous Pirates of the Caribbean. Harry Pierce is a political exile, a Royalist who fled to the Spanish Main after the rise of Oliver Cromwell in England. Trader, brothel owner, and privateer, Harry Pierce fights to protect his life and to take from the hated Spanish – their treasure and their women. The majority of the slaves in the Caribbean and the Americas at that time were in fact white, Irish and English, captured and sold off as “indentured servants” to work and often die in the plantations and in Port Royal. Harry takes full advantage of this to stock his brothel and to satisfy his own very special sexual tastes.
My current WIP is a novel of SM erotica entitled “Phantom Pain” and is a tale of hauntings, mysticism, supernatural terror, and intense SM sex involving both the living and the dead.
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