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Recharged and Ready, Sheri’s Return to the Writing Cave

Hey there, my lovelies!

First, I want to express a heartfelt THANK YOU for sticking with me on this wild ride. Your support means everything, and I couldn’t do it without you.

It’s been a while since my last blog post. I’m sure some of you may have wondered, “What the heck happened to ol’ Sheri?”

Well, life happened.

Back in 2021, I made the tough decision to press pause on my writing career. It wasn’t an easy choice, let me tell you. Sometimes life has a way of tossing unexpected challenges in our path, and I needed to focus on other aspects for a bit.

During my time away from writing, I missed you all. I missed diving into my familiar worlds of centaurs and nymphs, steamy romance, and sharing my stories with you.

But sometimes, a little break is needed to recharge and refocus.

AND… I’m excited to announce that I’m back in the game! I’ve bought a new keyboard, poured myself a cup of coffee, and I’m diving into my happy place—the world of literary romance. I brought a couple of friends along too: Renewed Passion and Enthusiasm.

I have so many story ideas brewing, and I can’t wait to share them with you. Sign up to receive my newsletter to peek at what’s simmering in my creative cauldron. From steamy shapeshifters to sensual cowboy romances, there’s something special in store for everyone. I promise not to blow up your inbox with unnecessary junk.

So buckle up, my friends. We’re about to set off on an incredible journey. I’m so grateful to have such amazing readers and friends by my side.

Thank you for your patience, support, and unwavering love of the romance genre. Let’s ignite some sparks and watch the magic happen!

Until next time,

XO,

Sheri

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Not your grandmother’s Tarzan

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Book 1 in the Jungle Island series
Heat Rating – 5 flames
Contemporary Erotic Romance

A shipwrecked woman.
The uncharted island.

Jane Porter craves a thrill, but when marauders scuttle her ship and she washes ashore on an island inhabited by animals and one sexy wildman, that’s when the real adventure begins. Dependent upon her vine-swinging rescuer who acts more ape than musclebound man, she places her survival in his rugged hands and relinquishes her desire to his raw sensuality.
For more seasons than he can remember, Tarzan has lived among the tiny island’s gorilla band. Instinct propels him to save the female he finds half-dead in the surf, and gazing into her eyes, his mating tool dances an ancient tribal beat.

While the pirates search for their bounty, Tarzan and Jane are in danger. To survive, they’ll have to hang onto each other as they swing for dear life. Their adrenaline-rush of passion among the canopy of the jungle threatens not only a dizzying fall from a great height, but also a tumble into love.

Steamy Excerpt

The trees and vines and all the living creatures were his home. Vital to his existence and that of his ape family.

None of it mattered as much as what his female would do next with her mouth.

Laps from her soft tongue along the sides of his hardened shaft was agony in perpetual bliss. The sun sifted through the canopy’s swaying leaves to splash her in varying shades of shadow and light. She licked her lips, the pink tongue darting out to tease his resistance, breaking him down one heartbeat at a time.

Her hungry eyes climbed up his body and met his. “Can I? What would you do if I did?”

The unique color in the intensity of her stare drew his attention. If only they could communicate, he’d tell her that lying down to mate in a sun nest would be more comfortable than balancing on a bare limb. He traced the backs of his knuckles along a whitish line the ocean left upon her cheek.
Fragile.

She opened her mouth and dragged in a stuttered breath, then slid her steamy gaze down.

Heat scorched his male sex from within, tightening his butt and thrusting his need.

Her hair slithered forward and hid her features from his view.

Tarzan pushed the long strand back, leaving his fingers buried in the softness at the crown of her head. The muscles under his balls clenched, begging him to either take himself in hand or turn the female around. Another drop of male juice seeped out to join the first.

“Just don’t kill me.”

Mesmerized by her slow, deliberate movement, he watched in fascination as his female tilted back her head, opened her mouth like a blossoming flower, and stuck out her tongue. The drip from the tip lengthened, stretching as the juices pulled to meet her seeking lips.

The longer the fluid hovered over the female’s open mouth, the tighter his balls squeezed. The ache of his extended male part increased painfully. He pulled his hand from her hair to grip his throbbing shaft at the base.

A third droplet formed at the slit, pushing forward that which came before it. When the single drip finally touched her outstretched tongue, she slowly raised up on her knees to gather the remaining fluid and lick the droplets up.

Hot pleasure speared from the end of his sex, shot past his tightly gripped fist, and filled his balls with a mating desire that couldn’t be restrained. She licked him again, using the tip of her tongue to fondle the underside of the plumed head. He pulled his hips back, letting the hardened length slide through his fist, then shot forward just as fast.

“Ooh-ooh-ooh.” Tarzan tightened the hand he’d left tangled in her hair. Pushing ever so gently, he showed her in the language they’d adopted how he wanted her to lick him again.

