August 8, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode of Not That Kind of Book Club, we sit down with the one and only Luna Day—a Western Canadian indie author who brings the spice, the smut, and the swoon. Luna joins us to chat all about her bold and sizzling new novella trio: Tie Me Down, Turn Me On, and Wear Me Out. We dive into how these interconnected stories came to life, what inspired their cheeky yet tender tone, and what it’s really like to balance a career in education with writing steamy romance on the side.
We also touch on Luna’s earlier works, including Kiss and Make Love, Love Between the Lines, and Three Hearts Hideaway, and why her voice continues to stand out in the Canadian indie romance scene. Whether you're an erotica fan or just Luna-curious, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
Tune in, add a few titles to your TBR, and let us know: which Luna Day book are you reading first? Join Les and Rhi for a bookish podcast where #wereaditsoyoudonthaveto. This isn’t your average book deep dive nor typical book club. We talk about everything from the ridiculous to the relatable, the dramatic to the delightfully unhinged corners of the book world. Whether it’s behind-the-scenes of our book clubs, meet-and-greets with bookish humans, or the absurd moments that make us laugh out loud—this is your invitation to a podcast where anything bookish goes. We’re just two girls who love to read, and we can’t wait to share this journey with you.
No matter who you are we guarantee you will find a show (or multiple) for yourself on the Dufferin Ave Media Network! If you can't find one, start your own! We can help you with that! We're a community of passionate hosts, audio engineers, avid listeners, and day dreamers on a mission to shape the future of on-demand content together.
We also touch on Luna’s earlier works, including Kiss and Make Love, Love Between the Lines, and Three Hearts Hideaway, and why her voice continues to stand out in the Canadian indie romance scene. Whether you're an erotica fan or just Luna-curious, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
Tune in, add a few titles to your TBR, and let us know: which Luna Day book are you reading first? Join Les and Rhi for a bookish podcast where #wereaditsoyoudonthaveto. This isn’t your average book deep dive nor typical book club. We talk about everything from the ridiculous to the relatable, the dramatic to the delightfully unhinged corners of the book world. Whether it’s behind-the-scenes of our book clubs, meet-and-greets with bookish humans, or the absurd moments that make us laugh out loud—this is your invitation to a podcast where anything bookish goes. We’re just two girls who love to read, and we can’t wait to share this journey with you.
No matter who you are we guarantee you will find a show (or multiple) for yourself on the Dufferin Ave Media Network! If you can't find one, start your own! We can help you with that! We're a community of passionate hosts, audio engineers, avid listeners, and day dreamers on a mission to shape the future of on-demand content together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well in your books, start with what is it? Something
like heavy on the spice, low on the plot.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yes, yeah, this, I'd.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Want to be very upfront in my author's note and
be like, this is not our typical romance novel. This
is like romantic erotica. Oh, if you're here for like
a heavy pot, go away, because all it's just it's
just fun. And like, heaven forbid I get a review
that's like therewith no plot, I'm going to be like, well,
(00:31):
I warn.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You, hey, I'm less and I'm read. This is not
that kind of book club a.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Bookish podcast for let me read it so you don't
have to.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hey, book friends, it's read and I'm less. It's not
that kind of book club. And so excited. Today, on
the line, of course, not in studio, but via zoom,
we have Luna Day.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hey Luna, how's it going good? How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We are well, we're right, We're good, We're doing pretty well. Amazing.
I get so excited when we get authors on on
our podcast. It just makes conversations so fun. Yeah. So
how we start this off usually is we play read
reading to be read, because it's not a game. It's
(01:32):
just so you're just gonna tell us what was the
last book you read, the book you're currently reading, and
the next one on your TVR.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, last book I read was Hate Mail choose that
I don't know how to Donna Marchetti, I want to say, Okay, yeah,
I really enjoyed it. Not high spice, but a fun
little plot. Enemies to lovers, like childhood enemies to lovers.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That was fun.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
My list, I'm currently reading Saint by Sierra Simone. So
I've been reading through the first series. So I finished
Priest and Center and now I'm on Saint. I'm really
enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We're gonna have to come back to them, and.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, please do, because I'm really enjoying the series.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And my next one is going to be probably The
Good Girl Effect by Sarah ca because I'm getting an
arc of that. So that's pie up on my list.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh I love Sarah Kate. Okay, So Priest now, I
have not read the series. I want to, but I
I couldn't wrap my brain around the Priest part. And
It's not like I'm a hardcore religious human. It was
more I was just sitting there. I was like, oh
(02:58):
my god, like pries so on a scale of like
one to ten or like just kind of give me
the rundown here, how bad is it in terms of
the priest?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bad in what way?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Like are we talking? I don't know, Like I know
the confessional will be in there, but like I'm just
trying to like wrap my brain around like an erotic
story around a priest, is it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's really well done priest romance, let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But I also was curious about how the whole series
would work because it is very religious and it is
tightened with religious Yeah, a fantastic job. I really enjoy
this and it doesn't it doesn't matter the way she rates.
It really works. And he struggles with his faith and
his calling and wanting this woman, and it's really well balanced.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay. That kind of makes me feel a bit better
about it. Where it's like trying to understand like your direction. Okay, Okay,
I probably could read this. It was just maybe I
judged it too soon because I just read the back
of it and I was like, oh my god, Like
I don't know if I can read an erotic novel
about a priest. I'm not sure. I'm into that. But okay,
(04:23):
maybe I'll add it back to my list then because
it's not it sounds like it could be like a
self discovery.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yep, I could do this.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I could do this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It is very much like And the thing is it's
not just erotic like it is a story novel. There
is struggle there. Yeah, if there is like so many
themes going on, and I was like very impressed with
all the layers on top of everything. And that's why
I reading the series, and it's every book has been fantastic, amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, I have it at home, so maybe I'll dive
into it. I just never like I bought it. I
just never read it yet because I got caught on
the back of it. But okay, now I'll read it.
You got me convinced. Yeah, I'm reading Tate James. Yeah,
I'm reading Tate James right now. And I just like,
I forget how much I love Tate James.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I don't think anything.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Really she are you going? You're not going to uh
BB four E next weekend? Are you?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
No, I'm not going either. It's okay, I wanted to,
but what does that stand for? Book besties Forever? I
think was not invited not a book. No, it's it's
it's a big one. Like it was sold out in
like seconds, like seconds. Yeah, I was on the wait
list for a ticket and last minute I got a
single ticket. But it's the same night that I'm flying
(05:45):
out on our family vacation, and I was like, yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cut it close. So
I'd rather go to the Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, have you read have you read Ammo Jones? No?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay, at her to your list. That's like one author
if I could meet in real life, I think I
would just like run and hug and probably get escorted
out by security. But I just want to hug her.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I will add it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
At it Okay. I mean, maybe we should get to
the bread and butter of our podcast today.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The arcs, which I have only just learned in the
last few weeks, means advanced reader's copy.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, we were so lucky that Sona allowed us to
be readers for her upcoming, upcoming series, upcoming novella trilogy. Right,
we can call it a trilogy. Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
There's three books.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean trilogy yea. But yeah, we were so
lucky to get a copy of them and actually get
to read them, and I love it. I was reading
it on the airplane and my sister, Oh, my sister
kept looking over and what are you reading. I was like, oh,
don't eat it, don't look right now.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Anything with a play on an airplane like that is
that is some brave stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You're on my kindle Like it's fine, I can like
hide in the corner. And it was just my sister.
