I’ve got the official word that His Intimate Submission will be available the 16th of December. The book page.
And the excerpt (the first short chapter, in fact).
YAY! LOL, I just squeaked a release into 2009 
Posts Tagged: erotic romance
11
Mar 09
When I grow up I want to be a romance Heroine.
Have you played that game before? The one where you declare what you want to be when you ‘grow up’ and why.
It’s been years for me, but this morning as I stared in the mirror inspecting my pimplicious face and reflecting on the pain of getting an upper lip wax for the first time in 35+ years yesterday afternoon, I decided I wanted to be a romance heroine when I grow up (or come back in my next life, whatever *shrug*).
You might think “Of course you do, the heroine 9.9 times out of 10 gets the hunky hero and they live happily ever after”, but no, thats not the reason why. I’ve decided I want to be a romance heroine because they don’t seem to have to suffer the indignities of primping quite the same way the rest of us do.
Depending on who you follow on twitter, you might have seen some various comments about the fact that no-one ever pees in romance books…well, the heroines at least. Men often do, although its always a very closed door affair. These couple of random comments (and the one about my best ideas coming from contemplation time on the loo) got me thinking — all our lovely, perfect, flawed, kick arse, Mary Sue, thin, fat, inbetween, tomboy, barbie girl, mother nature heroines seem to have a void when it comes to primping.
Other than the tomboy to siren plot line, you never see the heroine go get her eyebrows waxed… let alone her upper lip, and you sure dont get to see her eyes glisten with the pain of a little asian lady ripping out bodyhair by the dont-want-to-let-go-roots. (Okay, I might just be harbouring a teensy little bit of angst toward the lovely Ms Lily at my nail salon for the lip wax thing because holycrapmonkeysdamn why didn’t anyone warn me how much that freaking hurts!! Ms Lily really is nice, and she’s a pretty dab hand with a brush and building fake nails for people like me who can’t grow them.)
Which leads to another point… where are the fake nails? And why do they always belong to the evil bitches who want the hero, or want to rule the world, dominating one man at a time and collecting enormous amounts of Baby Daddy monies? It seems all the heroines have perfect nails. No worried to the quick, flaky, hangnail, or overgrown cuticle in sight. What’s up with that??
And as for hair. What, heroines can’t have hair colours of artificial means? ( Kick arse urban fantasy, fantasy and scifi chicks excepted, cause you know elves with pink hair are hawt.) Seriously, I can’t be the only author with hair an unnatural shade of purple or pink (depends on the week, heh ), heck even an never-seen-in-nature shade of blonde… And just why-oh-why has colour treated hair become yet another sign of the villianess…or worse, the whore of the story?? But that’s a whole other post.
So yeah, I’ve decided I want to be a romance heroine because they have perfect hair (that glistens/shines/glints/curls softly/wonderfully sleek), perfect brows (no unibrows and stray curlies need apply, and we wont touch on *whispers* ‘down there’… cause frankly, I don’t wanna know), and wonderful strong, perfectly shaped nails. Because frankly, I don’t have none of that.
And I want it.
Really bad.
30
Dec 08
2008 versus 2009
Since it seems to be the in thing, lets do a run down:
Released in 2008:
- Red Skirt, Cool Fountain
- Husbands and Wives: Par 3
- Curious Intimacies
- Witch Vamp Were?
- All Boxed Up
- Started producing Anne’s Addictions Sony eReader covers
- had the majority of my back list with LI listed with Fictionwise and ARe
Contracted for 2009:
- err… nothing. Oops.
Planned for 2008, but somehow procrastinated my way around actually doing anything more than outlining them, so are going to have to become my planned for 2009 list:
- Men for Sale trio of stories
- Subtle Domination (follow on for Curious Intimacies)
- Huntingdawn 3 and 4
- more Anne’s Addiction eReader covers
- find myself a new single column template or figure out how to fix this one, because this formatting HAS to go!
Huh.
Better get my arse into gear then, hadn’t I.
19
Dec 08
All Boxed Up, available now!
All Boxed Up
Genre: Full-figured Heroine Erotic Contemporary
Length: Holiday Kisses
Christmas Eve is not supposed to be celebrated naked, tied up, and locked in a dark cardboard box. But that’s exactly where Aimee Small finds herself. Has she been kidnapped by some strange Christmas themed psycho-killer, fascinated with the owner of the local Christmas shop? Or is it something else entirely?
Joseph Christopher was not expecting to come home and find a huge-ass box in his foyer — especially one that makes noises. When he lifts up the lid, he finds that Santa’s come early this year and left him a tasty gift indeed: Aimee, the girl he’s been crushing on all year. She’s naked, bar some red satin ribbon wrapped, candy cane-style, around her luscious body.
Oh, yeah! Some years it pays to end up on Santa’s naughty list…
Publisher’s Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable.
When Loose Id put out a call to their authors about a group of shorts for the holiday season this great little vignette of a woman trapped in a box and the man who finds her popped into my head. It was supposed to be my first real foray in a storyline with BDSM. After all a short story would be perfect for dipping my toe in the pool right?
I’ve always had this impression that BDSM storylines usually have to be pretty serious – sexy, but serious – due to the nature of the power play (big sweeping generalisation there, I know). So I sat down and wrote this kind of creepy first page or two expecting my hero to come along and ‘release’ my heroine from her literal and figurative box, and on the story would unfold.
Well, that was the plan.
My hero turned into a bit of a clumsy guy – a computer guy with a heart of gold who’s really crushing on the shy-with-guys, but outgoing heroine. Not at all the Alpha with a side of submissive I was going for.
Instead I got pratfalls, and loose dangling ribbons just perfect for tripping over, a computer geek out to show his crush he’s just what she needs, and a girl who finally shoves her shyness to the side to grab at what she wants, and sex, hot sex.
A hot sexy comedy. Not serious at all. Bugger.
Oh well, maybe next time!
