Sensual and Erotic Romance Author

Annmarie and I will slip into Joey-mode sometimes when we get on the phone… hey, how you doin’? LOL

AM is going to be at a booksigning in Joliet, Illinois on Saturday. I really wish I was there to meet her special admirer. heh heh

Can I fast forward a few days? I mean, seriously? Ugh.

The kids are home from school on Friday and Monday. Teacher work days. What, they don’t work when the kids are AT school? I’m just sayin’. Top it off they had an early release today from school. Four and a half days of kidlets running amuck in the house.

Shoot me now.

I have work to do…rewrites and reading submissions for Passion In Print. I have several submissions I need to read through and evaluate.

How do I read submissions? I convert the files for Mobipocket and upload to my iPaq pocket pc. I like it because I have the expansion pack for it, so it has lots of memory. I also take notes as I read. If I reject something, I want to tell the author why. And if I accept something, I get a jump on my content editing.

No, I don’t line edit. I’m reading for content. I expect manuscripts to come to me polished needing minimal line edits. I will evaluate that in the acquisitions process. If a manuscript needs grammar work, I will let the author know so they can fix the problem and resubmit. (For more on Passion In Print and submissions, check out my editor blog at http://editormari.blogspot.com

I anticipate doing a push for submissions once the publisher website is up, however I will take email queries at editormari @ hotmail.com On my editor blog I do list the submissions email if authors wish to go ahead and send a partial, synopsis and cover letter. Please, paste your cover letter in your email.

I would love to see some paranormal erotic romances come through submissions. Dark and dangerous heroes. I love shifters in particular, but I’m open to all dark fantasy romance like vampires, demons, etc. I’d also love to get more historical erotic romances. Vikings, pirates, knights, gladiators, cowboys, etc. Make me fall in love with your hero, and I’ll ask for more.

Writing in first person. It takes a talented author to pull it off. I generally don’t like reading first person but there are times that I don’t even notice. It is those times when you know the author has talent for first person POV. I’ve been told in reviews over and over that I am one of those authors who can pull it off successfully. If it isn’t conceited to say, but yes, I think I can write first person well.

The great thing about first person is you don’t have to worry about other POVs. It’s just one, and generally in a woman’s POV in romance.The author can put themselves in the shoes of their heroine and watch through their eyes the unfolding action. In Beast in My Bed, the heroine picks up a man at a bar and goes back to his hotel room for sex. Simple enough, but in first person POV, readers get a more intimate look at her mind’s workings.

Last night I pulled out a story I’ve written in first person. I hadn’t written 1st person in a while, since the Beast in My Bed and Bridesmaid and the Beast books. The short was written last summer for Spice Briefs as all the Briefs I read were in first person. Many of the full length ones were too–in the beginning. I am still waiting back for word on my hot little story. I figure if I don’t by the summer, I may add 5K and sub it to EC as a Quickie. No, I know–I’ll sub it for one of the EC Caveman anthos. By then will give the Spice folks time to decide. Yeah, it may be short, but it’s hot.

Beast in My Bed is available in ebook at Ellora’s Cave.

Excerpt from Beast in My Bed

Both of us naked, he lifted me into his arms and leaned my back against the wall by the door of his room. I wrapped my legs about him as he plunged into me in a frenzied pace. He slammed me against the wall and I shrieked in delight. His lips moved from my mouth to feast upon my breasts. Taking a hardened tip into his mouth, he sucked on my nipple, working his tongue over the puckered surface, and I nearly died from pleasure. I climaxed, a rainbow of colors streaking across my vision.

I clawed his back as I held on for dear life when my muscles convulsed. He pumped wildly into me but denied himself completion. He stopped short of his climax and I groaned in frustration.

Then he made a request.

“Sophia, I want you to do something for me.”

“Yes?” I asked breathlessly.

“Promise me you won’t be frightened. I would never hurt you, no matter what.”

Okay, did he revel in freaking me out? “You like trying to scare me?”

“Don’t be scared.”

“How about freaked out?”

“No.”

“All right, what is it you want me to do?”

“Tie me to the bed and give me a blowjob.”

Nothing like being direct. Hey, I have to give a man credit for actually telling me what he wants. Most just guide my head to their crotch in the hopes I can read their minds…in their penis heads.

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It has been a long day for me. Tired for some reason. Went through the normal stuff today–gym, check email, rewrites, etc.–but very tired. Damn cold. It’s hanging on. I will say one thing, I am so looking forward to next weekend in Pensacola Beach. I need a weekend with the girls. Nice thing to know, the book will have the final draft completed. It’s a bright beam of light for me. Then I can rid myself of this book…the book from hell. Yeah yeah, I have to sell it, but that will come. I know it will sell, call it a feeling I have. I just don’t know where.

I love the movie Titanic and in thinking about the movie, it is giving me new ideas for a future project. No, not a Titanic story. (Hasn’t that been done enough?) Just getting ideas right now…that’s all. I am so ready to move on…in more ways than one.

Love the song and I’m feeling…romantic tonight watching all those kisses. My favorite out of the bunch is Keanu from The Lake House. The kiss at the end of that movie…such longing. *dreamy sigh*

I’m about 1/3 way through the rewrites on my book. A lot of work ahead. Luckily the cold I had seems to have lessened. I took a chance and got some Mucinex today, and it worked. Should be fine to knock out some more rewrites tomorrow…after the gym.