Interview with The RingMaster
 

Introduction by Shadylady:

The RingMaster hails from Falls Church, Virginia where we all know the government can some times be a three ring circus.  He enjoys movies, occasionally working out, though he feels he could stand to remove his spare tire.  He enjoys reading LesFic, especially Uber, and loves most sports.  He has a daughter and granddaughter that he is wild about.  Some of his favorite authors are:  Larisa, Strongsouljah, Wizz, ShadyLady, TJ Vertigo, Radcliffe, Fantasy Bard, and an endless number of others.  Lesbian Fiction; especially suspense is his all-time favorite genre.    He enjoys reading about women who excel, especially police women, secret agents, intelligent women no matter what their occupation, and these characters are plentiful and entertaining in lesbian fiction.  He also enjoys a good love story, though he is not too wild about mush.  Even though he is a male, he feels that Lesbian fiction speaks to and entertains him.    He don’t consider himself a great writer, but just tries to write about women he admires, using a few of his fantasies, with the hope that someone who reads the story might get a laugh, or enjoy it in some manner.  The RingMaster loves happy endings, and just writes, letting the characters tell their own story.  He have a deep admiration for women, no matter what their shape, age, race and hope it comes across in his stories.

Shadylady.....

From Wizz and Shadylady:

1.) How long have you been writing creative fiction? 
About 3 months
 
2.) What is your favorite fan fiction story you have written and why? 
No answer
 
3.) How has Xena changed your life?
She’s made me a better man by teaching me never to argue with a woman with a sharp object and a mean left hook
 
4.) What colors ur tooth brush? 
Blue, with little white blobs of dried toothpaste
 
5.) If you could be any super hero who would you be and why?
Even though I’m a male, I’d love to be Xena to find out what it feels like to be a woman, and find out what a woman’s orgasm feels like.
 
6.) Do you wipe with your right hand or left or do you use toilet paper? 
I have a wiper staff, but when I give them the night off, I use charmin with an upward sweeping motion. (Too much information? J)
 
7.) Why and when did you start writing? 
I started writing as a dare about 3 months ago
 
8.) What is your bra size (hehe)?
Guess it would be more appropriate to ask my jock size, which is extra large, Bwahaha.  If I were a female I guess it would be an “A” or “B” cup since I have average manboobs.

9.) How do WRITE more than one story or poem at a time?
I normally have to finish one little project before starting another, since I am obsessive compulsive
 
10.) How do you get your inspiration? 
From my imagination, my life experiences, fantasies, and the world around me

11.) What story/poem are you most proud of?
Don’t have a favorite.  I tend to like the one I just finished, then it is forgotten 24 hours later
 
12.) Do you get hate mail and how do you handle those?
Some.  I just try to count to ten and realize you can’t please everyone, though I am a sensitive little fellow, and criticism hurts.
 
13.) What's the best piece of advice you got when you were starting out as a writer? 
Just have fun, and let the characters guide you
 
14.) How do you lay out your stories?
I just have a general idea before I start and let the story write itself.  If I have an ending or line that I like, I will slop it down and work around it.
 
15.) Do you have an ending before you start writing, or does it reveal itself to you as you write? Generally the ending reveals itself and ends happily if possible
 
16.) How do you get beyond just an idea?
Just sit at the keyboard and see if it can take shape
 
17.) What suggestions do you have for creating self-discipline at writing? 
Get a job you aren’t crazy about that you can write and look like you are slaving away doing work
 
18.) Which story/series has gotten the most response from fans?
Don’t get many responses but I guess Brother’s Eye Opening got the most responses…both good and bad
 
19.) Do you like to write X&G stories or uber/original stories better? 
I guess mine would be classed as neither since I’m not that familiar with all the X&G characters and couldn’t do them justice
 
20.) Do you envision a story before you write it, or does the story just un-fold as you write it?
I begin with a vague idea then it unfolds as I write it
 
21.) When you've finished with the story/book do you miss those characters that you've written about?
It’s fun when I’m writing, and a super thrill when the Sandbox posts it, and nice if someone liked it, but generally the characters are forgotten and I never revisit them
 
22.) If you could have dinner with anyone who would it be and why? 
I think Sigmund Freud so he could help me figure out why I love lesbian fiction, and am enjoying writing it.
 
