Who Am I and How Did I Get Here?

The answers to those questions are – Luna and that’s a bit of a long story. I have the name Luna due to the fact I was born on a Monday during a full moon. Fits, doesn’t it? I think so too. No it's not my real name, it's my 'nom de internet" seeing as I'm not very fond on my real name.

The whole how I got here started about 5 years ago on Sherrilyn Kenyon’s web site message board. I began talking with a woman there by the name of Tina. We bonded over books at that site for a couple of years, I even started doing banners with my Gimp graphics program for people to use when they posted. Then the site was revamped and the whole message board got canned. Bummer. Those of us who hung out on that site moved on over to Facebook where some of us kept in touch and others lost touch.
Tina and I were two that kept in touch. Tina had started up this Facebok group called Kris Cook’s Chatters for readers of erotic romance books who went to Kris’s chat site and yammered about all sorts of crazy stuff. One day Tina asked me to  make some stuff for her for one of Kris’s books she’d read. I asked her if she could tell me a bit about the story of it so I could get an idea of what to do graphically for it to make it fit right. Sounded kind of interesting to me. After I’d finished, she lent me the book. That’s the start of how I got here. Tina’s “Perversion Conversion” began. I cheekily referred to her as “Shmuttmeister” for the lovely smutty books she read and introduced me to. I joined the Kris Cook’s Chatters and became a regular in the chats too. One day Sophie Oak, an author who frequented the group and chats called the group a bunch of Righteous Perverts in the dedication of her book Siren Enslaved. The name stuck and the group morphed from Kris Cook’s Chatters to The Righteous Perverts. The chat site was renamed as well.

Over the past year since the renaming, we have continued to chat every Wednesday night and we still hang out in the Facebook group, talking about what books we’ve recently read, what up coming books we are looking forward to and even simple things as how our days have gone or vented about what’s bothered us in our lives. Then one day we all decided we needed to get together and finally meet in person! Yes awkward to do since most are spread out over America, and like me, in another country all together from the majority of members. But meet we did, down in Texas for the Cinco De Mayo weekend. There it was where I’d at last met the Shmuttmeister, the corruptor of the (not so) innocent! Yes, it only took three years for me to finally smack her ass in person. Yup, I literally smacked it. With a paddle. In an adult sex toy shop. In Texas. No we weren’t alone when it happened. We were with the other Righteous Perverts members who flew in to Texas to do “Fig Fest” – that’s what we called the gathering. I was the only non-American there… so technically it’s was the international Fig Fest meet n’ greet. Yay for Canadian content. Anyways, we had a wicked fun weekend hanging out and I managed to drag my ass onto a plane despite my fear of flying (and the panic attack I had in the airport in Toronto). I would so do it again to do the next get-together.

Now begins the next era of the group, the bloggy thingie as I call it. The group will now have a blog where we yammer about random weirdness or whatever tickles our fancy. So onward we go with The Righteous Perverts, the book club for those who love romance and all it’s sub-genres… yes even the kinky erotic stuff :P

Luna