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Outlander Fever

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

In Los Angeles this week and next, the Television Critics Association (TCA) is having the winter edition of it’s two-week conference wherein television shows present their shiny trailers and shinier cast for panels and interviews of the season ahead. For a TV junkie like me, this is two-weeks of delayed gratification as I suck up each tidbit on favorites such as Orphan Black andGame of Thrones.

Outlander.

For those of you living in a romance-deprived cave (poor dears), R...

The White Zone Is For Picking Up Passengers: Hot Airport Sex

By Alexa Day

I hate flying. Airfare’s out of control. That position you have to assume in the scanner machine – I don’t know, isn’t that exactly the posture of those people in horror movies who are about to be crushed by something huge? The whole experience has driven me to road trips. I only fly when I absolutely have to.

So when I had to fly for the Christmas holiday, I remembered the very best thing about air travel: the airport itself. Leaving the hell of TSA screening behind and heading of...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Photo by Dollen

by Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Hello, Sexy! We are back with our noses to the grindstone here at Lady Smut. We are diligently searching for some of the best, juciest content to bring to you every Saturday morning. Enjoy!

From Liz:

Molly Green parsing the publishing predictions.

The word in hybrid publishing.

Kensington’s Steven Zacharius on how publishers decide to publish books.

Jenna Jackson on hair and eye color in your heros.

CMK:

The latest round of Frazenfreude: Jennife...

Invitation to Die by Helen Smith

by C. Margery Kempe

We don’t do many book reviews on Lady Smut, but every once in a while there’s a book that totally captivates one of us. I had the pleasure of meeting Helen Smith at Bouchercon (the huge annual mystery conference that took place in Albany last autumn) and found her warm and witty — and I’m glad to say her books reflect the same spirit.

There’s an extra pleasure for romance writers and readers inInvitation to Die. Here’s the blurb:

Emily Castles is 26 and unemployed, so when ro...

Venus in Faux Furs

by Madeline Iva

Oh, baby, I love it when it’s cold outside. It’s brrrrrilliant. Snow hides so many landscape flaws. Big sweaters hide so many bulges. In fact, I have no problem becoming hands and a face for months at a time.

Hats are charming, as are gloves and mittens. Your face looks better pink, and the cold boosts your metabolism. What’s not to love?

I remember the first time I was driving in the snow. Kind of skidded into a ditch and got stuck. First car that passed by stopped. Guy got out,...

Where’s The Sex? Frustrations Of Love In The Digital Age

By Elizabeth Shore

One nice thing about the holiday season is that we often have a little more time than normal to snuggle up with loved ones. Even if you don’t have a fireplace, snuggling is a good way to keep your fires burning, right? Unless, of course, you and your loved one have never even met. Strange but true. I’m talking about love in the digital age.

In the “old” days of five years ago or more, people who wanted to date often started with a common first step: they actually met. In pers...

A Man Who can MOVE, baby

By Liz Everly

Am I the only woman who has a list of famous men she’d like to dance with? I wonder. Even though I’m not a professional dancer, I danced for many years, as do my daughters now, and I’ve spent a lot of time in dance studios and around other dancers. I don’t know if that’s why I’m so attracted to men who move well. I’ve never dated a sloucher or a man who shuffles his feet along as he walks. I like a man with confidence in his movement.

My list of men I’d like to dance with could go...

Longing for Resolution

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

“The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit you make alterations.”

Stella, The Midnight Star

Silverado 1985

It’s a blessing of time’s infinite if bafflingstructure that every 365 days or so, we get to reset our worlds.

The year turns and with it we take the untrod canvas ahead and foist on it the dreams that could be in that as yet undecided era. To lose weight. To exercise more. To be a better person. To run a marathon. To read more books (huzzah!). To wri...

More, More, More in the Twenty-One-Four

By Alexa Day

I take a dim view of most New Year’s resolutions. Every year, I see lots of hoopla about what people are resolving to do, and then, about three weeks later, there’s a wave of shaming about how many people have already returned to their pre-resolution lives. But who can blame them? The average resolution sounds like a lot of work! Think of all the deprivation involved in losing weight, going on a budget, abandoning alcohol, smoking, fatty foods. No thanks! This year, I’ve decided I...

Happy New Year, Sexies!

Welcome to 2014, Sexy Readers! We hope you’re waking up feeling amazing and excited about facing the new year! Alternately, if your head’s throbbing from over-indulgence, the light in your bedroom is blinding your sensitive eyes, and that previous sentence is waaaay too perky for the way you’re feeling right now, fear not. We’ve got you covered. We’ll be back on Sunday with our usual lineup of fun, sexy, thought-provoking, and arousing posts to keep you warm through the cold winter months and...