23.) Who is your favorite Xmen???
Not that familiar with them but even though she’s a woman, I guess Rogue is a favorite because she’s not prissy, and the name sounds cool.
 
24.) Who is your favorite super hero of all times?...IE...batman, superman, wonder woman?? 
Not a super hero, but my favorite baddie is catwoman.  I had the hots for her as a teenager.  I guess my favorite super hero would be inspector gadget… a klutz, but always gets his man, and rumor has it that he is a wild man in the sack.
 
25.) Years from now, how would you want to be remembered?  
As a good father, and generally nice decent guy
 
26.) What is your pet peeve?
Insane drivers who have no courtesy for others
 
27.) What are your dreams? Hopes? Wishes?  
To be captured and turned into a love slave by a tribe of sex-starved Amazons.  Would also be nice to be rich in retirement.  Also wish for all the happiness in the world for my daughter and her children
 
28.) What is a necessity for every writer in your opinion?
The writing gift from God.  I think some people are just incredibly blessed with how they can paint pictures with words
 
29.) What's your favorite quote? Why and how does it affect you?
When you fall down 6 times, stand up seven….something like that.  My aged memory fails me
 
30.) What makes your best friend your best friend?
There when you need him.  Loves to talk and I prefer to listen
 
31.) Who is your real life hero and why?
I think my mother since she has always held my admiration and had a remarkable well lived life, sacrificing a great deal.
 
32.) Why do fools fall in love?
Because it feels so wonderful until you wake up and real world realities sneak in.  Love is basically a fairy tale ingredient.
 
33.) When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?
I don’t really consider myself a writer.  I just consider the Sandbox a great place to be a little creative and have fun with dreams and fantasies.  It’s a great little hobby and I am very grateful to the sandbox owners
 
34.) What significance, if any, is there in the title?
I like titles and pay a great deal of attention to them, though I agree that I may have missed some great stories if the title didn’t appeal to me and I passed it up
 
35.) Can you see the book as a feature film?
Har Har. 

BT (strongsouljah)......

36.) What vices or rituals, if any, do you have and how do they affect your writing? 
I masturbate to bring out the Zen and Budha in me.  Just kidding.  I mainly write at work, so I am ritualess.
 
37.) Have you ever had a serious case of writer's block? 
Yes
 
38.) How do you get over it? 
Just keep playing with ideas, generally when I am taking a smoke break
 
39.) What’s your bra size???   
If I were female, it would be 34B

Tammy....I'm assuming I have the right idea (I think) maybe????

40.) What writer do you most compare yourself too or whom do you model yourself after? 
No one.  I am a one of a kind male lesbian who just happens to be ga  ga over super women
 
41.) What writer influenced you the most? 
There are soooooooooo many that I have discovered in the Lesbian genre, but I love the suspense in most of Larisa’s writings, and love Radclyffe’s writing.
 
42.) What is essential to you in your surroundings when you are writing? i.e.: music playing, incense, candles lit, food/drink, smoke pot??? 
That my boss isn’t hovering catching me not working.  It would be wild to smoke pot and try to write, but can’t do that at work, and haven’t smoked it in years.  I do smoke cigs at home, but don’t often write there.
 
43.) Is your aim when writing to keep it strictly as literature or do you have goals for screenplays/motion pictures? 
Har Har again.  I just live for the thrill of the Sandbox posting the story, and feeling like I’ve produced something. 
 
44.) What is the best laid plan when writers block hits?
Just play with situations in your mind until something clicks
 
45.) If you could interview/talk to any author (dead or alive) who would it be and why? 
I think Nora Roberts.  I would love to know how she just cranks out best seller after bestseller
 
46.) What are your other artistic interests?
I am an artist at making love….at least in my dreams. J
 
47.) Are you easily distracted when writing?
Nah
 
48.) Do you prefer to be alone when writing.
Nah
 
49.) Do you have a set time that you write (a.m. or p.m.) or when time permits?  
Just when time permits

Tina Stratton.....

