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December 10, 2012
Add a little “spice” to your Christmas
Add a little “spice” to your Christmas. I’m not talking about giving your lover cinnamon or nutmeg or…. I’m talking about giving him/her something with a hint of erotic “fun.” Why not heat up your Christmas time with some very special gifts to enjoy together?
Here is a list of links with some interesting items to consider:
Babeland: Check out their sex toys inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey
Eden Fantasys: Stock up on sexy gifts for a little sugar and spice, everything nice
Erotic Stories and Toys: Gifts for him, for her, for couples, for lots of “fun”
Intimate Wholesalers: Sexy costumes, corsets, lingerie, club wear and more
Love Honey: Pick the perfect sexy present, toys, lingerie, and essentials
My cowboys in the Christmas anthology, COWBOYS IN CHARGE, had specific ways of dealing with the women they loved, women who pushed their patience to the limit. They also loved as hard as they spanked…and a few of them enjoyed some “spicy” toys.
Cowboys in Charge includes seven stories of strong, loving cowboys and the women who try their patience.
James wants Kelly to quit work and start a family, but she resists the idea. Will he give up the idea of a family or will he give up Kelly?
Too Much Red at Christmas Time
Lizzie has a bizarre addiction to Christmas shopping and she can’t help herself, even knowing she will face the wrath of her husband who believes in domestic discipline.
Amber missed the fun little games she and Adam used to play. There never seemed to be time for steamy sex, or even the spankings he’d occasionally given her for various infractions of rules or for misbehavior. Could she entice him back, get the dwindling fires of their love going again?
Jennifer loved Jason and she’d trusted him as he led her into the BDSM lifestyle. But now he wanted to take things to a more intense level and she balked at it. Would she lose him if she didn’t agree to go 24/7?
Spankings had not solved all of their problems. Justin had known something was wrong with Nicci. He knew he should have tried to talk to her sooner, but he’d avoided that until she moved out and shattered him.
All I Want for Christmas (Biggest Prize Ever)
Krystal loved the bad-ass bull rider, but she wasn’t into sharing Ryan with all of the rodeo bunnies who lusted after him. She’d spent too many years living for his visits home. It was time to move on and find someone she could depend on to be there all of the time.
Christina wanted time and attention from Joshua but he’d become sour, lost his sense of humor, rarely made love to her. He hadn’t even spanked her in months. She’s not willing to give up on her cowboy. Maybe a Christmas gift on the edgy side will help win him back.
December 3, 2012
Christmas and Cowboys
Christmas and Cowboys, two of my favorite things. As a child, I looked forward to Christmas mainly because of the fun of decorating our family’s tree, making a gazillion holiday cookies, coming up with a list of what I wanted as gifts, going to see Santa, and going Christmas caroling with my church friends.
As a parent of a young child, my view on some of the things I liked as a child changed a bit. It was exciting to have our own Christmas tree as a couple and to start collecting ornaments that meant something to us. Through the years that meant adding those “beautiful” handmade items our daughter made. (Most of which we still have many years later and continue to hang on the tree.) Making cookies and candies with my daughter was fun, although most of the time it was just me doing the making…and her doing the eating.
Going to see Santa wasn’t something my daughter really liked. I have only one picture of that event. But we did have “Santa” show up at several of the family get-togethers, which delighted the older aunts and uncles more than the kids. I’m still a huge Santa fan and have a large collection of them to struggle with finding where to put them out at Christmas time.
As an adult with no children at home any longer, I still enjoy Christmas. What makes me happiest about the time now is the getting together with family and friends. We don’t make as many cookies or as much candy now that most of us our more health conscious, eat less sugar. But, oh, the memories of those “sweeter” times.
As a romance writer, I love writing Christmas stories…especially ones that include Cowboys. If you look through my book list, you will see that the majority of my stories are about those hunky, sometimes gruff, stubborn, often heart-bruised, sinfully sexy men in worn jeans, dusty boots, and a wide-brimmed hat.
