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Six Ways Sweet Valley High Lied To Us

Photo courtesy of Goodreads and my childhood.

by G.G. Andrew

There are many memories that burn bright in my early days of reading, but few can compete with the day I discovered Sweet Valley High.

As a third grader, I was at a friend’s house when we stepped into her sister’s room and saw a revolving book carousel filled with paperback Sweet Valley books. Those 1980s covers held such pretty, pastel images of handsome guys, pink phones, and twoperfect blond twins (with their matching size six bo...

Menage, Menage, Menage

Make Me

Make Me plays out a fav Charlotte Stein fantasy: the woman who doesn’t know that for a long time two guys have been talking about/fantasizing about having filthy hot sex with her.

By Madeline Iva

This is my first report on our Lady Smut Read Hotter Challenge (2016)

I readthree CharlotteStein ménage stories that I haven’t read before:Make Me, Power Play, and All Other Things.Let’s compare and contrast, shall we?

So far I’ve loved reading Stein’s books where the hero is based on Armie Ha...

Taking A Breather – Just For A Little While

By Elizabeth Shore

You’re probably familiar with the children’s books by author Lemony Snicket calledA Series of Unfortunate Events.Alas, that’s a description of the way things havebeen going for me recently. It’s said thatinto every life a little rain must fall. But the way I’m looking at it, out of rain comes renewal. So for a few weeks, I need to renew. To restore my sanity and order so I can come back pulsing with vigor! Kind of like taking a viagara for my life. Hehe.

I’ll be stepping aw...

All in My Head: Hot Erotic Research

This is how erotic romance writers work on their novels. For real.

By Alexa Day

Okay, real talk.

I write erotica and erotic romance. You all knew that.

From time to time, I do need help with research. Not that long ago, a friend and colleague helped me out with some questions I had about horseback riding. Someone else pitched in with some info about Uber. Another friend is drawing a floor plan to help me out with a location.

All these things are rich background details. They’re here to make t...

It’s Awards Season for Romance

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

Last Friday, Romancelandia experience the yearly giddiness (and for some, crushing disappointment) that is the annual announcement of the RITA/Golden Heart finalists by the Romance Writers of America.These awards are given out at the formal closing banquet to the annual Romance Writers of America National Conference this July in San Diego, California.

For the uninitiated, the RITA is basically the Oscar of the romance novel industry, a prestigious award given to best r...

Sexy Saturday Round Up

Hello, readers! Did you miss us last week? We’re here today with lots of links and lustful insights into the world of women and mayhem. So grab a cuppa joe and come along for the ride.

From Madeline:

Why black women need to know what negging is.

What if facebook had a vacuum cleaner for a break-up?

NC revoking transgender rights.

The godmother of Manga sex.

American Sex Normsthat Europeans will never understand.

How NOT to plot a romance!

Rough sex or rape? Victims on trial in Canadian Broadc...

Torn fishnet stockings and sex in cages. Or, how I got started writing erotic zombie horror

By Isabelle Drake

Write about zombies? Not me. Write about zombies who feed off sex? Well, that’s more likely. Add in a horror element–now I’m all in.

January of 2011 I was about halfway through my MFA in Creative Writing. We were given a writing prompt that, we were told, was designed to push us “out of our comfort” zone. The assignment: read a tabloid newspaper, like The Weekly World News, long time supporter of Bat Boy, or the National Enquirer, currently keeping readers up to date on the...

How Romance Saved My Life

The Wicked Wallflower

Doesn’t this book look delicious?

by Madeline Iva

Last weekend was #Love Fest at Virginia Festival of the Book. All the panels were well attended, but thebiggest event of the weekend was showing LOVE BETWEENTHE COVERS–the latest documentary all about the romance world–followed by a discussion with Maya Rodale and Eloisa James and a book signing.

I experiencedrapture from meeting Eloisa James in person. Her stories have made me laugh and cry–almost at the same time. We wen...

Out of Pocket? Let’s Hope Not

I feel like Olivia didn’t need special marketing.

By Alexa Day

I’m having what the sports folks call a rebuilding year. Basically, I’m enjoying the opportunity to reconstruct my brand, revise some work, and get some new work out to new markets. Part of this means that I’m on the lookout for publishers who might be on the lookout for me.

That’s not an easy job — for me or for any author, really — under the best of conditions. But you know, there’s always someone out there who wants to make a t...

Beyond Ruin by Kit Rocha: A Review

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

Hello Lady Smutters!! I have met my (first) deadline (admittedly late, but there’s a certain greatness to my lateness.) To add some shine to the luster of my euphoric return, I have, for you,today, a review of the newest Kit Rocha Sector Four, O’Kane wonderbeast Beyond Ruin–and a giveaway!!!

Click on image to buy!

Unfortunately, the giveaway isn’t Mad from Sector Four, because in Beyond Ruin he gets not one, not two, but three lovers hooked up with him for goodin a web...