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October 17, 2014
A Tempting Man
This week we’re spotlighting Liz Everly’s latest, Tempting Will McGlashen, out now from Tirgearr. In case you need a reminder, here’s the blurb:
Mathilde Miller wanted to be a good daughter and marry the son of a long-time family friend, Joshua Bowman. But she didn’t want to be the wife of a Pennsylvania farmer. She loved her life, cooking on the Virginia frontier at her family’s ordinary. The minute blacksmith Will McGlashen walks into her kitchen, her restlessness focused on him. Fresh from Scotland, with a voice “like a song” and thick coppery hair, her heart belonged to him. Was it possible for the daughter of a Pennsylvania German to marry a hired man from Scotland? What did she really know about Will McGlashen and his secret past?
Well, we know how easily I am tempted by a Scotsman ;-) And a blacksmith, too — think of the muscles in those arms! I’m sold, but then I love Liz’s books. She has a way of capturing sensual scenes with perfect attention to the right details and great dialogue, too. I’m looking forward to catching up with Mathilde and Will as they fall in love.
I’ll admit it’s not my favourite time period for historicals: my alter ego Kit Marlowe writes stories set in the medieval period, the 19th century and the roaring 20s. I only got American history in my schools and was sick to death of pilgrims, colonists and revolutionary war. But you know, all it takes is the right story to get me interested in something again. There’s so much potential for adventure, too. We forget how much of wild place Virginia is in that time period. It’s really on the edge of wilderness and the colonists are interlopers in another country.
You don’t want to miss the chance to find out what happens — and hey, look what I’ve got coming soon: a medieval M/M romance, Spinning Gold. At Lady Smut we do what we can to please you. Follow us if you don’t want to miss a thing.
October 16, 2014
Rogues, Romps & Revolutionaries!
By Madeline Iva
delectable 18th century fashion
I heart the messy frosted wedding cake fashions of the last quarter of the 18th century. It’s not just period in time, but a spirit of change — the dawn of Romanticism, the era of enlightenment and chaos combined.
Perfect for kicking off while you’re on a swing.
What a great time – what glorious panache the people had. A great big mix of good, bad, saint & sinners, cosmopolitian intellectuals and nature loving stewards of the land. Humanity was just about to raise her skirts and take a big step out of the muddle puddle of misery we’d been languishing in since the dark ages.
There was a stiff side to things, to be sure, but also what I call a Wild Child Enlightenment.
Modern science was embryonic, Mary Shelley was having nightmares of monsters. Western culture began chugging along on steam while great minds reflected on our animal desires and our inner nature.
Poets and philosophers made love with each other and planned utopian visions high on opium.
Fop me now.
Freedom fighting revolutionaries took their politics and passions to the streets, wrapping it all up in a bloody red American bow.
Tempting Will McGlashen
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Tempting Will McGashon is a romance about that time. With title you can roll around on your tongue and a Scottish hero you’d happily invite into your bed, Liz Everly combines nature worship, small town coziness, and a hot Scot with big troubles into a revolutionary historical that will tingle your toes.
Check it out—and follow Lady Smut. Alba gu bràth!
If This Cover Was a Man, I’d Have Sex With Him
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by Madeline Iva
It’s here, it’s here! Just in time to celebrate the second anniversary of our Lady Smut.com group blog is the cover for our anthology THE LADY SMUT BOOK OF DARK DESIRES.
Pre-order it now from Barnes & Noble. Or let Amazon notify you when you can grab this puppy all for your own. Word on the street is that it’s releasing November 6th.
I really like the cover.
It’s edgy — like our anthology.
Hot — like our anthology.
Mysterious — you get the idea.
Here’s a blurb:
Uncanny moments mix with steamy romance in these four adventurous tales.
When a vampire materializes through her computer, Brenna Bang finds herself marked for inescapable passion with a tech savvy bloodsucker.
Jenny needs to unravel the mystery of what she does at night and whom she does it with in order to subdue the sexual demon inside her.
A young woman tries to figure out how to unlock her grandmother’s wardrobe and uncover what happened all those years ago when the goblins came to offer their sensuous erotic fruits.
Locked in an abandoned mental asylum, an ambitious filmmaker soon discovers she’s trapped with a Dionysian god. He offers her a glimpse of astounding future artistic success—but there’s a price.
