Giselle Renarde's Blog, page 14
September 11, 2022
MEN IN MENAGE #Paranormal #MMF #Erotica
Looking to put a little spice in your night?
Enjoy a threesome of supernatural MMF erotic romance stories!
Jolene discovers two incubi are better than one.
Menage gets Shakespearean in Midsummer Morning Woods.
Wonderful Wing Boys takes us to an underground cougar club hosted by actual angels.
Get three out-of-this-world tales in one great collection!
MEN IN MENAGE: PARANORMAL MMF is available as an ebook from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFC26XHW?tag=dondes-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1165520?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=FKSIEAAAQBAJ
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/men-in-menage-giselle-renarde/1127308459
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/men-in-menage-paranormal-mmf
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/men-in-menage-paranormal-mmf/id6443386062
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/594851462/Men-in-Menage
Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/MenInMenage
...and a bunch of other places
Happy Halloween, threesome lovers!Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
September 10, 2022
Creatures of the Night: 6 Erotic Stories of the Paranormal
We're heading straight from wedding season to spooky season with Creatures of the Night, an anthology of supernatural erotica that started life as an audiobook!
Creatures of the Night
6 Erotic Stories of the Paranormal
by Giselle Renarde
There’s nothing more seductive than a sizzling story of sex and the supernatural. In this collection, you’ll find six thrilling and chilling tales of the paranormal from award-winning author Giselle Renarde. Go ahead. Stay up late tonight with six haunting stories of vampire lust, ghostly encounters, succubus sex and more!
Included in this collection are the following sexy stories:
Ghost of a Chance
Blood Lust
Neither Love Nor Money
Skyggen, the Shadow Woman
Milady's Bath
The Mesmerist and the Mare
Now available as an ebook and in print from a wide variety of retailers, including:
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1164336?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1727738632?tag=dondes-20
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=hT-HEAAAQBAJ
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/creatures-of-the-night-giselle-renarde/1129700762
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/creatures-of-the-night-6-erotic-stories-of-the-paranormal
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/creatures-of-the-night-6-erotic-stories-of-the-paranormal/id6443363008
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/592428145/Creatures-of-the-Night
Find more retailers with the Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/CreaturesOfTheNightGiselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
Creatures of the Night
6 Erotic Stories of the Paranormal
by Giselle Renarde
There’s nothing more seductive than a sizzling story of sex and the supernatural. In this collection, you’ll find six thrilling and chilling tales of the paranormal from award-winning author Giselle Renarde. Go ahead. Stay up late tonight with six haunting stories of vampire lust, ghostly encounters, succubus sex and more!
Included in this collection are the following sexy stories:
Ghost of a Chance
Blood Lust
Neither Love Nor Money
Skyggen, the Shadow Woman
Milady's Bath
The Mesmerist and the Mare
Now available as an ebook and in print from a wide variety of retailers, including:
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1164336?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1727738632?tag=dondes-20
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=hT-HEAAAQBAJ
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/creatures-of-the-night-giselle-renarde/1129700762
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/creatures-of-the-night-6-erotic-stories-of-the-paranormal
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/creatures-of-the-night-6-erotic-stories-of-the-paranormal/id6443363008
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/592428145/Creatures-of-the-Night
Find more retailers with the Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/CreaturesOfTheNightGiselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
September 3, 2022
This is it! The Final #WeddingHeat: HAPPY EVER AFTER
It's a departure, for sure, but it's a decade in the making and it's here. You can buy it now and read it today.
It's HAPPY EVER AFTER, the fifteenth and final book in my Wedding Heat series!
Happy Ever After
Wedding Heat
Book 15
by Giselle Renarde
Margaret always dreamed the baby she gave up for adoption decades ago would one day track her down. When she receives an unexpected wedding invitation, she discovers her long-lost daughter has been fed a pack of lies about the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy. What will Margaret do? Gently fade out of her daughter's life? Or finally meet the truth head-on?
