As
you undoubtedly know by now, I just did a
paired release with my friend and colleague Larry Archer. I set my
novella Hot Brides in Vegas in Larry’s fictional world of swingers
and strippers. Of course Larry's book, Nina the Fallen Ballerina, also revolves around The Fox's Den, the wildest, classiest strip club in Las Vegas. We wrote intros for each other’s books, too.
Anyway,
today we’re each interviewing the other. But these aren’t your
typical author interviews, with superficial questions like “Where
do you get your ideas?” or “Are you a plotter or a pantser?”
No, we’re going for the real dirt in these conversations—as
you might expect from two smut mongers like us!
I
hope you’ll go read Larry’s interview with me, here:
Meanwhile,
to find out everything you ever wanted to know about the real Larry
Archer, read on!
Be warned, though; this interview is not safe for
work!
Lisabet:
Obviously, Larry Archer, the owner of
The Fox's Den, is in some sense your alter ego.
In what ways are you and your character similar? How are you
different?
Larry:
Owning The Fox's Den is a Walter Mitty thing for me. My character
is exactly like me or at least how I perceive myself to be with
the exception of owning a strip club and having more money
than God. My wife and I are professional white collar types in real
life. I did, in fact, grow up on a farm in East
Texas, which shaped a lot of my values. My father is a blue-collar
type, and my mother is a psychologist, a weird
combination I grant you. Between my Mom's liberal ideas and my Dad's
right of center conservative ideas, my belief
structure is definitely a little skewed.
When
I write, I picture myself in the story and react as I would. I like
to think that I'm towards the quiet side while my wife is an "A"
type and typically bouncing off the walls so to speak. We are
complete opposites, and I guess we complement
each other.
Back
in the mid-west, we frequented several strip clubs and one key-club.
Typically about twice a month, if there weren't
a house party, we would end up at a strip club or the key club.
Normally it would be 5-6 couples and 2 or 3 unicorns,
so our normal going-out group was 15-20 people.
This was the basis for The Fox's Den as it ended up being a cross
between our favorite strip club and the key club.
Our
favorite strip club had couples night on Saturdays,
and a lot of the girls would get up and go topless on the dance floor
to the delight of the customers. It's funny how guys will crowd
around to see a thirty-year-old housewife go topless when there are
eighteen-year-olds with perfect bodies dancing on stage.
The
key club was your wildest fantasy, an actual club where the only
people who got in had to have a key. A girl I met at a house party
was a waitress there and invited us to the club. We met with the
owner and after making our bones with him were invited to join. It
was a large two-story building, with a normal bar on the bottom
floor, and a door with one of those round keys that would unlock it
and allow access to the second level. There was a bar at one end with
a pretty big stage and the rest 4-tops.
The
club typically had about half and half couples and single guys, with
a few single females. It was not quite an "on-premise"
swing club as most of the guys were straight but a majority of the
couples were swingers. Pretty much anything went at the club,
and there was always an impromptu floor show with several naked
housewives and sometimes a lucky guy. Like the Den, single guys had
to keep their hands to themselves except when invited and this rule
was strictly enforced by the management. Of course, we always had one
or two cops with us in case of problems.
Lisabet:
I know that you and your wife are long-time participants in the
swinging lifestyle. What's the wildest scene
you've experienced as part of that lifestyle? Has that scene made it
into any of your books?
Larry:
We host several big parties a year, and the
best one by far is our annual New Year's Eve Pajama Party. There are
between 50-60 couples invited plus a handful of singles. We travel a
lot, and as a result, there are typically a
number of couples from across the country who we've met. As
you can probably imagine having 100+ minimally dressed people in a
4,000 square foot house means that it's wall to wall people.
New
Year's typically lasts until the next normal work day,
so our party is generally 2-3 days longs long. After New Year's Eve,
it's about 5 – 10 couples that end up spending the weekend with us.
As
far as the craziest thing, one that sticks out is the night one of
our neighbors crashed our New Year's Eve parties. About 1AM, the
doorbell rings, and Wifey
and I answer the door to discover our neighbors from three houses
down standing there. They are all decked out and came home from
another party and decided to stop in. Up until that point, we've
always been able to avoid inviting them as that would have required
some disclosure that we didn't want to make.
I'm
in a bathrobe and Foxy is in a one-piece Snoopy
long john outfit, which was unbuttoned down below her waist. I don't
remember if the flap was down or not. Not knowing exactly what to do
as they were good friends, except straight, we invited them in.
There
was an orgy going on in the living room and most of the people at
this time were naked or close to it. Steering them to a quiet spot,
we told them that they were fine to stay except what they saw, stayed
there. Thankfully, they quickly left but it was funny that the wife
wanted to stay but I think her husband was a little freaked out.
Lisabet:
When you're writing one of your stories, do you get turned on? Do you
have to stop and - um - do something about this?
Larry:
Writing turns me on and yes I'm often guilty of abusing myself
when writing. I think that's why I like writing at Starbucks or in a
fast food restaurant because you can't jerk off and have to
focus on writing. Or I'll go and bang wifey. LOL
Lisabet:
What do you think is the most erotic thing in the universe?
Larry:
Has to be watching two women make love, hands down. I love
watching two women together especially when I have my camera or
phone. At home, Jack (the security guy in my stories) usually films
but he tends to shake the camera if his nympho wife is part of the
mix and getting taken care of.
Lisabet:
Tell us about Nina The Fallen Ballerina. Where did the
idea come from? Where did it take you?
Larry:
I've realized that I like to write about the seduction of nice girls
and turning them into "good girls." A lot (most) of the
girls in my stories are variations of my wife. She's tall, lanky,
medium jugs, brunette big hair, and a head
turner.
Nina
came about from one night when Wifey and her two BBF's went to the
Smith Center to watch a play. For all the wild places in Vegas, Smith
Center is one of our few places of culture.
That
coupled with the fact we had just finished an all-night music concert
at the race track where the girls typically dress in tu-tu's
and fur boots. This got me on the subject of ballet,
and naturally, I started to think about what it would be like to
screw someone with a tu-tu on? Then it dawned on
me, that ballerinas are typically tiny little things and when I tried
to picture Wifey in a tu-tu, I had to laugh.
She's almost six feet and would probably make two ballerinas. Then it
just followed on Nina would be The Fallen Ballerina, frustrated that
she was unable to fulfill her lifelong dream but
what could she do?
Then
Nina sees an ad for erotic dancers at The Fox's Den and decides to
give it a try. She loves to wear sexy clothes and while not sure that
she has the nerve to dance naked is willing to
see.
Once
at the club, Nina falls prey to Linda, the manager, who in real life
is a dancer who looks close enough to Wifey to be her twin sister.
Nina ends up falling in love with Linda and taking her clothes off.
Not necessarily in that order!
Lisabet:
Thanks for sharing your secrets with us, Larry. All I can say is, I’d
love to come to your New Year’s Party some time...
Get your hands on Nina today!
