Okay, so it wasn’t really a bordello–I was going for alliteration–but it was a former massage parlor (yes, as in “happy ending” kind of massages) where I did a live reading last night. The lovely ladies of Ravenous Romance, Lori Perkins, Debra Hyde and Celia Tan, hosted author Stella Price and me for an October eve of paranormal erotic readings for the patrons of the Happy Ending Lounge located on Broome Street in NYC’s Chinatown. Besides the colorful atmosphere accentuated by the red booths and red lights, it was extra fun for me in particular because it was an opportunity to bring out and read from a 2006 contemporary paranormal short that I love–BLACK CAT. The story behind the writing of BLACK CAT is this–after losing our beloved dog to cancer back in 2001, we’d gone to the animal shelter in search of a new member for our family and while walking through the aisles of cages, a black paw reached out of a bottom cage and grabbed onto our legs. We took him out and found him to be the biggest, blackest, and sweetest tempered adult tom cat we’d ever met. Of course we had to take him home, […]