Author David Russell is back to share his latest book, released December 16th. Self’s Blossom is a Romantic quest of Self
Discovery. David, please tell us more!
Self’s Blossom is a short novella in the erotic romance genre, with Selene,
a woman in search of her sexual identity, as the vibrant main character. Selene
is intellectual, independent, free spirited and totally trapped in the
limitations of her peer group and society. pragmatic best friend Janice
describes her as a dreamer, living in the cuckoo land of her imagination.
Desperately looking to find herself and get a bit of erotic adventure, Selene
goes on holiday to South America. Brought to life by the Sun, sea and holiday
atmosphere, Selene's first erotic awakening comes about through the ocean –
“the spirit of love beckoning her with a pulsing sinewy body”. After this,
Selene searches for a lover and has a brief sexual encounter with an eighteen
year old local.
But it is her through her meeting with the
American anthropologist Hudson that Selene' erotic nature is awakened and she
explores herself on many layers. Hudson is her intellectual rival and mentor,
and he introduces Selene to the other side of South America – the primal
elemental energy of the carnival, the 10,000 year history of South American
civilisation and the breathtaking and often cruel power of its environment and
landscape. With Hudson, Selene's holiday adventures suddenly become fraught
with danger and intrigue – she is threatened with death by hunters when she
plays environmentalist with Hudson and his friends, she is bitten by a deadly
snake when she goes exploring with him, Hudson has to save her from a barroom
brawl with the locals which suddenly explodes due to a sexual indiscretion. The
indigenous population have an entirely different culture and life-rule than
Selene knows from her predictable friends in London. Although Hudson is the
catalyst for Selena’s awakening, it is fair to say that she challenges him
intellectually and opens his world weary eyes for the magic of the moment also.
Their mutual search for something beyond the
mundane leads them both to the top of a South American pyramid, where Selena
visualises herself as a modern God Queen and Hudson as her God King. They have
both gone on a dangerous and fascinating journey down through time and braving
a foreign culture and environment. It is therefore significant that Selene does
not seek full surrender to her lover in the passion of the moment on the
moonlit beach – in fact she slaps his face when he attempts to do so – Instead
she wants their love to be fully consummated through the pampered and luxurious
Western trappings of the hotel Bridal Suite. “True Seduction was total
theatre”, “The true ideal lay in laced artifice” not in ‘ideals of
naturalness’. Here, in the luxurious trappings of traditional Western romance
and eroticism, the adventure ends and the God Queen and God King sublimate
their experience like some modern day High Priest and Priestess and the alchemy
is complete.
Knowing that they will be unable to ever rival
or surpass this moment of absolute sexual apotheosis, the lovers now part and
go their separate ways – Hudson to his job in the US and Selene back to London.
But the author leaves us with a sense that more has been accomplished here than
just a nice holiday memory for Selene and her lover. Selene can now return to
the humdrum of her everyday existence and the emptiness of her London life with
the alchemical blossom inside her – the Blossom of the self which has been
totally awakened inside her. There is the very real sense that Selene will
never be the same again after this.
More About the Author
b. 1940. Resident in the UK. Writer of poetry,
literary criticism, speculative fiction and romance. Main poetry
collection Prickling Counterpoints (1998); poems published in
online International Times. Main speculative works High
Wired On (2002); Rock Bottom (2005). Translation of
Spanish epic La Araucana, Amazon 2013. Romances: Self’s
Blossom; Explorations; Further Explorations; Therapy
Rapture; Darlene, An Ecstatic Rendezvous (all pub Extasy
(Devine Destinies). Self-published collection of erotic poetry and
artwork, Sensual Rhapsody, 2015. Singer-songwriter/guitarist. Main
CD albums Bacteria Shrapnel andKaleidoscope Concentrate. Many
tracks on You Tube, under ‘Dave Russell’
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