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What to Write When There’s Nothing to Write About
Written by Isabelle Drake and Ana Isabel Larios Maier. Graphic by Laura Garcia Gomez. We all know it, that taunting, blinking cursor against the vast white of the page. Nothing,you got nothing. If it feels like nothing interesting is happening in your life, like you can’t think of anything of importance to say, you may have the highly debated to exist, writer’s block. The blank page is horrifying, and the never-ending storylines and characters in a writers brain can be overwhelming.
Christmas thoughts in unlikely places
My scrolling was on Twitter; I was reading the same thread that pops up occasionally, a conversation about the predictability of Hallmark Christmas films. This time the conversation had a twist: what if someone wrote a Hallmark Christmas in reverse. Lori Perkins, the publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books, posted that she’d love to see such a book. I posted that I’d love to write it. And there it was, the challenge.
Sexy Sunday Snippet: Winning Casey by January Bain — Lady Smut
Happy Sexy Snippet Sunday! This week we have a hot bit from Book One of January’s Brass Ring Sorority series, Headstrong archeologist Casey spends her life exploring the world for hidden treasure and ancient artifacts. A free spirit, her dedication to her calling means she’s often in conflict with the more narrow-minded higher-ups at the university where she’s employed as an associate professor. Timetables, rules, protocols—they all go out of the window when Casey’s on the hunt.
Sexy Sunday Snippet: Must Love Fashion by Deborah Garland — Lady Smut
Holiday cheers to us all! This week we have a snippet from Deborah Garland’s Must Love Fashion, Book 1 in her Darling Cove series. Escape into the exciting world of fashion where Andrew Morgan, a former male model turned brand manager meets his match in Gwendolyn Mallory, a beautiful small town public relations specialist he doesn’t think he needs. She was hired to turn the fashion world upside down…not his.
Sexy Sunday Snippet: Venomous Craving by Mary Auclair — Lady Smut
Lady Smut welcomes Mary Auclair with a bit about and a sexy excerpt from Venomous Craving, book 1 in the Eok Warriors series. A warrior whose craving knows no bounds. A passion that will change the fate of humanity. In a world where humanity has been hunted to near extinction, Rose is captured and on her way to be sold on the lucrative black market. Seizing her only chance, she escapes and finds fate waiting for her in the form of another captive of terrifying strength: a legendary Eok warrior.
Sexy Sunday Snippet: Blind Magic by Natalina Reis — Lady Smut
This week we have some witchy magic from Natalina Reis’ single title romance, Blind Magic. Marcy has never been in love. But when Oliver Dawson walks into her store, she falls head over heels. Unable to shake the feeling that she and Oliver were made for each other, for the first time in her life, the quirky witch considers casting a love spell for herself. Oliver’s life is turned upside down when he’s shot and almost killed.
Sexy Sunday Snippet: Marital Duty by Ingrid Hahn — Lady Smut
Ingrid Hahn in the house with a sexy snippet from Marital Duty. Marital duty has never been so satisfying… Each morning while pretending to be asleep, Evaline St. John, Lady Kingston, submits to her husband’s attentions. She can never dare admit she yearns for more…until her friend Selina, Lady Beaumont, initiates a conversation about what she does with her own husband in the bedroom. But Selina is bored with her intimate life and suggests that she and Evaline seduce their husbands.
$25 Amazon.com Gift Card and Books in the Black Friday Giveaway — Lady Smut
$25 Amazon.com Gift Card and Books in the Black Friday Giveaway You could use a $25 Amazon.com gift card, right? And more book boyfriends? How about a surprise present, too? One winner will receive all these prizes in the LadySmut Black Friday Giveaway happening today through December 1. Winner announced on Sunday, December 3 on this blog post and on the Lady Smut Romance blog Facebook page.
Femdom back in the day: thanks Ingrid Pitt for starting something awesome — Lady Smut
Femdom back in the day: thanks Ingrid Pitt for starting something awesome Thanksgiving is awesome, family is great, shopping–online or actually in a store–it’s all wonderful stuff, but if you’re like me…sometimes you just need some sexy, over-the-top drama. If you’re fan of classic vampire movies, campy horror, or sexy girls, you have to watch Hammer Film’s, The Karnstein Trilogy.
Cuckolding: the femdom lifestyle
A married woman having sex with a man who isn’t her husband? Yes. A married woman having sex with a man who isn’t her husband–and he arranges it? Yes. And–he watches it? And likes it? Yep. About two years ago, before I was a Lady Smut regular, I wrote a Fetish 101 post on cuckolding. I offered up the basics: a cuckold marriage is one in which the husband selects men for his wife to have sex with. As with all sexual preferences, there are variations. The husband may or may not watch the couple having sex.
Servant of the Undead, erotic zombie horror free read part 3
Each Sunday, I’m offering up a part of my serialized erotic zombie horror story, Servant of the Undead. If you’re new to this, please start with Part 1, “Do it.” “Um, hi?” she said, her smudgy eyes taking on a desperate sheen. “My name’s Mattie, by the way.” Hayden reached over, trying to X out of the update email he’d been writing to Bob Keeler so he could shut down his computer.
FREE READ - a peek at Best Friends Never
Chapter One: It Doesn’t Matter How You Play the Game, Only Whether You Win or Lose Whoever picked out Cherry Grove High’s school colors was an idiot. Either that or a serial killer. The hideous color combination blurred across the gym floor, spinning in the cheerleaders’ skirts, bouncing in the pom squad pom-poms and slicing through the air in the quivering band banners. Except for the bizarre Goth meets Glee effect, the scene was flawless. Even the shouts echoing off the walls were just right.
Why Do We Love to Read about Secrets?
Secrets: awkward in real life, but so delicious to read about. It’s no, um, secret, that characters keeping information from other characters has made all sorts of stories, from primetime Tv to the romances we read, so much juicier. A secret is different than a plot twist–a surprise nobody saw coming, including the main characters and the reader. Secrets in books are often when you as the reader know something, or at least have hints at it, but one of the people in the tale you’re reading doesn’t.
Tiger (Beat) by the Tail: Keeping the 80s Hot Today
Celebrating Isabelle Drake’s new release, a young adult novel called Best Friends Never, has put me in mind of high school. High school is now in my distant past, and I’m surprised by how little of it I remember. For one thing, I think my mind is trying to protect me from it. High school wasn’t all that gentle with me.
I am who I am: fiction writer. Why I chose not to use a pen name for my young adult work
Before signing the contract for Best Friends Never, the first in Cherry Grove, my young adult suspense series, the question of a pen name came up. Since I also write erotic romance, should I use a pen name for my young adult books? Would that be the better? The more I stewed on my eventual answer, the more complex the question became. Here’s how it went. If I create a new name, I’ll need to create a whole new online identity and wow… time? Creativity? Rather use those for writing more stories.
What to do about Valentine’s Day?
Who truly loves Valentine’s Day? Who wakes up on February 14, sure that the entire day will be wonderful, romantic, and filled with complete happiness? Not most of us. There are too many pit falls. Too many possibilities to feel emotions other than pure bliss. Like what, you ask? See what I mean? It’s a wonder any of us make it through the day at all. Because I like to leave you Lady Smutters with a little something more, I’ll offer a link to this quiz, How Sexually Adventurous Are You?
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Penny Dreadful meets The Walking Dead in a present day Boston snowstorm. Having sex with an ice-covered, smudgy-eyed woman in tattered fishnets is Hayden Thomas' first mistake. His secondthinking he's in control of what happens next.
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