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Deck The Halls With Your Sparkling Vagina!

By Elizabeth Shore

Brace yourselves, everyone, because Thanksgiving is a week from tomorrow. That means the holiday season is officially upon us. GAAAH!!Time to make spicy cider, decorate the house, buy festive clothing . . . oh yeah, and schedule an appointment to bedazzle your vagina. That’s right, ladies. This week Lady Smut’s talking luxury. It’s time to get vajazzled.

In the “old” days, sparkles used to be confined to blouses, handbags, jeans, shoes, but what about your poor neglected lady...

Luxury: My Own Chocolatier and a Luscious Giveaway

In my other life, I’ve written a few cookbooks, along with many food articles. In my travels, I’ve met a lot of people involved in the culinary world. One of my favorites is Chef William Poole, a chocolatier, an inspired and gifted man. We met in Denver at his first shop, Wen Chocolates. He’s such a good friend that he created a chocolate based on CRAVINGS, which is now being given away here.

The solid chocolate tile crafted by Chef William Poole for the release of CRAVINGS.

Make no mistake, c...

Wide Awake in Sleepy Hollow

By Kiersten Hallie Krum

Sleepy Hollowis the water cooler conversation of the fall TV schedule. Forget Scandal (Fitz is a douche) forget The X Factor (everyone else has) and pay no attention to Grimm (they forgot how to run a good show about the time Juliet lost her memory). Sleepy Hollow has the horror, it has the pretty, it has the deep metaphysical mythos, and it even has the funny.

Oh look! A list!

Five reasons why you should be watching Sleepy Hollow.

Ax you

5. Call of Duty: Headless Horseman

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Faking It While Making It: What’s With Faked Orgasms?

By Alexa Day

My mind has been on the orgasm this week, and not for the usual reasons. I blame Slate, in a good-natured, shoulder-slapping way. This week’s article about the faked orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally started me thinking.

Are we women still faking orgasms? And, presuming the answer is yes, why are we doing that?

Considering that the faked orgasm is itself an act of deception, and a sexual one at that, it’s not altogether surprising that its proponents are less than forthcoming abo...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers.

Photo by Dollen

Hello, Sexy! Happy Saturday! Come along with the Lady Smut Bloggers as we present to you some fun and informative reads from the internet.

From Liz:

Fifteen places to have sex before you die.

A fabulous discussion on Dear Author this week about mixing the personal and the professional and writing books reviews.

Scarlett Parrish on the “snake oil that is paying for promo.”

C. Margery Kempe

A not-entirely-serious guide to using Twitter as a writ...

How do you spell ‘Luxury’? M-O-R-E

by C. Margery Kempe

It’s getting toward that unmentionable part of the year when people want to rush through work to get things done before the holidays and families make demands and suddenly everybody’s wearing a rictus grin while they curse under their breath and buy more presents they don’t want to give to people who don’t really want them.

Why not chuck all that — if only for an hour or two — and give yourself the gift of luxury?

It doesn’t have to be much, not really. Oh sure, if it’s in yo...

Maleficent, My Darling…Why I Love A Sexy Wicked Women

By Madeline Iva

Aurora or Maleficent?

Along with a lot of other fairy tale mayhem on TV and the big screen, Disney is soon to bring out Maleficent — a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning.

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty really had me transfixed when I was a tot. I thought Snow White was an idiot, and to me, Cinderella seemed a little too happy with her rats, poverty, and rags. Even though I worship at the alter of Ariel, the Little Mermaid, it was Sleeping Beauty’s na...

Not Tonight, Dear. I’m Writing A Sex Scene

By Elizabeth Shore

I’ve been spending the last few weeks working on the second-round revisions for my upcoming contemporary,Hot Bayou Nights.My editor is great and has made really helpful suggestions. Because the book is an erotic romance, one of those suggestions is that it be “spiced up” even more than it already is. So the other day I sat down at the computer, coffee cup in hand, bowl of grapes by my side, and started scrolling through her comments. I reached one of the sex scenes and saw t...

The Sex and Romance of Place

ByLiz Everly

So my next novel, CRAVINGS, which will be released on November 21 (less than ten days away!) is set in Ecuador and Saint Lucia. (By the way, there is a Goodreads giveaway of CRAVINGS, right now. Check it out here.)

I wrote a post about Ecuador last week. I also wrote a little about why I choose to set my romances exotic places, at times. For me, writing romance is often about fantasy, definitely wish fulfillment when it comes to traveling. There is also this: Placing your character...

Going Against Type

When I was thirteen or so, the first guy I kinda sorta “dated”, the way you do when you’re thirteen or so,haddark hair, was two years older than me, wore a leather jacket, and I have absolutely no doubt eventually rode a motorcycle. Decades later, my mother revealed she took one look at this guy, turned to my father, and said, “we are in serious trouble.”

Yeah. It’s like that.

Turns out, I have a type.

We all have types, that indefinable attribute that draws us to a man. The physical mishmash th...