Love on a Spoon: Yum
By Liz Everly In C. Margery Kempe’s latest book of short stories, the title story “Love on Spoon,” is one I remember reading years ago in another collection. I think about it every time I see...
View ArticleBrand Spanking New
by C. Margery Kempe As you may have noticed from my kind colleagues’ posts, I have a new collection out this week, Love on a Spoon. The stories really run the gamut from sweet encounters to sassy wild...
View ArticleSexy Saturday Round Up
Hey sex kittens! Liz is off visiting a magical kingdom this week, but the rest of us are here to deliver to you the best the newest the most tightly laced news in romance land. Enjoy! From Madeline:...
View ArticleA Lot of Sex Going on in the Regency: Q&A with Ella Quinn
by Madeline Iva Ella Quinn’s lates book in her series. Kensington author Ella Quinn is a pistol. I met her three or four years ago and was instantly impressed by her force of will. Where many only...
View ArticleThe Privilege of a Woman’s Pleasure
by Kiersten Hallie Krum Our Sexy Saturday Round Up included a link to an article I’ve been retweeting the heck out of over the last few days: Dear Columnists: Romance Fiction Is Not Your Bitch. In it,...
View ArticleRomance and Young Readers
by C. Margery Kempe You may have heard that ‘New Adult’ is all the rage now, eclipsing even Young Adult; I don’t know about that. Marketing terms can be hard to parse exactly, but there’s no doubt...
View ArticleBeyond Resistance
by Kiersten Hallie Krum I’m a glommer. Hello, my name is Kiersten and I glom. When I discover something I like, a food, a piece of clothing, a new musician, a new book series, I have to drown myself in...
View ArticleThe Library You’re Looking For
by Kiersten Hallie Krum I have a complicated relationship with librarians. When I was a kid, we did not get along. I never understood the contradiction of a Free Public Library that charged fees if you...
View ArticleTapped Out
by Kiersten Hallie Krum I am tapped out this week. Between busy day job shenanigans during the week and BFD—Big Family Drama—on the weekend, I’ve been basically sitting in a chair all Sunday in a...
View ArticleStrictly Business: My Theory About Harlequin’s Interracial Romances
By Alexa Day A few days ago, I read an article on Time magazine’s website about interracial romance novels. The article describes an increase in popularity, and it mentions the names of some popular...
View ArticleOnline Romance Fest & My British Summer of Love
By Madeline Iva They’ve got the love? No, we’ve got the love – for this new online Romance Festival put on by Harper Impulse (and Harlequin, Avon, Carina Press). First of all, I adore their Logo:...
View ArticleThat First Thousand Words: Hot Romance Covers
Just Justin being Justin. By Alexa Day Have you heard? The good people at HarperImpulse are putting on an online romance conference at the end of the week. There’s a day for readers and a day for...
View ArticleDon’t Neglect the Back End
by Kiersten Hallie Krum I love festivals. Book festivals. Music festivals. Comic Cons. Renaissance festivals. I dig ‘em hard. Few things are as fun has hanging with like-minded people and dishing about...
View ArticleBlog to Book and Book Expo America
By Liz Everly I was thrilled to attend Kensington’s BEA party again this year. It was wonderful to see some of the people the behind the scenes who work so hard for the books I write. And you never...
View ArticleRomance Festival LIVE: 2pm report
Big push to the finish! Here’s a round up of events for the end of day one at the first online ROMANCE FESTIVAL. Don’t forget to drop by tomorrow as well when Lady Smut will post every hour to guide...
View ArticleRomance Festival Live! Agent Q&A With Carole Blake
by Kiersten Hallie Krum Lady Smut is here to guide you through Romance Festival ’14 the first online romance festival. Drop by Lady Smut every hour to find HarperImpulse author Q&As as well as:...
View ArticleCindy Gallop Rocks My World at Romance Festival ’14
By Alexa Day Cindy Gallop is my hero. If you’ve been hanging out with me for a while, you’ve heard me talking about her before. Yesterday, I got to listen to her for an hour at the HarperImpulse...
View ArticleGadget Friendly but Techno Impaired
by Kiersten Hallie Krum Here at Lady Smut, we’ve been covering the virtual Romance Festival all weekend, posting recaps and schedule updates and weighing in on the highlights as we go along. It was a...
View ArticleLike our Facebook Page!
The Lady Smut crew are now on Facebook (well, most of us were already there, but not as Lady Smut). Drop by and give us a like. We’re going to be doing a giveaway there very soon to reward the early...
View ArticleCover Reveal: One Night in Rome
by C. Margery Kempe Yeah, I know we’re on a break, but I couldn’t wait until next week to show you the steamy cover for my next novella One Night in Rome. It’s part of Tirgearr Publishing’s City Nights...
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