Available Now!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCCP5W7Q?tag=dondes-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1163186?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=trKFEAAAQBAJ
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/happy-ever-after-giselle-renarde/1142099127
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/happy-ever-after-25
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/happy-ever-after/id6443334419
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/590167274/Happy-Ever-After
Find more retailers with the Universal Book Link: http://books2read.com/WeddingHeat15Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
August 14, 2022
Chef's Kiss: A BDSM Romance Short
Chef's Kiss
A BDSM Romance Short
by Giselle Renarde
ISBN: 9781005491642
Word Count: 7,000
Holly wants more than just an autograph from TV’s sexy Chef Burley. Every time she watches the celebrity sweating over a hot stove, her imagination runs wild. Holly’s not usually the kind of woman who would throw herself at a man, but she’s willing to make an exception for Chef Burley.
Every woman at the book signing wants a piece of the sexy celebrity chef. How will Holly stand out from the crowd?
Fast-paced fiction from award-winning author Giselle Renarde.
Previously published as “Seducing the Sexy Celebrity Chef.”
Buy Now from Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1159960?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=vXuAEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9C5V23D?tag=dondes-20
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/chef-s-kiss-2
Find more retailers with the Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/ChefsKissGiselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
August 13, 2022
The Fantasy of Romance
Note: originally posted in 2014
Here's something you should never admit when you work in this industry: I'm not a romantic.
But that's my truth. I soured on romance early in life because I never felt represented in Disney-esque storylines. I'm queer and I'm weird. I was never a princess and I never wanted a prince. Romance as a genre did not speak to me.
Apart from being queer and not identifying with heteromance (which struck me as prescriptive and ridiculous in terms of what's considered acceptable and appropriate behaviour in establishing a relationship), I also found the idea of the happy-ever-after a little... well, unrealistic. Fantastic, in other words.
Romance is a fantasy.
A couple months ago, there was a hashtag on Twitter that had something to do with romance readers' guilty confessions. I noticed a lot of readers tweeting that they didn't care how a story resolved itself so long as the lovers lived happily ever after. They didn't care if the romance was realistic. They just wanted to feel warm and fuzzy at the end.
Of course, not everybody following the conversation agreed. Some readers want the plot to resonate, or at least to... you know, make sense. For myself, I'd rather watch everything fall apart. That's reality. I'd rather see real, deep troubles between people--troubles that aren't easily or ever fixed.
But the fantasy of romance must have wriggled its way into my writing brain. I happened to be writing a fluffy bit of erotica, at the time, called "Seducing the Sexy Celebrity Chef"--now renames "Chef's Kiss." I intended it as a hardcore romp--a woman's sexual fantasy of getting it on with a domineering TV chef.
But as I wrote my Chef story, its intention began to morph. I was trying to write a story that was all about sex, and suddenly it was infusing itself with romance. Suddenly, my famous chef wanted even more than my star-struck woman.
I tried editing out all that fantastic romance, even as I wrote it. For some reason, I couldn't stop myself. Romance overpowered me. When I handed the manuscript over to my girlfriend, who is also my contract editor, I asked her, "Is this too far from reality?" I really hoped she'd tell me it was. I hoped she'd advise me to change the story and remove some of that gushy, far-from-life romance.
But she didn't. She liked it.
What is it that's so satisfying about the fantasy of romance? Even as I reread that story and told myself, "This would never happen--not in a million years!" I couldn't change it. Maybe even the most jaded among us maintain the fantasy of an easy love, an easy romance, an easy life.
That's not reality. Maybe that's why we (yes, even the cynics and the pessimists) need a fictional shot of happy every once in a while.
Hugs,
Giselle
Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
Here's something you should never admit when you work in this industry: I'm not a romantic.
But that's my truth. I soured on romance early in life because I never felt represented in Disney-esque storylines. I'm queer and I'm weird. I was never a princess and I never wanted a prince. Romance as a genre did not speak to me.
