I was chatting to a friend earlier today and she told that Mills and Boon were on the verge of bankruptcy before e-readers became popular. Apparently the advent of e-readers meant that people were finally able to enjoy reading a romance without everyone around them knowing what they were reading, and this saw their sales in an often-scorned genre increase exponentially. I don’t know if there’s any truth in that – a swift search on Google didn’t give me any information either way – but certainly it’s true that the UK’s once most popular erotic line, Black Lace, was resurrected to publish ebooks and is now going from strength to strength.
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Guest Blog: Daniel de Lorne, Obsession For Men
Most people are motivated by something. Whether it’s money, power, success, love, staying healthy, looking good…the list goes on and on. But when motivation becomes too strong, then we’re tripping into the wonderful world of obsession.
And that’s where everything gets so much more exciting.
Beckoning Blood is a book about obsession. Vampires obsessed with blood, Olivier obsessed with Thierry, Thierry obsessed with Etienne, the Duke obsessed with revenge on Olivier, and Olivier obsessed with killing anyone who remotely resembles his father.
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Finding the Selkie in Chincoteague, Guest Blog by Nara Malone (@nara_malone)
I had the publisher’s approval for Make Me Wet, a selkie (a mythical being that shifts shape between seal and human form) tale, before I wrote the first word. I had the research done, the plot down, the characters drawn. I had everything but the words. And I fought to find them for a couple of months before admitting to myself that something was missing. In this story setting was a character and that character was proving particularly hard to connect with.
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