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PRO or PAN? Or Something in Between?

By Liz Everly

I’ve been a professional writer for about 30 years. By definition, I mean someone who gets paid for their writing on a regular basis. I’m a relatively new fiction writer in some regards, in that I’ve only started getting paid for my fiction, oh, let’s say, in the past five years. Much of that money has come from my mystery series. Not from my romances—but we’ll get to that later.

I’ve been to MANY writer’s conferences and, in my opinion, the best, both in terms of money and...

And Then Life Interfered

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

We had a death in the family this week and withthis,along with my birthday last week and topped off by a migraine-dominated weekend, Life has thus interfered with my planned post for this week.

Instead of something fresh and potentially scintillating, let me redirect you to a few Lady Smut posts you might have missed if, say, Life interfered with your plans as much as it did with mine.

There’s still time left to leave a comment on my Deacons of Bourbon Street post from...

This Is How It Starts: Kate Breslin’s For Such A Time

Are we really seeing the problem?

By Alexa Day

I am, speaking very generally, encouraged by what Romance Writers of America is trying to do with regard to diversity within our genre.

I’ve checked out the Storify from one of the diversity-related panels at this year’s National Conference (and you should, too). I downloaded the handout from the excellent authors at the panel on writing multicultural romances.And I would be doing you a disservice not to mention that Beverly Jenkins was on NPR la...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady SmutBloggers

Hello Sexy! Happy Saturday! Start (or finish) your day with some fascinating blog posts curated just for you by us.

Enjoy!

From Liz:

Sex pots of the ancient world.

Big and beautiful woman struts her stuff.

Taking a male pen name. Hmmm.

FromElizabeth Shore

He’s gone (sniff). A farewell tribue to Jon Stewart.

So, um, do you really want to know how it is? Eight women who’ve tried anal sex describe what it’s like.

Are men intimated by powerful women?

Predic...

Skinny Dipping: *Best* Erotic Fun Evah!

Poldark goes for a wee swim in the cove.

by Madeline Iva

Readers, there are so many sensual pleasures in the summertime. Home made ice tea with fresh mint from the garden. Lawn croquet birthday parties with tart lemon-squares and raspberries. Mountain cabins all rustic and smelling of woodsmoke, swampedin summermorningmist, twenty degrees cooler than back in the city. Tan lines are rivetingly attractive on most guys, emphasizing biceps and tushies. Sun-bathing is sensuousness itself, smearing...

All Bun Up

By Elizabeth Shore

Our intrepid Lady Smut blogger Madeline Iva first called it to my attention. “How have we NOT done a post on this?!” she mused. Seemed like pure crazy talk, but it happened to be true. We hard hitting Lady Smutters had to date not yetpondered the merits (or lack thereof) ofthe man bun.

To be honest,I don’t recalla trend in recent memory more polarizing. When I asked a girlfriend about it, she texted back lightning fast in all shouty caps, “I HATE IT!!” Other Lady Smutters w...

Where Do You Draw the Line?

by C. Margery Kempe

No, no, I’m not talking about our bizarre sexual practices, I’m talking about something superficial for once. Clothes: yes, that’s right. People have been sharing this link to horrible 70s clothes and I have been having flashbacks. So where do draw the line? What’s the one item of clothing that you cannot take in a potential date?

• Eye-scorching shirt/blouse

• Cheap suit

• Tacky trousers

• Novelty socks

• Hideous accessories

• Nitwit knitwear

• Colours not found in Nature...

The Deacons of Bourbon Street Interview and Review of Make You Burn

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

Last year, atthe 2013 RT Convention in New Orleans, the sultry setting of The Big Easy inspired four romance writers to create a new, eroticmotorcycle club (MC) series.

NowThe Deacons of Bourbon Street are ready to hit the road, burning rubber out of the gate with the debut of book one, Make You Burn by Megan Crane, tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4th.

Ladies, start your mothereffin’ engines.

I had the chance to sit down with all fourBitches of Bourbon Street–Megan Crane...

Easy Come, Easy Go: Are We Good With One-Night Stands?

Let’s see you make that early meeting now, What’s-Your-Face.

By Alexa Day

The one-night stand has gotten a bad rap. I don’t understand why. But we need look no farther than the most recentBachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe, to see that the General Public has some sort of issue with eligible single women closing the deal outside the confines of a relationship. (And why do relationships have confines? What is that about?)

What’s the problem with the short-term non-committed sexual encounter? Hell i...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Hello, sexy! It’s time to start your weekend reading. Grab a cup of coffee and join us as we bring you some fabulous blog pets this week.

From Liz:

Cut gay scenes in “From Here to Eternity.”

Legalizing sex work.

A vaginabeauty contest. That’s right.

From CMK:

NPR’s list of ‘swoon-worthy’ romances

When romance reflects the bad and the ugly as well as the good

Being a boss — and a feminist!

From Elizabeth Shore

The dog days of summer are here! How to sti...