Apart from being queer and not identifying with heteromance (which struck me as prescriptive and ridiculous in terms of what's considered acceptable and appropriate behaviour in establishing a relationship), I also found the idea of the happy-ever-after a little... well, unrealistic. Fantastic, in other words.
Romance is a fantasy.
A couple months ago, there was a hashtag on Twitter that had something to do with romance readers' guilty confessions. I noticed a lot of readers tweeting that they didn't care how a story resolved itself so long as the lovers lived happily ever after. They didn't care if the romance was realistic. They just wanted to feel warm and fuzzy at the end.
Of course, not everybody following the conversation agreed. Some readers want the plot to resonate, or at least to... you know, make sense. For myself, I'd rather watch everything fall apart. That's reality. I'd rather see real, deep troubles between people--troubles that aren't easily or ever fixed.
But the fantasy of romance must have wriggled its way into my writing brain. I happened to be writing a fluffy bit of erotica, at the time, called "Seducing the Sexy Celebrity Chef"--now renames "Chef's Kiss." I intended it as a hardcore romp--a woman's sexual fantasy of getting it on with a domineering TV chef. But as I wrote my Chef story, its intention began to morph. I was trying to write a story that was all about sex, and suddenly it was infusing itself with romance. Suddenly, my famous chef wanted even more than my star-struck woman.
I tried editing out all that fantastic romance, even as I wrote it. For some reason, I couldn't stop myself. Romance overpowered me. When I handed the manuscript over to my girlfriend, who is also my contract editor, I asked her, "Is this too far from reality?" I really hoped she'd tell me it was. I hoped she'd advise me to change the story and remove some of that gushy, far-from-life romance.
But she didn't. She liked it.
What is it that's so satisfying about the fantasy of romance? Even as I reread that story and told myself, "This would never happen--not in a million years!" I couldn't change it. Maybe even the most jaded among us maintain the fantasy of an easy love, an easy romance, an easy life.
That's not reality. Maybe that's why we (yes, even the cynics and the pessimists) need a fictional shot of happy every once in a while.
Hugs,
Giselle
Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
August 9, 2022
Other Talents
I find my happy place in graphic design. My partner's constantly asking me why I don't offer up my services, if it's something I enjoy so much. I was thinking about this as I designed myself a new book cover just now, and that's when I remembered this post I wrote a few years ago for a writers' blog I belonged to.
It still seems apt, so I'm sharing it here:
(c) cocoandwifi
My grandmother is terribly proud of the new kitchen light my uncle installed for her. "He's such a perfectionist," she told me. "But he takes his time. He enjoys the work."
"He could make some extra money as a handyman now that he's retired," my mother said.
"No, no. He'd never do that. If this was a real job with pay and clients, then it would feel like work and he wouldn't want to do it anymore."
Same thing with me and graphic design.
I've mentioned before that cover art was, in my mind, a barrier to entry to the world of self-publishing. I knew I couldn't afford to commission quality cover art, but I also didn't know how to create it myself.
That was a big hurdle, but the less I earned in royalties from small presses, the more I realized I needed to make a change--and self-publishing was the best change for me.
I'm a self-taught cover designer. It's a skill I've acquired by trial and error. I won't say it's a "talent" necessarily, because I know some spectacular graphic designers and my covers really don't stack up.
From time to time, I do commission covers from people I consider "real" graphic designers, but the truth is that I've grown to love playing with my design program. Even after four years using it, I learn something new with every cover I create.
I was an artist, as a kid. Teachers told me I'd grow up to be a writer but I never believed them. I only wrote stories so I could draw pictures to go along with them. Maybe cover art is my adult version of book illustrations.
But there's a reason I don't offer up my skills for cash, and it's the same reason my uncle will only do handiwork around my grandmother's house and his own: once you're working for pay, working for clients, it's a job rather than a pleasure.
I want to retain graphic design as my pleasure. I want to keep learning and keep enjoying.
Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
It still seems apt, so I'm sharing it here:
(c) cocoandwifiMy grandmother is terribly proud of the new kitchen light my uncle installed for her. "He's such a perfectionist," she told me. "But he takes his time. He enjoys the work."
"He could make some extra money as a handyman now that he's retired," my mother said.
"No, no. He'd never do that. If this was a real job with pay and clients, then it would feel like work and he wouldn't want to do it anymore."
Same thing with me and graphic design.
I've mentioned before that cover art was, in my mind, a barrier to entry to the world of self-publishing. I knew I couldn't afford to commission quality cover art, but I also didn't know how to create it myself.
That was a big hurdle, but the less I earned in royalties from small presses, the more I realized I needed to make a change--and self-publishing was the best change for me.
I'm a self-taught cover designer. It's a skill I've acquired by trial and error. I won't say it's a "talent" necessarily, because I know some spectacular graphic designers and my covers really don't stack up.
From time to time, I do commission covers from people I consider "real" graphic designers, but the truth is that I've grown to love playing with my design program. Even after four years using it, I learn something new with every cover I create.
I was an artist, as a kid. Teachers told me I'd grow up to be a writer but I never believed them. I only wrote stories so I could draw pictures to go along with them. Maybe cover art is my adult version of book illustrations.
But there's a reason I don't offer up my skills for cash, and it's the same reason my uncle will only do handiwork around my grandmother's house and his own: once you're working for pay, working for clients, it's a job rather than a pleasure.
I want to retain graphic design as my pleasure. I want to keep learning and keep enjoying.
Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
August 6, 2022
The Birthday Gift is Back! #Summer #OutdoorSex #GroupSex
The Birthday Gift is the first story I wrote that was ever released as an ebook. A small (now defunct) publisher called Dark Eden Press put it out back in 2008. I've written about the extensive editing process it went through back then, and how much I learned about writing from my first editor, in a post you can read here.
The Birthday Gift has been through a number of revisions since that time, and now it's back on the market in all its small-town pansexual group sex glory. It's also available as a paperback for the first time ever!
The Birthday Giftby Giselle RenardeMeredith is a cake-baking, apron-wearing small-town Canadian. Her guiding principle in life is, “What would June Cleaver do?” That is, until a curious set of circumstances cause her to crash an outdoor gathering where she stumbles upon a pair of delicious hunks getting a little hands-on with each other. Surely June Cleaver would have headed for the hills! Not Meredith. This relaxed get-together really heats up when one man’s wife appears on the scene... and encourages Meredith to join in!
Hot stuff! But the story’s not over yet. There’s still the tropical vacation, the confinement in foreign prison, the trial for freedom... and, hey, where’s Meredith’s husband in all this? It is his birthday, after all...
Buy now from Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/birthday-gift-giselle-renarde/1102494848
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-birthday-gift-13
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/the-birthday-gift/id6443243906
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8F32PP5?tag=dondes-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1158592?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=xaZ-EAAAQBAJ
Find more retailers with the Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/BirthdayGiftGiselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
July 30, 2022
Stripping My Son's Sleeping Girlfriend (or Lesbian MILF Takes the Taboo Tramp)
My taboo sleep sex smut story, Stripping My Son's Sleeping Girlfriend, is back and it's got a new cover as well as a new name.
Actually, it has two names.
Sorry to be confusing.
The last time this story was published, its title got it banned by Amazon.
So this time I created an alternate title for Amazon: Lesbian MILF Takes the Taboo Tramp.
Same story, different names.
As a taboo dubcon title, this ebook ain't gonna see wide distribution. So far, it's pretty much only available at Smashwords:
and Amazon:
July 23, 2022
A Little Burlesque #lesbian #historical #erotic #romance
If you enjoy sapphic sensual fiction, you're in for a treat!
