How An Indie Author (Skyline A. Milbow) Built An Erotic Romance World Around Consent

We talk with erotic romance author Skyline A. Millbow about writing My Kind of Love with heat, consent, and emotional weight after life changed her relationship to romance. We dig into Club Inana, character inspiration, indie publishing lessons, and what it takes to keep writing when the story keeps talking back. 
• moving from erotica reader to debut author and choosing erotic romance on purpose 
• writing infertility and a hysterectomy without defaulting to pregnancy tropes 
• building Club Inana as a consent-centred lifestyle club with clear boundaries 
• using research and beta readers for lifestyle and BDSM-adjacent accuracy 
• creating Enobi, Bronson, Zeke, and Jody from real experiences and friendships 
• shaping trauma scenes through developmental editing and lived grief 
• finding editors, ARC readers, and trustworthy collaborators through community 
• indie author realities: cover art, marketing, shipping, timelines, and scams 
• dealing with platform quirks like Amazon review changes 
• upcoming releases The Fall and Where I Sleep plus future ideas like The Eve Gene 
Make sure that you guys follow her across all her social media platforms 

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Transcript

Welcome And Meet Skyline

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Hey y'all, hey, you are watching and listening to Lex Between the Lines. I am your host, Lyx. For the most part, I tried to stay in between the lines, but these last couple of author interviews, the books, I have no choice but to step out of the line. You'll see once we start and get into the books, but first, I'm gonna let my co-host introduce herself.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Hello, my name is Skyline A. Millbow. I am an author of Erotic Romance. My first novel, my debut novel, is called My Kind of Love. It came out August 18th. I have two upcoming releases coming out this summer. My second, which is the fall, follows the story of the main group from the first book. And then, you know, we get to know some more people who we briefly met during the first book. And then the second book dives a little bit more in deeper into one of the characters' profession.

From Reader To Erotic Romance Writer

SPEAKER_02 1:05

So lots of lots of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

Honey, what made you say? Um you must already know what I'm about to say. Listen, I love me some erotica. I love me some smut. I said, what made her say I'm gonna write the and then you went in. Do you hear me? Well, what and then this is your debut. How did we get to this genre?

SPEAKER_02 1:45

You know, so I have always loved erotica. Like I, as I was preparing for the day, I was like thinking about like where I started, and like I would go to the bookstore and like read, you know, different poetry. And for a long time, like I never thought I could do it, you know. So I was after so there were some things that happened, and I kind of used romance to kind of like I don't know, just as a way to find myself, you know, like a way to relax. So I read so much romance, but then there were things in particular I was looking for. So one of the questions that you sent, it was like some things that kind of shaped my writing. Well, I had a hysterectomy at the end of 2022, and you

Writing Infertility Without Pregnancy Tropes

SPEAKER_02 2:40

know, I was grieving, you know, life not going the way I had planned it to go, and you know, infertility, all of these things. And as I was reading romance, I was reading a lot of pregnancy tropes, and I was like, I want to see a woman who's had infertility live her best sex life. And when I tell you I gave Miss Anobi that, that's what she got.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Anobi ain't have to worry about no surprises, and when I tell you they were hunching and getting it in, even on the front, I said, wait a minute, we just met, we just met Xenom, and then we just met the other two ladies.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

I said, wait a minute, you know, so I thought about that, and you know, because so uh club andana is a lifestyle club that's like at the center of the universe, and I was like, they meet in the lifestyle club, they can't be yearning over each other if they meet at a lifestyle club. We we know what you go into the club for.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

You let I mean, like normally, you know, you see like they're all like timid, and the stories that I've read when they have these clubs and stuff, and the the characters are like all timid, or they're like they don't know, like you knew you was going to this club and stuff. So why is you up in here like like I don't know what to explain? Okay, you don't know what to expect, but you know what you went into, baby. She went up in there, she know what to expect, but she was open to everything.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

She was open, she said she on it. Look, she she lived her best life, she she did it.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

How did you create this club? Like, was there any type of research that went into it?

