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How To Make An Erotic Romance Writer Blush

I’m at For The Love Of Bookends today,

talking about what makes me blush

http://loveofbookends.blogspot.ca/2014/07/welcome-cynthia-sax-guest-post.html

Here’s a snippet…

I’ve written over seventy erotic romance stories. I’ve written MF, MM, MFM, MFMMMM, sex with an android, with partially shifted beings, with voyeuristic billionaires (grins – just throwing that in there to see if you’re paying attention). My characters have done the deed almost everywhere in almost every position.

I’m also lucky to have some of the best reading buddies in the world. They’ll message or email me about sex scenes, sexual preferences, how big certain body parts should be or how many appendages my alien heroes should have. I love this. I encourage it. I might even use the information in my next story.

Sheri V knows this so I suspect she’d figured she’d stump me by asking what still makes me blush. I must have seen and heard about everything, right? If I haven’t written about it, one of my buddies has. Surely I wouldn’t continue to turn red.

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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

I’m at Dawn’s Reading Nook today, talking about Billionaires, Bikers and Bad Boys!!!

http://dawnsreadingnook.blogspot.ca/2...

Here’s a snippet…

I have a weakness for billionaire heroes. They’re the alpha dogs of the business world. They’ve achieved great success, both in their careers and financially. Many of them have built companies and lead employees. Often these employees are extremely loyal to their CEOs.

Nicolas is no exception. His employees will volunteer to work weekends (he pays them, of course). This handsome young billionaire has built a real estate empire, providing homes for individuals and families. He isn’t perfect. He’s hiding a secret and he’s done some very bad things but he’s worthy of lasting love (although he believes he isn’t).

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Interview At Fresh Fiction

Fresh Fiction interviewed me!

http://freshfiction.com/page.php?id=6071

Here’s a snippet…

Billionaires are a hot topic in erotic literature. As a writer, what draws you to the billionaires for your leading men?

Cynthia: For me, billionaire is a short form for alpha of the business world. What this label communicates is the hero is successful and (usually) the boss. He has reached the top of his game (likely expecting that this achievement would fix whatever is broken inside him) and then he realizes something or someone is missing.

My billionaires are all different. For example: The CEO of a high tech company (Blaine from HE WATCHES ME) is very different from the CEO of a real estate company (Nicolas from SINFUL REWARDS). The high tech CEO designs products that will become obsolete with every improvement in technology. The CEO of the real estate company is building structures that will last for generations. They have very different reasons for entering their respective industries and different demons driving them to work harder.

Of all of the types of heroes, I believe the billionaire has the greatest range of possible personalities. There are billionaires in almost every industry.

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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

I’m at Dawn’s Reading Nook today, talking about Billionaires, Bikers and Bad Boys!!!

http://dawnsreadingnook.blogspot.ca/2...

Here’s a snippet…

I have a weakness for billionaire heroes. They’re the alpha dogs of the business world. They’ve achieved great success, both in their careers and financially. Many of them have built companies and lead employees. Often these employees are extremely loyal to their CEOs.

Nicolas is no exception. His employees will volunteer to work weekends (he pays them, of course). This handsome young billionaire has built a real estate empire, providing homes for individuals and families. He isn’t perfect. He’s hiding a secret and he’s done some very bad things but he’s worthy of lasting love (although he believes he isn’t).

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Billionaires, Bikers and Bad Boys!!!

I’m at Dawn’s Reading Nook today, talking about Billionaires, Bikers and Bad Boys!!!

http://dawnsreadingnook.blogspot.ca/2014/07/discover-cynthia-saxs-sinful-rewards.html

Here’s a snippet…

I have a weakness for billionaire heroes. They’re the alpha dogs of the business world. They’ve achieved great success, both in their careers and financially. Many of them have built companies and lead employees. Often these employees are extremely loyal to their CEOs.