A Little Burlesque was originally published in 2010 as "The Little Burlesque by the Sea." It's been overhauled at least once since then, and I went over it just last week before publishing it again. I hadn't looked at this novella in a while, and, to be honest, I didn't have high hopes when I picked it up. When I got into it, I was pleasantly surprised. It's a great little book: lots of secrets, lots of stripping, lots of sex!
A Little Burlesque By Giselle Renarde
Madame Mireille's ocean-side parlour, Les Trois Dames Jouissantes, is one of the last houses holding to the tenets of classic burlesque. They specialize in raunchy comedy sketches, undulating fan dances, chorus lines and, of course, the striptease. In post-war Maritimes, Madame’s burlesque house enjoys notoriety thanks to an all-female cast combining the smart with the sensual.
It was this reputation that attracted the troupe's two newest members. Ginger, the saucy redhead, has been around the block a few times. She might come on strong, but she’s a master of the comedy striptease. Orchid is young, new to the stage, and embodies all that is innocent—or so she'd have you believe!
Secrets abound behind the scenes, and it’ll take more than slippery fingers to bring them to the surface.
Historical lesbian romance with an erotic edge.
Buy Now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B74NCRQ9?tag=dondes-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1156686?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=-3J8EAAAQBAJ
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-little-burlesque-giselle-renarde/1109567817
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/a-little-burlesque-2
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/a-little-burlesque/id6443186984
Find More Retailers, plus the paperback and hardcover editions, with the Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/burlesqueGiselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
A Little Burlesque was originally published in 2010 as "The Little Burlesque by the Sea." It's been overhauled at least once since then, and I went over it just last week before publishing it again. I hadn't looked at this novella in a while, and, to be honest, I didn't have high hopes when I picked it up. When I got into it, I was pleasantly surprised. It's a great little book: lots of secrets, lots of stripping, lots of sex!
A Little Burlesque By Giselle Renarde
Madame Mireille's ocean-side parlour, Les Trois Dames Jouissantes, is one of the last houses holding to the tenets of classic burlesque. They specialize in raunchy comedy sketches, undulating fan dances, chorus lines and, of course, the striptease. In post-war Maritimes, Madame’s burlesque house enjoys notoriety thanks to an all-female cast combining the smart with the sensual.
It was this reputation that attracted the troupe's two newest members. Ginger, the saucy redhead, has been around the block a few times. She might come on strong, but she’s a master of the comedy striptease. Orchid is young, new to the stage, and embodies all that is innocent—or so she'd have you believe!
Secrets abound behind the scenes, and it’ll take more than slippery fingers to bring them to the surface.
Historical lesbian romance with an erotic edge.
Buy Now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B74NCRQ9?tag=dondes-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1156686?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=-3J8EAAAQBAJ
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-little-burlesque-giselle-renarde/1109567817
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/a-little-burlesque-2
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/a-little-burlesque/id6443186984
Find More Retailers, plus the paperback and hardcover editions, with the Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/burlesqueGiselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
July 2, 2022
The Big Annual July Smashwords Sale is Back!
It's been a big half-year for publishing, over here at Giselle Renarde Erotica. I got my rights back from Excessica Publishing when they closed up shop, and I started republishing those books on January 1st.
Honestly, I thought I'd be done by now.
Practically, that's not how things have worked out. It's taken much longer than anticipated.
The focus on publishing has taken time away from creative work (by which I mean writing new books), and I'll tell you right now: that gets me antsy and out of sorts. It's incredible how much I rely on writing for my mental health.I guess I'm in a chatty mood today, because what I really came out here to tell you is that the big annual July sale at Smashwords is on right now.
The sale is on for the month of July, and it's a great opportunity to pick up copies of my books at a discounted price.
This year, I've discounted most of my books by 25%, 50%, and 75%.
You can also snag some free titles, like ONE IN THE HAND, the first story in my Wedding Heat series. Hopefully you'll get hooked and buy the rest of the series, as many readers are currently doing.
Explore my titles at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/GiselleRenardeErotica/authors#published
Stock up and save!Giselle RenardeCanada just got hotter!
