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I. G. Frederick Discusses Judging a Book by its Cover

I’d like to welcome I. G. Frederick back to my site to share some very interesting insights into something very near and dear to every novelist’s heart, book cover design and its effect on sales.

 

People do judge a …

Xcite Books, The Uk’s Leading Publisher Of Erotic Fiction, Has Signed A Three-book Contract With Erotic And Romantic Novelist Grace Marshall

They say the best things come in threes – and Xcite Books, the UK’s leading publisher of erotic fiction, has signed a three-book contract with erotic and romantic novelist Grace Marshall. In the same week the publisher was named Book …

More on Scarlett Knight’s New Anthology, The Emerald Room

The Emerald Room by Scarlett Knight

Experience the passion that ignites when handsome older men connect with young beautiful women. This steamy collection of four erotic short stories includes the kind of sexy encounters that only a blending of experience …

How Fifty Shades Of Grey has led to a boom in raunchy reading material

Author KD Grace’s erotic novel The Initiation Of Miss Holly (£8, BlueBella.com) also explores a BDSM relationship and has been compared to Fifty Shades Of Grey. She believes books are very powerful, particularly for women.

‘They trigger our imaginations and …

Kay Jaybee Tells Us About Her Sticky Situation

It’s my pleasure to have one of my favourite erotica authors, and one of my favourite people, Kay Jaybee, back on A Hopeful Romantic. Kay’s here to share the naughty story behind her novella, A Sticky Situation, which is her tasty contribution to Xcite’s Secret Library anthology, Hungarian Rhapsody. Welcome, Kay!   I was extremely more »

Fifty Shades of Grey effect boosts award-winning Welsh publisher

Xcite has now signed a three-book contract with erotic and romantic novelist Grace Marshall – better known to some as KD Grace, whose erotic novel The Initiation of Ms Holly has been reprinted for a second time following increased demand …

New Release: For My Master by Suz deMello

Agent Kathie Belmont has long lusted after her boss, Ross Guerrero, but has never plucked up the courage to even flirt with him. Could he be the strong but tender Master she craves? Ross wants Kathie in his life—on her knees. But the constraints of their jobs with an ultra-secret US security agency have come more »

Charlotte Stein Tells Us About Her Novella, Restraint

It’s my pleasure to welcome back to A Hopeful Romantic, one of my very favourite authors, Charlotte Stein, who will be telling us about Restraint, her yummy novella from the Xcite’s Secret Library collection, Hungarian Rhapsody Anthology. Welcome back, Charlotte! Restraint came about because of two things: one, Xcite asked me if I’d like to more »

The Story Behind the Story: Maggie Brooke

It’s a pleasure to welcome a new voice to A Hopeful Romantic today. Welcome Maggie Brooke. I’m very excited to have an Australian Story Behind the Story, and Maggie’s novel, Guided Tour, sizzles in proper Down-Under fashion. If you’ve got AC, now might be a good time to crank it! The brutal truth about the more »

Justine Elyot Shares the Story Behind Hungarian Rhapsody

It’s my pleasure to welcome back one of my favourite writers and a really fab chick, Justine Elyot. Justine is here with the story behind her Secret Library novella, Hungarian Rhapsody from the anthology for which it’s the title story. Ahh, Budapest. The obvious setting for my Xcite Secret Library novella, Hungarian Rhapsody, for after more »