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October 14, 2014
No Sex, Please – I’m Cuddling
Let’s just cuddle
Right around this time last year, big brouhaha was afloat in Madison, Wisconsin over the proposed opening of The Snuggle House, a go-to place for reaping the benefits of “touch therapy,” to help us feel connected in our disconnected world. So cozy! The very thought makes me feel like the fabric softener bear with the squeaky voice. Except not all Madison councilman were snuggling up to the idea, many expressing concerns that The Snuggle House was a cozy front for not-so-cozy prostitution. After much dickering among the owner, a bevy of lawers and a multitude of politicians, The Snuggle House at last opened its doors. For three weeks.
Alas, The Snuggle House is no more. Dang. So what’s a person to do nowadays who just wants an honest-to-goodness snuggle? Or cuddle? Is there no hope? Well, of course there is, silly. All you need to do is download Cuddlr. It’s like Tinder but without the sleazy casual sex association. Cuddlr, according to its website, is a location-based, social media app to find people who are up for a cuddle. And that’s it. Errr … right?
Perhaps I’ve just been around the block a few too many times, but I have to confess, I have … concerns. Am I truly to believe that two strangers meet, hug, and then go their separate ways, a balance of peace and harmony restored in their lives from their quickie cuddle? Maybe if it really, truly worked as the app developers envisioned, then maybe. Maybe. But here’s the thing: if I just need a hug, I can get one from my true friends. There aren’t sexual expectations from them. We’re friends. We love each other as friends, support each other as friends, and give each other hugs as friends. If there’s someone out there who can’t get a hug from his or her friend, is that person I myself would want to be hugging? Or, worse yet, cuddling?
I have visions of using Cuddlr to get myself a nice dose of oxytocin through the warm touch of a stranger, only to have said stranger start groping me. Maybe his arm “accidentally” slips a little too far down as we cuddle and suddenly my ass is getting grabbed. Or I feel his stiff “member” pressed not-so-cuddly against my butt. What then? According to Cuddlr, they’ve thought of that. You can report on the cuddlyness of your cuddler by rating him or her after the encounter as “successful” or “unsuccessful.” Too many bad ratings aren’t likely to get one repeat cuddle requests, and Cuddlr says it bans anyone consistently using the app improperly. I suppose I could, as a woman, decide only to cuddle with other women. Cuddlr doesn’t allow users to filter for things such as age or gender, but you could just keep declining cuddle requests until you get one from someone you think looks OK. Except all you really have to go on is the cuddle requestor’s Facebook picture, and we all know how accurate those can be. Another disagreeable side effect of the app is that, without warning, a map appears documenting you and your potential cuddler’s whereabouts. Hope you’re not caught up in privacy concerns!
As earnest as the developers’ intentions, the biggest problem with Cuddlr is that it doesn’t take the awkwardness factor into account. People in today’s world are lonely for good reason. It’s hard to meet and connect with people on an intimate basis, even if you don’t intend for the intimacy to be sexual. So an app attempting to address the loneliness factor is conceptually a fine idea, but technology isn’t going to help us overcome how weird and awkward it is to simply start spooning with a stranger.
For a better, safer, and much more rewarding cuddle, I recommend Liz Everly’s wonderful new historical romance, Tempting Will McGlashen. We’re celebrating its release this week, so why not give yourself a good ol’ self cuddle and get yourself a copy. And while you’re at it, be 
sure to follow Lady Smut. We’ll wrap our virtual arms around you and we promise not to grope.
October 13, 2014
Five Surprising things about the Colonial Backcountry
By Liz Everly
I’m so thankful that my fellow Lady Smut bloggers are celebrating the release of TEMPTING WILL McGLASHEN with me this week. Today is release day–YAY!
This book is very special to me—I wrote it a few summers ago, asking questions of my historian husband and my agent Sharon Bowers along the way. I learned lot during that summer about history, writing, and the business. Our passion for reading and history is one of the many things that has brought my husband and I together.
One of the intriguing things about history is how perceptions of it often don’t stack up to the reality of it—which is why when I read about something that kicks my school-learning-belief system in the head, my writer’s ears prick. Being married to a historian has given me a keen sense of how history written in books skims the surface. My husband has taught me to look deeper and think harder about history.
TEMPTING WILL McGLASHEN takes place in the Virginia backcounty—a very different place that, say, colonial Boston. Wilder, to be sure, but it was also a time of culture clashes and growth, along with exploration and hardship. The backwater was a brew of different ethnicities, religions, and customs. Thinking about romance in that situation provided much fodder for my writer’s mind.
Here’s a few things I thought I’d pass on that might give you something to think about.