50.) Do ideas just pop up or do you hear something or see something and think.... hey that would work? 
I generally have something pop into my head, then it grows like a weed
 

ANNE....

51.) "What would you never ever ever write about?"  
Kid sex, generally abuse.  I also have a very weak stomach, so I try to keep pain out of my stories.
 
52.) "If you had the to bring Xena back from the dead AGAIN, how would you do it?"  
Mouth to mouth resuscitation
 
53.) "What's the most original way in which you ever killed a red shirt?" 
With Clorox
 
54.) "If you could any kind of vegetable, what would you be?"
A cucumber, because women love them, and they are quite tasty


Tap The Wizzard....

55.) "Would you like to have dinner with me?"
Sure Tap
  

A. Hawk.....

56.) One question would be where do they get the inspiration (for your stories) for all of that when writing a sex scene? 
I have no idea what a woman feels during sex, so I just try to use my imagination, and also put in their some things that have felt good to me.
 
57.) Ask them what made them first begin to write and not exactly how they felt about it, but what keeps them going? 
I just was coaxed to do a story and what keeps me going is a boredom relief at work, and the thrill of seeing it posted on the Sandbox….too cool!
 
 

JLNICKY....USE THESE AT YOUR DISCRETION........

58.) Do you wear silk stockings?
No but it might be kinda nice and kinky
 
59.) Do you prefer cucumbers to finger cookies?
I alternate in my preferences
 
60.) Are you hooked up right now? Tied up? Twisted up? (All of which are becoming I might add)  I’m twisted, but am not in any relationship
 
61.) Do you prefer standard nipple clamps to those new ones that vibrate? 
Never tried them but I will have to add them to my list to buy of silk stockings
 
62.) Were you the Bartender or the Dancer? (A Shadylady story...)
I alternated…very versitile
 
63.) Do you own a Jag or a Honda?
Neither but would love both…the Jag for when I’m feeling filthy rich, and the Honda (SUV) for weekend fun
 
64.) In your opinion is Popeye equivalent to Hercules? Does the myth/legend over lap...is that where Hercules came from....the Popeye Sailor? 
Herc is a stud I would like to pattern myself after.  Popeye is a guy you would like to have as a buddy to pal around with
 
65.) Is Hercules better than Sampson? You know...Delilah's Sampson? 
I don’t recall Herc with a babe, so I guess Sampson was more of a lady’s man
 
66.) What is your bra size?
I go braless
 
67.) What’s your favorite color? 
Blue
 
68.) Ever used any of those lil ole accents in ya'lls lil ole stories?
Nah
 
69.) Here is a tame one...WHAT is your favorite Ice Cream Flavor? (There is more than 31 you know). 
I love all ice cream, but I guess one of my top favorites is Cookies n Cream
 
70.) Have you ever gotten the shits from eating too much cheesecake?
Nope, but every time I eat McDonald’s Big n Tasty burger it sends me running to the toitie.  What do they put in that thing?!!!
 
71.) Have you ever had Wild Turkey AND Bourbon in the same night? If so, who held your head over the porcelain goddess?
Not a big drinker.  Get sick before I get too plastered.  I’d like Xena to hold my head over the porcelain goddess.
 
72.) Do you ever think, by the far stretch of the imagination, there possibly, somewhere out there, could probably, maybe be people out in the world just as twisted as you? 
I guess the equivalently twisted human would be a woman who loves and writes gay male fiction and loves to have panty sniffing scenes in them. J
 
73.) Boxers or briefs? Briefs. 
Never tried boxers so I will add them to the list of nipple clamps and silk stockings
 
74.) How do you (the writer) deal with the feedback you receive?
I try to respond to everything even if someone just writes 3-4 words, which is often the case.  It’s most helpful if the feedback says what they liked or didn’t like
 
75.) Is the genre that you write most in, such as mystery, romance
Etc... 
It’s the Gerry genre.  I guess I try to write mostly suspense with a little love and romance
 
76.) The genre that you read most in?
Suspense
 
77.) Have you ever written outside your comfort zone?
Nah
 
78.) Were you happy with the result?
N/A
 

DJ Belt....