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Yeah, so wow, I didn't prepare for that one. Oh, so actually, but you real hard.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

I know, I know, right?

SPEAKER_02 4:42

May have been a time where maybe I have been to one, maybe, so actually, oh my gosh, we might need to have you edit that part out.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

You can't just drop no bomb like that and then the really small to know where this club came from. You can't just drop no bomb like that on us and then come up with that.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Yeah, so so maybe, maybe that's one of the things that have happened, but also though, like thinking about the club, also wanted it to be a place that kind of centered like all different body types and all different experiences. And so, as I was thinking about the what the name of the club would be, I knew I wanted to name it after a goddess, and so I did some research and also knew I wanted to be after a goddess who was like reclaimed by the LGBT community, and I found Inana, and you know, it was just kind of perfect, how it worked out, and then thinking about things like the lighting system on the doors, you

Inventing Club Inana And Consent

SPEAKER_02 5:55

know, so just thinking about clubs, there are a couple of different clubs, one of which is called Colette, and they have they have clubs in New Orleans, they have one, I think, in Austin, but just kind of like thinking about like the way things, you know, the way they do things in that club, but then also kind of thinking about the things that I wanted to create in my universe, and then like how to how to like center consent. So the the the window setting was like another way to do that, to center consent in oh, I'm getting a little warm and useful. I know, I know because you in the hot seat. I'm definitely in the hot seat, so yeah, so centering consent, but then also like just another way to like look at voyeurism as well. So, like, you know, the green light or the purple light, people can look, but you know, you can look but not come in the room. So, you know, just kind of thinking things like the level to it, yeah. And and you know, that's not that's not anything I'd seen, but just kind of thinking about like what are some ways that we can can continue to like weave in this idea of consent, idea of you know, voyeurism, and then you know, also lifestyle, like allowing people just to express different interests, honey.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

I'm just like in the the rope room. We we really did some research and stuff, huh? Uh-huh. Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

We did some research.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

I just I know it as hell. So if it you could just say, just do me this little sign, because baby, and I'd be like, okay, next question. The ropes, was this from personal experience or is this from something we researched?

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Well, you know, the ropes is from something we researched, so not personal experience, yes, the rope, but you know, so the other thing about that is having beta readers. So I have a few beta readers who are also who also who are in the lifestyle. Wait a minute, come on, beta readers. Baby, that's what I'm talking about, yeah. Yeah, so and a lot of them like gave me feedback about you know, and and a lot of it was things just around the mental health representation and things like that. But then also it was nice to have people who were in the

Beta Readers Kink Research And Accuracy

SPEAKER_02 8:45

community kind of like you know, say, yeah, yeah, that's spicy. On one of which was like a woman who has been in the community for years, she said, I had to look up a rim and chair, like girl, what what is a rimming chair? Like also something I researched, not from experience. Ma'am, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

This was our first this is our debut. You came out swinging, you held nothing. When I say nothing, you held nothing back. Yeah, yeah. Let's get into these characters. Okay, was like were any of them based on like characteristics or people that you know, or did they just kind of like come to you and you like created, or did they remind you of anybody in like real life?

SPEAKER_02 9:46

I would say Enobi is reminds me of me in a lot of ways, and I I told you about that experience, you know, having a hysterectomy and wanting to to see like somebody who looked like me represented and also seeing somebody look that looked like me being loved down

