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Stimulate Your Senses

This weekend, I attended the New Jersey Romance Writers annual Put Your Heart in a Book Conference. This is one of my favorite regional conferences and not just because NJRW is my home chapter. It’s well-attended and well-stocked with great speakers and topics; well-stocked at the bar too (though never with enough bartenders, unfortunately.) I get away from life for a little while and get to talk about romance novels and the romance publishing industry and hot bad ass men, sexy, snarky, bad a...

I Miss Zipless — Are Nice Girls Retaking Romance?

By Alexa Day

A very sweet person almost talked me out of romance.

I don’t remember what she did for a living, but I think it was something that involved lots of nurturing. She was probably a teacher, surrounded by lots of small children. She didn’t date all that much, but at the same time, she was really upset that she wasn’t married by the time she turned 29. And then … well, I don’t want to speak out of turn … but she was a virgin. She’d never even seen a naked man before.

This very sweet pers...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Photo by Dollen

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers.

Hello, Sexy! Whew, I’m glad this week is over. How about you? We’ve been hard at work finding you some, fun, sexy, funny, and thought-provoking reads this week. So dig in!

From Liz:

Sex facts that will make you laugh.

What a Buddhist Writing Retreat taught one writer.

Hips don’t lie.

What makes a romance novel great?

From CMK:

It’s a big country, so no surprise the expanding phenomenon is.

Calling all speshul snowflakes:Women...

Where Do You Get the Scoop?

by C. Margery Kempe

The Lady Smutketeers have been wondering: where do you get your recommendations of what to read next? There are a lot of books and writers out there all clamouring for your attention. How do you wade through the tsunami of information and find out what to read next?

I think it’s the biggest challenge of the current age. We’re lucky to have more terrific authors than ever before, publishers who take challenges and put out books that break all the rules of the past. Nonetheles...

Get Shorty: Hot Vertically Challenged Guys

I’d take Messina over the Brit any day.

By Madeline Iva

Okay, I’m watching Chris Messina on The Mindy Project. If I weren’t married, I’d do him. Am I right, ladies? And there was a bit in a recent episode where he was mashed up against the male nurse. That guy’s a giant, and Chris Messina is tiny. I remember thinking, “My God he’s so petite, and yes, I’d STILL do him.”

What lyrics? I’m just looking at Pharrell, I’m not even hearing any lyrics.

Speaking of the not super tall — we were wrangling ov...

Who You Callin’ A Bitch Or A Ho? Why I Hate “Blurred Lines”

By Elizabeth Shore

I’m going to state right up front that my opinion about the song “Blurred Lines” may be in the minority. After all, it spent twelve weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, so obviously there are folks bopping along to the catchy beat and thinking it’s a fun little summer tune. But you know what? It’s not. Go ahead and call me crazy, but in my book a song that includes the line, “I”ll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two” isn’t a light ditty about female empo...

Embracing the Dominatrix in You

By Liz Everly

Don’t you just love the word “dominatrix” ? It’s one of those words that sounds like what it is, isn’t it? Powerful. Kinky. Naughty. Alluring. Between Elizabeth Shore’s post on sex toys, and Madeline Iva’s on BDSM, and the fact that my main female character in my next book is an ex-dominatrix, I thought it might be fun to explore some of the real “toys” these kick-ass women might use during play. What do you think?

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“Say, please, Mistress!”

In CRAVINGS, Sasha takes Sanj into a sex-t...

Music Be the Food of Love…and Writing

By Kiersten Hallie Krum

Every author has her/his own environmental needs when she/he writes. I need music.I absorb it like I inhale air. It is always around me in one form or another, even if I have to make it myself. I really am that annoying person singing behind you in the grocery store line. Hey, at least I’m in tune. Sometimes even harmonizing.

What type of music I favor ebbs and flows through a given season. Sometimes life requires low down dirty rock and roll. Sometimes folk rock. Someti...

Romanticon 2013: On the Importance of Hot Shirtless Men

By Alexa Day

Last year, on Columbus Day, my mom and I were enjoying the last complimentary breakfast of Romanticon 2012 when a couple sat down at the table next to us. We started a conversation, mostly small talk about where we were from and why we were here and all that. We told them we were in Canton for a conference. You know, a book conference. For writers and readers. Of romance.

Erotic romance.

The woman looked cautiously interested. Her man gave us a disapproving look. The two of them had...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Photo by Dollen.

Hello, sexy! Whew, what a week! I’m so glad to see Saturday sometimes. How about you? The Lady Smut Bloggers have been digging hard this week to find you the most informative, fascinating blog posts we could find. Happy Saturday!

From Liz:

The heroines you love to hate.

From Jane Friedman: Is Self-publishing the most important transformation in the publishing industry?

A fabulous blog about prostitution. The Honest Courtesan. You don’t want...