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Rules for Hunting & Fishing, Or How to Bag Mr. McDreamy

Great title–but has little or nothing to do with the book. If you are interested in the book–it’s good. These connected short stories are whimsical, bitter-sweet tales of estranged love with an older man.

by Madeline Iva

Hello my romantic darlings.

I wrote last week on Mr. Unattainable, and I started thinking about two figures.Let’s call the first one McDreamy. Or McClueless. This is the guy who just doesn’t get that he’s a crazy gorgeous man. Who can also seem utterly indifferent to the heroine...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Hello, Sexy! I hope you’re having a wonderful Saturday. I’m out of town–so the other bloggers are taking over. Ta!

From Elizabeth:

So you think you know your man? Not so fast! Essence magazine lays down the top 9 myths.

Office love can be fun – or not.

How to have the perfect one night stand.

Blogger Gennifer Albin’s insightful post on why women shaming other women is so harmful.

From CMK:

From The Onion, the kind of headline that makes most writers cry.

Because it closely mimics the real thing over...

Beginnings and Endings

The third Chastity Flame thriller

by C. Margery Kempe

I recently finished writing another novel, the third sexy espionage thriller starring my James Bond-like character Chastity Flame, A Cut-Throat Business. As usual, I experienced once more the incredible relief and joy that typing the very last words of a book brings. There’s such satisfaction in finally reaching that point after the long haul of chapters. This was a relatively short process, (some novels have taken me years), so the beginnin...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LADY SMUT!

Happy Anniversary, us!

We’re one year old today!

And there’s a lot to celebrate dearest readers.

Not only have we brought you the sassy sexy goodness you so richly deserve multiple times a week, but with maturity we’re just getting better.

To celebrate the news we’d like to announce:

OUR SEPTEMBER BOOK GIVE AWAY!

Today and tomorrow I’m giving away books.

You–yes,you reader–could be the lucky one to win a free read of your choice if you leave a comment for us.

Tell us what you like about Lady Smut as...

Fantasy Football, Lady Smut Style

By Elizabeth Shore

Happy fall, everyone! Temperatures are falling, leaves are falling, and tomorrow the 2013/14 football season gets underway. Like it or loathe it, football’s here to stay. For some gals it means fleeing their homes on Sundays like it’s a barn on fire. The games are long and never seem to end. When one’s over, another one begins. It’s a seemingly endless marathon of big grown men clashing into one another and analysts dissecting their every move. Plus, there are now games on S...

Sexy FBI Agents, Prostitution, and Forensics: All in a Day’s Work

The last time I held a gun in my hand I was ten-years-old and shooting my father’s 22 rifle. Of course, I fell back onto the ground when the shot went off and my dad stood there laughing and help me up from the ground. He knew that was going to happen. Even though I nagged my father to let me shoot that gun, I grew up to hate them. I don’t own any guns. But I write about them—not in great detail—or rather, I write about people who use them. I’m not sure I’d ever really need to know a lot abou...

Mr. Unattainable: Icy Emotionally Withholding Heroes—& Why I love Them So

Darcy. Need I say more?

By Madeline Iva

Last Friday’s post by CMK (check it out here) reminded me of my favorite kind of hero: Mr. Unattainable. There are many wonderful things to explore about this guy in his icy shroud of utter indifference. Today, let’s take a look at why you, like me, might thrill to that emotionally withholding hero.

1) We gals like a challenge.

It is a known fact after umpteen seasons of The Bachelor that women like to chase men.

As someone who found herself being unexpected...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Photo by Dollen

Hello Sexy. It’s been a busy week with our Lady Smut bloggers. We have some exciting changes heading your way and can hardly wait to tell you about it. In the mean time, we hope that you have a relaxing, fun holiday. To celebrate, I’m offering, my sexy, shortest story “Pie for Teacher” for free through Monday. Enjoy! In the mean time, check out these blog posts, hand picked by us.

Sex scenes for women by Trudy Doyle.

On the art of editing.

One Handed Writers seems to doing a theme...

Be More Eyre

Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens

by C. Margery Kempe

My sweetie and I watched the 2011 Jane Eyre the other night; he’d not yet seen it, though I’d seen it in the theatre and maybe once or twice since. It’s not like I was going to be tired of it! The script by Moira Buffini reconfigures the story in a fascinating way, bringing out nuances even a seasoned fan may notice for the first time and emphasising the Gothic nature of the story.

This is the one with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. I kno...

Would You Get Out Alive? Bear Grylls Is The Survivalist of My Dreams

Bear is hot

by Madeline Iva

Just finished an exciting dose of a “reality” series called Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls. The show involved different couples (father-daughter, father-son, fiancées, two buddies, etc) competing for half a million dollars by surviving the rigors of the wild in New Zealand. You can watch the entire season hereon Hulu.

At the heart of this show was Bear Grylls. Some may already know him from his other crazy survivalist theme shows in days of yore—but Bear is a former B...