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January 28, 2018
Penny Reid – Grin and Beard It
An early installment in the “Winston Brothers” series, “Grin and Beard it” is great fun, with a plus-size Latina movie star heroine and a handsome park ranger hero. Penny Reid is delightful, and this series delights in poking fun at people’s preconceived notions at every turn. OverDrive Link
Bonus info: I heard an interview with Penny, where she said that she’s planning to start a Cozy Mystery series starring Cletus and Jennifer, and I’m stupid excited about it. #steamylibrarybooks #collectiondevelopment @overdrivelibs
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January 25, 2018
Tamsen Parker – Compass Series
“Personal Geography” is the first half of a two-book series by Tamsen Parker, and while I could go into more detail, I’ll just say: M/f BDSM in Hawaii. Hoopla Link. #steamylibrarybooks #collectiondevelopment @HooplaDigital
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January 24, 2018
Steamy Library Books – Backlog Pt. 2!
Okay, folks, here are more items I already shared on Facebook and Twitter under the #steamylibrarybooks tag. I hope you enjoy them! I should let you know that I included affiliate links in order to embed the pretty pictures… but please check to see if the library has them first, y’all!
January 20, 2018
Backlog of “Steamy Library Books” – Part The First!
Hi Folks! In my last blog post, I mentioned that I’ve been curating a Facebook page with a list of steamy novels that might be available in your library (and are definitely available on either OverDrive, Hoopla, or another library platform).
I’ve decided to cross-post those materials here, so that they are easy to locate, all in one place, and so that you can send a link to the resource as a whole to your local librarian. 
January 17, 2018
Steamy Library Books
You know, I love writing books, I love reading books, and I love recommending books. But you know what I don’t feel very comfortable with? Being an author on social media. I’m much more comfortable being a librarian on social media (you know, I’ve been a librarian much longer than I’ve been an author!).
I’ve started a Facebook Group called Steamy Library Books where I share recommendations for …steamy library books. You can find it linked in my author profile there, or by searching the hashtag #steamylibrarybooks on Twitter. I think I’ll start cross-posting my rec’s here, as well.
I hope you enjoy them!
October 17, 2017
NEW RELEASE! “Bad Decisions” is out Today!
I’m so excited to announce that my new novel, Bad Decisions, is out at all major booksellers TODAY!
Tabitha, Nate, and Jason were a lot of fun to write, but they took a long time to make it onto the page – if you’ve been with me on this writing journey for a while now… thank you for your patience!
To celebrate the new release, I’ve also (temporarily) dropped the price on Bad Penny to 99 cents, so if you have a friend who you’d like to recommend it to, this month is a good time to tell them about it.
Thank you again, my friends and readers, for your support on this journey. I hope you love Tabitha and her guys as much as I do.
Bad Decisions (Smart Sexy Nerds Book 2)
By Jocelyn Adler
Bad Decisions: What’s it about?
Who has time for love? Not this woman.
Tabitha Wells is spinning her wheels – stuck between her past as a stripper and her future as a lawyer. Between bills and more bills. She doesn’t have time for dating – let alone for dating a couple! Jason and Nate are serious about each other… they couldn’t be serious about her, too? Not serious, serious… right?
If you do have time for love, can you make love work?
Jason has been a player for long enough – he’s ready to settle down with his idealistic and open-hearted boyfriend, Nate. And maybe with Nate’s classmate, Tabitha. The hot self-defense instructor is charmed by Tabitha’s nerdy YA fiction references, her guarded heart and her brain – but is he willing to share his past? And what about Nathan – will he give up his future in DC, and a job that could improve the world, to stay with the people he loves?
How can all three find the success they’ve worked for, when their hearts keep making Bad Decisions?
NEW RELEASE! "Bad Decisions" is out Today!
I'm so excited to announce that my new novel, Bad Decisions, is out at all major booksellers TODAY!
Tabitha, Nate, and Jason were a lot of fun to write, but they took a long time to make it onto the page - if you've been with me on this writing journey for a while now... thank you for your patience!
To celebrate the new release, I've also (temporarily) dropped the price on Bad Penny to 99 cents, so if you have a friend who you'd like to recommend it to, this month is a good time to tell them about it.
Thank you again, my friends and readers, for your support on this journey. I hope you love Tabitha and her guys as much as I do.
Bad Decisions (Smart Sexy Nerds Book 2)
By Jocelyn Adler
Bad Decisions: What's it about?
Who has time for love? Not this woman.
Tabitha Wells is spinning her wheels - stuck between her past as a stripper and her future as a lawyer. Between bills and more bills. She doesn't have time for dating - let alone for dating a couple! Jason and Nate are serious about each other... they couldn't be serious about her, too? Not serious, serious... right?
If you do have time for love, can you make love work?
Jason has been a player for long enough - he's ready to settle down with his idealistic and open-hearted boyfriend, Nate. And maybe with Nate's classmate, Tabitha. The hot self-defense instructor is charmed by Tabitha's nerdy YA fiction references, her guarded heart and her brain - but is he willing to share his past? And what about Nathan - will he give up his future in DC, and a job that could improve the world, to stay with the people he loves?
