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Harper Impulse Author Profile: Erica Hayes

LADY SMUT: Erica, if you were a drink, what kind of drink would you be? And why?

ERICA HAYES: A whisky sour, maybe. Something impulsive and irritating that burns your throat if you don’t show enough respect.

LADY SMUT:Who do you read who makes you laugh or cry? Or both?

ERICA HAYES:Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams make me laugh. I’m not much for reading tear-jerkers… but poorly disguised fanfic and awful waif/billionaire stories with badly-written BDSM make me howl like a thwarted toddler. Do t...

Breakfast w/ Lady Smut: 10 am Romance Festival Report

Hey Lovelies! Today we’re talking:

Highlights from theRomance Festival on Saturday &commentary
An update on what’s coming next in the schedule today
Where you can find it online

For a full schedule of today’s events (with American times)lookHERE. YESTERDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:

Q&A with Bella Andre and Barbara Freethy.
Tips from Ami Greko, book marketing strategist at Goodreads
Cindy Gallop speaks about her projectMAKE LOVE NOT PORN
Q&A with agent Carol Blake

HERE’S WHAT WE THOUGHT: What’s it like attending...

Harper Impulse Author Profile: Jane Lark

Hello Romance readers! Looking for a schedule of today’s Romance Fest events with American times? Look HERE.

Today we have HarperImpulse author Jane Lark with us to tell you about her and some of her books. Let’s get the ball rolling: Here’s the blurb for Jane Lark’s latest book, JUST YOU:

Don’t judge a person until you really know them…

The morning after the New Year’s Eve before… Waking up to a new year with a killer hangover and hazy memories of a seriously hot hook-up the night before leave...

Romance Fest Schedule W/ AMERICAN TIMES!!!

ROMANCE FESTIVAL LINE UP WITH AMERICAN TIMES! (EST)

Trying to translate 2pm into 9am? I know, it was driving us crazy too. So here you go, East Coast folk — the romance festival line up for Sunday with east coast times…(And even if you don’t live on the east coast, maybe it’s still easier to subtract one or two or three hours than it is six or seven or eight.)

9am

Twitter: Jill Mansell and Mhairi McFarlane in conversation on TwitterFollow along and ask questions using #Romance14

Facebook: Romanti...

Romance Festival Live! Agent Q&A With Carole Blake

by Kiersten Hallie Krum Lady Smut is here to guide you throughRomance Festival ’14 thefirst online romance festival.Drop by Lady Smut every hour to find HarperImpulse author Q&As as well as:

What just happened at the romance festival & what we thought about it
What’s coming next
Where you can find it online

WHAT JUST HAPPENED:

6 PM UK/1PM EST U.S.—Tips on working with a literary agent Twitter Q&A with Carole Blake of Blake Friedmann. Mention @caroleagentand use #Romance14 to ask your questions.

Li...

How to Rock Goodreads: Advice from Ami Greko

by Madeline Iva

I have been interested in Goodreads since hearing Alma Katzu mention it at Virginia Festival of the Book last March. Katzu is not only a successful author, she was also a member of a government think tank on social media and really knows her stuff.

During our Publishing Alchemy panel shesaid that 1 in 7 people on the entire planet are using Facebook. It’s incredibly hard to be seen/noticed in all that noise if you’re a romance author. Twitter, meanwhile, is getting to be just as...

Romance Festival LIVE: 2pm report

Big push to the finish! Here’s a round up of events for the end of day one at the first online ROMANCE FESTIVAL.

Don’t forget to drop by tomorrow as well whenLady Smut will post every hour to guide you through #Romance14. We’ll include:

What just happened at the romance festival & what we thought about it
What’s coming next
Where you can find it online

WHAT JUST HAPPENED:

12 pm ON TWITTER advice and tips for new authors.Q&A with Orna Ross,author and founder of Alliance of Independent Authors. Go to...

Harper Impulse Author Profile: Vonnie Davis

By Liz Everly

As a part of the today’s online Romance Festival, the Lady Smut bloggers are interviewing some of Harper Impulse’s authors. If’ you’ve not been to the festival yet, check out the Twitter feed on our side panel, @romance festival #romance14; the Facebook page here, and the blog here.

In the mean time, we’ve come up with five questions for each of our author guests, with ONE specific question geared to each writer.

Here’s a bit about Vonnie Davis, taken from her website.

Vonnie Davis...

Romance Festival LIVE: 12pm Report

….Aaaaaand we’re back!

Lady Smut is here to guide you throughRomance Festival ’14 thefirst online romance festival.Drop by Lady Smut every hour to find HarperImpulse author Q&A’s as well as:

What just happened at the romance festival & what we thought about it
What’s coming next
Where you can find it online

WHAT JUST HAPPENED:

10 am Creating great covers on FACEBOOK

Q&A with Fixabook.

10 am Digital #ScriptDoctor Hour on TWITTER

People askededitors about their manuscripts and gottips.

11 am Women’s fict...

Harper Impulse Author Profile: Aubrie Dionne

By Liz Everly

As a part of this weekend’s online Romance Festival, the Lady Smut bloggers are interviewing some of Harper Impulse’s authors. If’ you’ve not been to the festival yet, check out the Twitter feed on our side panel, @romance festival #romance14; the Facebook page here, and the blog here.

In the mean time, we’ve come up with five questions for each of our author guests, with ONE specific question geared to each writer. Without further adieu, here is Aubrie Dionne, author of Harper Im...