African-Americans were not all slaves at the time, which is not to say that even though they were free, life was good and easy for most of them. I’ve worked a couple of “walk-on” characters into this novel that are based on odd but true stories. One of the stories is about Ned, the African-American man who was married to a white woman. This was mentioned in the Moravian Diaries and there is a recently-published book about it—The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the American Colonial Frontier by Turk McClesky. I actually went to hear Turk speak about his book and was able to ask a few questions.
Speaking of marriage. Often in the backcounty, there were no preachers or magistrates. Agreements may have been made by families. But many “marriages” were not what we would deem legal. Sometmes couples would live together for years, have a huge family, before a traveling magistrate or preacher would come through and make it legal.
Almost everybody was a “farmer.” My manuscript has been through so many edits by now—and at one point one of my readers asked me if my characters were innkeeper or farmers. Hmmm. Then, if you didn’t farm, you didn’t eat or feed your family. Subsistence farming was the way you lived on the frontier of Virginia. You didn’t necessarily call yourself a “farmer.”
Women did not sit idly by needlepointing. In the backcountry, women had to be strong to survive, of course, and there could be no slackers in a family. Everybody worked—and worked hard. One of my walk-on characters is a real historical person named Mary In
gles, whose story of capture, escape, and survival is nothing short of miraculous. “Follow the River” by James Alexander Thom is a novel that brings to life this inspiring true story. Her escape consisted of a 43 day and 1000 mile journey through incredibly rough country. She and another woman made it back home to Draper’s Meadows. Mary’s hair had turned completely white although she was only about 24 years old.5. The puritanical view many Americans tag on the the colonist was not prevalent. Sure, among the “puritans,” it was. But the made up a small portion of the population. Colonists came from everywhere and brought their views with them. Many of them had healthy, sort of earthy, views about sex—especially sex after marriage. Sex before marriage is trickier business—but according to the medical records of the time, a huge percent of women were already pregnant when they were married—this is across all colonies.
A clashing of cultures. A shifting of paradigms. Great changes that brought about the United State of America. Set a romance against all of this—featuring a recent immigrant from Scotland who wields a blacksmith’s hammer and the daughter of an innkeeper—and be still my beating heart.
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October 12, 2014
Historical Fiction Isn’t History…It’s Better
by Kiersten Hallie Krum
I’m on vacation this week, which for me means attending New York City Comic Con with Entertainment Weekly while shepherding my sister’s first visit home from Arizona in three years and, later this week, helping my New Jersey Romance Writers chapter run our Put Your Heart in a Book annual regional conference.
Basically, I go to the day job to rest.
This week, we’re celebrating our own Liz Everly’s new release Tempting Will McGlashen by looking at bits of Revolutionary War era. I confess, I’m not a big fan of the era, or of American history in general though I infuse it with all relative importance. As a lover and student of Medieval European history, American history still feels so…young.
Fantastical as it is, Sleepy Hollow has made Revolutionary War history fun and interesting again. There’s a lot to love there that gets lost in the high school required reading of tea tax and winters in Jockey Hollow. High-stakes, big risks, bloody battles, split families, patriots, traitors, passionate arguments on the nature of and sacrifices for liberty and freedom. Watching Ichabod’s enlarged sense of insult as he viciously debunks the historical myths that have grown up and around such things as Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride is as entertaining as his lovelorn chats with Yolanda the North Star operator. (Fist bump, Yolanda.)
I know a brilliant history and religion professor who, when we were in undergrad together, told me historical fiction inaccurately dramatizes history. Well, yes, given that most of the characters in the novel aren’t real, hence why it’s called “fiction”. And sure, authors have been known to take liberties with historical events and people for the purpose of drama, but the good ones notate when and why they’ve done so. No harm, no foul.
Contrary to my friend’s learned feelings and those of many history academics who share his opinion, I love historical fiction. I think it takes what can be the tired and boring listing of events and dates and infuses it with relatable characters from whose points-of-view we can once again internalize what might otherwise come off as more than a little emotionally removed.
Through historical fiction, we can experience the internal conflicts Henry V may have felt on the eve of battle or the desperation and fear of the Jacobite mad rush onto the field at Culloden (you had to know I’d work Outlander in here somehow). It humanizes history in a way textbooks and tomes miss with regurgitation. It’s easy to think that the men and women of the Revolutionary War were all about the debates of the Continental Congress and the somewhat farcical images we have of The Boston Tea Party. In truth, they were rebels of limited means and numbers going up against the Great British Empire, courageous men and women turning their backs on centuries of English rule for the hope of something better for themselves and their children. In short, they were bad ass. Historical fiction helps bring these emotional truths to the fore; historical romance fiction weaves in the love elements as well. The conflict that arises when the love of one’s life is risking his or her own for a higher calling…or even is on the other side of the revolutionary divide.
