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Our latest book Her Lover’s Face, by Patricia Elliott, is now available at a pre-order sale price of $2.99 until the release date 23rd February. We will be chatting with the author soon. In the meantime here is a taste of the book. Laryssa Mitchell is one of the lucky ones. The death of her abusive husband finally allows her to live again on her own terms, making her own choices. Her first official decision is to take back what was lost – her independence and her old job. But she soon finds herself in a living nightmare when she meets...

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This comes about after an incident in the bar a couple of nights ago.   I am not a prude, I have been an erotic artist for a lot of years, have written erotic romance for over 12 years, so I am unshockable.  Yet, the other night in a public bar, a couple engaged in a series of deep open-mouthed kisses, in combination with groping each other.  I am not shocked by this, in the right place it is fine, a sex or fetish club, maybe a darkened corner of a nightclub would be fine, but in a brightly light bar? ...

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Do you like your lover to smell a certain way?  The perfume industry is worth an estimated $38.8 billion.  Celebrities have their own designer perfumes.  Is it the celebrity image we are buying into when we pick a fragrance?  Or is it just the smell? There are a few points I would like to make.  On the writing side, I think it is important to consider the smells, both good and bad, in your stories.  The addition of smell can deepen the point of view for the reader, as they will draw on their own experiences.  Yes, there are seasonal...

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I have talked about obsessive writing in the past, but do you really feel that you can’t take a break from the PC? Mac? Or a tablet?  I know in the same way, some people just can’t put the phone down.  FOMO, or Fear Of Missing Out, is a recognized condition.  I have seen it in the bar as a phenomenon.  A growing percentage of people seem more interested in messing about with the phone than having a conversation.  It is something I consider very sad; another trend is rather than having a chat about a topic, a debate on...

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This subject came up as a part of a conversation between myself and a writer, who happens to be a registered nurse.  Why are hospitals thought of as places as settings for romantic and sexual encounters in fiction?   In a very real way, they are not a sexy place at all; they are practical, caring places.  Much more concerned with keeping you going than getting you off.  Yet there is that air about them.  In the 1980’s I did a few discos for nurses, and I can tell you there is a high level of sexual tension.  So I can...

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I have had a couple of letters on the subject I blogged about a little while ago.  The subject was about our readers, and do they see our characters in the same way as we see them?  And does it matter?  I had a wide variety of views on the subject.  Some writers were so passionate about making the readers see their characters in the same way that they did.  An interesting technique a couple of writers shared, was to use the image of a famous actor to give the reader a kind of shortcut.  Other writers were almost indifferent, letting...

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IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE. JAN 27, 2018 I know I have touched on this subject before, but music is a kind of key to our lives, so a couple of bits came to mind.  I heard an interview with the crime writer Ian Rankin, who claims his heavy rock music, as a tax-deductible expense as he can’t write without it playing.  I can paint and listen to music or talking books, but there is no way I could write with music going.   My own writing is done in a quiet room.  Any noise breaks my concentration.  So...

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