Character Origins And Found Family

SPEAKER_02 10:05

when them when I tell you them people love that lady, them people love that lady, so you know, just thinking about all of that, and then so I would say definitely Enobi is a lot of me, and then also I would say that Bronson is actually a character that's been in my head for a while, and you know, like I've always been a writer, and before I actually wrote the novel, I would like to write poetry, but then I would have these ideas for stories, and I just never wrote anything for whatever reason. So finally, you know, I was talking to a friend, and I was actually telling her, you know, I want to find a book that is, you know, uh polyamorous. The woman has dealt with infertility, and she said, I think you're gonna have to write that. So I said, okay. So so Bronson was a character that had been in my head for a while, and he started off as a superhero, like this real kind of bad, like like you know, wearing expensive three-piece suit, but also you ain't gonna play with me, you know. So he had been in my head for a while, and then Zeke, Zeke just kind of like, I don't know, it would be mornings that I would get up and like I would just hear conversations, like, and I don't mean that to sound like you know, I don't know, but you know, like hearing about their experience, like a mission that they had, or you know, Zeke running through the quarter and what he would listen to on his run, and that's kind of how those characters were built. But then like Jody is like a culmination of my friends. I mean, Jody and Anobi's relationship is different, you know, that that relationship, you know, but you know, I think a lot of the things, yeah, so uh in a lot of ways, Jody represents a lot of different friendships that I've had, but also then like thinking about things that they do for Enobi. So the bonnet thing came from I was talking to a friend of mine, and she had this big oversized bonnet, and I was like, Oh, I love that. And next time I saw her, she had one for me. So just thinking about like how your friends do things and kind of take care of your needs, and that was also one of the things that I learned when I was kind of healing from my hysterectomy, like I really felt alone, and you know, it turned out to be a traumatic experience for me. And you know, I was just thinking through all these things and wishing I had a partner to go with me through all of the things that I was going through. I didn't have a partner, but I had my friends, and I had my friends who did these amazing things for me, so you know, I kind of thought of it like that, you know. So, you know, in some ways, then I would say even the things that Bronson and Zeke do for Enobi, you know, are things that have been inspired by gestures that my friends have done as well.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

How did

Editing Trauma And Emotional Pacing

SPEAKER_01 13:40

you determine? Because that first scene about took me out of the I had to oh I slammed the book so fast because I was just like, what? Like, yeah, they really comforted him through his transition. I was just like, how in the heck did you like we went from that and then we saw them progress, but them nurturing him and seeing him through that? It was like it was so it was such an emotion, it was like okay, we know it's erotic and stuff, but it was such an emotional read. Like, how did you incorporate like what trauma to put in? And how did you know when to put it at the right spot? Because like it was paced perfectly.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Thank you. So actually, that I have to give the credit to my developmental editor. So they're it in that first. So actually, the book started from Anobi's point of view originally, and that scene when they're in the room, they're in the private room, and Bronson starts talking about Kyle, and you know, Anobi knew about Kyle through Jody, and she said, I'm sorry for your loss. And Bronson said, We loved him until the very end. And my developmental editor said, you know, you should really write something that shows that they loved him to the end. And so I did, and originally it was from Bronson's perspective, but then so I went through, we finished the second round of edits, I included the the part from Bronson's perspective and sent it to beta readers, and then when it came back, she said, I really think you should do it from Kyle's perspective. So I did it from Kyle's perspective, and she was like, No, this ain't it. She was like, you know, it sounds too much like Bronson. When I tell you I was mad, I was like, What you mean? So then I went to sleep, and then I woke up. I I'll never forget, I woke up about four o'clock in the morning, and I could hear Kyle as clear as day. And I I rewrote it, and that's what ended up in the book. So yeah, so a lot of it uh it changed a great deal from what it was originally from Bronson's perspective, but then there were some things that kind of stayed the same.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

So do you know someone who went through that or you just wrote that because honey, you took me through there. Did I say through? Yes, I felt like my homeboy was I'm watching my like what? I felt like I was watching a family member pass, like I was watching the transition, like that's how yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

So actually, I lost my mom in 2017, and I kind of like pulled from that experience to write it, and you know, I think I think that experience seeing you know my mom to the very end, and just uh a story about my mom. So when we found out that she was at the end of her treatment, we called her sisters and she promised them that you know she would hold on until they got there. So she passed the morning after her final her second sister came, and like like she really did hold on to till both of her sisters got there, and she would not go with me in the room. So my cousin was coming to town, and I was like, let me go. So she's not by herself, so let me go get some clothes. So I went and I was halfway home and they told me to come back. They called me and said, come back. And my aunt said that she sat down beside my mom and said, You can go, you know, we'll take care of her. Like I'm a grown woman, I'm in my 40s, and and my my aunt said, you know, she'll be all right, and my mom let go. So, you know, like so then thinking about like the things that they say to him, and you know, allowing him to go, like, you know, just from experiences, and and you know, and I did some reading about it too, like I did research to you know, find out if a person who had prostate cancer would be able to have sex, you know, like just kind of thinking about all of those kinds of things. So, like thinking about my own experiences and you know, reading about other people's experiences kind of like influenced that part of the story. Wow, I'm sorry, did I make you say my bad?