But my sister looks over and she's like, what is this?
And I was like, oh, please, Like you're not gonna
like it. You don't like anything with spice, so like,
just don't bother.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well in your books start with uh, what is it?
Something like heavy on this spice, low on the plot.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, yeah, this I.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Wanted very upfront in my author's note and be like,
this is not our typical romance novel. This is like
romantic erotica. Oh, if you're here for like a heavy
go away because it's just fun and like, heaven forbid,
I get a review that's like there with no plot,
(07:51):
I'm going to be like, well, I wore you.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's like it was. It was in the forward of
the book. Thank you, but I honestly, I okay. First,
I'm like reading the first part of the story, and
when I started the second book, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Like, didn't I just read this?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Didn't I just read this? It's like, is this what
I read already? And then for the third one, it
was the same, and I was like, okay, I understand now, yeah,
because I didn't. I didn't read the second one right away.
I like saw that at the beginning, and I was like,
wait a minute. So then I went to the third
and it was the same. I was like, oh, okay,
so it's like the three stories kind of in one ish, right,
(08:30):
Like I liked it. It was good.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, I mean the prologue is the same and the
epilogue is the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And I liked it because it was like intertwined.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, it's from a different character's point of view in
each one, right, it's a little bit different in each one.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah. I loved it. And each one was like unique
in its own way.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's good. Didn't you read yours at work?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I sure did read them at work, because I feel.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Like that's worse than reading about an airplane.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
It was alone.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Oh this sounds so bad no matter how I put it.
But I was alone in a room reading that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh reason, massage therapist. So there's like a bed.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah no, nothing crazy went down when I read them.
But holy smokes, I don't think I have read spicy
erotica stuff before. I haven't read erotica before. And I
just dove right in with everything in these books, and
my eyes were opened, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like Luda Rea as a nonfiction girl for the most part.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yet okay, very different. This is just like right into
the deep end.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Oh yeah, I was both feet jumping in.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's like when somebody says they want to read dark
romance and they go straight to Haunting Adeline and you're like, no, no, no, honey,
you've got to start like back here.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
My first dark romance was Den of Vipers, and that's
like a hole.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, that one was.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I was like, give me more.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I actually loved it too. It was there was a
lot of men in this book. And the only thing
I didn't like because I listened to it as oh
my gosh, this thing sucks. I listened to it as
an audiobook and they used the same male voice for
all of the characters. So I kept getting confused as
to which one was which, yeah, because they all sounded
(10:24):
the same. But it was really good. I can't I
can't know that.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's just this was like fun and you have to
appreciate it for what it is, Like, I'm not looking
for a literary masterpiece something.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, if the spice scenes are good, awesome,
they were great. I mean, I'm not gonna lie like
I started at some points with like certain books, I'm like, oh,
that's spicy, and then you go to the next one
and you're like, ooh that's spicy, and then you just
keep going up and you're like, I'm not even shocked
by the spice anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's just well, kind of kind of an offshoot here.
But I know, so I know of somebody who does
rope play, like you talk about in your first book,
and when you put those two things together. I didn't
realize that rope play could be so kinky and used
(11:14):
in sex scenes until I read through your book and
I was like, oh, so she's not just doing rope
play to do rope play. Yeah, it's not just like
cool notts and stuff. It's like to get railed.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Rihanna did you just say that on a podcast? I did. Okay,
we're gonna have to put a this is not safe
for anybody under the age of eighteen, no, not safe
for work content warning. No, I love it. So let's
kind of dive into the books, like what kind of
(11:51):
what kind of things are we exploring? And we know,
what do you want to say about your books?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Okay, So I wasn't actually planning on writing anything this
year because this is the year that I'm taking to query.
So I have like a full novel that's just been
sitting that I've been querying out with agents. So that
was the plan. Was just like I was part of
a small anthology earlier this year and I was like
(12:18):
that's good, Like I'll just query. And then I ended
up having some time off work and I thought, well,
I'll sit down and write, and I came up with
a erotica series. So this is what happened. So the
theme is like kink, right, So I mean everybody has
(12:39):
a different thing they're exploring. Like my friend Violet Peerce
is doing like an erotica series as well, and hers
is like taboo ooh yeah, it's fantastic. So I decided
to go the direction of kink. So each book in
my series, the after Glow series, explores frink kinks in
(13:00):
each one, so there's multiple kinks, there's one that maybe
takes center stage in each one. The first book, Tie
Me Down, obviously, it is exploring shubari, which is rope play.
I took a private class on it, yeah you did,
and on training first first like experience with it myself.
(13:21):
I didn't want to write about it when I didn't
know about it. That was fun. And that also features
consensual non consent, which is another big kink, big warning
there for that book. You want to make sure that
you're okay with diving into that kind of content. Book
turned me on. It's more of an exhibitionist kink novel there.
(13:45):
And then the third book, Wear Me Out, is more
about free use and sharing and that kind of kink.
And then there's like little kinks sprinkled in.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, I don't know. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I thought it was fantastic and just very eye opening.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean coming from the non fiction girly.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yep, and I mean obviously like it was I've heard
of sex clubs and you know, have I guess looked
into them like when I've been traveling, like I haven't gone,
so for you to use that as a basis of
your novel, like, are there any in Vancouver?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes? Okay, yes, all right, I have not gone. No, No,
I just I know there's nothing if you no, no, no, no, no
no no. It's because I read so many books about
sex clubs that I'm like, do these things exist? So
then I have to google it, and then all of
a sudden, I'm like, holy teedo, there's six in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Do we have any in Saskatoon?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You looked, dude, I guess it's sassotoon.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Dude, you can't even have strippers too small Saskatoon two conservative.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You can go to Alberta and have strippers.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Not here. Calgary?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, is there one in Calgary? There's a couple intriguing, Okay, interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You don't have to keep in mind though, like it's
not it's not fictional. No sile adult club, right, because
we make it amazing and perfect and fancy and that
kind of thing. So like imbellish, we ambellished. So if
you're if you're looking to go to a real one,
you got to you gotta do the research and make
(15:26):
sure you're going somewhere that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You're to Yes, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's funny. If
you want to hear a funny story, I might change
it around a little bit so that change the names
the person doesn't know. But I once went to Toronto
with an individual and at one point in the night
(15:50):
they were like, oh, like sorry, I'll say, like we're
gonna go to the bathhouse, like we'll see you later,
and me, being naive twenty year old, like what the hell, okay,
have fun, like go whatever you're doing. And I walked
home by myself in Toronto and got home, went to
bed whatever. My individual did not come home, and in
the morning, I'm like, where are you? He walks in
(16:13):
the door and I'm like, oh, like, how was the bathhouse?
Like did you have fun? And he looks at me
and he's like, do you know what a bathhouse is?
And I was like do I know what a bath
house is? And he's like, oh, le' yeah, you go
to find other people to have sex with.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I can't say I've been to a bathhouse?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yes, And then did I Yeah? Did I have to
look up said bathhouse?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yes? You absolutely did?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I did I know exactly where it is in Toronto.
