Or The 10 Sexiest Nonsexual Things That Happen in Historical Romance Novels in Eliza Thompson’s opinion. She starts with hand touching that is unimpeded by gloves, which is stage four according to Desmond Morris’s stages of intimacy. She gives an excerpt from In Bed With the Devil by Lorraine Heath. I’ve never read one of hers, but I have When the Duke Was Wicked in my TBR pile. It may have just moved to the top of the pile. Continue reading
I have another week of writing ahead of me (hoping for 10k, but I’ll take whatever I can get). When I’m done, I’m planning to indulge in the mother of all reading blitzes, and I’m on the hunt for recommendations.
RWA National is a couple of weeks away (yay!). Last year was my first time, and I had no clue what I was doing. We were in the middle of the final McDaniel module with deliverables to submit, I’d decided to rip my book apart and start again from scratch, and I was hip-deep in family problems at home. I had fun, but everything passed in a blur. This time around, Continue reading
How do you feel about series? Do you like it when a secondary character from one book becomes the hero or heroine of the next?
For me, it totally depends. Sequel bait is high on my list of no-nos, right up there with plot moppets and TSTL heroines, but when a character I’m already invested in gets their own story in a world I already know, I love it with a passion.
What really makes me snarl is when a new character suddenly pops up towards the end of a book. We’re at a critical stage in the plot or sometimes even in an epilogue and suddenly (WTF?) the heroine’s sister or the hero’s cousin arrives on some slender pretext and gets shoe-horned into the story Continue reading
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