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It Can Actually Happen! Getting Your Books Into A Bookstore

By Elizabeth Shore

If you’ve never been to a romance writer’s conference and RWA National seems like being forcedto eat an eight-course feast when all you want are wine and tapas, I’d highly recommend New Jersey’s annual Put Your Heart in a Book conference. Year after year it draws top agents, editors, and industry big-names to this very well-run regional conference. This year, one of the best workshops I attended was given by two booksellers from Barnes and Noble, Heather Soligo and Jamie Bi...

Now You See It? No, You Don’t: Notes on the Male Revue

This young fellow looks like he needs to practice the ol’ rip-swoosh.

By Alexa Day

I’m no stranger to the male revue. I’ve tucked my share of bills into my share of waistbands. My lap has been danced on. I’ve kept my hands to myself and … I haven’t. You know, depending on what’s allowed.

I’ve been around. It’s a privilege of being single at this age.

Sadly, I live in a place that has no male revue. This is a sexually repressed place that wants desperately not to appear sexually repressed, jus...

Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish: Goth Rom Com

by G.G. Andrew

Halloween is the scariest holiday of the year and the sexiest. Whether it’s meetingamysterious masked stranger at a party, orclutchingthat hot guywhile you’re watching a scary movie…Halloween offers us a chance to shiver, a chance to flip expectationsplaying naughty to our usual nice.

I’ve always loved tales of gothic romance likeJane Eyre and Rebeccadripping with dark, shadowy mystery. Women hold candles while they roam the halls at midnight wearing long white nightgowns. Hand...

Sexy Saturday Round Up

Hello autumnal adore-ants! All hail the glory that is fall. Whether you’re rolling around with pumpkins and orange-red leaves in the field, or sipping on your pumpkin-latte in a cafe, we’ve got the latest for you in smexy fun this week, so read on McDuff, and let the LadySmutrumpus begin.

From Madeline:

Charli Howard’s angry at the modeling agents and she’s not gonna take it anymore.

Rough, tough, and in the buff? Do people actually wear pj’s anymore?

Make sure to bring this along with you on...

Meet Carolyn Crane, Annika Martin Wandering in Dark Forests: Our Right to Imagine and Fantasize

By Elizabeth SaFleur

CAROLYN CRANE and ANNIKA MARTIN have thrilled the world over with best-selling and award-winning books. CAROLYN writes romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and other tales of love and adventure. ANNIKA writes love stories about criminals–some of them are dirty and fun while others are dark and intense. I had the good fortune to run into her at the RT Booklovers Convention last spring. Yes, her. I can confirm that she is, indeed, one person—sweet, smart and oh, so imaginative...

Beth Kery’s Bad Behavior

Bound to You: A One Night of Passion Novella

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by Madeline Iva

We’re talking bad behaviorthis week on Lady Smut. At least, I am, becauseIsabelle Drake’s book about a girl behaving badly is available for pre-order this week, and to celebrate that, I wanted to talk about Beth Kery’s books with their different flavors of bad girl-ishness.

Now, I am a good girl. I mean, like, in high school, my friends could get permission to do anything if I was along for the ride. It’s like parents sa...

New Jersey RWA And Other News

By Elizabeth Shore

Hi Sexies! I’ve been away at the New Jersey Put Your Heart in a Book annual conference so haven’t had time this week for a proper post. But look for me next week and in future posts when I’ll give you the low down on all the news (from the conference) that’s fit to print, including tons of great book promo tips, ideas for getting your books in bookstores, and making your sensual writing more evocative.

In the meantime, this sexy hunk was hanging around my pictures folder, s...

Playboy Without Nudity: Does This Mean No More Secret Stash?

Don’t grasp your pearls just yet, dear. I think Playboy will be even sexier.

By Alexa Day

I’ve often said that I’ll know I’ve made it when I get a Playboy interview.

So I wasn’t really sure how I felt about the news that Playboy is about to stop publishing nude photos in its print editions. (That transition has already occurred online.)

Don’t misunderstand me, now. My appearance in Playboy was never going to include the nude pictorial. As freewheeling as I am, nudity is a hard limit for me. T...

Three Words of Horror: High School Reunion

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by Madeline Iva

(Kiersten is still away).

According to The Zombies it’sthe time of the season for loving! What I love is no longer being in high school. Doh!But now there are those hellish reunions to duck, avoid, or attend in a ball of seething vengeance.

Or–instead you can read OFF THE RAILS Isabelle Drake’s latest book. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon and comes out October 27th.

Here’s the blurb:

Book one in the Make Me Over series

High school reunion—three words that t...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

Hello fall frolicking folks

–hope you’ve had a busy but fulfilling week. We’re here this weekend to celebrate/mourn the passing of nudes from Playboy, and to thrust forward abunch of other fun links for your weekend pleasure. So get that pumpkin spice latte and kick back!

It’s Queer Romance Month! Let’s celebrate.

Speaking of gender-bending, here’s Constance Leathart: the forgotten aviatrix.

Tired of campus shootings?Open carry of dildos on Texas campus creates controversy.

I only read it for...