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I came across a site that showcases author’s sites that post 6 sentences of their work every Sunday. It can either be published or not, but it has to be six sentences. I’m going to start doing this every Sunday, starting on the 4th, which is the day before Sierra Sky is released with Total-e-bound. So be sure to visit at least once a week to read whichever 6 sentences I choose. It could either be snippets from upcoming releases, forum exclusives or even short micro stories written right then. Stay tuned…

6 Sentence Sunday

Sierra Sky was supposed to be released January 16th, but due to major delays in editing, it was pushed back.

Those edits are now concluded, and the new release date is February 6th. I’m still a bit disappointed at this delay, but they are accepting pre-orders. So be sure to head on over to http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1510 and place your orders. As soon as the book is released, it will show up in your VIP account ready to read.

Fellow romance author, Cynthia Wolf, just read and reviewed my Wicked short story, Pandora’s Box.  It’s short and sweet, just like the story, but here is what she had to say:

5 stars

If I have followed the site correctly, new releases come out every Monday. They then update their Coming Soon page to show what’s coming in the next 6 weeks. Once they do that on Monday, December 12th, Sierra Sky‘s cover will appear at the bottom of that page. It should also then have it’s own page with description and link to my bio. I’m so excited, and this has been long coming! So be sure to check out their Coming Soon page Monday night!

I will also be updating the main page of my site as soon as the book has its own page!

My newest review on an erotica novella was just published on NewsBlaze.com. It’s called Brief Encounters and is by dual authors Mouna Lott and T.H. Rusty.  You can read the full review here: http://newsblaze.com/story/20111120164922jude.nb/topstory.html

Fellow Erotic Total-e-bound author, Victoria Blisse opens her blog every Friday to other writers.  Today is my turn, so head on over to her site to read about my two favorite characters I have created, Drew and Sierra.

http://www.victoriablisse.co.uk/blog/friends-friday-jude/

I was recently asked to review an erotic romance, and I thought it would be fun.  I’ve read a few of them, but I’m still waiting to read one that really turns me on. So far only my own erotica does that.

The writer sent me her ebook, and I started to read.  It didn’t take me long before I was frowning and skipping paragraph after paragraph. When the guy stuck his tongue in the gal’s butt, I had to stop. I emailed the writer and informed her that I was unable to review her book, because I couldn’t read it.  But it got me thinking.  What is the line between erotic and porn?

Anyone who has seen a porno knows the basic premise.  There is a loose plot centered around many sex scenes.  There is usually a lesbian scene thrown in but for the most part it is usually normal male on female action. No one expects a romance or a happy ending…just sex. If you took the sex out of it, nothing would be left.  Erotica is very similar to porn, but with one important difference. If you took the sex out, there would still be a story.  Maybe not as spicy of a story, but a story none-the-less.

What I was asked to review was flat out porn.  It started with fantasies of lesbian and anal sex, and then jumped right in to hard core anal foreplay and sex.  If all those fantasies, foreplay and sex were removed, there wouldn’t have been anything left to read.  That is not my idea of erotic, which is supposed to draw the reader in and then excite her (or him).  Erotic is not having the sex shoved at you so hard and fast that it slaps you in the face.

At least that’s not what erotica is supposed to be, and it will never be the kind I write.

Here it is, the cover of Sierra Sky, to be released January 16, 2012, from Total-e-bound.com.

Ever since my first erotic romance was published in 2009 that is all I have written since.  Why did I make the transition from sensual to erotic romances?  Well, it was actually a very gradual transformation.  When I wrote my first romance novel at 18, the sex scene was very tepid.  I was embarrassed that someone would read it. Yep, I was afraid of blushing at the very idea of someone reading about sex.

Surprisingly, that gets easier the more you write about it. Having experience in sexual matters also greatly increases the realism.  The more i wrote my romances, the more detailed the sex became. I went from hating the idea of anyone reading them, to looking forward to the feedback.  Now, I’m not happy unless someone tells me they had to take a cold shower afterwards.  LOL

What helped me bridge the gap between sensual and erotic sex scenes was joining one of those fantasy role playing sites.  This allowed me to become a male character online as well as interacting with other women’s male characters and let them explore their sexual wild sides.  Doing this not only opened the door, but tore the dang thing off its hinges as far as my ability and enjoyment of writing sex scenes between men and women (no same sex for this gal, unless it’s two guys having fun with one woman).

My last few sensual novels have highly sexual scenes in them, but it wasn’t until I was asked to spice up Painful Reflections to be published as erotic that I ever attempted to cross that final boundary.  For those who don’t quite know the difference, erotic romance not only has the explicit sex but also the explicit language.  All the sexy words that you can’t use in polite conversation can be finally used.  It’s quite therapeutic to be able to say whatever you want and not worry about offending anyone. Afterall, people who read erotica know what to expect from it.

Of course there are many levels and heats of erotica, some of which I will never write about.  This of course includes same sex couples as well as S&M or bondage, though I have played a bit with the latter aspect.  It’s fun to push the envelope when it comes to writing. It is my hope that one day I will write something so wicked that I will need to create a new name to publish it under!  So far, my mother has read everything I’ve written, though I admit I toned down my recent story, Sierra Sky, for her.  There were a few shocking moments, and I didn’t want to make her uncomfortable.  ;-)

If you ever met your favorite writer, what would be the first question you would ask?  Let me guess, it would be, “Where do you get all those ideas?”  I’m probably not alone when I say that no writer likes to answer that question.

Why?  Because we don’t know, and it’s very hard to explain that to someone who has no idea what that means.  Book ideas can come from many different places.  They can either be a memory of something bad that happened, and we want to set it straight.  It could be a movie we watched or a book we read that we feel we could do better. It could be something we glimpsed in a park that sparked our imagination.  Or it could simply be as if someone else were writing through us, a muse if you will. We don’t know where we get our ideas.  They just come to us.

Still, I know I would have to bite my tongue if I ever met my favorite author, since the temptation would be there to ask her that dreaded question.  Even though I know the answer, just maybe she knows some hidden truth that has eluded me.  Not likely, but maybe.