Featured Author: Luna Saint Claire

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Luna Saint Claire!!

 

★•*❃*•★The Sleeping Serpent by Luna Saint Claire★•*❃*•★As arousing as 50 Shades, twisted as Gone Girl, and tortured as Wuthering Heights.

Whether by free will or fate, Luna’s encounter with Nico provokes a storm that shatters her perceptions of identity, duty, morality, and self-worth. The storm didn’t blow in from the outside. She was the storm. Its turbulence within her, forcing her to confront the darkness, uncovers her secrets and her pain.  

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Luna Saint Claire has a loving husband and an enviable career as a Hollywood costume designer. Still, something is gnawing at her. Bored with her conventional and circumscribed existence, she feels herself becoming invisible. When she meets Nico Romero, a charismatic yoga guru, his attentions awaken her passions and desires. Dangerous, but not in a way that scares her, he makes her feel as if anything is possible. Infatuated, she becomes entangled in Nico’s life as he uses his mesmerizing sexuality to manipulate everyone around him in his pursuit of women, wealth, and celebrity.

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About Luna Saint Claire:

Luna Saint Claire is a costume designer and author residing in Los Angeles with her husband, a philosophy professor. She loves blues rock and Indie music, often setting her Pandora station to Damien Rice. Her personal style can best be described as eclectic bohemian. Though she now enjoys running and yoga, she spent years of her youth in the ballet studio. Her part Native American heritage informs her work as a designer and influences her storytelling.

 

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Interview With Luna Saint Claire:

1. Can you tell us a little about your book The Sleeping Serpent?

Many people don't know that there are seductive, manipulative people that target others and use them for their purposes. When we point to them in the news, or as characters on television shows, we recognize them as sociopaths. But we don't think it can happen to us. A sociopath targets your vulnerability. They possess an ability to quickly identify your weakness and hook you by mirroring want you want to see and hear. In truth, we unconsciously call these relationships to us to heal that gap—the inner wound we have inside. Nico, the antagonist, recognized Luna’s gap, her need for external validation, and provided just enough to keep her addicted and bound to him.

Nico, is a gifted healer, but he too has an inner wound, an emptiness inside him that left him without empathy. We expect healers to be spiritual good souls. But, when they don't complete their training they can easily go to the dark side, using their gifts for power, wealth and celebrity. I make an analogy to how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader because he never completed his training and healed his wound.

Luna, the protagonist, wants to heal Nico because he has awakened something inside her she thought was lost. He has made her feel that anything is possible. She believes in his goodness. What she ultimately learns is she has always possessed what she was seeking. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ, the man behind the curtain was an imposter. Suffering is an opportunity to grow emotionally and spiritually. Through her suffering Luna divines that her value, her self-worth, has always been within her. The story is a journey of elucidation and self-discovery. 

 

 

2. When did you know you wanted to write a book?

I have always been drawn to books that speak to spiritual development and discovery of the self. I was also fascinated by the attraction to cults and how they fill the devotees need to belong to tribe. This book had been forming in my mind for years. I finally had the time to write it.

 

3. The Sleeping Serpent is a different type of read, how did you come up with the story line?

The characters in my novel are all fictional.  Many have a combination of characteristics of people I have read about and met in my lifetime. I have done extensive research on the nature of sociopaths and there are several books I have read that inspired my story. Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights influenced Nico’s anger and abandonment issues. Anna Karenina’s boredom and desire for passion in her life inspired feelings that Luna experiences. 

4. What inspires you to write?

With this book I was perpetually inspired because it had been with me for years. I listen with headphones on to music that is very meditative. I write during the day, and at night or on break I read a lot of books that somehow connect to my story. I read a biography of Charles Manson, Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, Siddhartha, and even books like The Namesake and The Signature of All Things had elements that I found inspired me. Any type of internal struggle with the self I find inspiring. 

5.    Do you work with an outline, or just write?

For The Sleeping Serpent I used an outline. There are many characters because to create a cult-like environment there was a need to show Nico’s behavior in relationship with other women, not just Luna.  

6. Do you have a favorite spot to write?

I only have one spot. My desk. I use a desk-top computer and write in Word. I have tons of files and I often print out research material. In The Sleeping Serpent I researched a great many things such as Kundalini Yoga, the sacred rituals of the Q’ero Tribe, Buenos Aires streets and restaurants. There was a lot of research that went into this story. 

7. Do you have a favorite food or drink you must have nearby when writing?

In the winter I drink vast amounts of herbal tea and also Earl Grey tea. In summer, iced coffee and iced herbal tea (Raspberry Zinger) 

8. What are writing projects are you currently working on?

I am currently writing what’s called a Linked Novel. Unlike a sequel, it is technically a stand-alone but linked to The Sleeping Serpent. I am exploring the theme of “yearning” and The Quest (think The Odyssey, Siddhartha, and Don Quixote) and the nature of redemption. I believe in the power of spirit to heal and the next book will explore these themes. The Sleeping Serpent has the most exhilarating sexually explicit scenes, (chuckling) I hope I can find a way to include that steamy feature in this next book.