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For the Mom Who Has Everything … Get Two Men

By Alexa Day

Today is Mother’s Day in the U.S. In the spirit of the day, and in service to those of us who are still searching for the perfect last-minute gift for the woman who has everything, I’d like to dedicate this post to my mother, to her journey into the sexy world of e-books, and to her favorite erotic romance novels.

I see some of you starting to click away. (Yes, I do. If that bothers you, you might consider covering the built-in webcam with a Post-It note because if I can see you, o...

Sexy Saturday Round-up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Hell-o, Sexy! Welcome to your Saturday, a day of the week we can all agree to love. Sit back and enjoy the blog posts we’ve found for you this week. And don’t forget to subscribe. C’mon. You know you want to.

From Liz Everly:

Is Facebook still useful?

Tomorrow’s sex toys.

On fan fiction.

From C. Margery Kempe:

ISBN prices have gone up — but only for small amounts (i.e. self-publishers & small press)

Reasons to be cheerful despite the disruptions of publishing

R...

Cities as Inspiration

Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne plays a role in One Night in Rome

by C. Margery Kempe

An awful lot of my stories take place in London because 1) I spend a lot of time there or have done 2) I know parts of the city well and they inspire good ideas for stories and 3) I love that city, so even when I’m not there I like to spend time visiting via my imagination. I setSwan Prince in Hyde Park and most of theChastity Flame stories in parts of the city from the National Gallery to the Millennium Bridge.

Bu...

Oh God, Yes! Yes! Yes! : Awesome Noisy Sex

Snoring husband, & artistic lover

by Madeline Iva There is a great German film called MEN. In this film at onepoint wifey isunhappy because her husband is snoring. He explains that men snore because long agoit kept the beasts away at night. What a wonderful, economical explanation! I think that you could expand this basic theory to add that it’s awomen’s job to be really loud while havingsex. Obviously her screams keep thebeasts awaywhile the couple isotherwiseoccupied. That is–if the sex is g...

A Touchy Subject

By Elizabeth Shore

Hello Sexies and happy hump day! I’ve just returned from a glorious vacation in Rome and was set to tell you all about it, but the planet’s nastiest cold has me in the grip of his evil ways. I need to kill this bastard off quick, so I’m bringing you an earlier post about the wonders of touch to keep you deliciously warm and cozy until I return next week. Enjoy!

I was feeling a little old school this morning, so I fired up Salt N Pepa’s Whatta Man on my iPod as I walked to wo...

Shut up and F–k Me

By Liz Everly

A note from Liz: I’m just back from a conference and am road-weary–so I thought I’d share one of my fav posts from last year. Enjoy!

F–k used to be my favorite word. (Yes, the f-bomb, can’t really write the word here, without setting off the blog censor alerts.) It is with some regret that I acknowledge that it is no longer my word of choice. I sometimes wonder why it doesn’t speak to me the way it used to—is it because I am a mother and need to watch my language around my childre...

Beyond Resistance

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

I’m a glommer. Hello, my name is Kiersten and I glom. When I discover something I like, a food, a piece of clothing, a new musician, a new book series, Ihave to drown myself in it till I’m saturated in its bliss. This is a fairly common malaise among readers of romance novels particularly. We know what we like when we find it and boy howdy, do we want more. And more. And more.

My recent reading glom is Kit Rocha’s Beyond series, which currently includes Beyond Shame, Bey...

The ‘O’ in ‘Team’: Would You Hire a Sex Coach?

You could go all the way. Heyo!

By Alexa Day

As part of my Post-Tax Clutter Purge and Shred Festival, I gathered up a lot of my old magazines to send to various magazine-seeking charities. Among this year’s odd discoveries were a stash of Cosmopolitans (not sure how those got here), a Playgirl (I know exactly how that got here), a People Sexiest Man Alive issue with Pierce Brosnan on the cover, and the June 2012 issue of GQ.

I got rid of the Cosmos, stashed the Playgirl and the People, and sat d...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Happy Saturday, Sexy! check out some of the fascinating blog posts we’ve gathered for you.

From Liz Everly:

Prostitutes in 18th century Paris.

Exotic fruits you need to try.

What is your novel’s theme?

More on romance serials.

From Madeline Iva:

10 Turn-Offs for a Woman.

Hair Discrimination in the Army? Not on THIS woman’s Watch.

A slide show on Worshippingthe Stiletto.

The new college graduation gift for women? Freezing your eggs.(BtwI had to laugh–poorJoanna Co...

Romance and Young Readers

by C. Margery Kempe

You may have heard that ‘New Adult’ is all the rage now, eclipsing even Young Adult; I don’t know about that. Marketing terms can be hard to parse exactly, but there’s no doubt about one thing: books aimed at younger readers are selling like hot cakes — and who doesn’t want to be young again? The appeal of romance to young readers is taken up by our guest, Kemberlee Shortland, writer of the Irish Pride series. She’s also head of one of my publishers, Tirgearr!

Take it away,...