AP reporter heats up passions in first novel, Hot Shade! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by B

Today's Guest: Tamara Lush, AP reporter based in St. Petersburg, Florida, whose first novel is Hot Shade.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Tamara Lush by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of sex-starved, consenting young adults who are getting crazy from the heat… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

To paraphrase the 39th President of the United States, I have lust in my heart… for Tamara Lush.

We’ve never met in person, never even laid eyes on each other before this video interview commenced, but having read her searingly inflamed first attempt at romance fiction, I can’t help but want to get to know her better.
TAMARA LUSH podcast excerpt: "While it is about sex, writing romance and reading romance is a really feminist act. It's about women taking control of their own lives and their own pleasure."
You can LISTEN to this interview with AP reporter and novelist TAMARA LUSH, author of HOT SHADE, by clicking the audio player above!

Fortunately, she’s in a soundproof booth and can’t hear me right now.

I think.

Uh, Tamara, can you hear me?

Oh, sh!t.

Look, what can I say? Hot Shade is a passionate, erotic story about Skylar, a young female reporter in a small Florida beach town who meets a mysterious Italian tourist in the course of doing her job. He soon turns her on in ways she never knew existed. It’s an excellent first effort and I know I want to read more from the ironically named Lush.
TAMARA LUSH podcast excerpt: "When I was in second grade, I was heavily influenced by the movie 'Raiders of the Lost Ark. And in the early 1980s, I wrote 'Raiders fanfic. It always had to do with vaguely handsome foreign men doing swashbuckling things around the globe. There was heroine who need to be rescued. I was heavily influenced by Marion Ravenwood (played by actress Karen Allen). She was aw