SPEAKER_01 18:50

I forgot what I was about to ask next. Yes, so oh my god, have you taken any writing classes or anything before?

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Yeah, so I actually took writing classes like very early on. So

Building An Indie Author Community

SPEAKER_02 19:10

I think maybe the last writing class I took was in my 20s. So I took a fiction writing class years ago, but you know, like I said, like I was writing poetry and you know, very immersed in like romance and all of these things. So, you know, when I started writing, it just felt natural, you know. It just and and the story just flowed too. So, you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

And I heard you said you had a who looked over, uh you said you had an editor who looked over your a developmental editor. Where did you find a developmental editor?

SPEAKER_02 19:51

Well, so she is actually a friend of mine, and okay, so the story about how Cal and Jody meet, that's actually like kind of how we met. Like we were at a coffee shop, and the it was full, and she sat down and we just started talking, and we we you know have been friends ever since. So, you know, when I first wrote the book, you know, and I I had been wanting to do something creative for a long time, and whenever I would have a story idea, I would like put it down and not finish it. So I told her, I was like, look, I did this, and she said, and I'm gonna edit it for you. And I was like, Okay, so yeah, so as somebody that I've known for a while, but yeah, but I also know that when people so there are a couple of Facebook groups that I'm a part of, like there's Black Girls Love Smut, and there's another one, Black Girls Write Smut. So, you know, as people are looking for editors, I definitely you know, share her information.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Okay, that's what I was looking for. I was like, wait a minute, do we have a whole team?

SPEAKER_02 21:04

No, no, just just her, yeah, just her.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Where did you find your arc and your beta readers? Is it did you find them in the group?

SPEAKER_02 21:13

So my arc and my beta readers, my beta readers were people that I knew. So actually, so a lot of them were people that I knew. So some who were in poly relationships, some who had been a part of the BS B DSM community, some who were in the lifestyle scene. And then actually, I met, so I went to a pub crawl in New Orleans, and you know, I was telling somebody, one of the people that I met, that I wrote this book. And I was like, I love it, and it's so spicy. And she was like, I would love to beta read it. So that's how I met one of my beta readers. So yeah, so that's and then my editor had some people who were also in. Interested. So then that's how I met my beta readers. For my arc readers, I just reached out to people. So, and I didn't know you at the time, but like people that I followed on TikTok. So I reached out, you know, I just said, This is my book, it's my debut. I would love for you to arc read. You know, I follow you, I love your content. And then also, like, I made some author friends as well. So Kenya Gory Bell does a TikTok live where she writes with people. So I met a couple of other authors from doing that, and then they arc read for me as well.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

I love Kenya. Yeah. Workshop that she did recently too, that she's getting ready to start Arthur Workshop. Oh my goodness so you have found you a community. I have, I've definitely have found a community. So does community did it, is it playing a bigger role in you writing your other books? Do you see like a difference in you putting together and writing your timeline and everything for your first debut book and versus the ones that you're writing now with the community help, or is it a bigger influence, or is there a difference?

