Amazing Grace…

A lover asks you to pose naked for pictures. What do you do? Are you shocked? Excited? Scared? Do you think for five seconds, before stripping off, what the ramifications may be?

It constantly amazes me how people – women in particular - will allow someone to take intimate/naked/obscene photos of them and then they get upset when they’re published on the Internet or somewhere else for everyone to see. Did they think for a second that the man of the moment may not be the man of forever and that maybe if they become famous that their one time fling may sell the photos to the highest bidder? And how can you get all outraged at something you choose to do coming back on you?

I was reading in the Sunday newspapers about a female politician who’s ex-lover sold naked photos of her and how that may ruin her electoral chances – yes – we have an election coming up. Yes, I believe in doing things on the spur of the moment but I also think dropping your kit and posing naked requires some thought. I’m, not saying don’t do it – it’s your choice but for god sake don’t get all pissed off when it comes back to bite you on the arse. Face it – you were naked – everyone has seen what there is to see – you’re no more unique that anyone else unless you have three boobs or something - so move on. I think we all admire someone who admits to past mistakes and does not get all defensive over it. I would much rather vote for a person who accepts they are flawed and they stuffed up in their life than someone who is outraged that what they did X number of years ago coming to light.

And, what is the point of posing naked anyway? The human body is just plain weird looking – like a science experiment gone wrong. And yes, I get that pin ups make good money doing it but in the end it’s just a naked body and all women have the same parts just in different proportions - as do men… I don’t understand why anyone wants to see people they don’t know naked… everyone has an arse after all.

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The Wednesday Interview

This week’s brilliant author is Ashlyn Chase and her romantic comedy Demolishing Mr Perfect. It’s available to buy now at Ellora’s Cave along with Ashlyn’s other books. Next week Jacqueline Roth drops by with her eagerly awaited, hot new release Access Denied.

Demolishing Mr Perfect - The Blurb

Even though she’s a nurse at a sperm bank, meeting young, virile medical students every day, Natalie Watson’s relationships always seem to suffer from “stress fractures.” With a hopeless prognosis, she seeks metaphysical help. The tealeaf reader tells her there's a perfect man for her, but she might have to change her definition of perfect.

Shane (Crusher) Derby, owner of Derby Demolition, takes out his aggressions all day long by blowing up buildings and smashing the contents. He couldn’t be mellower until the nurse in the adjacent building tells him to keep it down. He’s making her donors jump and miss their cups. And he has the nerve to think it’s funny.

The Interview

1.You have some sizzling sex scenes in your book. How hard is it to write sex and make it convincing?

Okay, I’m just going to come out with it. You know how they say “Write what you know?” Well, it’s not that difficult if you have a willing hottie who can put up with the many and varied research demands. *snicker. My wonderful hubby doesn’t mind at all.

2. Romance and the condom. How hard do you find to slip it in or on when the action is hot between characters?

I don’t like to interrupt the spontaneity, but my editor insists I be “responsible.” Phooey. I get around it in the best possible way. I used to be a blood donor nurse. Since blood donations (or semen donations at a sperm bank) are thoroughly tested for anything nasty, I have my characters doing the humanitarian thing—not just the responsible thing. Give blood! Save a life. Jack off. Give a life. There. My public service announcement is done. After that, stay faithful, use birth control and you shouldn’t need a condom.

3. Do you think romance just happens or do you make your characters work for it?

When it’s right, it usually happens without the grueling effort that goes into some of the ‘romances’ you read about. But that’s real life. That’s one of the ways you “just know.” You click.
Don’t get me wrong. I love reading about a butt-kicking babe who gives the hero a hard time in the beginning and an Alpha male who laughs, knowing she’s going to give in.

4. What is it about your hero that makes him irresistible to women?

My guys are usually charming. They have a good sense of humor and though they may not always be sensitive or smooth, they come through when it counts. They make my heroines feel beautiful, sexy and like one in a million (which they are.)

5. Do you think readers want to escape or do they want to identify with a character?

Both. I see nothing wrong with a hero or heroine who has all the things we want, and a little more. Why not put our best selves into the story, but with something special as well as a flaw or two?

6. What do you think is the most important thing to remember when writing romance?

Be entertaining or go home! Do NOT bore the reader!

7. What are you working on now?

Well, I just finished a very hot Quickie. I mean like an hour ago. And yesterday, an agent contacted me about a novella. She asked me to consider doing a whole series starting with that story, basing each one on a different Greek God. Hey, who doesn’t love a Greek God, hmmm?

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Last weeks brilliant author – Anh Leod and Bijou's Bonds

Anny went a ‘tidied up a bit’ on the serial blog. I personally see nothing wrong with a messy drama - however wander over to the neat www.annycook.blogspot.com and see what’s been cleaned. On www.kkirch.blogspot.com Thursday, Kelly will no doubt turn in an update on the saga that will make my eye twitch as I wonder WTF to write as a response. She likes doing that. She sounds perky but it is my belief that the perky ones are the most dangerous because they lull you in a false sense of security with all the cheerful good will. Scary. Thankfully I am neither neat or perky so the serial will all go back to being a pig’s breakfast on Friday.

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Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?