It's called the Aqua Lounge. Ooh so fun. Fat Yep,
that happened to me, naive twenty year old, Like what
I was not reading? I was not reading spicy romance
at this point. I was still against reading no horotica. Oh,
(17:03):
this is definitely a mature audience themed podcast today.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yep, big time.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So then would you recommend like reading your books in
order or can you kind of read them mix and match,
Like if I wanted to read the last one first,
could I?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, that's kind of the fun thing. So there they
are ordered, like there's numbers on the spine when you
get them, but you can read it in any order,
so it doesn't matter which one you read first, because
the stories are all parallel to each other. They're not
like weaved, so it doesn't actually matter which one you
read first. Although I designed it in a certain order,
(17:45):
but I actually wrote it backwards, so I actually wrote
wear me Out first, and then I wrote Turn Me On,
and then I wrote So I wrote everything backwards, So
I mean pick and choose, and like, you don't have
to read them all. So if CNC isn't your thing
and you want to skip time me down, skip it.
You don't need to read it.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean, yeah, exactly, or multiple partners or any of that. Right, Yeah,
I love it. And when do your books get released?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
So they're coming out in September, so one a week basically,
so September second, and then the next Tuesday and then
the next Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
So I was gonna say, so, Luna, I'm just gonna
show up at your door and be like, Hi, can
you sign my book? She's like, yes, I will, don't worry.
So then I'm dying. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I have things like lined up already for the launch
of them, so like Calgary, and I'll be doing one in.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Edmonton, so send me the details, ree and I might
have to make a road trip. I don't know. I'm
I'm a huge Luna Day fan.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Come on, guys, come on out.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So then outside of being an author or writer, tell
us about Luna, tell us who you are.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well, Luna is a very specific person he is. I mean,
I'm a mom. That's my I mean, that's my pride
and joy, my little girl. Yeah, a little day. She's
two and a half.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But I love an age.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Oh she's just so fun, she's so active.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Go go, go.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Really till bedtime. So I mean, I'm a mom, I'm
a teacher. I don't talk much about that because it's
very separate from yes totally, but yeah, I do teach
middle school. I teach English. Yeah you do, makes sense.
(19:56):
I have a wonderful husband. He's lovely, in supportive and
so fantastic with my writing career and supporting me with that.
And I have a lovely writing group that I meet
with like every other week here in Calgary, full of
lots of local romance authors.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I was going to say, is this a lot of
the authors that we're in the anthology?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah? Yeah, so the Wild Grows Romantics actually have like
my Little Cup right here. Oh so cute.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah. So there's a bunch of us that meet. We
support each other. We help each other, like, you know,
talk through different things, struggle. Sometimes we'll read for each other,
you know, pick each other's brains. I love that and
that's been fantastic. So we've been getting together for I
don't know, the past year or so, and they've been lovely.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I mean, my days are full. My days are busy,
like I I'm either working full time and then coming
home to take care of my kid and makes up
her and everything and all that jazz. So I mean,
I don't sit down and have my own time till
like eight thirty wow, every night, and then I try
and write.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And I was gonna say, how do you how do
you fit in time to write? You're a busy bee.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's hard. I am awake too late and then I
have to be too early.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, that makes sense. So then do you find your
writing more kind of in that evening section of the day.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Always that's pretty much the only time I can write.
So I'll sit down, like I wrote till I don't know,
eleven pm last night, Oh my gosh, wow. Working Yeah,
working on a moment. So it's that's the only time
I have to do it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And so I guess also, like I know they're separate,
but like balancing being a teacher and then being an author,
I feel like you're working all day, You're coming home
to a kiddo, you're making supper out of that. Like
are you still kind of working every night at your
at writing or is it get a little bit harder
during the school year and then in the summer just
(22:02):
because of that break. It's a little bit easier or
maybe it's the same the whole time.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
No, it's it's definitely harder during the school year because
like I'm burnt out, Like it is hard. I believe
that right now. Like I don't know if anything state
of the education system right now here, but you know,
things are things are difficult. We're looking at going on
strike like it's not been super easy. We don't always
(22:30):
have a lot of support, so, I mean, the days
are long. I know. I know some people think teachers
work like nine to three, but gosh, like I'm at
work at seven thirty at least four, Like I'm tired.
I get my kid and then I come home and
then I take care of her. You know, I'm a
mom too, right, Like I'm a full time teacher, I'm
a mom stuff to do. So yeah, sometimes by the
(22:52):
time she's in bed, I'm like, oh my gosh, I
have nothing in me. Yeah, right, so it slows down.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like as an
English teacher too, like you would have marking and other
things to kind of do as well. And that's that's
in itself. It's a lot. I know my mom taught
grade five a lot of stories yep, yep, my no.
My mom talk grade five for twenty some years, and
(23:21):
the amount of extra work that she would put in
for those grade fives, they like so many of them
are still in contact with my mom and it's crazy,
that's cute. But she put in so much work and
effort and different things with teaching, whereas now it's like
you can't be at the school for longer than this period,
(23:42):
you have to do this, this, this, And she took
a contract this year because she actually retired two years ago,
but she took a part time contract just to kind
of help out. And in the school, she's like, it's
a it's a disaster lesia, Like I don't want to
be teaching. I don't want to be dealing with this
feel I feel for the teachers kind of coming into
(24:03):
this pre this profession with things in the state that
they are. And I can say, honestly, Saskatchewan's not much better.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, it's been. It's been interesting over the last decade
to see where I started versus where everything is now.
And I feel like I wear like fifty different hats
when I'm at my job, Like I'm not just teaching right,
like I'm counseling. I'm trying to take care of kids'
mental health, right, I'm like moderating. I have all these
things that I need to do and then all of
(24:34):
the you know, like prep side of things and planning,
and then also like dealing with you know, just like
simple paperwork and how many things I have to fill
out an emails And I know that's my probin. That's fine,
but it's gotten. It's gotten heavier than the last ten
years for oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And like, honestly, I say this with a grain of salt,
but like sometimes dealing with parents, or dealing with other teachers,
or dealing with everything else can also make that just
a little bit heavier. And there's just a lot going
on and so many factors, and no, I applaud you
for for everything you're doing as a teacher, because teachers
(25:13):
are wildly important and they get like, honestly, I feel
like they get not necessarily the words, not taken advantage of,
but I feel like they are not given the credit
they deserve and just kind of get looked over as
I don't know, I don't know. I just think it's unfortunately,
it's impacting how kids are learning and we're going to
(25:35):
see a lot of the detrimental effects kind of in
the next coming years.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, I appreciate that. That's yeah, I do feel feel
that as well. And that's why writing is like my
happy place, right It's where I can do what I
want and like do what I'm passionate about, and it,
you know, fills my cup, so to say in a
way that maybe teaching doesn't quite do that anymore. So,
I mean, I'm happy job, but I also love.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Writing and you know what, I love your writing.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So yeah, we do keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I can't keep doing that. I told you I'm a
big Day fan, yep. But yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So if our listeners want to find you, where can
they find you?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
On social media?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You can find me on Instagram at Luna Deay writes.
