I’ve written 5 books I’m happy with so far, and I’m currently on the sixth one. The genres vary, and there might be a reason why I call myself Moody.
The first three books I’ve got published were funny stories with a hint of erotica. Humor and sex, what can you expect more? It wasn’t my idea, those were customs from the XYZ Publishing house (yes, it’s really their name). The very first one was erotic versions of classic fairytales, and the book got a decent success.
There were Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and much more. So I was asked to write another two, this time I picked my favorite heroes and villains from books, movies and TV shows I love. You can bet that there was Harry Potter, Dracula, Shrek, and others. For the third one, I went for the historical characters, for kings such as Alexander the Great or Henry VIII, and also caesar Caligula.
I got my confidence, and yet it took me ten years until I’ve written the fourth book I finished in 2019. This is my favorite book so far. I played with magic, dragons, and armies of supernatural creatures and put a lot of humor and sex as well in my version of the game of thrones. This I called Children of Blood, and there is a parallel Prague where the alchemy and magic took over what gives us technology in our world.
In 2020 I finished another book We Are Sisters. This is the first one I’ve written in English, the previous ones were still in my mother’s language Czech. We Are Sisters is a story of one woman Katty, there is passion, there is a murder, there is love, and there is no redemption in the end. As a contrast to Katty’s seeking for love, the story is larded with authentic fragments of Katty’s secret life as a cam girl. Currently I’m seeking an agent to help me to get this book published.
At this very moment, I’ve started to work on the sixth book of mine. I haven’t decided whether I will write a novel in the first person singular again or a crime thriller in the third person which would allow me to describe the story from more angles. I love this part of writing with the totally white desk, meaning a totally (almost) white page in MS Word.
As a kid, I used to write very brief stories accompanied by drawings, all about princesses and other fairytales. My mom still has some of them stored in the highest spot of the old stuff, but they are there.
When I was in my twenties, I was too busy with dating and enjoying the youth in clubs and parties. I had no time for writing at that time, but my eagerness for it didn’t vanish, just fade a bit. I sold a couple of brief articles to the local paper, though.
It changed when I reached my thirties: fewer parties, much more longing for writing. So I got myself a laptop and started writing. My first books were well-read, but the story had real issues in them. It definitely applies here that as much you do something, the better you get. So I wrote a lot.
Where some used their holiday for being lazy somewhere close to the water, I was busy with my laptop. Once I finished a book I don’t even recall the name, I grabbed the attention of a chief editor of XYZ Publishing house, and we agreed on cooperation. He asked me to write for them a book of classic fairytales in an erotic version… and you know the rest.