How can all three find the success they've worked for, when their hearts keep making Bad Decisions?
July 28, 2017
Another author who isn’t at RWA…
Well! I’m not at RWA, but I know I’m in good company, because I’ve been hanging out and stalking the #notRWA17 threads on Twitter. What a great group, and what great tweet-storms! If you haven’t checked it out yet, I encourage you to do so.
As part of the #notRWA17 event on Twitter, I’m giving away a few copies of my first novel, “Bad Penny!” If you’re reading this post… you’ve probably already gotten a copy. If you haven’t, now is your chance! If you’d like to get a friend to read it, feel free to forward the link!
Free Copy of “Bad Penny” for #notRWA17 is available on Instafreebie, here: https://instafreebie.com/free/JCcIT
Another author who isn't at RWA...
Well! I'm not at RWA, but I know I'm in good company, because I've been hanging out and stalking the #notRWA17 threads on Twitter. What a great group, and what great tweet-storms! If you haven't checked it out yet, I encourage you to do so.
As part of the #notRWA17 event on Twitter, I'm giving away a few copies of my first novel, "Bad Penny!" If you're reading this post... you've probably already gotten a copy. If you haven't, now is your chance! If you'd like to get a friend to read it, feel free to forward the link!
Free Copy of "Bad Penny" for #notRWA17 is available on Instafreebie, here: https://instafreebie.com/free/JCcIT
August 1, 2016
What’s in a category? That which we call an “Erotic Romance” by any other name, would smell as sweet.
Over at BookRiot’s Video stream, Wallace is talking about the terms “Erotic Romance” and “Erotica” and the difference between them. It’s fun watching Wallace as she’s getting into romance novels and dealing with a newborn (her kiddo is turning one!). I’ve really been enjoying her videos about her exploration of the genre.
So, today, when I saw the tag-line “Wallace talks about the difference between erotica and romantic erotica (there is a difference, and it’s significant)” I was super excited. I just released my debut novel, and to my mind, I’m straddling the two categories. I’m never sure what to list it as, what to tell book bloggers, where to put my categorization on Amazon, blah blah author problems blah. Maybe this YouTube video will solve all my problems! I’m a law librarian, people, I like a solid categorization methodology.
Well, I’m sad to report that this video did not solve all my problems, but it did give me another thing to think about when making those decisions. Not to spoil the video for you (you should watch it anyway, Wallace is adorable and interesting), but she said she found the dividing line had to do with the amount of plot. Is there more to the plot than the sexy-times? Erotic romance. Is it pretty much just straight bangin’? Erotica.
I remember reading Anais Nin as a teenager, and in her introduction to one of her books (Little Birds? Delta of Venus?) she talked about writing erotica for a private collector who constantly told her and the other authors sending him work to spend less time on plot, and get straight to the action. She felt like that left the sex scenes empty of content and meaning – you can’t build a relateable or significant sex scene without building a plot to hang it on.
I agree with Nin, so my dividing line has always been a solid Happily Ever After. If there is one, erotic romance. If not? Erotica. For example, I think that a lot of Megan Hart’s work straddles erotica, literary fiction, and erotic romance. A HEA is the dividing line, for me, for what category the book belongs in. If the couple featured is together at the end, it’s erotic romance. But, generally, almost all of Megan’s stuff is marketed as erotica, maybe because she’s not consistent about the characters staying together at the end.
I hesitate to put Bad Penny in the erotic romance category because although she does have a HEA at the end, the book is about a combination of that and her getting over an earlier relationship. It’s based on Penny’s development and emotional growth more than on her relationship with Mike. Which is a plot element. So I’m not even following my own rules, here. *sigh!*
Another factor I hadn’t considered when writing, but which comes up on a lot of review blogs is: who is having sex? If the heroine only has sex with the hero, then they consider it romance. If they have sex with multiple partners (certainly if the heroine does), it’s erotica. That dividing line makes sense to me, to some extent. However, I feel like that’s more of a personal preference than a bright line between categories. Of course, I read a good bit of menage (and my next book is a menage story), so of course I’d think that.
I think my issue with that as a dividing line comes from my introduction to erotica, and still one of my favorite examples of it (and a huge influence on my first book): Exit to Eden by Anne Rice. Bearing no resemblance to the horrible Rosie O’Donnell/Dan Ackroyd vehicle based on it, it’s a really fascinating novel about the sexual life of a dominatrix, who is going off the rails and trying to figure out why. Is it because she’s falling in love? Both of the main characters have a lot of sex with a lot of different people throughout the book, sometimes in flashbacks, sometimes in real time. It was absolutely a romance, to my mind, because the love story is the central support of the plot. If you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you to do so – it’s a little dated, a little old-school, but I love it. Because: dominatrix.
Anyway. That’s it for me, for non-fiction, for the day.
