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Today, Monday, April 23rd, also St. George’s day in England, has been designated World Book Day by the United Nations and is to be a day for the whole world to celebrate authors and their books. A day to get the flags out and say Yay books! Is there an Author that has inspired you, either as a reader or a writer?  Is there a writer living or not that you would like to have a meal with and chat?  Any author from past or present, any genre.  Who has inspired you? Who is the author? And which book? So many wonderful authors,...

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I have been thinking about this all week; it is on the back of our take over the event last Sunday one of the questions posed by the author, KL Ramsey, where is the most unusual place you have ever made out. I confess now I was not brave enough to say in a live chat about my own experiences, but it was fascinating reading about other people. At least two of the people who responded on the day mentioned making out in a car that struck a chord with me.  From the literary point of I remember a scene...

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I picked on these two plotlines because they started as quite separate entities and have sort of merged over the last few years.  I remember the first erotic stories I read. The male lead always seemed to be a member of the aristocracy or a wealthy businessman.  You can see why, money, sex, and power work as a way of moving the plot forward.  An example comes to mind of one of our back catalog Playing by his Rules, by Glenda Horsfall.  I am independent and believe in equal rights for men and women; when I pick a book I...

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Showing emotions. I think this is a hot topic; most of us struggle a bit with this at first, as we write more, it does get easier. Writing emotions is a big topic too, so I am going to cover the subject over a few blogs.  Writing on this topic, I have taken advice from a couple of editors and some of my close writing buddies. I am sure we all start in first drafts with something like he or she got angry. Rather than telling, it is much more engaging for the reader to get a feel it through...

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Men really don’t get why shoes are so important.  My last boyfriend only had four pairs of shoes, two of which were trainers.  I remember our last holiday together he bitched at me taking away eight pairs of shoes for a five-day break.  What don’t they get, why you need different shoes for different outfits?  Maybe other men understand?  What has been your experience? Have you used shoes in a storyline? Or read something interesting about shoes in a story?  And what about foot fetishists? I’d love to hear your comments here on the blog, the BVS Facebook page, or my Facebook page. We...

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I had a conversation with a friend who is a writer the other day on social media.  I had just recently read her script, and I had agreed to have a chat with her about why I wasn’t going to recommend it to Ric.  I stress I don’t do this all the time.  The writer is a friend, and I thought it would be easier to chat about it. During the conversation, she said that she didn’t read romance novels. In fact, she confessed that she didn’t like the genre that much. It had been easy to tell from her...

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