“You were nearly naked. You were nearly naked, and I noticed.”
#1LineWed
One of the things I learned early on when writing romance (and after having read many, many good romance stories) is the judicious use of the sex act.
That’s partly what sets erotica apart from romance as well – erotica spells it all out to the nth degree because that nth degree is really the entire point of the book. A good romance (either in a romance novel or as a story arc in a book of another genre) might show you characters making the beast with two backs, but having it spelled out every single time actually detracts from the real goal: showing a growing relationship.
There are many ways to show that your characters are having great sex without them having great sex. For instance, in Someday In Dublin, my characters Michael and Amy have been happily shagging each other across two continents. It was time to move onto something more important, but it didn’t make sense for them to be in a hotel room and not taking advantage of that. So I wrote this scene: Continue reading
Windsinger is LIVE!! Grab your copy today!
This is the first book I’ve launched simultaneously in both print and eBook, and for some reason Amazon hasn’t linked the two yet when you pull up the book’s information page. Until then, you can order the print version direct from Amazon Createspace (they’ll have your Amazon billing info) right here.
Several of you have reached out either by email, DM or comments on fics and posts to ask me about Windsinger (and the rest of the series), so here ya go!!
Q: Where did you get the idea for Windsinger?
A: This actually came from a short story I wrote a few years back. I was in a writing contest and I really wanted to push my boundaries. I decided to write a short horror piece just to see if I could. In the story, the main character had much the same gift as Cecy (I’m not giving it away) but he didn’t use it as altruistically. He was a selfish, creepy old guy. Anyway, I thought it was a great premise for a novel – this ability, and since this involved air specifically, I started thinking about all the basic elements. And then I wondered how “singers” would present themselves in each of the elements.
Q: Are you introducing all the characters from the series in this book? Continue reading
Only three more days until you meet the Elementals and the Twixters – magical creatures embodying the elements of earth, air, fire and water.
In this scene, Brad and Cecy have spent a night in each other’s arms, only to find their lazy morning upended by the arrival of her mother, an air elemental: Continue reading
Meet the Elementals – a magical race that inhabits our world embodying the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Cecy is a “Twixter,” the half-human offspring of an air elemental, who doesn’t always fit in with the rest of our world.
In addition to her magical heritage, Cecy bears another gift, one which will lead her to Brad, a scientist who is studying a very strange phenomenon – one that might signal a far deeper problem and a danger to life as we know it.
Together, they stumble upon a mystery that affects them both, and discover that playing it safe means nothing when love and desire are in the air.
We are four days away from publication! Windsinger is one of my most intricate stories yet – full of intrigue, full of laughs, full of magic, and (you know me…) full of STEAM!!
Saturday is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and to celebrate, I’m offering Eight Nights At Sea ABSOLUTELY FREE today and tomorrow!!
Sail off for eight nights of adventure, intrigue, sarcasm and STEAM with a sexy pirate and his sensuous stowaway! Available in print or Kindle editions, via Amazon!
From Chell Morrow at LoveReadingLaughing.com:
“I will tell you this now–Zephyr already has my heart. This love story is so softly mystical. The details wrap around your heart and pull you in. Zephyr and Rina dance around loving each other so well, the twists and turns I never saw coming. Rina’s secret is so well entwined into the story I forgot she wasn’t who I thought she was (you’ll understand that sentence later, I’m not spoiling that one for you!). Rina and Zephyr are not your typical lovers and it is amazing. I found my self reading parts to my husband just to share with someone because I couldn’t hold my thoughts in. Eight nights at sea are not enough. If you love a good pirate, or if even if you don’t–this story is so magical it will make your heart spin.”
You can read book excerpts here, here and here!