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I Need A Chuck-It List

You’ve heard of a Bucket List? There was a 2007 movie The Bucket List, written by Justin Zackham (screenwriters never get the attention they deserve), that starred Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Two senior citizens have only six months to live, so they decide to go on a wild road trip. They also make a bucket list of all the things they wish they’d done when they were young.

Maybe you have a Bucket List and because we’ve all been cooped up during Covid, your list may have grown longer than ever! One of my bucket list items is to go through my house and barns and equipment sheds and get rid of things that are never used.

Another item is to read more outside of my regular genre, Romance. In browsing Amazon, I found a book by John Niven. He takes the Bucket List idea (things to do before you die) and called it the The F*ck-It List. Its a novel about a man, recently diagnosed with cancer, who creates a list of people that made his life difficult. His list is for getting revenge on those who wronged him.

Which got me thinking: I need a Chuck-It List!

Let’s imagine we only have a limited time to live (which in reality, I guess we do). Then think about all the crap we hoard – the emotional baggage we’ve lugged around for weeks, months, or years. If we could pile the insecurity, anxiety, self-hatred, blame, guilt, regret, fear, and depression in the far corner.

Don’t get me started on the people who deplete our energy and drag us down.

Whatever you want eliminated from your life – Put it on your Chuck-It List!

And like the ball launcher for dogs by the same name, ChuckIt!, I want to hurtle my crap three times further than I can throw. Wouldn’t you like to do that too sometimes? Just launch that shit so it’s gone! Like out of the stratosphere gone. Why carry it around, right?

If anything, noshing on the idea will give you something to do on the nights you can’t sleep.

Let me know some of the crap you’d put on your Chuck-It list. It could help someone realize that they, too, need to Chuck-It out!

XO,

Sheri

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Favorite thing I’ve written (and why)

Happy New Year!

Cork Shot Out From a Bottle of Champagne — Image by © Royalty-Free/Corbis

Or, perhaps I should say, Thank God it’s 2021. Too much negativity, too much violence, too much of Left and Right and finger pointing.

Yeah, I’m taking the offramp over all that crap.

On a positive note, I’m wrapping up a book to be released mid-February. If you follow me on social media, you’ll know that my life outside of writing is filled with livestock and chores. It’s the way I grew up and it’s the life I made with the man I married.

New Book Coming

The story I wrote felt like a natural connection to my other life, even though it’s outside my current genres of Fantasy or Erotic romance. This will be my first venture into Contemporary Western romance. And I hope you enjoy reading the story about Geri and Mark as much I enjoyed writing about them.

The survival of her ranch depends on every drop of water. He’s willing to share if she’s part of the deal.

While Remedy Maker is my favorite book that I have written, mostly because I had too much damn fun creating the unique world of shapeshifting centaurs, tricky trolls, and disappearing wood nymphs, this upcoming novel might just be my new favorite. The western story brings me back to my roots of where I live with real cowboys, the struggle of raising livestock, and riding horses for work rather than pleasure.

Rugged Thirst is the first in the Rugged series. Want the books to come at your faster? Yeah, me too. I continue to work full-time at my day job so my book releases are not prolific as some other authors. Stories crowd my head while I throw hay and bottle feed lambs. The characters jabber when there’s paperwork to be done.

At night when the chores are finished and the dishes are done, and my eyes have yet to cross, I can sit back in the recliner and start anew on creating the stories and characters I hope you love to read.

May the new year bring your heart’s desire and Hope catches a foothold in the stirrup of 2021.

XO,

Sheri

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More Reasons to Love Cold Weather

Having lived in California all my life, I’m used to 210 days of warm weather. When winter marches in and cools it down—anything below 40°F is cold to me—taking a walk with my little dog, Zoe, in the brisk mid-morning air really helps to clear the mind.

I need that. Both the walking and the scraping of my brain. The exercise helps recharge my energy, and the mental flush makes room for more creative ideas. All good stuff when you’re a writer.

After one of these walks, I stood at my desk with a cup of coffee (I have one of those tables that lift and lower in height) and clicked on an interesting blog. Course, I couldn’t help but notice the sidebar advertisement. Total time-sucking click bait! And I fell for it. But it gave me a good laugh and something funny to share with you.

Absurd Perfume Names:

Gingerbread Whorehouse – From the description: “…cake-like, but not too soft.” Huh??

Rude Food’ by Sara Jane Szikora

Don’t Get Me Wrong Baby, I don’t Swallow – Apart from the glaring error in punctuation, the name in itself has me gagging. From the reviews: “May not swallow but it sucks.” What I found interesting about the perfume: it’s for Unisex genders.

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It’ all about romance, is it not? The walks to clear the brain so I can write more steamy stories, the crazy-named perfume we gladly wear for our intended.