SPEAKER_02 23:12

It is a difference. So, you know, when I started, Channing knew about Channin is my developmental editor, she knew about a workshop that was going on, and it was I went to it and it was great because it told me so much about indie publishing, but then also traditional publishing because you know I didn't know much about it. And then one of the things that stood out to me was that you know, somebody said there's scammers out there, like you know, trying to take advantage of people. So I think, you know, I mean, for better or worse, um, so I think that you know, I have had some experiences that didn't feel good, you know, like working with oh like commissions, doing commissions and stuff, yeah. But then I think through those negative experiences, I found people that like I continue to work with. So I I think that I've built a community and I think it's made things run so much smoother because you know, character art is really important for getting your work out there. And you know, since I've made these connections, I have people that I can trust and rely on when it comes to character art, so that has been nice, and then also, you know, uh cover art as well. So I was actually a part, I am a part of this group called the Indie Arthur Revolution, and there was an artist who reached out to folks and said, you know, I'm trying to build my portfolio, I'm doing this for free. If anybody is interested, I would love to design your book cover. So I reached out to her and she she did my kind of love, and she's done all of the ones after that too. She so not the the special edition hardcover, SJ Rosalie, who I met through King Yugori Bell, did did the the cover art for the special edition hardcover. But yeah, so no, I mean the community that I've met, I think has made has made this transition a lot easier, you know, like and it's also nice to have people to talk about like the frustrations because you know you're an indie author, so you're doing everything, you doing the marketing, you you doing, you doing finances, you doing, you shipping the books out, all of these different things, you ordering the books. So it has been really nice to

Indie Publishing Problems And Amazon

SPEAKER_02 25:45

have a community of folks who know what you're dealing with, you know, who know what you're going through. So so yeah, it's been helpful.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

Oh my goodness, Indy Arthur. It's like a small business. It's a small business, and you're wearing like so many different hats. So have you had any run-ins with Amazon? I've been seeing a lot of Arthur pushback with the what is it, the page reads, and yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

So actually, I've had and they took a star away from me. So somebody reviewed my kind of love, and so she put the review on Amazon and Goodreads, and one day, and it was a five-star review. One day I go back, the one of the stars is missing from the Amazon review, but not from the Goodreads review, and I'm like, I don't care, so yeah, so you know, it's just been things like that.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Yeah, oh Lordy, yeah, so these characters, I know a lot of people, and you even say that sometimes the characters speak to you like you can hear them. How did you disconnect from the characters once you finished writing them?

SPEAKER_02 27:12

You know, I actually it it took some time because I think as a writer, I had a bunch of imposter syndrome, so I would do, I would want to make it perfect, and so I didn't disconnect, but then I had to it was kind of like doing shadow work in a way, like you know, it is gonna be okay, and then I it really took me getting to the point where I realized that my kind of love for better or worse is out there, you know. It was the book that made me know that I could do this, so it's out there, so anything now will be a learning experience. So I'll go, you know, and so just realizing the beauty of it, just in it in it being something that I wanted to do and I did it. So that has made me more intentional about disconnecting because and also realizing that I need to step away. I need to not, I need to not hear you right now, Bronson, so that I can like when I come back, like I can I can give this my best. So I think you know, just kind of realizing those things has made it easier to be intentional about stepping away from the story and from the characters.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

And I that's what I really want to because Bronson has this strong alpha protective personality. So I'm like, how the heck do you disconnect? Like, how do you cut him off? Like, okay, are there exercises or anything else that you do to kind of disconnect?

SPEAKER_02 29:00

No, so let me see if there's anything else I've done. No, so you know, I noticed when I started writing things that I would do before I didn't do as much. So, like, I love watching TV. I'm a mystery girly, I love me a good who done it. And when I started writing, like the story that I was writing was to fill in that space for me. So then, like, when I disconnect from the characters, then I go back to watching TV, or I I pick up another book and read. And in that workshop that I went to that I was telling you about, one of the speakers said that the best writers are also readers, so also kind of keeping that in mind too, like reading other people's work and you know, seeing what else is going on out there and romance and in mystery as well.

Upcoming Books Tropes And Future Worlds

SPEAKER_01 29:55

So the other two books, are they gonna be erotic romance or are we gonna dive into like another little genre, mix and match it a little bit?

SPEAKER_02 30:05

It's um the next two are erotic romance. So, so the fall don't we we don't we don't kick it off like we do in my kind of love, but by chapter three, we got some stuff rolling. But we're asleep, we hit the ground running and we're asleep.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

So what can we expect differently in the fall besides not that much?