I don't do Facebook because I'm not sixty years old.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's so fair.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You can follow me on there, but I'm not really
doing anything on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
But but I will not answer you.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
That's right. So I mean slide into my dms on
Instagram anytime. I'm on there a lot because I have
to do everything because I'm an India author, so I'm
in all my own marketing, pr and everything. And I'm
happy to chat with people. I mean, if you send
me a message, I'm going to message you back, unless
you're a creep, and then I will want you want it.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I will just unless it's send me photos of your
feet and I'll send you two hundred dollars because that has.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Happened two hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Though I'm not gonna lie you. During COVID it's like, hi, sweetheart,
are you looking for a sugar daddy?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
And I'm like, yes, wait, I mean no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Okay. Actually, though I showed Ben the one day and
he's like, how much is he gonna give you? And
I looked at him and I was like, seriously, He's like, hey,
if it's a good amount of money.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Money's money.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It's like benjamit. But no, okay, I don't even know
what I was talking about. Okay, Lunas. So, if somebody
wants a copy of your book, how is or what's
the best way to get a copy.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
The easiest way is on Amazon, So I mean I'm
on there. My other books are on there. You can
get Three Hearts hid Away, you can get Kissed and
make Love. They're both on Kindle Unlimited if you have
that so you can read it that way. These will
all be coming out. I have two up for pre
order right now. I actually am just getting my proofs
in right now. Look how adorable this little baby book is.
(28:21):
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. Look at it. She's
just a baby.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
So these will be available on there. I mean, you
can buy the paperback on release days in pre order
now if you want the ebook, but you can also
find me at like the Forbidden Library and Calgary Slowburn Books.
You can find me at the Book Boudoir in Edmonton,
Pages of Passion in Saskatoon, and then I'm like in
a sprinkling of places in the United States. I'm in
(28:55):
like a place in Australia. If you really want the Deeps,
because you're there, just like message, he'll send you the bookstore.
But yeah, the easiest way is usually online.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Amazing. Well, that's so excited. I'm excited, exciting. I'm really
excited for for these next three to get released. And
I encourage everybody to pre order or kind of wait
and see when they can they can order or get
their copy in person. And like Luna said, they're all
(29:26):
releasing in September.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, re did I answer all your questions? You did
say that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You definitely did you definitely did you know?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I probably had more.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
They just went just out of the brain. As soon
as I said get railed. It was all downhill. Oh no,
mature content, mature content warning.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I asked you guys a question. Yes, I would like
to know, like which was your favorite character, or like
who is your favorite couple?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Second book? I can't remember their names offhand, but the
second book. I also like the fact that you had
the author's note that he is more of a dense
individual so to not expect.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Too much out of him.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm like, you know what for an author to put
that in there about a character like well done, I
appreciate that because you don't get that very often. Everybody
has to be so slave, so elegant all the time.
It's like, no, we just need a big dumb dance boy.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yes he is my favorite. So writer is yes, sir, writer,
dumb dense boy and he loves his woman and he
is my favorite as well. I absolutely had a time
writing him. It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh, he was so fantastic to just read through and like, yeah,
have in there.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It was awesome. I really enjoyed that one.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Oh, I'm so glad he actually like, I loved writing
the hymbo Solma that I'm planning on writing like a
full romance novel down the line with a himbo.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I met.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, so fun to like have those like dumb thoughts
and like weird asides and like inability to describe things.
It was a blast.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh, I think it was super fantastic. What about you
first book? First book?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, I like the roaplay. I thought it was sick.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Now I really want to go do shabari.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Just give it a try.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Fun.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Re want to go on a date? You want to
go do some Sabari?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, let's go do Okay, we can tie to the
girls' night thing. I've seen so many of the classes.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
There's got to be here in town.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Oh there is, Like, Okay, there's a bunch of classes.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Well, Shabari Hit us Up. We would love the podcast
to come out.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's not the name of the place.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
No, but Sabari is what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, but you just said Shabari hit us Up.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, anybody who does it and you should reach out.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah. Oh my gosh, I love that so much. Yeah, no,
I loved it. It was good. It's good. But I
also liked all of them though. That's the problem. Yeah,
it's not a problem. Yeah, it's a good problem to have.
So then, Luna, which one's your favorite?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Rider is my favorite?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, the dense one, the Himbombo.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I love a good dominant man like Adam, like Adam is, yeah,
like an older man, and that's that's all good. But
Rider was just oh, I just love how he's dominant big.
That's such a great combination.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yes, I love that. I love that so much. Okay, wow,
thank you?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Have you more?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Well it's probably not book related, that's okay. But if
you had to pick one book in the entire world
that's one of your favorite books, and like not a
classic like in like the last like five six years.
If you had one book that you're like, this is
one of my favorite books, what would you pick?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I'll give you two, Okay, Okay, So the first one
would be The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. It's a
horror novel. The whole entire book only has two characters.
I don't want to give too much away.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Can you send me send me this book?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Name, well, it's very much like futuristic. There's some cave exploration,
like literal cave exploration. This is not a not a
you know, it is a horror book. It's not a
spicy cave. But I loved it. That was like an
(33:47):
out of ten read for me. I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it,
and I don't want to talk too much about it
because I will spoil it, and if you're going to
read it, you don't want me to spoil it for you,
because it was so good and honestly anything by Grady Hendrix,
who is also a horror author, but he's really campy,
(34:07):
which I love. So you might have heard of my
best Friend's Exorcism, fantastic book, but my favorite by him
is The Southern book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires that
is also a ten out of ten book. He he's
a male, but he writes females so well, and that
(34:28):
book was like so good middle aged women dealing with
like a supernatural force in their town. Vampires obviously yea,
but it was. It's just fantastic the way it was written.
It was just so good. So I'm a big horror buff.
I was a huge, Like I'm a huge horrorman for romance.
(34:48):
That was my first like love that I felt reading.
So if you ever need horror rex, I have so many.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Would you ever write a horror book?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Then maybe down the line, I'm working on a dark
romance that has some supernatural elements in there, So yeah,
tickling my horror bone right now. I wouldn't call it horror.
It is more supernatural. But I love horror, like, I
just think it is so fun and it's a great
way to like get your blood pumping in a different way.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, okay, re top two, top two. Oh my goodness,
you're gonna have to come back to me. Okay, next episode.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
No, you got to think of it. Well, I told
you so.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I have two.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Both of them are like slightly dark romance, but they're
just ones that after I read them, I'm like, oh, like,
that was such a good book. I wish I could
just reread it again for the first time. So Ruthless
People by JJ mcboy. I loved it at first when I.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Started to sing it.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, at first, when I started listening to the audio book,
I could not stand the man's voice. But I mean,
after you get past like chapter four, you're like, hey,
I actually really like his voice because he has to
play like a Scottish man. Yeah, so that one ten
out of ten. It's still one of the books that
I just love them. And the second one I actually
(36:10):
I read this over Christmas, and it might not be
everybody's cup of tea, but it was The Blackwood Institute
by Jay Rose, and it was pretty dark, like, let
me be quite frank, but it explored like it gave
me Stanford prison vibes, like the Stanford Process study vibes,
where like they're in an institute but like not everything
(36:33):
is what it seems, and like they're all there for
different reasons and the whole thing is supposed to be
like recovery and recouping and getting better because all of
them have essentially committed a crime or something like that,
but it's actually just a giant experiment ooh, and like
kind of like kind of yeah, and it's like, don't
(36:58):
get me wrong, there's some spicy scene too, and like
multiple humans with like the girl has multiple love interests,
but like, to be quite frank, like it was super
cool to see somebody kind of explore mental illness and
kind of these mental institutes and like, do they all
(37:20):
exist like this? No? I hope not, like that would
be so inhumane. But the books were really good.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, I'm a dark romance human, but like even now
when I would argue, is not only dark romance, it's
like dark.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, just like a dark, dark book.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, how about you read just touched.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
One of them that I read recently that was really
good was When Women Were Dragons.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Oh, that was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I get nonfiction.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Uh no, it is fiction.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
I know, I know. Have you heard of that one, Luna.