My newest Christmas release is OH SO NICE…AND NAUGHTY from Blushing Books. It is a second chance at love story with two of my favorite characters.
Kandee O’Connor left her home town as soon as she could, heart-bruised, and determined to never return for more than a visit. But she’s tired of her career that has kept her too busy for any kind of relationship, even for losing her virginity. Now she’s gone home and comes face-to-face with the boy—now a man—who was partly responsible for why she’d left all those years ago. Her feelings are stronger than ever for him…and she wants him to help her with the virginity problem, but that’s all. Right?
Sean Masters left his home town and became a successful pro-football quarterback, but now his football career is over. He’s lost, expected to take over the family ranch, but doubts he can do it. His life is a mess. Then he runs into Kandee, a girl—now a beautiful woman—who he still feels guilt over for something that happened when she was sixteen. In some twisted way, she wants him to right the wrong he’d done her. She wants him to be her first lover. What she needs is a good spanking and he’s just the man to give her one.
November 19, 2012
Applying Real Life Experiences to Your Fiction Writing
Applying Real Life Experiences to Your Fiction Writing
[image error]I love the holidays, even the craziness that surrounds me. Admittedly, I don’t buy as many presents as I once did because the kids in the family are now grown up. There are grandnieces now to spoil. Still, Christmas just isn’t the same without little ones around to see the wonder of it all on their faces.
But there are holiday get-togethers with family, friends, and co-workers. These can be enjoyable times or teeth-grinding times. Is Aunt Ruth going to play matchmaker again with the single members of the family? Will Ted sneak a bit more liquor into the already spiked punch? What do you buy for the “white elephant” exchange at the office this year?
Along with that thought, gift buying problems have changed over the years from what new toy to buy a child who already has far too many toys. Now the problem is more of what kind of gift card do the teenagers want? Or what do you buy for your adult siblings or parents who already have everything they want or need? Again, which gift card will they actually use?
Even more of a problem can be getting something special for your mate. They probably already buy whatever they want or need throughout the year. Or they like books, but you don’t know which ones they haven’t read or which ones they would want. Or they have a hobby or play a sport, but you aren’t sure what they need for it or what they don’t already have. The list goes on and on.
If I wasn’t so determined to enjoy the holidays, I’d be very frustrated as I face these mounting problems of what to buy for people I care about. Personally, I hate giving gift cards because they seem so impersonal, but sometimes I give them anyway out of pure desperation.
I also love to find a really unique present, something people would never think about getting for themselves. My daughter and husband have come to expect receiving these “Oh really?” gifts. They take it in stride and eventually the gifts get hidden away or donated. But they understood I meant well, and I had fun with finding that special gift and with seeing their initial expression at unwrapping it.
As a writer, I draw on my life experiences and try to incorporate versions of them in my stories. In Holly’s Big Bad Santa, I hint at the frustrations of hanging Christmas lights and mention some of the familiar plastic lawn ornamentation we often see in yards.
In “Snowed in with Her Cowboy” from my Cowboys in Charge anthology, the couple was having marital problems at Christmas time. The wife has lost her usual holiday spirit and the husband is desperate to help bring it back. He puts up a tree and digs out their decorations, hoping he assembled everything just right, wanting to please the woman he loves.
Another example of how I drew on familiar holiday experiences was in “Too Much Red at Christmas” also from Cowboys in Charge. The wife is basically addicted to shopping and can’t seem to stop buying gifts.
My purpose behind this post was to remind you, as a writer, that there are things that happen in your life and around you every day that can be used in your stories. As a reader, hopefully you can identify with some of what I’ve mentioned and remember reading stories where real life experiences have been incorporated.
[image error]Cowboys in Charge
Publisher: Black Velvet Seductions
Genre: Contemporary holiday erotic romance anthology
Buy Link: Amazon
Buy Link: Barnes & Noble
[image error]Holly’s Big Bad Santa
Publisher: Black Velvet Seductions
Genre: Contemporary holiday erotic romance
Buy Link: Amazon
Buy Link: Barnes & Noble
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