Nicolas is no exception. His employees will volunteer to work weekends (he pays them, of course). This handsome young billionaire has built a real estate empire, providing homes for individuals and families. He isn’t perfect. He’s hiding a secret and he’s done some very bad things but he’s worthy of lasting love (although he believes he isn’t).

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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

I’m at Dawn’s Reading Nook today, talking about Billionaires, Bikers and Bad Boys!!!

http://dawnsreadingnook.blogspot.ca/2...

Here’s a snippet…

I have a weakness for billionaire heroes. They’re the alpha dogs of the business world. They’ve achieved great success, both in their careers and financially. Many of them have built companies and lead employees. Often these employees are extremely loyal to their CEOs.

Nicolas is no exception. His employees will volunteer to work weekends (he pays them, of course). This handsome young billionaire has built a real estate empire, providing homes for individuals and families. He isn’t perfect. He’s hiding a secret and he’s done some very bad things but he’s worthy of lasting love (although he believes he isn’t).

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Talking Bad Boy Bikers With Tina Donahue

I’m talking about bad boy bikers on Tina Donahue ‘s blog today!

http://www.tinadonahue.com/lose-yourself-in-sinful-rewards/

Here’s a snippet…

Although Hawke, one of the heroes in Sinful Rewards, is a biker, he’s not the popular type of biker we currently see in Romanceland.

He doesn’t ride a black Harley. He rides a blue customized chopper, a bike Bee, the heroine, calls pretty. (Warning: Do NOT call Hawke’s bike pretty to his face.)

His motorcycle club isn’t one of the 1%, breaking laws, trafficking in guns and drugs (a nod to Sons of Anarchy). Hawke rides with veterans who fought to protect regular law abiding Americans. Yes, he’s big and bad and a rebel but he doesn’t consciously break any rules

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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

How To Write A Powerful Love Triangle

I’m visiting the ARe blog today, talking about how to write a powerful love triangle.

http://www.arecafe.com/cafe-news/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-writing-power-love-triangles/

Here’s a snippet…

To make a love triangle work, the two heroes have to represent different futures yet be equally powerful.

In Twilight, Bella could live forever with her vampire OR have pups and a semi-human existence with her wolf. Both heroes could protect her. In a fight, either hero could win. She’d have a remarkable life with either hero.

In Sinful Rewards, Bee could have riches, a stable home, loving marriage and a family with her billionaire OR she could have a wild, throw-caution-to-the-wind affair with her biker. Both heroes are panty-dropping sexy. They want Bee and are willing to fight for her. They’re also nice men. I cried when she chose her hero because I loved both men so much.

The reasons these heroes appeal to different readers are the reasons they appeal to different facets of the heroine.

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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Some Sam And Dean On Release Day

I LOVE this Sinful Rewards post at I’ll Read Until I Drop!!!

Sam and Dean from Supernatural ROCKS!

http://willreadtillidrop.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/release-day-blitz-sinful-rewards-by-cynthia-sax/

And the chosen quotes – freakin’ AWESOME!

I love the header quote…

“I was wrong about you, wasn’t I?”

“You’re not a good girl.”

- Nicolas

Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Why Some Writers Shouldn’t Give Interviews – Grins

A Reader Lives a Thousand Lives interviewed me today!

http://areaderlivesa1000lives.blogspot.ca/2014/07/book-nerds-dozen-cynthia-sax.html

Here’s a snippet…

Waiting in line at Starbucks, what are you ordering? What name do you give?

Cynthia Sax: I’m a chocolate gal so a tall hot chocolate for me, no whipped cream or any of that fancy stuff. (grins) My name is Nutella. When they call that, the chocolate lovers FREAK out.

(grins)

And the interview gets crazier from there.

Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

A Year Of Sizzling Hot Sax – Sinful Rewards 1 Read Along

The first novella in Sinful Rewards, a 12 novella contemporary erotic romance serial, releases today! Novellas will be releasing once a month for a year.