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
If you ever need like a break from spice, highly
recommend that one.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Good to know.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, alrighty, I think uh, I think we can end
it there. That was a great It was amazing. That
was an awesome, awesome episode, Luna. Thank you so much
for having for having us. Luna. We're so glad that
you were here today to talk with us. We're super
excited for your books to come out in September. And
(38:21):
if our listeners have not checked out Luna day before,
please check her out on Instagram, go on Amazon, download
her books, give them a read.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Pre order.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, pre order, so thank you again. Thank you. Okay,
of course, okay time, Carrie. This was not that kind
of book club.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And I'm ree you're less. We're a bookish podcast where
you read it, so we read it so you don't
have to.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Thanks for tuning in today, See you guys later
Well in your books, start with what is it? Something
like heavy on the spice, low on the plot.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yes, yeah, this, I'd.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Want to be very upfront in my author's note and
be like, this is not our typical romance novel. This
is like romantic erotica. Oh, if you're here for like
a heavy pot, go away, because all it's just it's
just fun. And like, heaven forbid I get a review
that's like therewith no plot, I'm going to be like, well,
(00:31):
I warn.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You, hey, I'm less and I'm read. This is not
that kind of book club a.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Bookish podcast for let me read it so you don't
have to.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hey, book friends, it's read and I'm less. It's not
that kind of book club. And so excited. Today, on
the line, of course, not in studio, but via zoom,
we have Luna Day.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hey Luna, how's it going good? How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We are well, we're right, We're good, We're doing pretty well. Amazing.
I get so excited when we get authors on on
our podcast. It just makes conversations so fun. Yeah. So
how we start this off usually is we play read
reading to be read, because it's not a game. It's
(01:32):
just so you're just gonna tell us what was the
last book you read, the book you're currently reading, and
the next one on your TVR.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, last book I read was Hate Mail choose that
I don't know how to Donna Marchetti, I want to say, Okay, yeah,
I really enjoyed it. Not high spice, but a fun
little plot. Enemies to lovers, like childhood enemies to lovers.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That was fun.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
My list, I'm currently reading Saint by Sierra Simone. So
I've been reading through the first series. So I finished
Priest and Center and now I'm on Saint. I'm really
enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We're gonna have to come back to them, and.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, please do, because I'm really enjoying the series.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And my next one is going to be probably The
Good Girl Effect by Sarah ca because I'm getting an
arc of that. So that's pie up on my list.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh I love Sarah Kate. Okay, So Priest now, I
have not read the series. I want to, but I
I couldn't wrap my brain around the Priest part. And
It's not like I'm a hardcore religious human. It was
more I was just sitting there. I was like, oh
(02:58):
my god, like pries so on a scale of like
one to ten or like just kind of give me
the rundown here, how bad is it in terms of
the priest?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bad in what way?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Like are we talking? I don't know, Like I know
the confessional will be in there, but like I'm just
trying to like wrap my brain around like an erotic
story around a priest, is it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's really well done priest romance, let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But I also was curious about how the whole series
would work because it is very religious and it is
tightened with religious Yeah, a fantastic job. I really enjoy
this and it doesn't it doesn't matter the way she rates.
It really works. And he struggles with his faith and
his calling and wanting this woman, and it's really well balanced.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay. That kind of makes me feel a bit better
about it. Where it's like trying to understand like your direction. Okay, Okay,
I probably could read this. It was just maybe I
judged it too soon because I just read the back
of it and I was like, oh my god, Like
I don't know if I can read an erotic novel
about a priest. I'm not sure. I'm into that. But okay,
(04:23):
maybe I'll add it back to my list then because
it's not it sounds like it could be like a
self discovery.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yep, I could do this.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I could do this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It is very much like And the thing is it's
not just erotic like it is a story novel. There
is struggle there. Yeah, if there is like so many
themes going on, and I was like very impressed with
all the layers on top of everything. And that's why
I reading the series, and it's every book has been fantastic, amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, I have it at home, so maybe I'll dive
into it. I just never like I bought it. I
just never read it yet because I got caught on
the back of it. But okay, now I'll read it.
You got me convinced. Yeah, I'm reading Tate James. Yeah,
I'm reading Tate James right now. And I just like,
I forget how much I love Tate James.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I don't think anything.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Really she are you going? You're not going to uh
BB four E next weekend? Are you?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
No, I'm not going either. It's okay, I wanted to,
but what does that stand for? Book besties Forever? I
think was not invited not a book. No, it's it's
it's a big one. Like it was sold out in
like seconds, like seconds. Yeah, I was on the wait
list for a ticket and last minute I got a
single ticket. But it's the same night that I'm flying
(05:45):
out on our family vacation, and I was like, yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cut it close. So
I'd rather go to the Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, have you read have you read Ammo Jones? No?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay, at her to your list. That's like one author
if I could meet in real life, I think I
would just like run and hug and probably get escorted
out by security. But I just want to hug her.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I will add it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
At it Okay. I mean, maybe we should get to
the bread and butter of our podcast today.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The arcs, which I have only just learned in the
last few weeks, means advanced reader's copy.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, we were so lucky that Sona allowed us to
be readers for her upcoming, upcoming series, upcoming novella trilogy. Right,
we can call it a trilogy. Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
There's three books.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean trilogy yea. But yeah, we were so
lucky to get a copy of them and actually get
to read them, and I love it. I was reading
it on the airplane and my sister, Oh, my sister
kept looking over and what are you reading. I was like, oh,
don't eat it, don't look right now.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Anything with a play on an airplane like that is
that is some brave stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You're on my kindle Like it's fine, I can like
hide in the corner. And it was just my sister.
But my sister looks over and she's like, what is this?
And I was like, oh, please, Like you're not gonna
like it. You don't like anything with spice, so like,
just don't bother.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well in your books start with uh, what is it?
Something like heavy on this spice, low on the plot.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, yeah, this I.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Wanted very upfront in my author's note and be like,
this is not our typical romance novel. This is like
romantic erotica. Oh, if you're here for like a heavy
go away because it's just fun and like, heaven forbid,
I get a review that's like there with no plot,
(07:51):
I'm going to be like, well, I wore you.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's like it was. It was in the forward of
the book. Thank you, but I honestly, I okay. First,
I'm like reading the first part of the story, and
when I started the second book, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Like, didn't I just read this?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Didn't I just read this? It's like, is this what
I read already? And then for the third one, it
was the same, and I was like, okay, I understand now, yeah,
because I didn't. I didn't read the second one right away.