To be sure, few things are as exemplary of the dangerous ways actual history can become historical fiction than today’s observance of Columbus Day as a national holiday. Many business no longer observe the holiday despite the inconvenience of post offices and bank closures. But it yet remains part of the national lexicon. John Oliver took the matter to hand last week in his hilarious “How Is This Still a Thing?” segment on Last Week Tonight. As I can in no way do it better, I invite you all to take a look for yourselves.
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Check out Liz Everly’s take on historical romance in Tempting Will McGlashen, now available for pre-order. And follow Lady Smut where real-life is much too crazy to be mere fiction.
The Savage Past: The Evolution of Native American Romance
By Alexa Day
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Liz Everly’s Tempting Will McGlashen releases this week, and to celebrate, my Lady Smut comrades and I are examining little slivers of the Revolutionary War era. It was suggested that I write a few words about the Native American romances from back in the day. Another colleague of mine described them as the first interracial romances, and with Columbus Day approaching, the subject has some relevance.
But I have to confess that my first thought was that those romances with the lurid covers and the titles featuring the word “Savage” probably came after Mandingo and are just as problematic. Mandingo, in fairness, is not so much a romance as it is a large dogpile of stereotypes and questionable sexual content. The “Savage” books are closer to the definition of romances, but their spines are built from the same stuff.
The shopworn figure of the Noble Savage. The ever-so-pure heroine’s dubious consent to life-changing Othersex. And the men on these covers … well … they look about as Native American as Tonto.
Not Jay Silverheels’s Tonto. Johnny Depp’s Tonto.
Maybe these are the first interracial romances, but I’m not sure it’s something I want to brag about.
It’s not every day that I’m excited about a fully dressed hero on a cover. Click to see what’s up.
The world has changed for the Native American romance, though. The two-dimensional Noble Savage has given way to the fully realized hero. More importantly, the Native American romance has stepped into the present day, recognizing that Native Americans are not locked in the past.
So where does a girl go to get a good Native American romance? I sought the advice of wiser, better read women. This post from Janga at Heroes and Heartbreakers praises Kathleen Eagle. The commenters at Romance Novels for Feminists add their own recommendations. Start your search with those references, and you’ll soon build an inspired TBR list.
As for me, I’m new to the subgenre. Janga’s post on Kathleen Eagle’s books mentioned This Time Forever, a romance featuring a hero whose life as a rodeo cowboy allowed his true identity to transcend racial labels. That’s a story I can get behind!
There have got to be newer titles out there. I’m definitely curious to hear about where these stories are going, so I’d love to hear from readers with experience with this subgenre. And while you’re out there checking out the state of the Native American romance, be sure to pre-order Liz Everly’s Tempting Will McGlashen. It’ll be hot and all ready for you on the 14th.
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October 10, 2014
Sexy Saturday Round-Up
By Liz Everly and the Lady Smut bloggers
Hello, Sexy! It’s Saturday, are you excited? Snuggled in bed with a sexy friend? Planning a big party? Whatever your pleasure and situation, we’ve got your reading covered.
From Liz:
A fantastic essay about…um…sex.
The Yoga of Being a Writer.
The truth about internet trolls.
Normal people trying to get in to Cosmo’s sex positions.
From Madeline:
The Guardian asks: When did male body hair become such a bad thing?
Why are people waiting to get married?
Apparently, statistics say that professional women are way harder to find in hollywood movies than in real life.
10 Things Elizabeth Safleur Learned Last Summer at BDSM CON — the conference for erotic romance writers.
From Alexa:
What a sex writing class taught its teacher — and what it can teach all of us.
Powerful photos accompany this essay on plastic surgery in Brazil, where a famous surgeon once said, “The poor have a right to be beautiful, too.”
Parents, are your teens sexting? Here’s the silver lining.
From Elizabeth:
I didn’t think it was actually possible, but apparently a great deal of men have faked an orgasm.
Confusion over whether a partner is consenting or not? There’s an app for that!
One woman has decided she’s had enough of hating Nickelback.
Here are the top websites if you need to brush up on your swinger questions.
From C. Margery Kempe:
Another doctor tries to pooh pooh the G-spot; poor woman, she must not have had one yet. H/t to Kem.
The Reboot of Dorian Gray: an amusement.
