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Surrender to a Hot FBI Guy: Q&A with Leah St. James

Leah’s tried different covers with her novel. Which one do you like best? From 1st edition published by The Wild Rose Press, cover artist Kimberlee Mendoza

Our guest today is Leah St. James. Leah, a long time romance buddyof mine, is just the sweetest friend. By day she works in a news room, by night she’s an indie author and head ofher own publishing company. As a valued member of our romance community, she’s organized romance panels at various book festivals around Virginia. Welcome to Lady...

The Thrill Ain’t Gone: Cara Vance’s The Necromancer’s Wife

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By Madeline Iva

Sometimes the thrill is gone. Blake and Miranda broke up this week. The week before it was Ben and Jennifer. Aggggh. I liked both of these couples a lot.

Some people say when they break up for good it’s likethey can’t ever remember feelingthat thrill in the first place. On the other hand, Huffington Post reports that “Sex With Your Ex” is a hot new trend.

Meanwhile, in romance the focus is usually on the beginning of the relationship. The finish line is commitmen...

Weird Sh*t

By Elizabeth Shore

I’m back after a week in Finland. As you may appreciate, I’m still a bit foggy. The combination of jet lag, copious amounts of vodka, and trying to get back to post-vacation daily life has left me bereft of blog post ideas.What to do? First, I ate ice cream, figuring a jolt of sugar would do the trick. Turns out that doesn’t work. Who knew. So then I trolled the internet in search of inspiration, confident I’d stumble across something that would prompt an idea. Instead what...

RWA 2015 Very Brief Round-Up

By Liz Everly

I have severe “jetlag” from the Romance Writer’s of America National Conference, so I’m not posting my usual witty, utterly fascinating schtick. But I’ve found several interesting write-ups from other bloggers about the RWA conference hat I thought I’d share.

I LOVE this post fromSuleikha Snyder about diversity at RWA.

Here’s a great round-up from Sarah Wendell of the blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

Another round-up with great observations.

Here’s one I loved because it was a...

Hot Fun in the City

by Madeline Iva

Hey all — Kiersten Hallie Krum ranoff to Romance Writers of America’s national conference last weekend in NYC and needs to catch her breath after all the fun she had.

Hope she brings back goodies forus next Monday — new authors to talk about, new books to explore, and all the smexy news about whatwent down at the conference.

I was so happy to see that our mutual buddy, the ever-funny Kimberly Kincaid was nominated for a 2015 RITA award at the conference for her book PUSHING TH...

In Praise of Sexy Bald Men

By Liz Everly

Note from Liz: Here’s one of my favorite blog posts from last year. Enjoy!

xo

Liz

I was going to use this post as part of our “surprisingly sexy” series, but I thought the better of it.

After chatting with a few friends, (including fellow Lady Smut blogger Elizabeth), I came to the conclusion that bald men are really notsurprisinglysexy—maybe only surprisingly sexy to themselves. I think that men have always thought women preferred men with hair. Hence, all the ads on tv geared for b...

Hero for Hire: Male Prostitutes as Romance Heroes

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

Happy New Year! And what better way to start the new year off than by hiring some male prostitutes!

Now that I haveyour attention…

We’ve talked about professional escorts on Lady Smut before in various ways. Elizabeth Shore has written two posts about Showtime’s “reality” series Gigolosand I’ve touch upon the issue somewhat when discussing Manservantsamong others.

A few weeks ago, there was a Twitter convo between several romance authors that spurred a series of recommenda...

Is Seduction Dead? No. Not Yet.

When did this become Point B?
(Image by Pavalache Stelian)

By Alexa Day

Long ago, I briefly dated a man called Bob. Bob was not his name, mind you. But it is what my wingwoman and I called him.

Bob was not the sort of man I usually dated. He was far more established and more successful and more confident than the guys I was used to, and I dated some pretty successful, confident guys. But I couldn’t sort out whether I was attracted to Bob — or attracted enough to him. That confusion was interestin...

Sexy Saturday Round-Up

By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut Bloggers

Hello, sexy. We are back from the Holidays and here for your reading pleasure. We’ve scored the Internets and found some very interesting posts for you.

Have you ever wished you had more sex when you were younger?

Moms are not supposed to like sex? I missed THAT memo.

Weed on your lady parts. Yes, you read that right.

From Alexa:

Love, marriage, and ebola … yeah, it’s complicated.

Before Google, research librarians used to take on the general public’s weird a...

Be More Sexy

by C. Margery Kempe

I’m sure a lot of people have started off the year with resolutions. Maybe it’s losing weight or getting fit, stopping some bad habit or other, but of course here at Lady Smut, we know what matters most: being sexy. Like any change you want to make you have to develop a habit. But how do you make being sexy a habit?

Step 1

Be confident — nothing is sexier than someone who knows precisely who they are, their strengths and their weaknesses, and knows that they deserve the very...