As part of our ongoing efforts to share our wonderful authors with you, our wonderful public, we’ve asked our cadre of authors to sit down with each other and discuss some very important questions. Today, Augusta Connor, author of Whoever Brought Me Here & Catch Me if I Fall, has graciously invited us into her conversation with Daisy Fairchild about when and why either of them choose to raise or lower the heat level in any individual story.

(For the uninitiated, “sweet” and “spicy” refer to the level of sexually explicit material in the stories, with “spicy” having quite a bit of it and “sweet” being a more “fade to black” sort of story. We’ve also divvied our catalogue up between sweet and spicy, in case you’re looking for a particular flavor yourself.)

Augusta Connor: I’m here today with my good friend and fellow Space Fruit Press author, Daisy Fairchild, author of Tasting Much Sweeter Than Wine & What the Empress Wants, to discuss when and why we choose to write “spicy” versus “sweet” in our stories. (For the uninitiated, these appellations refer to the level of sexually explicit material in the stories, with “spicy” having quite a bit of it and “sweet” being a more “fade to black” sort of story.)

Daisy Fairchild: Hello!!

AC: So, Daisy, would you say that you tend to write more “spicy” content or more “sweet” content?

DF: Oh, definitely spicy!! I like my stories hot!!

AC: Is that also what you prefer to read?

DF: Hm, that’s a good question! I guess most of the time, yes. I will read sweet stories, but usually only if they’re by an author I already like. I don’t seek out sweet stories.

AC: What’s the first “spicy” story you ever wrote?

DF: Laughs Well, I think I was about ten, maybe eleven.

AC: Wow. Precocious.

DF: I guess? I don’t know, I think a lot of people are… coming into themselves, if you will, at around that age. Anyway, I had a young, beautiful aunt who got married, she was probably, oh, I don’t know, 25? 28? An adult, but not an ADULT like my parents were, you know? She was beautiful, and had the most gorgeous giant monstrosity of a late 90’s wedding dress, and a young, handsome, dark-haired husband, and I was just very swept up by the glamor and romance of it all!

AC: So far this is sounding pretty “sweet”, I’m afraid to say.

DF: Don’t rush me, I’m getting there! Anyway, I had recently sort of… kind of put the pieces together that you know, people get married, and then they have sex, and also that you’re not “supposed” to have sex until you get married, and somehow this wedding brought up the question for me – how do you know what to do on your wedding night?? I was very concerned about this!! How were they going to know how to do it???

AC: Please tell me you didn’t write them instructions.

DF: Not technically?? No. I didn’t. But what I did do was spin out this elaborate fantasy about how there were probably instructions written on like… little boards that would hang on either side of the underside of the bed, so that you, as the freshly married bride or groom, could like… sneak a peek!! as you were taking off your shoes or your pantyhose or whatever. Very cheating-on-a-test vibes.

AC: And you wrote this down as a story?

DF: I think I actually made it into a little comic? But don’t worry, I couldn’t draw well enough for anyone to make sense of it even if they’d ever found it!

AC: And so, to this day…

DF: Yep! I like to write about people getting it on! Never lost the fascination with it, I guess!!

AC: Why do you think that is?

DF: Because I’m a voyeur at heart?? Laughs I don’t know, I mean, it’s hot! I like writing things that will produce an excited response in other people. It’s fun!!

AC: That’s a very tactful way to put it.

DF: Thank you, I thought so.

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To be continued with Augusta’s thoughts in a future issue…