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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.

Stay Hungry,

Liz

Fast Balls: Q&A with Mindy Klasky

How are his fast balls? ;>

By Madeline Iva

Hey yo! Just stuffing my face with creme-O’s at 8:20 am. Today we’ve got Mindy Klasky in the house. She’s got a series about baseball players and babes, so let’s dish.

Reigning beauty queen Samantha Winger is launching her pet project, a music program for kids. All she has to do is follow the pageant’s rules—no smoking, drinking, or “cavorting” in public.

That’s fine, until D.J. Thomas—God’s gift to baseball—throws her a wild pitch. He slams her in an in...

Couples Who Read Together …

Hey Sexies! I’m out of town this week so I’ve pulled up a post I wrote about a year and a half ago for all those who may have missed it the first time around. See you next week. xoxo

By Elizabeth Shore

Ihave a good girlfriend who told me once that she and her boyfriend enjoyed reading passages from my historical erotic novella to each other as a prelude to lovemaking. She said reading to each other like that really got them in the mood for some good time fun. I was flattered – and happy to be o...

Sizzling Serials

By Liz Everly

One of the exciting markets wide open for writers is serial fiction. Serial fiction has ebbed and flowed in popularity over the decades—but the internet and digital publishing have really enhanced things further. Publishing a series of stories that are linked or a novel that leaves your reader hanging on and wanting more is a great way to engage with your readers and to stay in touch with them between books. One of the things my readers want? More books—and yet, even if I could w...

How I Learned to Love the Bard

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

William Shakespeare’s officialbirthday (though the actual date is not known for sure) was last week. He looks good for being 450 years old.

I came late to appreciating Shakespeare and spent my high-school years and some of college wondering what the hell the big deal was about such convoluted language and pretentious posturing on the stage. I saw it; I read it. I just didn’t “get it”.

Tho never shalt hear herald anymore

And then came Kenneth Brannagh’s Henry Vduring my sop...

Mouthy and Marvelous for #NoBareLips30

My hero, Grace Jones, wearing Whatever The Hell She Pleases on her lips.

By Alexa Day

Midnight Stroll. Revolution. Rise and Shine. Mistress. Scott.

They’re all names of lipsticks and lip glosses. Even Scott, who’s a nude from the e.l.f. Ex-tra Lip Gloss line.

I’ll be getting better acquainted with all of them and more in the next few weeks for #NoBareLips30. For the next 30 days, I’ll be taking to Facebook with photos of my mouth in various lip colors to celebrate my personal concept of beauty, t...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Hello Sexy! Happy Saturday?! Are you taking it easy? Or are you a party animal? Maybe you can do both–check out the post by Terri Osburn about Facebook parties. In the mean time, you may be wondering what to do with your kitty or what foods are best for sex. Are you worried about confidence? We’ve got you covered. Check out our round-up.

From Liz Everly:

How TV Sex Fails Us

Foods for sex. (You know I love this one!)

How to have a Facebook Party. (By party a...

Character Flaws

by C. Margery Kempe

I’m turning the blog over to my alter ego K. A. Laity today to talk about the hero of her novelWhite Rabbit and the appeal of the flawed character. I’ve blogged before about ‘likability’ in a character, but how many flaws is enough? How many aretoo many? Take it away, Kate –

There’s a dismissive term, Mary Sue, used in the SFF world to describe impossibly virtuous characters that are assumed to just be the author inserted, flaws scrubbed away in a wish-fulfilling fantasy. No...

Man Giz & Rock Star Romance Research: Q&A with Carlene Love Flores

Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci having sex in SHOOT ‘EM UP. Monica is a call girl who caters to a very special clientele.

MADELINE IVA:Carlene, what’s the most shocking thing you’ve ever written about?

CARLENE LOVE FLORES: Hi! Oh! This is interesting timing that you’ve asked me this as I just recently found out erotic lactation is not the sexy, romantic fantasy I imagined it being! I’m enough of a newbie not to have known it was taboo when I submitted a short hot mess with that as the main theme...

An Incurable Case Of Hope Addiction

By Elizabeth Shore

After a brutal winter thatsometimes felt as if hell really had frozen over and we’d all been flung into it head-first, we are finallyfinally getting a taste of spring. I was outside the other day and I heard the annual chirping of migratory birds, noticed that trees had buds and in some cases even tiny leaves, and saw the warm yellow of daffodilspushing up from the ground. It was one of those moments we dream about during the dark days of winter, when we long for the warmth...