Author interview with Roger Frank Selby
Interview with Roger Frank Selby
Q. What ambitions do you still have?
To live long and prosper, and thus launch my family. (Still seem to be launching them in my sixties).
To break into mainstream Science Fiction. I’ve just had an erotic SF novella published by Xcite – Ice Commander. This is a good beginning.
To still be alive when there is evidence of life and/or intelligence elsewhere in the universe/ multiverse.
Q. How did you end up being an erotic writer?
Probably by not getting enough sex – I think about it too much.
I used to write a lot of Science Fiction but it always ended up too raunchy for normal SF, so initially, I dropped the SF and got published! Now I’m bringing it back in with erotic SF.
Q. What are the most important components that go into making good erotic fiction?
A great initial idea – a real turn-on that one can’t stop thinking about.
Hooking the reader in, right at the start.
The right amount of description – easy to overdo.
A careful choice of sex words as one warms up the reader.
A shock or a surprise, such as the discovery of extra, unexpected persons in a sexual situation.
A kink, such as a touch of spanking, blindfold, apparatus, etc.
A good back story.
Q. If you could have any celebrity pictured carrying one of your books who would you choose and why?
It would have to be the sexiest celebrity female that I could imagine as a protagonist in one of my stories. I tend to go for statuesque women and right now I can’t think of one single woman! She would have to have the sexiness of Scarlett Johansson and the figure of Sophie Dahl (who I once took for a ride in my speedboat with my son when they were both ten years old – her grandparents lived next door.)
Q. And what aspects of your job do you enjoy the most?
Getting that first great idea.
Polishing a good story.
Getting paid.
Q. How do people who don’t know you react when you tell them you’re an erotic author?
Attractive women tend to smile nicely, then back away before turning and breaking into a run.
Q. What makes you cross?
Fanatics of any politics or creed, especially those who somehow know the mind of God.
Anyone who tells me what I must think.
Sanctimony.
Q. What’s the best present you’ve ever been given?
My children. The first came with my wife, all ready assembled, batteries included, the next three were my pleasure.
Q. Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us?
I’m a retired British airways 747 captain.
Q. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
To start my own software publishing house when I was a writer of flight simulations, rather than just receive royalties from an existing software house. (Long story, but it set me up nicely in the 1980s)
Ice Commander is from iTunes, Kindle and Xcite Books
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