Romance so hot...it melts your Heart

It’s In Tense

Since I can remember, romance books have been written in third person (character described by narrator) past tense (action already happened): “Oh, screw you, Burkett.” Reese Colton threw his cards down as the man across the table collected the two paper IOU’s along with a pile of money. Testosterone and laughter filled the fire station [...]

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13 Memorable Books

Here are 13 books that have made an impact on me. I can’t say they’re all necessarily my favorites … some are just memorable. 1. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough – Okay, I lied. This has to be my all time favorite book. The first real romance I read and I was probably 13. [...]

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Riding 50 Shades of Waves

So this 50 Shades of Grey craze continues to explode. My sister-in-law (who doesn’t have time to read in her busy life) is now carving out some precious minutes to read this trilogy. These books are EVERYWHERE! So I’m doing my usual surfing around this morning and what do I stumble upon? Several erotic books [...]

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The Outlook is Grey

I’ve been writing erotic romance for about six years. I have lots of wonderful readers who enjoy my books. And though my family is very proud of all that I’ve accomplished, very few of them want to read my books. That’s fine. They aren’t for everyone. And up until the last year, most of my [...]

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A Whole Lot of Nothing

I really don’t know what’s wrong with me. But I’ve got nothing for you today. I actually wrote a whole long post about a series I finished recently. But it was really negative and in talking about the books it wasn’t going to teach anything or create a discussion worth having, so I stuck it [...]

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Is it Possible to Have TOO Much Sex?

Okay, I’m not talking personally … Mr. Nina would simply not be happy if I had that conversation in public … I’m talking in your reading material. Okay, don’t laugh. I know I’m an erotic romance author. I know my characters have a whole LOT of sex, but when you pick up an erotic romance [...]

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Does *FREE* Cheapen the Value?

Yes I’m an author. I love writing books. It’s what I do. But as I’ve said over and over and over again, being a writer also means I am the publisher and the marketing department for many of my books. It still eludes me exactly what makes a best seller in this market. It’s not [...]

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As the Page Turns

What makes you read a book? I don’t mean, why read books at all. But why that book? Did the cover originally intrigue you? Did you pick it up because it’s your favorite author? There are any number of reasons we choose one book title over another. Before I go on and in the spirit [...]

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How Many is TOO Many?

With the changing face of publishing it seems books are going through fewer and fewer edits these days. Print publishing houses are cutting back on staff to save costs from submission to publication. Some digital publishing houses are pushing books through to keep up with the high demand of their readers. And authors are now [...]

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More Value if You Pay?

I’m going to admit a couple things here. 1) I had never purchased a book until 4 years ago when my friend had her debut novel released. (I was a library kind of gal.) 2) I STILL don’t own an e-reader. I know … scandalous right? Because I can’t afford an iPad, I vascillate between [...]

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