I like saw that at the beginning, and I was like,
wait a minute. So then I went to the third
and it was the same. I was like, oh, okay,
so it's like the three stories kind of in one ish, right,
(08:30):
Like I liked it. It was good.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, I mean the prologue is the same and the
epilogue is the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And I liked it because it was like intertwined.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, it's from a different character's point of view in
each one, right, it's a little bit different in each one.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah. I loved it. And each one was like unique
in its own way.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's good. Didn't you read yours at work?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I sure did read them at work, because I feel.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Like that's worse than reading about an airplane.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
It was alone.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Oh this sounds so bad no matter how I put it.
But I was alone in a room reading that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh reason, massage therapist. So there's like a bed.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah no, nothing crazy went down when I read them.
But holy smokes, I don't think I have read spicy
erotica stuff before. I haven't read erotica before. And I
just dove right in with everything in these books, and
my eyes were opened, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like Luda Rea as a nonfiction girl for the most part.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yet okay, very different. This is just like right into
the deep end.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Oh yeah, I was both feet jumping in.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's like when somebody says they want to read dark
romance and they go straight to Haunting Adeline and you're like, no, no, no, honey,
you've got to start like back here.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
My first dark romance was Den of Vipers, and that's
like a hole.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, that one was.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I was like, give me more.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I actually loved it too. It was there was a
lot of men in this book. And the only thing
I didn't like because I listened to it as oh
my gosh, this thing sucks. I listened to it as
an audiobook and they used the same male voice for
all of the characters. So I kept getting confused as
to which one was which, yeah, because they all sounded
(10:24):
the same. But it was really good. I can't I
can't know that.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's just this was like fun and you have to
appreciate it for what it is, Like, I'm not looking
for a literary masterpiece something.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, if the spice scenes are good, awesome,
they were great. I mean, I'm not gonna lie like
I started at some points with like certain books, I'm like, oh,
that's spicy, and then you go to the next one
and you're like, ooh that's spicy, and then you just
keep going up and you're like, I'm not even shocked
by the spice anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's just well, kind of kind of an offshoot here.
But I know, so I know of somebody who does
rope play, like you talk about in your first book,
and when you put those two things together. I didn't
realize that rope play could be so kinky and used
(11:14):
in sex scenes until I read through your book and
I was like, oh, so she's not just doing rope
play to do rope play. Yeah, it's not just like
cool notts and stuff. It's like to get railed.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Rihanna did you just say that on a podcast? I did. Okay,
we're gonna have to put a this is not safe
for anybody under the age of eighteen, no, not safe
for work content warning. No, I love it. So let's
kind of dive into the books, like what kind of
(11:51):
what kind of things are we exploring? And we know,
what do you want to say about your books?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Okay, So I wasn't actually planning on writing anything this
year because this is the year that I'm taking to query.
So I have like a full novel that's just been
sitting that I've been querying out with agents. So that
was the plan. Was just like I was part of
a small anthology earlier this year and I was like
(12:18):
that's good, Like I'll just query. And then I ended
up having some time off work and I thought, well,
I'll sit down and write, and I came up with
a erotica series. So this is what happened. So the
theme is like kink, right, So I mean everybody has
(12:39):
a different thing they're exploring. Like my friend Violet Peerce
is doing like an erotica series as well, and hers
is like taboo ooh yeah, it's fantastic. So I decided
to go the direction of kink. So each book in
my series, the after Glow series, explores frink kinks in
(13:00):
each one, so there's multiple kinks, there's one that maybe
takes center stage in each one. The first book, Tie
Me Down, obviously, it is exploring shubari, which is rope play.
I took a private class on it, yeah you did,
and on training first first like experience with it myself.
(13:21):
I didn't want to write about it when I didn't
know about it. That was fun. And that also features
consensual non consent, which is another big kink, big warning
there for that book. You want to make sure that
you're okay with diving into that kind of content. Book
turned me on. It's more of an exhibitionist kink novel there.
(13:45):
And then the third book, Wear Me Out, is more
about free use and sharing and that kind of kink.
And then there's like little kinks sprinkled in.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, I don't know. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I thought it was fantastic and just very eye opening.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean coming from the non fiction girly.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yep, and I mean obviously like it was I've heard
of sex clubs and you know, have I guess looked
into them like when I've been traveling, like I haven't gone,
so for you to use that as a basis of
your novel, like, are there any in Vancouver?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes? Okay, yes, all right, I have not gone. No, No,
I just I know there's nothing if you no, no, no, no, no
no no. It's because I read so many books about
sex clubs that I'm like, do these things exist? So
then I have to google it, and then all of
a sudden, I'm like, holy teedo, there's six in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Do we have any in Saskatoon?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You looked, dude, I guess it's sassotoon.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Dude, you can't even have strippers too small Saskatoon two conservative.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You can go to Alberta and have strippers.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Not here. Calgary?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, is there one in Calgary? There's a couple intriguing, Okay, interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You don't have to keep in mind though, like it's
not it's not fictional. No sile adult club, right, because
we make it amazing and perfect and fancy and that
kind of thing. So like imbellish, we ambellished. So if
you're if you're looking to go to a real one,
you got to you gotta do the research and make
(15:26):
sure you're going somewhere that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You're to Yes, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's funny. If
you want to hear a funny story, I might change
it around a little bit so that change the names
the person doesn't know. But I once went to Toronto
with an individual and at one point in the night
(15:50):
they were like, oh, like sorry, I'll say, like we're
gonna go to the bathhouse, like we'll see you later,
and me, being naive twenty year old, like what the hell, okay,
have fun, like go whatever you're doing. And I walked
home by myself in Toronto and got home, went to
bed whatever. My individual did not come home, and in
the morning, I'm like, where are you? He walks in
(16:13):
the door and I'm like, oh, like, how was the bathhouse?
Like did you have fun? And he looks at me
and he's like, do you know what a bathhouse is?
And I was like do I know what a bath
house is? And he's like, oh, le' yeah, you go
to find other people to have sex with.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I can't say I've been to a bathhouse?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yes, And then did I Yeah? Did I have to
look up said bathhouse?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yes? You absolutely did?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I did I know exactly where it is in Toronto.
It's called the Aqua Lounge. Ooh so fun. Fat Yep,
that happened to me, naive twenty year old, Like what
I was not reading? I was not reading spicy romance
at this point. I was still against reading no horotica. Oh,
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this is definitely a mature audience themed podcast today.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yep, big time.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So then would you recommend like reading your books in
order or can you kind of read them mix and match,
Like if I wanted to read the last one first,
could I?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, that's kind of the fun thing. So there they
are ordered, like there's numbers on the spine when you
get them, but you can read it in any order,
so it doesn't matter which one you read first, because
the stories are all parallel to each other. They're not
like weaved, so it doesn't actually matter which one you
read first. Although I designed it in a certain order,
(17:45):
but I actually wrote it backwards, so I actually wrote
wear me Out first, and then I wrote Turn Me On,
and then I wrote So I wrote everything backwards, So
I mean pick and choose, and like, you don't have
to read them all. So if CNC isn't your thing
and you want to skip time me down, skip it.
You don't need to read it.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean, yeah, exactly, or multiple partners or any of that. Right, Yeah,
I love it. And when do your books get released?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
So they're coming out in September, so one a week basically,
so September second, and then the next Tuesday and then
the next Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
So I was gonna say, so, Luna, I'm just gonna
show up at your door and be like, Hi, can
you sign my book? She's like, yes, I will, don't worry.