SPEAKER_02 30:34

I mean it's a man, uh it's still there, it just don't start right away. What can we so we will see a lot more of Bronson and his elements? I think we we see who he is and who he can be. It slaps us in the face in the fall, and what else? We get to know Veronica and we get to learn more about her story, and we also get to see this side, so we get to see this woman who we know is capable of doing some badass stuff. We get to see her be vulnerable and build a friend group, and and I would say that the friend group that she builds with Enobi, Amy, and Jody is one of my favorite parts of the fall. We also get to see like this found family trope expanded, you know. After I finished my kind of love, people ask me, you know, would Enobi does Enobi want to have a baby? Does Enobi want to have a family? And you know, I thought on that for a while. Does she want to have a family? So we get into that in in the fall. In the fall, yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

That was one of my questions, too. Like, what you just started out writing and with your first book, are there any tropes out there that you have picked up and that you want to start incorporating a little bit more, or what are your favorite tropes?

SPEAKER_02 32:09

So, my favorite tropes, you know, and I don't know if you technically call why choose a trope, but I I love why choose, and there's so many different things that you could do with it. So that is one thing that is just going to continue through through the books. So this Y choose, but it looks different, it looks different in each book, and then found family is one, and you know, just kind of thinking about my own experience, like you know, going through the hysterectomy and healing, but then also having my friends there who were like my chosen family. So I think found family is really important to me as well. I love the touch her die and die. I love that, but then also with Veronica, we get a little bit, you know, touch me and and you know, you know. So let's see. Trying to think any other ones I can think of, you know, so the sub-dom trope continues throughout as well. And also like thinking about Anobi, in a lot of ways, Anobi is a Dom. And I think we see more of that as it goes on. So we get to see a little bit more of her dominant side.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Are we gonna keep it like uh I'm trying to think of a of the correct, you know, people be with their terms, a conventional or the regular BD, because you know it's some BDSM books out there, and they are not the typical how everybody like for instance WS Greer, I don't know if you've heard of him, like the darkest kink, but his his BDSM and he kind of lets you know that it is, but it ain't, and it's kind of outside of the norms, it pushes boundaries. Are we are we gonna see any of that pushing the boundaries of the BDSM or like that aspect?

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Not necessarily pushing boundaries. I think more of what we see is characters really thinking about you know BDSM and their place within the community, and in particular in Where I Sleep, Connie has this experience where she wanted to learn more about her submissive side and was and met somebody who wasn't a don, but used the term to cloak abro abusive tendencies. So then we kind of like you know deal with her. How do I heal from this? But then how do I also get back out there and get the thing that I want? So we kind of so not necessarily pushing boundaries, but more that self-exploration type, more of the kind of reflective piece about what this means to me and where's my place in it.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Oh wow, that and that's gonna be in which book is this gonna be in?

SPEAKER_02 35:28

That is in Where I Sleep, so that is in the third one.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

So we have another book in between this one before we get to that. Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:41

When can we expect the fall? So the fall was the fall should be out. I want to say by June 1st at the latest. This so yeah, but this June. So it was originally supposed to come out May 1st, but you know, again, being an indie author, you know, sometimes things don't work out with the timeline, so I've had to push it back a little bit. So I am shooting for June 1st, and then Where I Sleep will be out July 1st.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Oh, that's not gonna be that's like right behind each other, yeah. Yeah, so are those two gonna complete the trilogy?

