They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Sara Dobie Bauer, whose latest series, The Escape Trilogy, is currently being released by NineStar Press. In fact, you can read the first two books now before book three comes out in January!
What does Sara love when she’s not writing about sexy vampires who don’t sparkle? Spoiler alert: the best B-rated horror flick, characters who try so very hard not to fall in love, ‘wildly inappropriate’ cartoons, getting fan art of her own fiction, and crushing on a twenty-two-year-old Oscar nominee. Intrigued? Read on to learn more!
Favorite B-Horror Film: As a huge horror movie geek, my list could go on for centuries. Instead, I culled so many pretties (Evil Dead 2, Reanimator, Zombeavers) and had to choose Trick ‘r Treat. Told in connected vignettes, this now cult classic from writer/director Michael Dougherty features a couple familiar faces but more so excellent cinematography, spooky music, and one hell of a script. There’s one scene in particular around a campfire in which Anna Paquin is the hottest she’s ever been, but no spoilers as to why!
Favorite Fantasy Romance Series: As soon as I started reading The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles, I knew I was in love. The writing is fabulous, but it’s the characters that really did it for me — the characters and their resolute intent to NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER … which, of course, they do. The Charm of Magpies series features witches and monsters and the absolutely delicious Lord Crane (nom nom nom), who can’t help but be drawn to grumpy, diminutive magician Stephen Day. The suspense is killer, and the sex is hot.
Favorite Cartoon: Yeah, I know, it’s a relatively newer show, and there have been so many cartoons in my life, but Rick and Morty murders them all. I’m a pushover for smart comedy, and although the show can veer into the wildly inappropriate (a lot like me), there are some scenes that have incited (almost) rib-cracking guffaws in my living room. Rick drags his poor grandson all over the universe on horrific adventures, and I love every minute. Plus, my husband does a perfect Morty impersonation. I’M PICKLE RICK!
Favorite Fan Art: Via Twitter, I stumbled upon artist Nikita Ryan and knew I had to have some of her work for myself. Nikita was kind enough to read the first book in my Escape Trilogy, Escaping Exile, and she provided me with her own amazing vision of Andrew and Edmund — my ancient vampire and his beloved British sailor. I started crying when I first saw it, and the pencil drawing now hangs framed on my office wall. Nikita’s erotic art isn’t always safe-for-work, but do check her out if you’re into sexy men doing sexy, sexy things.
Favorite Love Story (Non-Speculative): It took one movie trailer, and I bought a ticket to see Call Me By Your Name. I knew Armie Hammer, but I’d never even heard of this Timothee Chalamet kid. Life: altered. I was enamored. A long time Benedict Cumberbatch psycho-fan, Timothee Chalamet stole my heart as young, precocious, sexy-as-hell Elio Perlman. After watching the film, I read the book, and it’s … creepy? I mean to say it’s a whole book in the head of a horny seventeen-year-old kid who’s utterly infatuated with an older man. (One scene even made me wince, and that’s a tall order.) Stick to the movie. If you haven’t seen it, I’ll say there’s a reason Timothee was the youngest Best Actor Oscar nominee in eighty years, and a lot of it involves a fireplace. Nuff said.
Sara Dobie Bauer is a bestselling author, model, and mental health/LGBTQ advocate with a creative writing degree from Ohio University. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she lives with her hottie husband and two precious pups in Northeast Ohio, although she’d really like to live in a Tim Burton film. She is author of the Bite Somebody series and Escape Trilogy, among other sexy things. Learn more at SaraDobieBauer.com or follow her on Twitter at @SaraDobie, where she often expounds over the graces of Timothee Chalamet’s jawline and her love of all things vampire.
Author photo by Bill Thornhill
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