The New Year

2015 - Still the worst blogger ever. I'm doing waaaay better on Craving Erotic Romance Authors Blogspot http://cravingeroticromance.blogspot.ca/ and I should probably stick to that. But every now and then I pop over here and see where I've been and realize where I've gone! My writing has evolved. Less sex more plot. This year, 50/50!!

I've met so many wonderful people last year. Authors, readers, bloggers. I've made friends who I may never lay eyes on but who are special to me. I can't wait to connect with them on FB every day if only for a quick post.

One of my author friends became an indie author and is doing amazingly well. I edit for her and she blows me away. Another is writing erotica and with her unique style and command of language is soaring. Yet another is spreading her wings. What a world we are blessed with to be able to write and publish at will. There is a book for everyone and reading and writing is my first love after family.

I write for me and for the readers who like my style and approach. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, lol. Happy New Year.

About Mary's Naughty Whispers

Mary has a new blog. She's also Canadian, French-Canadian, and I read her reviews often. She challenged me to write a menage with four men, one woman. I can't write four men-there is always a part left out somehow. I didn't think I wanted to write three men. But I woke up done day with this sci fi romance in my head, a menage, and have hammered out just over 20K on the thing.

Can three dominant males make a feisty woman submissive? Particulary when she ended up with them hardly of her own accord. They are mighty persuasive, and bossy too. She doesn't have a lot of alternatives seeing as she was won in a poker game and her brother will go to prison if she doesn't comply...do you see her dilemma?

And I have to add in the planetary travel because I'm a Trekkie and you know...plus my fascination with BDSM. So it'll be harsh and readers are gonna be cross with me for not giving her a safe word etc. You can't please all the critics all of the time! 

There's also a prophecy being filled here. Too bad they didn't tell her about it right from the get go. Somebodies are going to get their asses kicked by one little subbie. My heroines always come out on top.

So, if I get it done and submitted, and accepted, Mary may yet see her challenge met. With three, not four men.

Later. Ally

RAGT 2013

I'm still recovering from RAGT 2013. What an amazing event put together by Lori Foster, Duffy Brown, Linda Keller, Joni Anderson and countless others. A nice blend of authors and readers and a showcase of talent on either side.

I met Lorelei James in the elevator - a true artist and a lovely woman with the best taste in boots.

I'm a voracious reader and met so many new authors to sample (their wares). I have to find some time to write too. Plan to polish my latest effort, an epic for me, seeing as I like novellas, but want to make it perfect. It feels right, you know?

Spent a couple of days with my girl, Lydia Michaels and her husband, such a treat, before heading to RAGT and that was the highlight, in truth. Altogether an amazing week. Met another author I've been corresponding with and we are critique buddies too. It's wonderful to meet people you've connected with on line.

Anyhow, off to bed to try and catch up on my sleep and get back to tackling life again. Ally

I'm a terrible blogger.

I love to write, so why am I such a terrible blogger? People tell me they want to know more about me and my "voice". I don't know why.

I write dark romance with a message. I think I do. Love definitely doesn't come easy to most of us and the path is filled with pitfalls, some of our own making. And keeping love, maintaining the relationship is the hardest part of all, although some of it just comes naturally. Communication, however, not so much. I'm not great at reading minds. So talk to  me. (I'm telling the man in my life that btw.)

I have faith in love. I do. But it's a fragile thing, if deep and abiding, so a contradiction in terms. And there's all kinds of love besides romantic love, as many as there are different kinds of kisses.

I recently wrote a novel in a style much different than my usual. The publisher didn't like the style so I obligingly changed it but felt like they'd pulled my writing heart out. I was scared it would make my fans dislike me and turn away. But it was okay for some and the others, while not pleased, cut me some slack and indicated they can't wait for my next book. I love my fans. A different kind of love.

I love my kids. And my husband. I love my friends. I love to write. I love my pets. How fortunate I am to be able to feel so deeply. But I'm still a terrible blogger!

Here's an excerpt from Club Pleasure 7:

Only her rage, the basest form of survival, the absolute of last resort provided the strength. That fury, fuelled by abject despair and crushing emotional pain perversely saw her through.

“Are we done?” She shaped and fit the comment as one to signify the end of a discussion, perhaps a negotiation, even a meal.

The words dropped into the tiny gap between them. She ignored her vulnerability, her naked, open self before his complacent, fully clothed form. He’d  opened only his fly during the entire event. Event? Yes, that sounded right. An event, something to attend, to go to, to take part in. She’d been the event, truth to be told. He’d opened his fly and pulled his cock out, long and hard and thick, the plum sized head weeping for her. He’d fed it to her in slow, velvety, delicious increments to the very back of her throat and she sucked and drank from it with blind appetite, past caring about their audience or the previous audience participation, needing the taste and texture of him to supplement her sexual satisfaction, no, to fulfill it. To take and to give. From this day forward, and she was destroyed.

 

How nice are these twins?  And both for her. She's more than a match for them because she's a witch, unless they mate with her...

FFM-not so much

FFM, the acronym for female, female, male. Who knew? Erotic authors and readers know. MM (male, male) sells well, as does MMM or MFM, or MMF. FFM, not so much. It took not a little courage to write this novel, and I leaned on my gay friends not a little! One of them told me that heterosexual women read gay erotica featuring men a whole lot but aren't as interested in FF. I guess when I thought about it I wasn't either.  Except Jackie and her girl Ashley had to be written. Jackie also loves Alistair, so we have that triangle as well...I loved writing this book and to date those who read it loved it too. I begged the cover artist not to make the hero prevalent and bless him, he didn't. Not that Alistair isn't dominant. He most definitely is, and how this relationship sorted itself out was sweet. I don't know if I'll write this configuration again, but I'm glad I tried it once. Oh, and there's a nice doggie too.

Too many inspirations...

I don't know if it's a curse or a blessing but my mind is so fertile these days. It's probably a good thing the weather is cold and snowy so I'm not inclined to be outdoors because I can't leave my muse! I pull up a new document and type feverishly to capture what popped into my head. It's all about love and angst and the struggle to establish a relationship and maintain it. And the road is full of pitfalls and obstacles. I find I'm branching out too, adding other layers and not just the immediate love story. It doesn't matter who the characters are, they've been impacted by their history and present day events. And it seems a miracle they even meet, let alone move ahead. Such is the power of the human spirit when people are willing to work at making it work! I hope I have enough years left to write it all!