Finding Love in BDSM
Hearts and flowers does not love make in BDSM.
Granted, don’t get me wrong, I love a nice night out. A movie, dinner, and long walk on the beach. Yes, I know it is cliché as all get out.
Being single in the ‘scene’ is very lonely.
The first man that introduced me to BDSM told me this, and I laughed it off. I thought, how could it possibly be lonely if you finally discover your sexuality?
Easy.
Are Erotic Writers Really All that Naughty?
Okay, we are about to get a little up close and personal into my life—maybe a little too personal. I have read erotic writers and before I became one myself, I always pictured them testing wild, sex-driven theories on unsuspecting males late at night. I continued with this belief until I worked for an erotic publisher and realized, Hey, writing this is tons of fun. I began my journey as an erotic writer and, to my shock, my first little short got an All Romance bestseller star. I was stunned for two reasons. A) I personally never like my own work and am surprised that I’m not sitting out in a garbage can giving away my manuscripts to be used as toilet paper and b) the shocking truth is that I am an innocent virgin.
In Praise of Hans
Hans is my muse. He is a typical German–tall, blond, and organized to a fault. He can keep many details in his lovely noggin up to and including the various connections and cross connections of the characters in the Stewart Realty series. (He resembles Chris Evans…when he’s blond)
Now that said, the Stewart Realty series has become a bit of a sprawler. That is to say the first 10 years between Floor Time and Closing Costs (the first 3 books) are truly only the beginning. Because of that I have had to count on the eagle eye of various editing passes to find timeline blips and other issues.
The Spirits Are Willing But The Flesh Is Weak
When I draw up a new heroine, I like to give her some distinctive traits. Take my new heroine Tamar Steele. She’s a sensitive with a paranormal investigation team, but to set her apart she’s also the team’s webmaster, a history buff (who shares my opinions on Richard III) and, most notably, a sufferer of chronic back pain.
How to make a holiday sexy: Pick one a zillion others haven’t written about and tell the true, honest to God (I’m lying) accounting of what happened by making it a historical romance with some heat.
Between a lad falling for a man fated to be a monk who lusts for a woman as well, having to wait until the lad comes of age, it all adds up to Harey being a lot of fun to write. My first historical, I loved immersing myself in the time period. Harey is the story of the man behind the deal with the Easter bunny. M/F/M, it starts in a clearing beside a waterfall in Briton in 612 AD. There isn’t much word count concerning hippity hops or painted eggs. Instead, the story is as intense of a love story can be when a threesome defies allegiance, religions, and fate to embrace each other.
How One Madcap Misadventure Led to Another…and Another by Victoria Vane
I think every writer dreams of creating characters who are larger than life, those so strong and intriguing that they can carry an entire series, even if not the primary focus of it. But Ludovic “the Devil DeVere” who began as a rakish sidekick, became all that and then some.
My original tale began with A WILD NIGHT’S BRIDE, a steamy and romantic comedy that pairs Phoebe Scott, a struggling actress with a bruised heart and Sir Edward “Ned” Chambers, a grieving widower, in an outrageous wager when devil-in- disguise, Viscount Ludovic DeVere, is determined to return his grieving best friend, Ned, to the land of the living. And what better way could there be to tempt a man out of three years of celibacy than attending a subscription only affair at the most notorious house of pleasure in London?