Each book has its own challenges, its own flavor and each character has his or her own journey. By this I mean, I do not write say, Triad, over and over. Not every book is kinky, not every book will … Click to read more…

Starting with the Bad Sex Awards and culminating with Alan Elsner’s utterly clueless “How Romance Novels Take the Romance Out of Romance” piece at Huffington Post – I’m just fed up with how little writers understand about the power of … Click to read more…

Firstly, I learned yesterday in the wake of my gorgeous cover news that I’d contracted the follow up to Laid Bare to Berkley Heat for a January 2010 release! I don’t have a title for it as of yet, but … Click to read more…

I am finally finished with revisions on Undercover. They were pretty light but I wanted to be sure they were as good as possible so I was extremely careful with them. Whew. Now I’m on to a last polish of … Click to read more…

I usually read a lot. Several books a week along with writing but at the moment I’m working on three different projects at three different stages of the process (editing, revising and writing) so I’m so busy I’m not able … Click to read more…

I’ve been watching a discussion about words used in erotic romance and erotica. I’m a word whore, I admit it up front and I do believe that words have a unique sort of power to impact what you read. Not … Click to read more…

Rachel Kramer Bussel is a very smart woman. She’s one of my favorite commentators and I think she often has so much of importance to say on issues of sex and sexuality and in a far more coherent and cogent … Click to read more…

Putting down something I’ve written and being tingly and flushed. I mean, wow. Writing sex is an interesting process. Sometimes a scene just flows from you, it connects to something deep inside you and as you write it, you’re really … Click to read more…