79.) How much of the bard's own personal life experiences and worldview enter their characters and story?
Quite a bit, though I have to twist it into a female perspective.
 
80.) When they write, are they moved by what they create, or do they view it dispassionately? 
I get involved in the story as I write it and feel for the characters
 
81.) Is there a particular time of day or environment in which they feel most creative? 
Generally at work
 
82.) How crazy or unrestrained do they allow themselves to get when writing? Do they discipline themselves, or just 'let go'? 
Just let go… but in a disciplined way
 
83.) Is there a particular piece of work that they cringe at having posted, or had totally bomb (often, much to their surprise)? 
I generally put all past stories out of my mind
 
84.) Have they written a story that got an unexpected response from readers either for good or, er, bad?
Not really.  Don’t generally get feedback
 

PHAIR.... M. Mullaney
Suggestions for interview questions:

85.) Favorite writing instrument (i.e. pen, pencil, typewriter, computer)
Computer
 
86.) Worst book you ever read?
Can’t remember the title it was so horrible
 
87.) Pen or keyboard?
Keyboard
 
88.) Favorite reading format: hardcover, paperback, book on tape, or online?
Paperback
 
89.) Favorite comfort food?
Ice cream, chocolate, donuts, cookies
 
Hope that helps or at least made you smile.
Mullaney


Jude...Beta reader for the SB101

90.) What does being published mean to you?
Published…no…Posted….to the Sandbox…great feeling
 
91.) What do you expect to receive from the process? 
Just a good feeling
 
92.) What state do you live in?
Virginia
 
93.) What do you like to read?
Suspense, occasionally erotica, mysteries
 
94.) Where do you see yourself in the future?
Generally where I am currently at
 
95.) Do you have any pets & family?
All my family is still living…parents, brother and 2 sisters, daughter, granddaughter etc
 
96.) Do you have a story that was hard for you to write?
Nah
 
97.) What shows do you like and who is your favorite stars?
I generally only watch sports or the news
 
98.) What are you writing on now?
Dell computer
 
99.) Do you have any stories published or hope to get any published? 
Just on the Sandbox.  I wrote a story that was published in a mens nudie magazine around 25 years ago.

100.) If you had to tell anyone about yourself on what type a person you are what would you say?
Very shy and quiet, but responsible, reliable and try to be a worthy friend
 
101.) Some serious stuff I would love to hear about is how often do the authors write? Daily or? 
I write weekly

102.) Where or what were some of the funniest things to happen that gave them inspiration for their stores and what was it? 
Not Answered 

103.) Are they pet lovers? 
I LOVE pets.  Grew up with quite a variety from mice to cats to dogs to birds

104.) If so what kind of pets do they have? None. 
Not allowed in my condo
 

DOT....

105.) Author’s of a story wants feed back but 5 out of 10 never bother’s to write u back. Why? 
I try to always write back if I can tell what the reader meant by their comments
 
106.) Why don't folks finish their stories? 
Busy busy world we live in
 
107.) Say someone has an idea for a story but they can't write worth a damned would one of you writer’s consider writing it, where u get the credit for the writing but give credit to the person who sent u the idea? 
I reckon, though the person with the idea usually is the only one who can create it to their satisfaction
 

KODA GRAYSTONE

108.) What does feedback mean to you as a writer and how does it influence how you write? 
If I get positive feedback, I will often try to write a similar story in the future
 
109.) How do you choose your characters? 
Start with the lesbian theme, then any character is possible from there
 
110.) How do you handle it when a reader asks why you used a certain plot device?
I say it just called out to be used
 
111.) What is the primary reason you post stories to the internet? 
It’s a thrill
 

Robin Alexander

112.) I'd ask...When do you finally feel comfortable turning your stories loose on the public. LOL it still makes me nervous when I post. 
Makes me nervous too at possibly offending someone, and them getting pissed that I am a male writing lesbian fiction, but I have met some very nice accepting women, so it all evens out I guess.

Thank you
The RingMaster
 

His works can be found at The RingMaster