Hello Smexy Blog readers I am baaaaaack with my Dream Cast for American Fairytale, my upcoming release which is second book in the Dreamers series. I love searching for inspiration pics as I am planning my stories. Because so many of my characters are PoC it can be a little challenging to find the perfect models, actors, etc. With Fairytale in addition to Afro-Latinx characters there are also South Asian and East African peeps. Tom Hughes, our swoony billionaire’s two best friends are from India Continue Reading
Q & A With Aiden Wayne
Your latest book PLAY IT AGAIN is out this month! Can you tell us a little bit more about it? Sure! Play It Again is about Dovid, a famous, blind YouTube vlogger who loves his life and his job--making videos for his channel Don't Look Now--with the help of his camera person and twin sister Rachel. When Rachel introduces him to Sam's Let’s Play channel (Let’s Players record themselves playing video games, usually with accompanying narration), Dovid is instantly smitten with Sam's voice Continue Reading
Lucy Parker’s TBR
Last week at Smexy Angela and I posted our TBR and today we have a special guest, Lucy Parker, to share her TBR with us. Take it away Lucy- We’re rapidly heading towards winter in the southern hemisphere, which will soon mean it’s dark by five o’clock, the car windows will frost over, extra blankets will go on the bed, and I’ll slip on black ice in public at least once. However, there’s no point even pretending I’m gloomy about the changing seasons, because this time of year also means Continue Reading
Q & A with Charlie Adhara
Your latest book THROWN TO THE WOLVES was released on April 1! Can you tell us a little bit more about it? Hi! Thanks for having me on Smexy Books to celebrate the release of Thrown to the Wolves, third in my Big Bad Wolf series. In a world where only a few know werewolves exist, human agent Cooper Dayton gets partnered with Oliver Park, a werewolf himself, to solve beastly mysteries. Of course, they accidentally fall in love along the way. Cooper and Park have come a long way from their Continue Reading
Excerpt: The One I Love to Hate by Amanda Weaver
Amanda Weaver is here today with an exclusive excerpt of her new book, The One I Love to Hate, release date March 18th. But first, an intro to the book: Three Italian-American sisters and their family bar in Brooklyn are at the heart of The Romano Sisters series. The best part of writing this series was being able to incorporate so much of what I love about my home borough into the books. Romano’s Bar, the Brooklyn Daily Post, Ému Coffee and Tea…they’re all based in Brooklyn Continue Reading
Q&A with Holley Trent
Today we have Holley Trent with us and she's talking about how she started reading romance, her newest release Writing Her In, prickly heroines, and more. Thanks for joining us Holley! Writing Her In releases on March 11, 2019 What is the first romance you ever read/how'd you start reading romance? I honestly don’t know the title but it was definitely a category romance of some stripe! I found it in a dollar store bin when I was a teen. I think the story was set in Hawaii. The Continue Reading
American Dreamer: Cast List by Adriana Herrera
Today we welcome Adriana Herrera to SmexyBooks! Her debut book, American Dreamer, releases on March 4, 2019. The HEROES. I was so excited when I got a request to do a casting list for American Dreamer. Folx I have had my list ready to for a while. If Netflix ever comes knocking, I WILL BE READY! For Nesto, I have only one option, Johnny Sibilly. He is a Dominican-Cuban actor—you may have seen him as Costas on Pose—and he looks exactly how I envision my favorite Afro-Caribbean food Continue Reading
Exclusive Excerpt: Rough Terrain by Annabeth Albert
Thank you so much for having me. I had so much fun writing ROUGH TERRAIN. One of my favorite things to write are kisses, but sometimes the moments when characters don’t kiss but really, really want to are even more powerful than an actual kiss. And they make the eventual kiss that much more explosive. Here’s one such moment: *** Renzo’s tongue felt too thick for his mouth. Damn but Canaan was sexy, miles of creamy, pale skin on a lean, compact body. He’d expected some tats or nipple Continue Reading
Review: Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert
Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert Released: November 12, 2018M/M RomanceCarina Press Reviewed by Mandi First, let me say - there is actual holiday stuff in this "holiday" romance. How many times have I read a holiday romance, with the holiday cover and title, and then be left with MAYBE one snowfall or one mention of a Christmas dinner??? Too many times to count! Better Not Pout has a hero wearing a santa suit! Thanksgiving! Lots of snow! An elf! Christmas presents! It got me in the Continue Reading
Review: Making Up by Lucy Parker
Making Up by Lucy Parker (London Celebrities #3) Released: May 28, 2018 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi I highly recommend this author if you have yet to try her. This is the third book I've read by her and they have all been adorable and sweet and sexy. In Making Up, we return to the theater, but in a burlesque/acrobatic show. The Festival of Masks is a little bit of everything - lewd humor, amazing aerial skills, singing, dancing and it's a very popular show. When Continue Reading