So then I'm dying. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I have things like lined up already for the launch
of them, so like Calgary, and I'll be doing one in.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Edmonton, so send me the details, ree and I might
have to make a road trip. I don't know. I'm
I'm a huge Luna Day fan.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Come on, guys, come on out.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So then outside of being an author or writer, tell
us about Luna, tell us who you are.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well, Luna is a very specific person he is. I mean,
I'm a mom. That's my I mean, that's my pride
and joy, my little girl. Yeah, a little day. She's
two and a half.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But I love an age.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Oh she's just so fun, she's so active.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Go go, go.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Really till bedtime. So I mean, I'm a mom, I'm
a teacher. I don't talk much about that because it's
very separate from yes totally, but yeah, I do teach
middle school. I teach English. Yeah you do, makes sense.
(19:56):
I have a wonderful husband. He's lovely, in supportive and
so fantastic with my writing career and supporting me with that.
And I have a lovely writing group that I meet
with like every other week here in Calgary, full of
lots of local romance authors.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I was going to say, is this a lot of
the authors that we're in the anthology?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah? Yeah, so the Wild Grows Romantics actually have like
my Little Cup right here. Oh so cute.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah. So there's a bunch of us that meet. We
support each other. We help each other, like, you know,
talk through different things, struggle. Sometimes we'll read for each other,
you know, pick each other's brains. I love that and
that's been fantastic. So we've been getting together for I
don't know, the past year or so, and they've been lovely.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I mean, my days are full. My days are busy,
like I I'm either working full time and then coming
home to take care of my kid and makes up
her and everything and all that jazz. So I mean,
I don't sit down and have my own time till
like eight thirty wow, every night, and then I try
and write.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And I was gonna say, how do you how do
you fit in time to write? You're a busy bee.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's hard. I am awake too late and then I
have to be too early.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, that makes sense. So then do you find your
writing more kind of in that evening section of the day.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Always that's pretty much the only time I can write.
So I'll sit down, like I wrote till I don't know,
eleven pm last night, Oh my gosh, wow. Working Yeah,
working on a moment. So it's that's the only time
I have to do it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And so I guess also, like I know they're separate,
but like balancing being a teacher and then being an author,
I feel like you're working all day, You're coming home
to a kiddo, you're making supper out of that. Like
are you still kind of working every night at your
at writing or is it get a little bit harder
during the school year and then in the summer just
(22:02):
because of that break. It's a little bit easier or
maybe it's the same the whole time.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
No, it's it's definitely harder during the school year because
like I'm burnt out, Like it is hard. I believe
that right now. Like I don't know if anything state
of the education system right now here, but you know,
things are things are difficult. We're looking at going on
strike like it's not been super easy. We don't always
(22:30):
have a lot of support, so, I mean, the days
are long. I know. I know some people think teachers
work like nine to three, but gosh, like I'm at
work at seven thirty at least four, Like I'm tired.
I get my kid and then I come home and
then I take care of her. You know, I'm a
mom too, right, Like I'm a full time teacher, I'm
a mom stuff to do. So yeah, sometimes by the
(22:52):
time she's in bed, I'm like, oh my gosh, I
have nothing in me. Yeah, right, so it slows down.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like as an
English teacher too, like you would have marking and other
things to kind of do as well. And that's that's
in itself. It's a lot. I know my mom taught
grade five a lot of stories yep, yep, my no.
My mom talk grade five for twenty some years, and
(23:21):
the amount of extra work that she would put in
for those grade fives, they like so many of them
are still in contact with my mom and it's crazy,
that's cute. But she put in so much work and
effort and different things with teaching, whereas now it's like
you can't be at the school for longer than this period,
(23:42):
you have to do this, this, this, And she took
a contract this year because she actually retired two years ago,
but she took a part time contract just to kind
of help out. And in the school, she's like, it's
a it's a disaster lesia, Like I don't want to
be teaching. I don't want to be dealing with this
feel I feel for the teachers kind of coming into
(24:03):
this pre this profession with things in the state that
they are. And I can say, honestly, Saskatchewan's not much better.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, it's been. It's been interesting over the last decade
to see where I started versus where everything is now.
And I feel like I wear like fifty different hats
when I'm at my job, Like I'm not just teaching right,
like I'm counseling. I'm trying to take care of kids'
mental health, right, I'm like moderating. I have all these
things that I need to do and then all of
(24:34):
the you know, like prep side of things and planning,
and then also like dealing with you know, just like
simple paperwork and how many things I have to fill
out an emails And I know that's my probin. That's fine,
but it's gotten. It's gotten heavier than the last ten
years for oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And like, honestly, I say this with a grain of salt,
but like sometimes dealing with parents, or dealing with other teachers,
or dealing with everything else can also make that just
a little bit heavier. And there's just a lot going
on and so many factors, and no, I applaud you
for for everything you're doing as a teacher, because teachers
(25:13):
are wildly important and they get like, honestly, I feel
like they get not necessarily the words, not taken advantage of,
but I feel like they are not given the credit
they deserve and just kind of get looked over as
I don't know, I don't know. I just think it's unfortunately,
it's impacting how kids are learning and we're going to
(25:35):
see a lot of the detrimental effects kind of in
the next coming years.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, I appreciate that. That's yeah, I do feel feel
that as well. And that's why writing is like my
happy place, right It's where I can do what I
want and like do what I'm passionate about, and it,
you know, fills my cup, so to say in a
way that maybe teaching doesn't quite do that anymore. So,
I mean, I'm happy job, but I also love.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Writing and you know what, I love your writing.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So yeah, we do keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I can't keep doing that. I told you I'm a
big Day fan, yep. But yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So if our listeners want to find you, where can
they find you?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
On social media?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You can find me on Instagram at Luna Deay writes.
I don't do Facebook because I'm not sixty years old.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's so fair.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You can follow me on there, but I'm not really
doing anything on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
But but I will not answer you.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
That's right. So I mean slide into my dms on
Instagram anytime. I'm on there a lot because I have
to do everything because I'm an India author, so I'm
in all my own marketing, pr and everything. And I'm
happy to chat with people. I mean, if you send
me a message, I'm going to message you back, unless
you're a creep, and then I will want you want it.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I will just unless it's send me photos of your
feet and I'll send you two hundred dollars because that has.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Happened two hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Though I'm not gonna lie you. During COVID it's like, hi, sweetheart,
are you looking for a sugar daddy?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
And I'm like, yes, wait, I mean no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Okay. Actually, though I showed Ben the one day and
he's like, how much is he gonna give you? And
I looked at him and I was like, seriously, He's like, hey,
if it's a good amount of money.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Money's money.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It's like benjamit. But no, okay, I don't even know
what I was talking about. Okay, Lunas. So, if somebody
wants a copy of your book, how is or what's
the best way to get a copy.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
The easiest way is on Amazon, So I mean I'm
on there. My other books are on there. You can
get Three Hearts hid Away, you can get Kissed and
make Love. They're both on Kindle Unlimited if you have
that so you can read it that way. These will
all be coming out. I have two up for pre
order right now. I actually am just getting my proofs
in right now. Look how adorable this little baby book is.
(28:21):
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. Look at it. She's
just a baby.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
So these will be available on there. I mean, you
can buy the paperback on release days in pre order
now if you want the ebook, but you can also
find me at like the Forbidden Library and Calgary Slowburn Books.
