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Advice About Writing Y.A. from Editors

Hi Readers — there was an awesome discussion with some editors about Y.A. at #ScriptDoctor this morning with Anna Baggaley of Mira UK and Emily Thomas from HotKey. Here are some highlights –

Early on I asked this question:

Madeline Iva: Is paranormal getting old for editors?

‪Anna Baggaley No, though the term is. A good story is a good story. A fresh angle on paranormal will be seductive.

A lot of people asked variations of my question. She also added later on:

Anna Baggaleyparanormal and dystopia...

Romance Festival LIVE! 10am Report

Hey dolls!

Lady Smut is here to guide you throughRomance Festival ’14– your first online romance festival evah!

Drop by Lady Smut every hour to find not only author Q&A’s but we’re also going to tell you

What just happened at the romance festival & what we thought about it.
What’s coming next (Eastern Standard Time).
Where you can find it online.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED:

9AM Twitter Chat:

YA #ScriptDoctor Hour

This was a segment where you could ask the editor about your manuscripts and get their tips.

You h...

Harper Impulse Author Profile: Sue Fortin

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 this post, we’re interviewing Sue Fortin, whose latest Harper Impulse book is “Closing in.”

From Sue Fortin’s blog: “Lover of cake, Dragonflies and France. Hater of calories, maths and snakes. I w...

Romance Festival: Live!

The Lady Smut crew is busy hobnobbing over at the HarperImpulse Romance Festival! Be there or be square.

Follow the events LIVE on Twitter right over there —>

Or drop by the Romance Festival blogor the Facebook page.

CHECK IT OUT:

LADY SMUT CREW FEATURED!

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Sneak Peak: Promised to the Highlander by Kate Robbins

by C. Margery Kempe

We’ll all be crazy busy this weekend with the Romance Festival, sponsored by our new publisher HarperImpulse(and counting down the days to our sexy paranormal anthologyDark Desires). Look for surprises and news as well as lots of fun chat and a few prizes.

But first I have a sneak peak into Kate Robbins‘ latest release from Tirgearr Publishing in the Highland Chiefs series:

Here’s the blurb:

Nessia Stephenson’s world was safe until a threat from a neighbouring clan forces her...

From Reformed Club Girl to Mistress of Paranormal Romance: Q&A with Elisabeth Staab

by Madeline Iva

Elisabeth’s latest book–book # 3–in her Chronicle of Yavn Series.

Hello kittens! Today we get to roll around in the world of paranormal smutty fun with Elisabeth Staab. She has written some contemporary romance, but I primarily wanted to talk to her about her paranormal series the CHRONICLE OF YAVN. The third book in the series HUNTER BY NIGHT released on Tuesday…

MADELINE IVA:Elisabeth, tell us the nitty gritty about what you write….

ELISABETH STAAB: Hi, and thanks so much for ha...

Curse Of The Nitwit Heroine

By Elizabeth Shore

This week at Lady Smut we’re gearing up for the fantastic HarperImpulse digital romance festival happening this weekend. It’ll be a great way to connect with readers and fellow authors and as we virtually come together tochat about romance. It’s ironic, therefore, that while I’m looking forward to connecting with all these savvy readers and writers, I happen to be reading a romance containing one of my least favorite things – a nitwit heroine.

We all do things kind of nitwit-...

Blog to Book and Book Expo America

By Liz Everly

I was thrilled to attend Kensington’s BEA party again this year. It was wonderful to see some of the people the behind the scenes who work so hard for the books I write. And you never know what other writer you’ll get a chance to met—and that always a good thing. This year, among others, I met the fabulous New York Times bestselling author, Rebecca Zanetti, author of the Dark Protector Series from Kensington, the Sin Brother Series from Grand Central, and The Maverick Montana Ser...

Don’t Neglect the Back End

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

I love festivals. Book festivals. Music festivals. Comic Cons. Renaissance festivals. I dig ‘em hard. Few things are as fun has hanging with like-minded people and dishing about favorite things.It’s just candy.

Behold the wonder of the Interwebs where now we can enjoy such marvels from the comfy chair in our living room. We at Lady Smut are pleased topromote HarperCollins Publishers’virtual Romance Festival onJune 7-8. Glance to your right toseethe festival’s niftyretrol...

That First Thousand Words: Hot Romance Covers

Just Justin being Justin.

By Alexa Day

Have you heard? The good people at HarperImpulse are putting on an online romance conference at the end of the week. There’s a day for readers and a day for authors, and I’m looking forward to checking out both of them. You should totally register for it right now. This will still be here in a second.

But I’m really looking forward to hearing about covers on Saturday. I have no idea why covers and cover reveals and

So I wonder what these two are going to do...