ER: If you have an alias or pen
name, what is it?
Jet: I write and do my artwork under the name Jet
Mykles
ER: Tell us about yourself?
Jet: I'm an enterprise software product manager by day
and an erotic author/artist all the other time. Been in a steady
relationship with the same man for the last nine and a half years. Not
married. Don't ask. I live with him in southern California.
ER: Anything special the readers
should know about you?
Jet: I live in a dream world where magic is science
and incredibly gorgeous men fall at my feet begging to have sex with
me.
ER: How long have you been
writing?
Jet: I've been writing for most of my life, but I was
only published for the first time earlier this year. I'm still new to
this.
ER: Where do you typically find
your inspiration?
Jet: In that magical moment just before nodding off to
sleep. That's when my mind lets go and everything I've seen or done or
thought in the day just kind of sifts through my mind. That's when
I've come up with the best ideas. Outside of that, I guess I take
inspiration from just about everything.
ER: What genre do you write in? Do
you cross over to other genres? Is it harder or easier to stay in one
genre or to move back and forth?
Jet: Technically, I believe it's called
"paranormal erotic romance." I'm a fantasy reader/writer in
a big way and don't really think I can do anything else. Even the
sci-fi or contemporary stuff that I've dabbled in has a fantastic
element in it. What can I say? My mind stubbornly believes that magic
is real.
ER: Who has influenced you in your
writing?
Jet: Mainly the authors and artists I've been exposed
to. The first two fantasy series I remember as kid that have stuck in
my brain all these years are Piers Anthony's Xanth series and Mercedes
Lackey's Valdemar series. Both worlds were so incredibly real, so very
full, that I wanted to visit them over and over. I've always wanted to
create worlds like that.
ER: What books do you have out?
And do you have something new coming out? Where can they be purchased?
Jet: So far, there's just the two Dark Elves books at
Loose ID: Taken and Mastered. I'm working on the third book now, but
nothing is definite on its release.
Diana is infuriated, humiliated… insanely aroused.
Who do these black-skinned, white-haired, sex-oozing devils think they
are making her into a broodmare and sex-slave? She won't do it. Who
cares if the damned elves were created as sex toys for a goddess? Or
if each and every dark elf that visits her is a well-trained,
exquisite lover. Or if Commander Salin makes her mind and body hum
with desire and pleasure she's never before experienced? She won't
submit. She won't. Will she?Taken is at http://www.loose-id.com/detail.aspx?ID=157
Suzana has lost all she held dear--her family dead at
sea, she, a musical mage of noble birth, has been taken by slavers.
Alone, bereft, she can do nothing but mourn. But then the traders'
caravan is overtaken in the Dark Forest by the mysterious raedjour who
are determined to take the one thing she still calls her own: her
body. Suzana's capture is cause for celebration amongst the raedjour--virgins
are highly prized, and a tournament is held for the honor of taking
her maidenhead. And once it is taken, she will be passed to a
different warrior every nine days until she finds her truemate.
Mastered is at http://www.loose-id.com/detail.aspx?ID=193
I do have another story coming out with Loose ID
around Halloween. It'll be in an anthology with two other authors:
Jeigh Lynn and Raine Weaver. It's a shapeshifter/threesome story,
totally different from the dark elves. This one's about a witch who
calls on two sexy shapeshifters to help her out of a bad situation.
ER: Are you doing any signing or
appearances soon?
Jet: Nope. I'm an admitted hermit and social avoider.
But I can be found quite regularly at my Yahoo Group.
ER: Do you have any advice for
aspiring writers?
Jet: Write what you enjoy. That's all you can do.
Don't worry so much about writing for a particular audience. Don't
write something just because you know it'll sell. Write what makes you
hot/laugh/cry/horny then let some others read it. It's almost
guaranteed that if you like it, others will, because they'll be able
to sense your enjoyment. Sounds corny, but it's true.
ER: Do you have a website or a
blog?
Jet: I've both. www.ComputErotika.com
is my website. I've got a Live Journal blog, but I'll admit that I'm
very bad about posting to it. http://www.livejournal.com/users/jetm/
I've also got a Yahoo Group that I enjoy a lot http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jetmykles_group/join
ER: Do you prefers fan mail/email?
Jet: Email, definitely.
ER: Other than being a writer, did
you ever picture yourself doing anything else?
Jet: I was going to be a famous actress at some point.
My college degree is in acting. Unfortunately, I despise auditioning
and "the business" of acting, so that shot that dream to
pieces. Being a writer's much better. Most of the socializing and
"business" that I do is from the comfort of my own home.
ER: If you had time off to do
whatever you like, what would you do?
Jet: Take off with my boyfriend to someplace beautiful
where we could have lots of good food, a good time and lots of quality
time together.
ER: Is there a favorite author you
haven't met that you'd like to?
Jet: One day, I'd love to meet Angela Knight. She's
the lady that gave me the last push and pointed Loose ID out to me. I
think it'd also be cool to meet Mercedes Lackey. And I'm destined to
meet Morgan Hawke, I know it.
ER: So, you have a special day
coming up soon, an anniversary of sorts.
Jet: Yes. It was at the end of November 2004 that I
submitted Dark Elves I to Loose ID
ER: Would you like to tell us
about it?
Jet: It was a strange--but fun--time for me. Between
the months of September and October, when I was finishing the story,
it kind of took on a life of its own. People on Renderotica (http://www.renderotica.com),
were hounding me for "what happens next" with the series of
images that I was doing. Then the readers that I sent the full
manuscript to were really excited. The icing on the cake, of course,
was when Loose ID wrote back and said they wanted it. I was flying
high for months afterward!
ER: Would you consider yourself an
artist or a writer first?
Jet: Writer, I suppose. In my own opinion, I'm a
better writer than artist. I've been doing it longer and it comes more
naturally. But I'm not sure I could do one without the other anymore.
ER: When we've talked before,
you've said you were a "visual writer." As an artist, you
develop storyline first. Tell us a little bit about that.
Jet: I know other writers now and how they work. Most
writers will do something called a character sketch. The method
varies, but it's usually a document where an author will list vital
information about a character like physical characteristics,
personality quirks or their personal history. It helps to fill out a
character and make them "real". Well, I've tried to do that
but it's always really sketchy. I've found that I get much more out of
creating the visual of my characters. In the programs that I use to
make my artwork, it takes awhile sometimes to get the picture
together. There's a lot of fiddling and waiting time.
I've found that it's during this process that I do my
own version of character sketches. While I'm making up the person's
looks, I find out a lot about them. It must be working because the
first story that I made an image series for--Dark Elves--is also my
first published.
