Polyamorous Relationships: What’s the Deal?
These days it’s challenging to understand all the relationship rules between two people. Add a couple or more people into the mix and it’s enough to make your head spin. But what is polyamory exactly? Is it just a free for all? Something to avoid commitment? What about sanctity of marriage or being in a… Read More
Eden French
Eden French is a North American author of erotic queer romance with swoon worthy heroes and happy ever afters. A hot yoga junkie, relentless daydreamer, chocoholic, and Scotch whisky aficionado, she likes life a bit kinky and spends as much time as possible playing with the sexy characters in her head. A born and raised California girl, she graduated from San Francisco State University with an English Lit degree and has a borderline obsession for Mexican food. Eden currently resides in the quirky Pacific Northwest with her amazing spouse and four fur-babies.
Mythbusting: Six Facts about Scotland in 1504
Hi everyone! For my latest erotic historical romance, Scandalous Passions, I researched late medieval Scotland for two months before I began writing (and include a bibliography at the end of the book.) Today I’m going to talk about six aspects of life in this era that are often misrepresented. Yes, there was both regular and… Read More
Nicola Davidson
New Zealander Nicola Davidson always adored words, romance and history, so writing historical romance was a logical career progression...er, eventually. After completing a communications degree and journalism diploma she left to teach English in Taiwan and travel through Asia before returning home to work in television. Jobs in tertiary education, local government communications and print media followed, but the lords and ladies in her head wouldn't hold their peace a moment longer and so began the years of professional daydreaming. When not chained to a computer writing wickedly sexy, witty and twisty turny stories, Nicola can be found ambling along a beach, cheering on the champion All Blacks rugby team or driving her nearest and dearest batty with her history geekisms, chocolate hoarding and complete lack of domestic skills.
How I Stand Up To Cancer By Writing Romance Books…
May 2017. The sterile room, the grim faces, the stretching aching silence. An hour later I was walking out of hospital a very different woman to the one I was previously… Cancer. It’s the hangover that never goes away. It’s the nausea at the end of the evening, and the headache in the morning that… Read More
Catherine Wiltcher
Catherine Wiltcher is a British romance author, mum-of-two, former TV producer, and self-confessed alpha addict. Her writing is best described as sinfully sexy, and her characters always fall hard and deep for one another. She lives in a village near Bath in the UK with her husband and young daughters.
Writing Sex…and talking about it
“I’m good at the naughty bits,” says my agent. It’s true. I love writing sex scenes. But initially I found talking about it publicly more difficult. Yesterday, I was sitting in a hotel hot tub and my sister mentioned to the couple sitting near us that I was an author. Which inevitably led to questions… Read More
Kate Allure
Kate Allure writes erotic romance novels that celebrate sensuality, sexual exploration and, of course, true love. She has two books out with Sourcebooks (PLAYING DOCTOR and LAWYER UP) about real women meeting handsome professional men as they go about their everyday lives---and the fun they have behind closed doors! She also contributes naughty novellas to Marina Adair's St. Helena Vineyards Kindle World. Kate's career as an author of steamy novels is the culmination of being a storyteller her entire life, writing plays, stories, and dance librettos throughout her childhood and later for community theater and dance companies combined with non-fiction writing while working for American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. Beyond writing, Kate's passions include traveling and exploring all things sensual with her loving husband.
The “What Ifs” of Writing Sci-fi Romance
One of the most interesting ways to find story ideas is to ask the question “What if…?” And when writing sci-fi romance, the number of “what ifs” multiplies. Once you leave the contemporary world and planet earth behind, there’s no end to the “what ifs” that can happen. The who, when, where, why options become… Read More
Robin Lovett
Robin Lovett enjoys writing romance to avoid the more unsavory things in life, like day jobs, housework, and personal demons. Romance novels have always been her addiction of choice. When not writing with her cat, she's busy embracing untamable curly hair and adventuring in the outdoors with her husband.
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The Vestal Virgins
On my recent trip to Rome to finish researching St. Cecilia’s life for my historical fiction novel, Virgin Martyr, I spent some time at the Temple of Vesta and the home of the ancient Roman Vestal Virgins. One of my purposes in writing this book was to investigate how attitudes about women’s sexuality and social… Read More
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