October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

Jina Bacarr

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6 comments posted.

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume (2:58pm May 9, 2009):

Hi, Maribelle,
Thank you so much for your comment! I've started a daily blog [click on the link for the "Berlin Sex Diary of Lady Eve" referenced above in my blog] for the month of May about Lady Eve in Weimar Berlin in 1928 (Cleopatra's Perfume opens in 1939). This is a younger Eve, discovering this wild, erotic playground, meeting the artistes and literati of the era while the stage is being set for war.

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume (12:35pm April 25, 2009):

Hi, Robin,
Thank you for stopping by. I love the cover, too. The pearls on the cover play a role in Cleopatra's Perfume when my heroine, Eve, is in Cairo and performs her erotic dance in the Cleopatra Club.

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume (1:08am April 24, 2009):

Hi, Cathie, great to meet you, too.

Re: getting into a story--I think there are three stages when I'm writing a book: 1)first is that wild, creative high we all get when we can't get the story down fast enough as it unfolds; 2) next is the gritty part--making certain all those wonderful scenes advance the story, dig deeper into the characters, their motivations, goals, conflicts, then layering in the emotions, fact-checking, research then more research--all this involves the craft of writing; and 3) lastly, that sublime time when you're finished and you haven't picked up the m/s for awhile and you start reading then find you can't put it down...that's what happened to me with Cleopatra's Perfume.

Btw, I'm also recording audio/video podcasts (using visuals with my voiceover) of Eve's Berlin Sex Diary. Check out the link in my blog and that will also take you to the podcast(s).
Thankz!

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume (12:59pm April 24, 2009):

Thank you, Patricia, for your comment. The Weimar Republic was a wild, raucous time--Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest city in the world with a population of 4 million.

Film and music flourished under the guidance of such luminaries as Ernst Lubitsch and Bertolt Brecht--it was also the time of cabaret stars such as Anita Berber and nightclubs that catered to every sexual taste and perversion.

Naughty, erotic, saucy--that was Weimar Berlin.

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume (2:13pm April 23, 2009):

Kelli, your comment about series arcs is right on. Weimar Berlin was such a fascinating time, it's exciting for me to see what my characters will do next...

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume (2:08pm April 23, 2009):

Thankz, Karen!! I'm totally enjoying learning more about Eve and Count von Stryker and writing future episodes about their adventures in Berln.