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“Oh, god, yes,” she moaned, as he parted her legs. Erotic Romance Writing and Selling erotic Fiction Five Keys to Writing a Good Erotic Romance Novel Erotic Romance: How to Write Hot Romantic Fiction Virginia Romance Writers: erotica links Packing Heat: Erotica Writing Tips and Techniques Authors of Erotic Romance Passionate Ink “Oh, God.” “Yes,” [...]
I’d like to start this post with a confession: when I was a child, I had the most massive crush on Julian of the Famous Five.
Forthwritten has written a really interesting essay on Steampunk that neatly pokes at the point where my enjoyment of Steampunk and my awareness of what Victorian society was really like collide. And right now I’m feeling particularly fascinated with the conventions of steampunk, because I have a steampunk-erotica story which will appear in an upcoming [...]
1. As I’ve mentioned before elsewhere, I find LDS romances (and Mormon culture in general, really) interesting. I have a list of links about them, in fact. And a couple of days ago Eric W. Jepson, who can be found at thmazing.com (and who has excellent LDS-romance blogposts, if you share my interest in this), [...]
I don’t know if I have any real “deal breakers” when it comes to romance novels–I mean, I don’t usually encounter anything that will make me quit a book halfway. But like everyone else, I do sometimes find a few things mildly irritating, and I was just reminded of one of them: heroines who trip [...]
Just for fun–okay, for procrastination, if you really want to know–last week I started googling to see what I could find about the effects of romance novels. Wow: there are a lot of dire predictions out there. I get the impression many people still believe we romance readers are melting our brains, jacking our expectations [...]
A few things that are entertaining me now: 1. Susan Kay’s Phantom. I have been sucked into this thing so hard. I keep trying to maintain critical distance, but no, in a few more chapters I’m going to be sighing over Erik like someone with the worst case of phangirl-ism ever. Damn it, he has [...]
Stories are available here. And yes, that does include ‘Shot Through the Heart,’ a short glimpse of the Realm of Epithalamia.
The economy is having something of a macellarious effect: A US man apparently distraught over job problems is thought to have shot dead his wife and five young children before turning the gun on himself. That’s horrific, but on some level not entirely unexpected. People are frightened, and desperate; some of them will inevitably snap, [...]
