Admit it. Go ahead. There are times when every one of us looks over the handsome stranger ahead of us in line at the supermarket or eyes the prime example of a man we see at some event and we wonder. We may spend a few precious wicked little moments thinking about just what he could do and how much we’d like it. It leads to some fantasies and when you write erotic romance, it sparks inspiration.
Since I’m happily married for seventeen years and counting I don’t indulge in my momentary attractions but I delight in dreaming. Now I enjoy those temptations vicariously when I write love scenes. Most of my male characters are not – at least in entirely – based on any one guy but I have to fall in love, so to speak, with each one of them because my heroine does. That means that I imagined intimacy with a two hundred year old vampire (Will Brennan), a werewolf who wants to be human again (Darien Wolfe’s), smoking hot Reid Ramsey (from Love Never Fails) and stern but oh how sexy Federal Marshall Timothy Campbell (Witness Protection Program). I become someone else to enjoy pleasures with Johnny Devereaux, Howard Speakman, Guy Richter, Ben Levy, Grayson Holcomb, and Connor Donavan as I write about their heated moments with the ladies they love. Oh, and Elvis too.
My guys range from a World War I flying ace turned bootlegger, a World War II solider from Flatbush, Brooklyn, a fruit farmer and ghost, a nightclub owner, and an ATF undercover agent. I’ve got a reclusive songwriter and the King of rock and roll, all in upcoming works. And I had the delicious pleasure of fantasizing about each one of them. And, just because I’m more than a little naughty I admit I enjoyed penning the sex scenes. As anyone who writes erotic will agree, if your scenes aren’t a turn on for you, they won’t titillate the reader either.
I’ve had readers ask me if I’ve done everything my characters do and I usually take the Fifth. The truth is, sometimes I have but often I’ve just written a fantasy. Some of the places where sex happens in my book are unusual and some are just every day spots. I’ve had sex in some unexpected places on occasion but I’m not telling which scenes came out of experience and which were pure imagination.
In recent days I’ve also seen a lot of discussion about what kind of romance readers prefer – erotic or sweet. I know fans of both, some who read just one or the other. I also know readers who happily read any and all flavors. I fall into that category – I like sweet stories and I like them as hot as an August afternoon in the desert. I read M/F and M/M and just recently my first F/F. If the story rocks, I really don’t care how down and dirty the characters get. Just involve me and my emotions – I’m there.
My novels range from erotic (especially the Love Covenant series with my sexy vamp Will Brennan) to the upcoming Miss Good Samaritan (April 2012 Rebel Ink Press) in which Robin and Grayson do a lot of kissing but not the deed. I write the stories my muse feeds me and hope readers will enjoy the meal.
My two most recent releases – which by some ironic twist of fate came out back to back – both fall into what I’d call a “middle of the road” category – there’s sex and it’s good but not as much as in some of my other works. Witness Protection Program is about a federal Marshall who gets close to the witness he’s sworn to protect and breaks every rule he’s promised to uphold. It’s out from Rebel Ink Press. The other, my first time travel novel, A Time To Love from Champagne Books, features that reclusive songwriter who meets an amazing woman in the middle of a thunderstorm on a remote Arkansas mountain. She’s dressed like a Victorian maid and when she claims to be from the 1890’s, he thinks she’s crazy.
I’m excited where my career is heading and about the releases coming out. Next up will be my first ever Christmas release, Sing We Now of Christmas out December 3 from Rebel Ink Press. Jessica and her Johnny Devereaux enjoy some sensual moments but it’s a poignant love story filled with hope.
In the meantime I’m writing on the next…a World War II romance and I’m checking out all the men I see for those moments of fantasy I call inspiration!
Since I’m happily married for seventeen years and counting I don’t indulge in my momentary attractions but I delight in dreaming. Now I enjoy those temptations vicariously when I write love scenes. Most of my male characters are not – at least in entirely – based on any one guy but I have to fall in love, so to speak, with each one of them because my heroine does. That means that I imagined intimacy with a two hundred year old vampire (Will Brennan), a werewolf who wants to be human again (Darien Wolfe’s), smoking hot Reid Ramsey (from Love Never Fails) and stern but oh how sexy Federal Marshall Timothy Campbell (Witness Protection Program). I become someone else to enjoy pleasures with Johnny Devereaux, Howard Speakman, Guy Richter, Ben Levy, Grayson Holcomb, and Connor Donavan as I write about their heated moments with the ladies they love. Oh, and Elvis too.My guys range from a World War I flying ace turned bootlegger, a World War II solider from Flatbush, Brooklyn, a fruit farmer and ghost, a nightclub owner, and an ATF undercover agent. I’ve got a reclusive songwriter and the King of rock and roll, all in upcoming works. And I had the delicious pleasure of fantasizing about each one of them. And, just because I’m more than a little naughty I admit I enjoyed penning the sex scenes. As anyone who writes erotic will agree, if your scenes aren’t a turn on for you, they won’t titillate the reader either.
I’ve had readers ask me if I’ve done everything my characters do and I usually take the Fifth. The truth is, sometimes I have but often I’ve just written a fantasy. Some of the places where sex happens in my book are unusual and some are just every day spots. I’ve had sex in some unexpected places on occasion but I’m not telling which scenes came out of experience and which were pure imagination.
In recent days I’ve also seen a lot of discussion about what kind of romance readers prefer – erotic or sweet. I know fans of both, some who read just one or the other. I also know readers who happily read any and all flavors. I fall into that category – I like sweet stories and I like them as hot as an August afternoon in the desert. I read M/F and M/M and just recently my first F/F. If the story rocks, I really don’t care how down and dirty the characters get. Just involve me and my emotions – I’m there.
My novels range from erotic (especially the Love Covenant series with my sexy vamp Will Brennan) to the upcoming Miss Good Samaritan (April 2012 Rebel Ink Press) in which Robin and Grayson do a lot of kissing but not the deed. I write the stories my muse feeds me and hope readers will enjoy the meal.
My two most recent releases – which by some ironic twist of fate came out back to back – both fall into what I’d call a “middle of the road” category – there’s sex and it’s good but not as much as in some of my other works. Witness Protection Program is about a federal Marshall who gets close to the witness he’s sworn to protect and breaks every rule he’s promised to uphold. It’s out from Rebel Ink Press. The other, my first time travel novel, A Time To Love from Champagne Books, features that reclusive songwriter who meets an amazing woman in the middle of a thunderstorm on a remote Arkansas mountain. She’s dressed like a Victorian maid and when she claims to be from the 1890’s, he thinks she’s crazy.
I’m excited where my career is heading and about the releases coming out. Next up will be my first ever Christmas release, Sing We Now of Christmas out December 3 from Rebel Ink Press. Jessica and her Johnny Devereaux enjoy some sensual moments but it’s a poignant love story filled with hope.
In the meantime I’m writing on the next…a World War II romance and I’m checking out all the men I see for those moments of fantasy I call inspiration!
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