Yes, we’ll be spending a year with Bee, a vertically challenged (and in denial) exhibitionist, Nicolas, the jellybean loving billionaire with a dark secret, and Hawke, the tattooed bad boy biker.

We’ll be having so much fun this year. Part of this fun is a read along, both here and in greater detail on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/139616-a-year-of-sizzling-hot-sax-read-along ).

As regular Cynthia Sax readers know, there are no throw away lines in my stories. Every sentence means something, often multiple somethings. A read along will be the story version of a director’s commentary on a DVD. I’ll talk about scenes, what they mean, the impact they have on the story.

Bee And Her Purse

For example: In the first scene (which you can read here for free here – http://tasteofcyn.com/2014/06/16/sinful-rewards-1-first-excerpt/ ) , we start the story with Belinda (Bee) Carter talking about her frayed, cheap designer-knock off purse. This seems like a trivial scene. She’s discussing her purse, right? But she’s truly sharing her outlook on life and what she desperately wants.

Bee is all about lasting relationships. She doesn’t like temporary anything. She doesn’t like fleeting fashions, jobs or love. Bee sees her purse falling apart as a betrayal (hinting that she’s been betrayed by people in the past). She counted on the fashion accessory to last, emotionally investing in the piece, and it didn’t.

So she tries to fix it as she tries to fix her failing relationships. The rational part of her realizes the repair is also temporary but a tiny slice of her heart hopes it isn’t. She hopes her efforts will make the relationship with her purse, with the people she loves last.

Bee Vs Belinda

Some of my beta readers asked me why Hawke calls our heroine Belinda and Nicolas calls our heroine Bee. This is because the two hunkalicious men view our heroine very differently. Originally, Nicolas sees Bee as she wishes to be seen. Hawke, having watched our heroine in private, sees the secret exhibitionist, constantly cleaning side of Belinda. Neither man sees all of Bee, not in this first story.

Their choice of names also hints that Nicolas and Hawke may not be whom they portray themselves to be either. Nicolas appears stiff and formal. I would have assumed he’d used her proper name – Belinda. Hawke is a rebel, super casual, very informal. I would have assumed he’d use the pet name – Bee. That they don’t use these expected names suggests that both men also have secrets. (grins) Yes, more secrets!

If you’d like to read more insights on Sinful Rewards 1, please join our Goodreads group at https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/139616-a-year-of-sizzling-hot-sax-read-along .

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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Release Day For Sinful Rewards 1!

Yay! The first installment in Sinful Rewards, my sizzling new contemporary erotic romance serial from Avon Impulse, has released today! Do you like bikers, billionaires, hot naked men standing on balconies? Do you have 99 cents (which can’t even buy a convenience store chocolate bar)? Do you deserve a treat today? If you said yes to any of these questions, say yes to Sinful Rewards!

Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11

Sinful Rewards Read Along

I’ll be leading a read along for Sinful Rewards on Goodreads.

What is a read along?

It is like the director’s commentary on a DVD. First, we’ll all read the novella. Then I’ll walk through the story with you, adding insights (no spoilers!) and fun facts.

I’ll also be sharing inspirational photos and fun facts. There will be monthly writing challenges. If there’s interest, I can write some extra scenes (like that Nicolas-Bee-Hawke fantasy menage scene many buddies want).

Sinful Rewards is more than a monthly serial. It is an event. We’ll have some fun this year!

If you’d like to read more insights on Sinful Rewards 1, please join our Goodreads group at https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/139616-a-year-of-sizzling-hot-sax-read-along .

Subscribe To My Release Day Newsletter: http://tasteofcyn.com/2014/05/28/newsletter/

Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-1-Cynthia-Sax-ebook/dp/B00I7V89H0

ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards1-1560586-237.html

Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-1-cynthia-sax/1119055390

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_1?id=g08ZAwAAQBAJ

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-1/id814148703?mt=11