A petition to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day
More depressing troll stories
Stay Hungry,
Liz
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And if you are looking for reading this week, my book TEMPTING WILL McGLASHEN is up for pre-order.
Dark Desires of Goblin Men
The Pre-Raphaelites seduce so many; I have the Tarot of Delphi to the left of me and a collection of postcards from the recent exhibit to the right of me, a ménage novelette Man City: Lizzie that features an art historian who tends pre-Raphaelite paintings in Manchester — and later this month, a novella inspired by Christina Rossetti’s The Goblin Market coming out in The Lady Smut Book of Dark Desires.
If you don’t know about that, I urge you to check your pulse. Or pre-order it here!
“The Lying, The Witch and The Wardrobe” had its birth in the poem warning of the power of sensual dangers. Students always read it and think blah blah blah rules rules rules and then I read it to them, aloud, slowly.
She clipp’d a precious golden lock,
She dropp’d a tear more rare than pearl,
Then suck’d their fruit globes fair or red:
Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flow’d that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
She suck’d and suck’d and suck’d the more
Fruits which that unknown orchard bore;
She suck’d until her lips were sore;
Then flung the emptied rinds away
But gather’d up one kernel stone,
And knew not was it night or day
As she turn’d home alone.
My heroine loves the poem but she has no idea what secrets it holds, like the secrets that lie within her grandmother’s locked wardrobe — locked ever since she disappeared from the orchard one day. Jeanie inherited her own powers from that side of the family but things haven’t been working well for her. Can she turn her life around with her grandmother’s magic?
I’m not the only one obsessing over the Pre-Raphaelites. I cannot wait for the film EFFIE GRAY (h/t to Liz Hand for the link) from the fabulous Emma Thompson, my heroine!
October 9, 2014
Your Dark Desires aka I Heart October!
by Madeline Iva
It’s October! (Waves arms excitedly.) I’m excited for so many reasons:
a) GIRL’S NIGHT OUT…was Glorious! Liz Everly, Alexa Day, and I had a smashing Girl’s Night Out at Derriere de soie [what a gorgeous store, what reasonably priced n fabulous lingerie!] Those who stayed til the end went home happy with little black bags, that buzzed. If you know what I mean. And I think you do. ;>
b) WE’RE PAINTING THE TOWN AGAIN: Saturday October 11th–Liz Everly and I will be bringing the heat at the WASHINGTON LOVES READERS LUNCHEON. Literally. She’ll be giving away books to readers, I’ll be giving away e-books of our anthology AND Lindt chocolates. I’ll be doing some palm reading as well. Oh, and we’re giving away a LADY SMUT gift basket full of books and goodies. (Register HERE if you’re interested. I mean, you could even sit next to us and everything.)
c) IT’S OCTOBER! — my favorite, absolutely favorite month of the year. I heard someone say October is like Christmas for gay people. Well, move over honey, because this witch-ay wo-man in her platform shoes likes to party in October.
Whether it’s the swirl of autumn leaves proclaiming it’s time to hustle about in scarves and mittens, the splatter of rain on black cats proclaiming it’s time for adventure in cobblestone alleyways, or all the magical street action that a Halloween night can bring to our neighborhood–I find October adorbs. Why?
Time to unleash your inner Vampira!
d) SPOOKY SEXY COSTUMES: It calls to the Vampira sexpot inside me. To the virgin inside me who wants to dress up naughty–really naughty just for one night. It calls to the cackling hag inside me. Honey—where’s my broom?
e) SPOOKY-SPOOKY SEXY READS Another thing about October — it’s purrrr-fect as a release month for us because the themes in our anthology are all spooky-spooky.
I’ve written SEXSOMNIA about a woman sleep walking her way into hot sex with who knows? She needs to uncover the answer–and the answer in turn has something to do with a gateway to Hell.
C.Margery Kempe has some delicious masked goblin men seducing maidens down at the Goblin Market.
Elizabeth Shore has got one spooky old cool insane asylum and one freaked out movie director locked up inside for the night. Liz Everly has vampires coming through smart phones and computer screens.
Yes, it’s a sexy corn costume. WTF?????
