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Sexy Saturday Round-Up

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Hello , Sexy! This week it’s just Madeline Iva and myself coming up with a few awesome blog posts for you to check out. But still the variety is fun, yummy, and fascinating. So sit back and enjoy!

From Liz:

Elizabeth Naughton on why she self-publishes. (And she make a great living at it. Check it out. You go, girl!)

Talli Rolland asks to Blog or Not?

Pondering writing erotica.

Vaginas of Science and Justice.

News of the weird. Getting nabbed having sex (after church) in the Kroger pa...

Mature Lust

by C. Margery Kempe

I had an unexpected moment of connection in teaching this week. In the medieval course, we were talking about the Wife of Bath and watching the BBC modernised version of the tale and prologue with Julie Walters. In the writers-on-film course, we were watching the Better Davis film, Old Acquaintance. Both deal with older women lusting after younger men. Walters’ embodiment of the bawdy wife is markedly different than the genteel lit’ry author Davis plays, but the tension aro...

Ready For Love?

In the midst of final edits for a requested manuscript, I realized two things at the same time.NBC’s Ready For Love was on and I needed a blog post for Thursday. Now, normally, I know we shouldn’t ditch the tedious task of editing for trashy reality TV, but you know, since I HAD to blog….I took a break. ;>

Surprisingly, Eva Longoria is an executive producer of this show. She starts things off by coming out on stage and admitting that these reality love show couples don’t make it mostly. But no...

Hark! I Hear An Audiobook

A writer friend of mind recently had one of her print books made into an audiobook, and I went to the website for a sample listen. It was an. . . interesting experience, to say the least. Now, let me preface by saying that in general I’m notan audiobook listener. I like my books in text form, whether on the paperpage or in an electronic reader, and I’ve listened to only a handful of audiobooks. Furthermore, the ones I’ve listened to have been mainstream fiction. For example, Ian McEwan’s Satu...

Balancing Two Genres

Art by Jem Yoshioka.

I woke up thinking about my hawt master-beekeeper in the third book of my romance series. You’d think this would be a good time to write about him. But in the mean time, I’ve gotten edits in on my mystery series so I have to set aside the romances. I love taking half the day to write mystery and the other half romance—the trouble is it rarely happens like this anymore.

I’m not the only genre writer who balances two names and two genres. Sometimes it feels like we walk a tig...

Anticipation

I’m in a state of anticipation.

Normally I would say I like anticipation –I adore anticipation. When starting to read a novel, I am full of anticipation. Will I like GONE GIRL as much as my friend did? Will the inside of the latest romance novel be as good as its provocative cover? Will it be full of hot, hot, sex–but sex that is deeply charged with strong emotional feeling? Or will it be full of other excellent surprises (I’m thinking Kristan Higgins here or Jennifer Cruisie) and have me sni...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Photo by Dollen

Hello, sexy! We’ve got an interesting line-up of blog posts for you this week. Once again, a wide variety of writers and reads. The Lady Smut writers have covered much ground this week—blogs posts from Kristin Higgins, Rachelle Gardner, and Kathy Kulig. (Not sure where else you’d see those three names together!) We also have some advice posts on vibrators and how to make a million dollars from your writing.

Enjoy!

From Liz:

Kristan Higgins on upping the stakes in your writing or “...

Romance with Discipline

Mask by Leonor Fini

by C. Margery Kempe

I gave a paper at the Popular Culture Association Conference last week called, “Knocking from Inside: Forging Strength through Pain in V for Vendetta and The Story of O” and it seemed to go over well in the BDSM/Kink area panel, despite the fact that I was the only panelist who turned up. (O_o) The title comes from a Rumi poem about struggling with your own constrictions:

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It...

Devilish Fun: Q&A with Samantha Kane

Hello lovely readers! Today the daffodils are blooming, the cherry blossoms are ravaging the blue sky, and at Lady Smut we’re continuing to talk about melt-the-dress-right-off-ya steamy historicals. Today, my guest is Samantha Kane who first burst onto the scene with pulse pounding m/m/f historical erotic romance. She’s going to tell us about her most recent work and who else is out there writing erotic historical romance.

MADELINE IVA: I first became aware of you as an author at Romanticon tw...

Sexy Regencies? A Q&A with author Elf Ahearn

A traditionaldefinition of Regency romances imcludes setting in the British Regency period (1811 – 1820), strict and accurate attention to historical detail, an emphasis on intelligent, fast-paced dialogue, and on the developing romance between the protagonists. It does not, however, generally include explicit, sensual sex scenes. But that didn’t stop author Elf Ahearn from writing the kind of Regency she likes to read, which amps up the heat in a most satisfying way.Her new release is A Rogu...