Love in the Wild By Emma Castle

​Author: Emma Castle
Narrators: Shane East, Lucy Rivers
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Publisher: Emma Castle Books⎮2020
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release date: Dec. 30, 2020

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A sensual, powerful, and thought-provoking Tarzan retelling.
Eden Matthews stumbled upon the discovery of a lifetime while photographing wildlife deep in the heart of Africa....
A gorgeous god of a man living in the wilds of the African jungle among a family of gorillas....
When he saves her life, she’s compelled to uncover the man’s tragic past and the fate that led him to grow up in the wild.
But Eden soon learns she can take man from the wild, but she can’t take the wild out of the man....
When her savage savior soon shows her just what he wants of her...her sensual surrender...she finds she can’t resist him teaching her how to love...in the wild.
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Author Interview 

1. How did you select your narrator?
   I chose Shane East and Lucy Rivers as narrators for several reasons. They worked well together and they are incredibly wonderful and professional to work with on the author side. But the most important thing is that their voices fit the characters. Shane’s voice is deep, rich, decadently sensual and British, exactly like my “Tarzan” character Thorne. Lucy brings depth and heart to my heroine Eden (the “jane” character).  I knew they would bring my story to life in the best possible way for listeners.
2. How closely did you work with your narrator before and during the recording process? Did you give them any pronunciation tips or special insight into the characters? 
   I definitely gave Lucy and Shane tips on pronouncement of names since some of them were Ugandan and could be said a variety of ways. I also worked with them on expressing what I felt was most important about each character and how that might come out in their tones. For example with Thorne, I wanted Shane to make him sound deep and powerful, but also have a hint of innocence and natural wonder, almost-childlike. With Eden, I wanted someone who sounded not too young, nor too old, and i wanted her to sound gentle and yet strong. No whiny heroines here! Shane and Lucy performed perfectly!
3. Were there any real life inspirations behind your writing? 
   Love in the Wild is a Tarzan Retelling. I’ve always wanted to write a Tarzan story with a wild jungle hero but I felt it had to be truly inspired by the original story to fully do my book justice. In preparation, I re-read the three original Tarzan stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs so that i had a deep understanding of Tarzan and Jane as both characters and love interests. I wanted to make sure that my modern age version would have the same feel, that Thorne, my hero would be powerful and primal, while also innocent and devoted to his heroine. Burroughs always said of Tarzan that There would be no Tarzan without Jane and I wanted the readers to feel that more deeply than anything else. I choose to make  him a virgin alpha male, a man who’d been raised by gorillas and living alone in so many ways before he finally finds his other true half. WHile the book is passionate and romantic and has open door sex scenes, I felt it was important to not write him as a sex-crazed creature who used a woman’s body for his pleasure. I wanted to show Thorne as a man who believes in true mates both of body and heart.  I also heavily researched Ugandan culture and the places about which I wrote to show the beauty of the culture and the people who live there now. This isn’t simply a story of Eden and Thorne. It’s a story about the people who live in Uganda, it’s about the beautiful heart of the African people and the animals of the jungle such as the Gorillas and their world in the misty mountains. It’s a book that promotes conservation of the jungle and a unity between man and the wild world from which we came.
4. How do you manage to avoid burn-out? What do you do to maintain your enthusiasm for writing?
   ​Burn-out is a very real issue for all writers. I tend to produce 8 to 10 stories on average a year of various lengths from novels, mid-length novels to longer novels. One of the ways I keep it fresh is to change series and change ideas. I write both as Emma Castle and Lauren Smith for romance novels and I leap back and forth between contemporary, historical, paranormal and erotic romance in order to keep myself interested. I never try to write the same subgenre of romance in a row. If I don’t feel passionate about the stories, then my readers won’t either. I also watch a lot of tv and movies because I find inspiration in the strangest things for my stories! An example would be that the star wars trilogy movies 1-3 inspired an overarching plot line in one of my Lauren Smith pen name series The League of Rogues which is set in Regency England! Can you imagine, stars wars inspiring a jane austen plot line? Well it did! *wink

About the Author: Emma Castle
Emma Castle has always loved reading but didn’t know she loved romance until she was enduring the trials of law school. She discovered the dark and sexy world of romance novels and since then has never looked back! She loves writing about sexy, alpha male heroes who know just how to seduce women even if they are a bit naughty about it. When Emma’s not writing, she may be obsessing over her favorite show Supernatural where she’s a total Team Dean Winchester kind of girl!
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About the Narrator: Shane East
Hailing from London, Shane's Brit accent frequently tops Audible’s bestseller list and is a favourite amongst romance’s top authors. 
He's a multi Audie Awards nominee, Earphones winner, and has been crowned romance narrator of the year by Audiofile Magazine, The Romantic Times and SOVAS. 
Fans enjoy his work so much they’ve even started a fan club called the Shaneiaks (on Facebook). When not recording you can find him in the kitchen cooking up a storm.
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About the Narrator: Lucy Rivers
Hailing from London, Shane's Brit accent frequently tops Audible’s bestseller list and is a favourite amongst romance’s top authors. 
He's a multi Audie Awards nominee, Earphones winner, and has been crowned romance narrator of the year by Audiofile Magazine, The Romantic Times and SOVAS. 
Fans enjoy his work so much they’ve even started a fan club called the Shaneiaks (on Facebook). When not recording you can find him in the kitchen cooking up a storm.
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