You’ll have to check it out. Our very own editor described our stories, and I quote, as ‘Hot, hot, hot!‘ Word on the street, (well Barnes & Noble,) is that the anthology releases Oct. 31st. Buy it and you can read the stories on Halloween in between answering the door all night. Hey put down that candy! It’s for the kids.
e) DEEP DARK DESIRES – THE LADY SMUT BOOK OF DARK DESIRES is all about dark desires. When researching Sexsomnia for the book, and how your suppressed desires can affect your sleep, I realized that, man, I have a lot of dark desires. Now some people would call me a ninny, because I’ll never actually fulfill them. Or so they think: I’ll never tell. ;>
But aside from next week, when we’re going to go all American Revolutionary on your a**es—I’ve decided to devote my blog posts to presenting these dark desires.
f) DARK DESIRE #1 — okay, not strictly a dark desire, but at least a rather odd obsession–
DISCOVERING SEXUAL CHEMISTRY BETWEEN ACTORS WHO PLAYING SIBLINGS ON TV.
It’s the strangest, closest thing to incest there is without–you know–really going to ick-ville. Why the obsession, Madeline?
Ahhh! Chocolate!!!
I’m so glad you asked! Okay, it’s like, first of all what drives these relationships? Because it seems to happen a lot. Is it the long hours of working together in the sexed-up atmosphere of acting/Hollywood, (Yes) combined with the lure of the forbidden that sucks them in? (Yes.) I mean, there’s so little forbidden in this day and age–it must be like catnip to these people.
Do some have a masochistic desire to tank their career?–because fans are NEVER happy to find out about it. Is it some sort of acting leakage — like they’re playing a role where they show each other fondness, friendship, protectiveness, teasing–and then that leaks out into their real relationship and then suddenly once they’re thinking about each other things take a really super-perverse turn?
OR–Kiersten Hallie Krum—because we know that the actors playing Claire and Jamie in Outlander are as madly in love with each other off screen as they appear to be on screen– Is it that we just want to flip the bird to acting insiders who claim “usually people who like each other simply have no chemistry on set whatsoever and actually it’s the people who simply hate each other who do.“
Yes, I want to prove these people are soooooo WRONG. Chemistry is chemistry sez I. But I’d like to have some evidence to prove these insiders wrong.
The other reaction I have is HA! I *knew* it! My random kink of watching for The Vibe That Should Not Be There But Is results in my growing more addicted each time I spot it. (I know, get a life, right?)
The first time I spotted it on a soap opera, Another World. I was *cough* three years old *cough* when I noticed that a good girl who had given up her baby for adoption sixteen years ago (back when she was a bad girl) now faced that baby — er, six foot guy, who threatened to expose her sin to all the town. Is he her son? Or is he a con artist? Or he’s a con artist who THINKS he’s not her son, but really HE IS? Who frickin’ cared?–their chemistry was hot, hot, hot! I learned that he even got fired from the show and later secretly rehired because the executives were like no, no NO! This is now where the story is going. Meanwhile, I was like yes, yes, YES! Why, when you have magic before you, why toss it away? Why?
I spotted it three other times. Here are three guesses where I got it right:
Katherine Heigle and Jason Behr on ROSWELL. They just seemed not at all brother & sister-ish. They didn’t look alike, (if anything Heigle looked related to the other tall strapping alien). But what I really noticed (this is going to sound soooo weird, I know) is that in their scenes together I was very focussed on her boobs. A lot. Why? Okay, here’s my theory, I think when two actors are in a room thinking about boobs in a scene, somehow we all end up thinking about boobs.
Emily and David…aren’t they cute? My stomach feels so strange.
Emily VanCamp and David Annable on BROTHERS & SISTERS. They obviously were playing a brother and sister. I saw their chemistry a mile off. From the very first scene. So did the producers of the show. This is where I give two thumb’s up to the producers: they changed the show to exploit the chemistry. First they meet as adults and discover they’re related: OH but wait! They’re really NOT. I think this is the main reason why I get so into catching these things. I wonder if the producers will stay set in their plan, or use the magic where they find it?
Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere on HEROES. They had immediate VAST chemistry from their first scene together as well. I don’t know why the producers didn’t see this coming and change things accordingly. But alas, their characters turned out to be uncle and niece. Meanwhile, they dated off screen and I guess everyone blamed poor Milo, because he was a decent actor yet who has seen him since?
How much pressure do the studios put on boinking brother-sister actors to keep it under wraps? A lot, is what I’m guessing. Who successfully hid their secret and we never knew? I tell you who surprised me: David Cassidy and Susan Dey from the Partridge Family. Of course I wasn’t looking for it then…because I wasn’t even born then…*cough*.
Anyway, it’s a crazy situation, that’s SO juicy and inherently fraught with melodrama. Ya know? And how many situations in contemporary romance are able to get that touch of forbidden desire in there? Not many.
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