You can find me at the Book Boudoir in Edmonton,
Pages of Passion in Saskatoon, and then I'm like in
a sprinkling of places in the United States. I'm in
(28:55):
like a place in Australia. If you really want the Deeps,
because you're there, just like message, he'll send you the bookstore.
But yeah, the easiest way is usually online.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Amazing. Well, that's so excited. I'm excited, exciting. I'm really
excited for for these next three to get released. And
I encourage everybody to pre order or kind of wait
and see when they can they can order or get
their copy in person. And like Luna said, they're all
(29:26):
releasing in September.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, re did I answer all your questions? You did
say that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You definitely did you definitely did you know?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I probably had more.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
They just went just out of the brain. As soon
as I said get railed. It was all downhill. Oh no,
mature content, mature content warning.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I asked you guys a question. Yes, I would like
to know, like which was your favorite character, or like
who is your favorite couple?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Second book? I can't remember their names offhand, but the
second book. I also like the fact that you had
the author's note that he is more of a dense
individual so to not expect.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Too much out of him.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm like, you know what for an author to put
that in there about a character like well done, I
appreciate that because you don't get that very often. Everybody
has to be so slave, so elegant all the time.
It's like, no, we just need a big dumb dance boy.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yes he is my favorite. So writer is yes, sir, writer,
dumb dense boy and he loves his woman and he
is my favorite as well. I absolutely had a time
writing him. It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh, he was so fantastic to just read through and like, yeah,
have in there.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It was awesome. I really enjoyed that one.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Oh, I'm so glad he actually like, I loved writing
the hymbo Solma that I'm planning on writing like a
full romance novel down the line with a himbo.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I met.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, so fun to like have those like dumb thoughts
and like weird asides and like inability to describe things.
It was a blast.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh, I think it was super fantastic. What about you
first book? First book?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, I like the roaplay. I thought it was sick.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Now I really want to go do shabari.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Just give it a try.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Fun.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Re want to go on a date? You want to
go do some Sabari?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, let's go do Okay, we can tie to the
girls' night thing. I've seen so many of the classes.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
There's got to be here in town.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Oh there is, Like, Okay, there's a bunch of classes.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Well, Shabari Hit us Up. We would love the podcast
to come out.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's not the name of the place.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
No, but Sabari is what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, but you just said Shabari hit us Up.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, anybody who does it and you should reach out.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah. Oh my gosh, I love that so much. Yeah, no,
I loved it. It was good. It's good. But I
also liked all of them though. That's the problem. Yeah,
it's not a problem. Yeah, it's a good problem to have.
So then, Luna, which one's your favorite?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Rider is my favorite?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, the dense one, the Himbombo.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I love a good dominant man like Adam, like Adam is, yeah,
like an older man, and that's that's all good. But
Rider was just oh, I just love how he's dominant big.
That's such a great combination.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yes, I love that. I love that so much. Okay, wow,
thank you?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Have you more?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Well it's probably not book related, that's okay. But if
you had to pick one book in the entire world
that's one of your favorite books, and like not a
classic like in like the last like five six years.
If you had one book that you're like, this is
one of my favorite books, what would you pick?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I'll give you two, Okay, Okay, So the first one
would be The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. It's a
horror novel. The whole entire book only has two characters.
I don't want to give too much away.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Can you send me send me this book?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Name, well, it's very much like futuristic. There's some cave exploration,
like literal cave exploration. This is not a not a
you know, it is a horror book. It's not a
spicy cave. But I loved it. That was like an
(33:47):
out of ten read for me. I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it,
and I don't want to talk too much about it
because I will spoil it, and if you're going to
read it, you don't want me to spoil it for you,
because it was so good and honestly anything by Grady Hendrix,
who is also a horror author, but he's really campy,
(34:07):
which I love. So you might have heard of my
best Friend's Exorcism, fantastic book, but my favorite by him
is The Southern book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires that
is also a ten out of ten book. He he's
a male, but he writes females so well, and that
(34:28):
book was like so good middle aged women dealing with
like a supernatural force in their town. Vampires obviously yea,
but it was. It's just fantastic the way it was written.
It was just so good. So I'm a big horror buff.
I was a huge, Like I'm a huge horrorman for romance.
(34:48):
That was my first like love that I felt reading.
So if you ever need horror rex, I have so many.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Would you ever write a horror book?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Then maybe down the line, I'm working on a dark
romance that has some supernatural elements in there, So yeah,
tickling my horror bone right now. I wouldn't call it horror.
It is more supernatural. But I love horror, like, I
just think it is so fun and it's a great
way to like get your blood pumping in a different way.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, okay, re top two, top two. Oh my goodness,
you're gonna have to come back to me. Okay, next episode.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
No, you got to think of it. Well, I told
you so.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I have two.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Both of them are like slightly dark romance, but they're
just ones that after I read them, I'm like, oh, like,
that was such a good book. I wish I could
just reread it again for the first time. So Ruthless
People by JJ mcboy. I loved it at first when I.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Started to sing it.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, at first, when I started listening to the audio book,
I could not stand the man's voice. But I mean,
after you get past like chapter four, you're like, hey,
I actually really like his voice because he has to
play like a Scottish man. Yeah, so that one ten
out of ten. It's still one of the books that
I just love them. And the second one I actually
(36:10):
I read this over Christmas, and it might not be
everybody's cup of tea, but it was The Blackwood Institute
by Jay Rose, and it was pretty dark, like, let
me be quite frank, but it explored like it gave
me Stanford prison vibes, like the Stanford Process study vibes,
where like they're in an institute but like not everything
(36:33):
is what it seems, and like they're all there for
different reasons and the whole thing is supposed to be
like recovery and recouping and getting better because all of
them have essentially committed a crime or something like that,
but it's actually just a giant experiment ooh, and like
kind of like kind of yeah, and it's like, don't
(36:58):
get me wrong, there's some spicy scene too, and like
multiple humans with like the girl has multiple love interests,
but like, to be quite frank, like it was super
cool to see somebody kind of explore mental illness and
kind of these mental institutes and like, do they all
(37:20):
exist like this? No? I hope not, like that would
be so inhumane. But the books were really good.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, I'm a dark romance human, but like even now
when I would argue, is not only dark romance, it's
like dark.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, just like a dark, dark book.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, how about you read just touched.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
One of them that I read recently that was really
good was When Women Were Dragons.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Oh, that was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I get nonfiction.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Uh no, it is fiction.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
I know, I know. Have you heard of that one, Luna.
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
If you ever need like a break from spice, highly
recommend that one.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Good to know.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, alrighty, I think uh, I think we can end
it there. That was a great It was amazing. That
was an awesome, awesome episode, Luna. Thank you so much
for having for having us. Luna. We're so glad that
you were here today to talk with us. We're super
excited for your books to come out in September. And
(38:21):
if our listeners have not checked out Luna day before,
please check her out on Instagram, go on Amazon, download
her books, give them a read.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Pre order.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, pre order, so thank you again. Thank you. Okay,
of course, okay time, Carrie. This was not that kind
of book club.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And I'm ree you're less. We're a bookish podcast where
you read it, so we read it so you don't
have to.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Thanks for tuning in today, See you guys later
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