SPEAKER_02 36:24

So, no, actually, there's more of the story, and so the final, I think what I want to do is continue to follow the stories of the people that we meet. So while in the fall we get to learn more about Bronson, we also focus on the couple, well, the relationship between Scott and Ronnie, and then in the fall, so we we heard about Drew in book one, but we actually get to meet Drew in the third book. So I think that I wanna like I've written some stories, like I've written a story about Jason, Bronson's brother, and so I think I want to continue to like get little glimpses of different characters, but I think the fourth story is going to be the conclusion of Bronson, Zeke, and Noble's story, so and then they'll just pick up other characters and it'll be like crossing, you know how you I love books like that when they talk about when the when the world's cross, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

So, do you think you'll get into like any thriller or fantasy? Actually, yes.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

So Bronson okay, so we know Anobi is a book girly, and so her favorite author is actually the FMC in the third book. So she writes romantic, so I've been kind of writing things from like her perspective. So I think one of the things that I want to work on is the romanticy that she, you know, her romanticy, and it's called the Eve Gene, and that's also a Polly story, but and that that also the idea for that came from my experience, you know, having a hysterectomy. And so basically, the story of the Eve gene is about a woman who's a starseed who after her mission is completed on her planet, she can go back home. But after her mission, you know, she didn't hear from anybody. Then she finds out that she has daughters in the world that she didn't know she had. So, you know, and one of the things about starseed in the story is that you know, if you don't have children, then you can go back home. But if you have children, then your new mission is to tell your children about what it means to be a starseed. So then you essentially have a new mission, which is to raise your children. So then she goes on this quest to find her children. So yeah. Wait a minute. So actually, so so I have a group, some short stories that are out too that kind of continue. So we get to see how Jody met Briggs, and then we get to see more rope play with the three of them. Some other fun stuff too, like a strap and pegging. Can we say those things? We surely can. We can say whatever we want, yes, ma'am. Okay, so and then you know, and then there's another scene with some kind of group love going on, and that's that's the third story. So in the second story, Zeke is actually reading the Eve Jean to Enobi and Bronson, so we get a little bit like we get a snippet of of that story.

SPEAKER_01 40:21

I can't wait. Because now my mind is focused on the eve. Because I'm like, did you not know you had daughters? And then how did they film? Were they done in a pot? Like, my mind is like all over the place now.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

Oh my god, that's all I'm gonna be thinking about now. It's like what is going on with the each and what's the new mission, what they're about to be doing. Oh my god. Now, are you

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SPEAKER_01 40:45

from Baton Rouge or New Orleans?

SPEAKER_02 40:47

So actually, I am from North Carolina. I moved to New Orleans, so I moved to New Orleans first, and then I ended up moving to Baton Rouge, so I'm actually in Baton Rouge now.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Got you. So you did a little you had to do a little research through the quarters.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

Well, actually, yeah, yeah. I I did a lot of research, so you know, and also like thinking about places that I knew from being there, from living there, but then also, you know, also doing a lot of research. So like looking up different things.

SPEAKER_01 41:26

Yeah. Did you visit any places in particular in New Orleans that you I meant like cafes? I meant like cafes and restaurants.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Yeah, so actually, so one of the cafes that I talk about is one that I knew well. So Back of Town was one that I went to quite a bit when I lived in New Orleans, but then there were other some other places, like so Trashy Diva, which is it is more of a boot, it's a boutique. So those are places that I knew from being there. But then there are other places that I kind of made up, like Chef Bryan's spot is made up, but it's also in the French market, which is like you know, an area that I would walk to like once a week when I lived in New Orleans.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

So okay, I was wondering that I said I wonder if she is from that area, but you say you're not even called, but you live here now. Well then, are there any events that you are attending soon, or where can people find you?

SPEAKER_02 42:43

Yes, so I will be at the Rebels and Realms in Northwest Arkansas this summer, so I will be there July 16th through the 18th. So my goal is to have all three books out by then, so so yeah, so that's the one thing that I'll be doing. What pintow is that? It's northwest Arkansas. So I think they haven't really said a town, they just say northwest Arkansas, but I think it may be the Rogers area, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

Because I was asking because Arkansas is not too far from where I am in Louisiana now, so that's almost like how part that is trying to calculate if I could do a little turnaround road trip.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

Look, actually, you know, you might want to look into it because they have influencers that will be there, and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

I'm gonna give it to you so I can get to follow them and get the details.