Maybe the cool coastal air is getting to me. Or, maybe I’m not getting enough of it. All I know is I love the evenings when I can snuggle in my favorite chair, a warm throw blanket over my legs, tall gin and tonic in one hand, and my Kindle in the other.

Cool weather means MORE READING!

And speaking of…

I happen to have a new book coming out, and it’s guaranteed to heat you up!

Until next time!

XO,

Sheri

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A Holiday Plan Of Action

Yee-haw! It’s the time of the year to be grateful, shop, and eat until we burst.

Do you have a plan of action? Or perhaps you’re all action and to hell with the plan! I tend to lean toward the latter and do my shopping online to avoid this:

Credit: www.myfamilyclub.co.uk

As for bursting the seams on my clothes, can you believe The Hubs handed me his wish-list shopping list? (try saying that three times fast, LOL) He’s all about doing the traditional, which is why he has foresight. If we’re doing the bird thing, why not make it bar-be-queued turkey burgers, with turkey sausage hors d’oeuvres?

Eggnog? Yeah, try it as a cocktail instead.

Perhaps the Thanksgiving holiday require a long stretches of time with family and in-laws. In that case, may I suggest reading one of my books to pass the time??

Lord of the Jungle: Here Forever My Jane: Here Jungle Love: Here

Remedy maker: Here Troll-y Yours: Here

Whether or not you celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, I wish you all the very best sex health and happiness!

XO,

Sheri

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Fall In Love With Your Author on National Authors Day

National Author’s Day is November 1st

In 1928, lifelong avid reader Nellie McPherson, president of an Illinois Women’s Club, penned a letter to her favorite author letting him know how much she had enjoyed his book. He wrote her back! Afterwards, Nellie had an idea to set aside a day to celebrate American authors.

This day became recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1949.

If you have a favorite author, now is the time to spill and let that person know!

Following my own advice, here are ten of my favorite authors in no particular order:

JR Ward

Cherry Adair

Natasza Waters

Evangeline Anderson

Delilah Devlin

Melissa Limoges

Jacquelyn Frank

Tara Janzen

Karen Marie Moning

Becky McGraw

Here’s another thought: dress up for Halloween as a character from a favorite author’s book.

And if you do – you SO HAVE TO SEND ME A PHOTO!

Wishing you a Happy Halloween!

Now go grab a book, maybe from a new-to-you author, for National Author’s Day and have a great time reading.

XO,

Sheri

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Authors Love A Positive Influence

Almost every romance writer have people in their real life and authors they’ve never met who steered them toward the path of scribe-dom. Whether the nudge was a need to create a story in the genre they love or a teacher who encouraged them. It’s worth repeating: Nearly every author in every genre has a story.

This is mine.

I’ve always been a reader. The little town I grew up in had a small library, but not everyone could get there. Especially the kids. So our library had a Bookmobile that would cruise the neighborhoods like the ice cream man and pull over when you waved like mad. That’s when I read all the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley.

I read them twice.

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Years went by, books were devoured. My tastes in literature changed. Staying at a friend’s house while my parents were out of town (they took my brother to Walt Disney World, grr. But let’s not go there right now.), she lent me a book (Nakoa’s Woman by Gayle Rogers) because I was insanely bored.

Used to running wild on a ranch I had nothing to do in their family condo. That historical romance book – wow. It opened my eyes to a whole new world!

The wide world of romance books.

From fourteen years old, I’ve picked up book after book. Mostly historical romance, some contemporary. I would pig-out on 3 or 4 a week. It got so bad that if I were inside my room reading, my mother would nag at me to go outside. So I did. With my book. Grin! I would sit backward on my horse and lay on my stomach, propping the book on his butt. Shane didn’t care, he’d just walk around grazing while I read.

After high school and a bazillion books later, the English class I took in college seemed to require a lot of story-type writing. I got an A in that class and a newfound confidence took root and began to blossom.

Fast forward a few years to the introduction of eBooks and bah-zinga! to a category of romance I had never seen before. What I thought had opened my eyes before now had me boldly staring where Sheri had never gone before: Erotic Romance

Hello Delilah Devlin!

Surfing the net, when I should have been working, I stumbled upon a (now closed) site called Ellora’s Cave. Holy orgasms, Batman! I can’t remember the title of Devlin’s book I downloaded, though I’ve searched her backlist. Something about a deputy checking on a new homeowner out in the sticks, and there’s a snake in her room…I think. She’s in her underwear standing on the bed… Hey, if you know which book it is, let me know! It’s been driving me crazy for years.

So, to answer the question of who influenced me to write romance, I think I’d say Delilah Devlin.

It was the right place and the right time of my life to give writing a try. Have I told her? Oh yeah! I totally fan-girled her on Facebook and let her know. Ms. Devlin was very gracious and humble to a blabbing, geeked-out freak who was typing 90 wpm during an author take-over party.

