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Beyond Twelve Years, Beyond Slavery: Future Stories of the Past

By Alexa Day

My good buddy and fellow interracial romance author, Tracey Livesay, emailed me a movie trailer recently. I’m really excited about the film, a historical movie telling the story of a black character’s efforts to live within a predominantly white society.

Here’s the trailer:

What? A historical romance with a black woman and a white man that’s not set in the West Indies? And she’s not a slave? Yes! I’m delighted.

So why am I worried I won’t get to see Belle here in central Virginia?

Wel...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Photo by Dollen

Hello Sexy! Well, hello November and cool cool weather. (Well, at least here in Va.) We’ve got a bunch of interesting blog posts for your perusal today. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!

From Liz:

Ten erotic romance novels you should read.

Four Keys to just the right sex.

New erotic romance releases.

Book subscription services: the next big thing in publishing?

From Madeline:

The Blog Romance Novels for Feminists reports on the problem of ‘monolithic attitudes’ towards romance.

Reading the a...

Interview: The Last Chanteuse, Anne Pigalle

Anne Pigalle by Derek Ridgers (2013)

by C. Margery Kempe

Today I’m happy to host the enchanting chanteuse, Anne Pigalle.Like Edith Piaf , The Last Chanteuse grew up at the back of Montmartre in Paris, France. Her teenage years were spent playing guitar in an all girls punk band and watching films.Pigalle moved to London, recorded with Michael Nyman and Adrian Sherwood and then went on to sign a recording contract with Trevor Horn’s record label ZTT, with whom she recorded an album and a few sin...

F*** My Brains Out: Why Smart Guys Are Soooo Sexy

by Madeline Iva

Hi girrrrrrls!

I’ve been thinking lately. Some women like a guy who plays guitar. Some women like the guy with a hot car. Some women like the guy who gives that little smile and says, “I love kids.”

Arthur Miller you hottie you.

Not me. No sir.

What turns me on?

Oh, preppy glasses.

A guy in a tie.

Cute dorks.

Large foreheads.

I don’t know people, for some reason I just find intelligence highly attractive.

Add to that a guy who’s very articulate and I’m almost panting. You see a pocket pr...

Satisfy Me, Baby

By Elizabeth Shore

You know how it is when you’ve just finished, and you lay back in the bed feeling completely satisfied, expel a contended sigh, and think to yourself, “Wow. That was great.”

Then you close the pages of the book you’ve just read and ponder what you’ll read next. (what? did you think I was talking about something else?)

Writers know what gives us book satisfaction when we’re producing our own material. We like how the characters turn out, when our pacing is smart and snappy, w...

Exotic, Erotic Ecuador

By Liz Everly

I often set my books in exotic locations and I love the research that goes with it. I’ve learned so much about cultures, food, and so on. It’s a great vehicle for showing who my characters are, as well. Sometimes in a new culture my characters are often thrown off-balance, as they try to navigate through legal systems or hospitals and so on. They also sometimes have that sense of freedom that we all enjoy when we travel. We might, just might, have sex with that stranger in the Am...

Forget the Bloodsuckers. Give Me the Wolf

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

All Hallows has past. The Great Pumpkin never arrived (poor Linus), and many of us are nowswimming through vats of leftover candy (Hallelujah). But the obsession with the dark and deadly of the night never truly ends, does it? A happy happenstance for those who write in the paranormal genre.

There wasa television special Friday night called Why We (Heart) Vampires.Ostensibly a retrospective on vampire movies and television shows with a focus on the men (and a few women)...

Smut in Office: May All Your Bedfellows Be So Strange

By Alexa Day

Election Day is this week in Virginia and in a few other places across this great nation of ours. Like many dedicated citizens, I’m looking forward to it because I am sick to death of listening to political ads.

Some of you are starting to push back from the table. Don’t worry. I would never bring politics into our time together on Sunday morning. Seriously. I like everyone here too much to do that.

I would, however, post pictures of hot people playing politicians in the movies and...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

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By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Hello Sexy! It’s Sat-ur-day! We’ve been searching for the most interesting blog posts to bring you this week. We have the gambit this week–everything from how to have better orgasms to the weirdest sex stories of the ancient world.

I should mention the Hungry Hearts Blog Hop here, which my own blog (click here) is a part of this week. It’s an opportunity for you to check out some delicious recipes from your favorite culinary romance writer...

Five Reasons Why Ghosts Make Better Lovers

Happy Day of the Dead!

Halloween is too good to let go of too soon, so if we slide into our remembrances of the dead, it’s the perfect time to say once more thatLove doesn’t end with death.Ghostly lovers have long been a staple of romance. While intangible lovers seem to have an insurmountable problem, surely the eternal nature of their love is something to sigh for. And they do have advantages:

1) Nothing to do but think of you

Surely there’s something appealing in a lover who has nothing but t...