SPEAKER_02 43:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:43

Especially if it's right up the road. Are you oh, I know what I wanted to ask you. Are you gonna attend the Louisiana Book Festival? Every year they have it around like October, November.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

Yeah, you know, I don't know. So, like the Louisiana Book Festival, the one that they just had in place. I come in. Like a lot of these I didn't know about because you know, like I was writing and you know not really like connected in some of these bookish spaces. I you know, I think I might look into the Louisiana Book Festival. Is that the one that they do in New Orleans down at Tulane?

SPEAKER_01 44:18

Mm-mm. This is the one that's by the Louisiana State Capitol.

SPEAKER_02 44:22

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

They they always have it around that that little area. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:28

Yeah, no, definitely I'll look into that.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

I try to I've been going the last couple of years. The last two years I've gone, and then me and my family get up early that morning, and then we try and make it like a turn do like a turnaround trip. So we leave out early that morning, get there. I've learned because the first year that I went, I heard about it really late. And so I went and we got there around like maybe close to two o'clock, and a lot of the authors had left. And that was the year that Lidarian was there, um, who wrote the fantasy novel, and he was gone, and I was just like, oh my god, I missed him. So that next year, and they said that a lot of the authors had left around like one o'clock or so, and so that next year I made sure that I got there super early so that I can be there. Some of the authors were still setting up when I got there and stuff. I wanted to be there early so that I caught all of the ones that I were looking for. But yep, it's around I want to say I look at the dates and stuff, but I want to say it's always around like October, November, around that time. And then it's and because the weather is nice and everything, so yeah. So we know that we have a drop coming in June and July, and then we have the event coming in July. So tell us where can we find you, where can we follow you on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok?

SPEAKER_02 45:50

Yep, so Facebook. I am Facebook, Instagram, threads, I am Skyline Millbow underscore author. On TikTok is Skyline Millbow Six. The number six. The number six. It's like the number of significance. Also, it's funny that you say that. Like I love the group Vanity Six. So when I was thinking, when I was trying to find the name, I was like, I love Skyline Six. So so that's where it came from. No significance other than Vanity Six. And look at me trying to be like, Who was Vanity Six? Oh, they sing that song Nasty Girl, Nasty Girl.

SPEAKER_01 46:38

Of course. Right. I know the song, I just didn't know who the who was there sang it. Does Janet Jackson have a song? Maybe I thought it was does Janet Jackson have a song called Nasty Girl?

SPEAKER_02 46:54

Well, she has a nasty, nasty is the song, Nasty Boy, yeah, but yeah, Vanity Six. So it was written by Prince, and yeah, I think I would love for Beyonce to like do a rendition or something of it, but yeah, so Beyonce, if this come across your feet, look at me. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this. Thank you. Me too.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

And look, I about sweated my little shirt and dress. I was so nervous. And look, you just laid back. Y'all been just so laid back and cool. I was nervous for look at that.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

Yeah. Well, look, I got a little hot and bothered doing part of the conversation, but I've cooled down a lot since then. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:55

I can't wait to, and I just want to let you know that after those two books drop, I am going to be reaching out again so that we can bring you back and that we can talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

And especially, I hope I get I hope we get a little peek of this Eve. The Eve, what is it? The Eve seed. It's called the Eve Jean. The Eve Gene.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

So there's a little peek. I don't know. See, because she's a star seed, maybe that's where you got it from.

SPEAKER_01 48:28

Okay. The Eve Jean.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

But is this gonna be a separate book or is it gonna be like a novella or an insert and well, so right now it's it's like a little snippet of it, is in of love. So there's the collect collection of short stories that I was telling you about, and that's just available on Amazon. So that's there, and then but I I you know, I'm I'm kind of thinking a bunch of different things, like one idea was maybe a graphic novel, or so I don't know. We'll see. We'll see how what comes of it. Yeah, yeah. So we'll see how that comes along.

SPEAKER_01 49:11

Oh, I could see that as a graphic novel. Okay, yeah, so yeah, I look forward to it. Thank you. Thank you again for joining us today. It was such a pleasure. You are welcome. So, until next time, make sure that you guys follow her across all her social media platforms, and we will see you next time on Lakes Between the Lines.