As for who helped me become the writer I am today, there’s been many along the dusty trail.

I couldn’t have done it without critique partners:

In the early days of swapping chapters, I worked with award-winning paranormal romance author Brenda Dyer. She taught me the basics of how to create gritty, memorable characters with tumultuous emotions.

Best-selling and multi-award winner Natasza Waters has my back with her crack-the-whip style of encouragement. “Dig Deeper!” is her mantra, and she’s always right. A fantastic military romance and romantic suspense author, Nat has taught me the art of weaving clues in my stories. She’s also become one of my closest friends.

Melissa Limoges is an Amazon bestseller of historical Scottish romance, and one of my crit partners. She is the Queen of Punctuation and rules with an iron fist. Melissa is also an absolute encouragement to my writing career. Her Facebook PMs with “You can do it, Buttercup!” are worth it as she makes my manuscripts bleed.

I better mention the Mister too, though I wonder if he’s sorry for suggesting I write a book of my own.

It was probably easier when I was a reader, huh Honey? Grin! Gobbling up book after book wasn’t as time consuming as writing has been, but the satisfaction and joy I receive from creating my novels outweighs the size my ass has become. Love ya, Babe! And could you cook dinner again tonight?

XO,

Sheri

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Hot As Hell In Lingerie

Ever hit that mark in your sexual relationship where the same ol’-same ol’ is dull as taters and beans?

Well sit down and grab a drink, ‘cause I’m going to tell you a secret: LINGERIE

And holy shit, I’m not talking just bras and panties here. I’m talking about the crotchless flimsy flyaways with peep-holes and pushups. You know, the expensive items too ridiculous to buy, but found 75 percent cheaper in knock-off brands at stores like Wal-Mart, Sears, and places online like here and here.

Have a partner who wishes you would want them as much as they want you?

Lingerie, my friend.

Want to see the heated spark that says Fuck me! in your lover’s eyes, especially when you catch him unaware?

Lingerie is the answer!

Dying to ride the log between his legs that’s long as his arm and thick as his wrist?

Lingerie, baby!!

You might think, “My breasts aren’t big enough”, “I’m too heavy to wear sexy stuff”, “I feel cheap dressing like that”.

All I can say is Bullshit.

Small boobs? That’s why they make padded push-up bras. Your size 32A ta-tas will look porn star huge in the right fitting bra. And…pssst!…He won’t stop staring, believe me.

Think you’re too heavy? According to your lover, that’s a bunch of crap. Full-figured women have the curves men are salivating over! Go ahead, test the theory. Buy a sheer baby doll negligee with matching garterless thigh-high stockings, then feel the temperature rise—along with everything else that’s important. *wink* I’m betting your partner will find you open-mouthed sexy!

Feeling cheap? Honey, lingerie is anything but! How could a skimpy piece of see-through lace, which costs upward of $50 or more, make a lady feel any less than royalty? Best part—we don’t have to pay those heart-stroke prices! In that regard, smile. Because you found a great deal on an otherwise expensive clothing line. And if saving money means feeling cheap, then I’m all for it!

Don’t leave out the hot men in your life! They want to see the animal in you, too. Here’s a quick link to get you started on some of his sexy lingerie.

When I have pretty lingerie, I feel sexy. As women, when we see a slow, hungry smile curve our lover’s lips, we feel confident. I challenge each of you to dig out a piece of lingerie you haven’t worn in a while, or buy something new. Then come back and post your results.

I’ll be smiling…and waiting. Oh! And if you need the perfect pillow to cuddle, or looking for a fantastic gift idea, check this out:

Click here to buy.

XO,

Sheri

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Why Aren’t There Snow Pirates?

Oh man, it’s HOT right now! Except maybe if you live in Australia.

Where I live, it’s been in the low 100’s F (*37 C) for 20+ days, breaking the heatwave yesterday when the weather cooled to 98*. All the wilting hotness got me thinking of my Tarzan and Jane book series that takes place on a steamy remote jungle island, and the pirates who cause trouble for them there.

After the summer solstice on June 21st, the longest day of the year, it gets so freaking sweaty-hot. Especially in parts of the world with the highest active piracy rate, which right now is Indonesia. I have to wonder…where do pirates find the energy? When the mercury rises, I have pep-talks with myself just to walk to the mailbox.

I suppose as a pirate, limp hair and perpetual sweat would be the least of my problems.

Okay, his hair isn’t bad. But it’s hard to find images for “limp hair on hot dudes”.

And why do you suppose in Hollywood movies, pirates are portrayed as open-shirted seafarers who swing around on ropes, like Tarzan on his vines? How come they’re never buttoned-up in thick coats like the time I went sailing with my dad?

And…Do pirates go around being pirates when it’s winter and cold?

I think he missed his bus…

Thanks for stopping by! Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Back to work…

XO,

Sheri

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