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: Erotic Romance
May 03, 2012 | Thursday | 43 Comments
I've received a few email requests for erotic content similar to 50 Shades of Grey [GR | A | BN | S | K | ARe] and a few bazillion Google searches for '50 shades synopsis' and '50 shades review' and, my personal favorite, '50 shades free download.' Heh. Good luck with that last one. This week at Kirkus I talked about the erotic romance that might appeal to those who enjoyed 50 Shades of Grey, from titles with BDSM to explicit sex (and strong heroines, hooray!) and shorter works of erotic fiction. People are still reading and finishing the book, and a few are…
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April 10, 2012 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
I said out loud twice while reading this book, "This is the least erotic erotic romance. No one's having any sex." Hubby thought I was nuts, but while the story was friendly and sometimes very sweet, there was not much erotic content, in my opinion. If you're looking for explicitness, this is not the Canadian equivalent of small-town, large-family cowboy erotic romance (Lorelei James, for example). I liked this book, but I was expecting erotic romance, so I came away disappointed. For example: the cover and the description sent me a message that There Be Lots of Sex In This…
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March 15, 2012 | Thursday | 145 Comments
The media courage of 50 Shades continues, long and frequently enough that there are some themes emerging. One fantastic example: mommy porn. In two words, there are a lot of things wrong with Mommy Porn. Add to that "Mommy's naughty reader" and the rhetoric that women are ashamed of their erotic reading material and thus buy and read it digitally, as the Wall Street Journal suggested yesterday, means that the shame-wagging-finger gets bigger. I have a different finger to use in reply. It's the middle one. Romance has struggled with the pornography label for a long time. And I give…
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January 24, 2012 | Tuesday | 82 Comments
I received a pitch for this book from the author, and was intrigued by the mix of elements she highlighted in her email: the multi-cultural characters, the use of European soccer clubs as a setting, and the interesting conflict with the heroine posing as the fiancée of her gay best friend while being attracted to his nemesis. I not only bought it but sent a message to Jane at DearAuthor, since she and I both enjoy sports-focused romances. Alas, this book is poorly edited, suffers from an outright fear of commas, is confused as to how the characters names are…
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April 15, 2009 | Wednesday | 1 Comments
Get this - I’m part of Virgin Night tomorrow, 16 April, at the In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series. I will have to work extra hard to hide my stretch marks that reveal I am Most Definitely Not a Virgin. And keep the kids at home. That’s ok - more cupcakes for me! Just kidding - Virgin Night is for first-time authors/readers, and I’ll be appearing with Jenny Block, who will be reading from Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage, Kyria Abrahams, Emily Farris, Megan Hart, Gideon Levy, Sinclair Sexsmith, and Nicolette Dixon. All the fun starts…
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January 17, 2009 | Saturday | 18 Comments
If you’ve been thinking of trying out new e-pub Ravenous Romance, they’re making a big fiver of an offer:
Between now and January 31, Ravenous Romance is extending an invitation to readers to get a free $5 gift certificate to the site just by emailing us. $5 will buy either one full-length novel or several short stories (Ravenous Rendezvous). Requests should be sent to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and gift certificates can be redeemed online at
RavenousRomance.com
$5.00 US at their site will buy one full-length novel or several short stories, so if you’re curious, they’re buying.
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December 09, 2008 | Tuesday | 8 Comments
Suppose you don’t know what to get for the male/male romance writer in your life.
Here. Let me help.
No, no, don’t thank me. Just make sure that those hot pink briefs are written into a m/m romance as soon as possible, so all of us may enjoy.
Batter up!
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August 26, 2008 | Tuesday | 89 Comments
DeeCee wrote and asked me to help her find a book, but in doing so made me ponder the presence of piercings in romance novels: I read an erotic book awhile back (1-3 years, I think) that featured a hero with a tongue piercing. I remember absolutely nothing about it, but that and that it was contemporary. On a side note, do you know of many romance books featuring tongue piercings? I can’t find many when I do an amazon or a google search. Aside from the erotica novel DeeCee is looking for, with the dude who has a tongue…
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June 10, 2008 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
Crystal Jordan sent me a very interesting link - an interactive ad demonstrating how the Mini Cooper can whipslap winter, using a pleather-clad woman whipping, stroking, and otherwise dominating a very sport blue Mini.
So: those in the BDSM world - is her whipping technique at all accurate? Or is she faking it?
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May 23, 2008 | Friday | 5 Comments
Because our winning entry in the Smart Bitch Silver Anus Purple Prose Contest was co-authored, we have two new inductees to the Smart Bitch Peerage™.
Anna J. Evans, please kneel and arise with your new title:
And, December Quinn, you’re next. Don’t mind the sword. It’s long and beefy for compensatory reasons.
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May 23, 2008 | Friday | 2 Comments
The votes are in, the clicks have been tallied, I’m forever grateful to the creators of our poll software who have saved me from a lot of pencil and paper tallying, and the results are unmistakably clear. Until votes from Michigan and Florida are included (just kidding!) the winner is: Entry #1: Taint Bottomwell! Because if ‘tain’t bottomwell, it taint awesome. The voting, as you’ll see below, was a veritable mudslide, sorry, landslide in favor of the “co-written masterpiece of buggery from Anna J. Evans and December Quinn.” If you are looking for some hot booty calls, perhaps these are…
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May 19, 2008 | Monday | 29 Comments
Thanks to Bitchery reader KS Augustin for the following link, which was all over the new Urban Baby alternative, YouBeMom discussion boards this weekend: according to Scientific American, which is examining the intricacies of that heavenly moment, that little death, women are emotionless during orgasm. No, seriously. Beginning with a discussion of what women find arousing as compared to men, the article reveals research findings regarding what goes on in women’s brains during orgasm. We’ve talked about the language romance novels use to describe that Big O - and I’m still, for the record, not over the whole “burst like…
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