Flying Gold, American Heavy Metal, #2, is out today and Vanessa provided an excerpt for us to share with you. I’ve spent the last five years looking through cameras at some of the most famously beautiful faces on the planet, but none of them hold a candle to the first girl I ever loved, and nothing could have prepared me for the heart-wrenching realization that the angry woman in the driver’s seat isn’t the girl I remember. And that’s my fault. I’m the stupidest motherf*cker to ever Continue Reading
Guest Post: What I love about Brother’s Best Friend Books by Annabeth Albert
Hi! I am so excited today to be on one of my all-time favorite blogs as we count down to BURN ZONE (pubs 4/27), which is the first in my sexy new smoke jumper series set in Central Oregon amid the wildfire season. It centers around the forbidden attraction between a sunny newbie smoke jumper and an older, more jaded veteran. It’s also Older Brother’s Best Friend Trope, and oh how I love this trope. It’s all time favorite for me. I did it in AT ATTENTION as well, but here I wanted to take a Continue Reading
Excerpt: Temper by Chantal Fernando
Blurb from Temper by Chantal Fernando, available now. Every year, the hot, tatted biker comes into Abbie’s bar, orders whiskey, and asks her out. Every year, Abbie turns him down. After all, dating a man that goes by Temper seems like a really bad idea, no matter how attracted she is to him. But this year is different. Abbie’s different. Older, wiser, and tired of being stuck behind the bar in a sleepy town. This year, she’s ready for whatever adventure the sexy but sweet biker has in Continue Reading
Guest Post: Strong Female Characters by Cecelia London
There’s a certain difficulty inherent in being a strong female character. Their complexity leaves them vulnerable to criticism, and we all know that complex women bear the brunt of criticism more frequently than complex men. Strong female characters are not allowed to be too angry, too aggressive, too sexual, too anything, while the over-the-topness (yes, I just created a new word) of strong male characters (alphas, if you will) is overlooked or even praised. But the complexity is worth Continue Reading
Guest Post: Blending Hard Topics with Romance by Jennie Davids
Thank you so much for having me here today. I was invited to talk about how I blend hard topics and romance in my Thorn & Thistle series which follows the queer women that work in a tattoo shop. Two books into the series and I’ve already tackled cancer, alcoholism, and the death of a parent. Those topics might not scream romance to some, but they do for me. In fact, as I’ve learned when I try to write lighter things and failed, they are a necessity. For me, the presence of heavy subjects is Continue Reading
Guest Post: Introduction to Faerie world by M.A. Grant
It’s a pleasure to visit Smexy Books to discuss the world of THE DARKEST COURT series, where three Unseelie princes attempt to win an apocalyptic Faerie civil war. One of my great joys while writing the series was reinterpreting legends of the fae and creating something new from my favorite stories. Each book focuses on one of the three main factions of the Faerie world: UNSEELIE COURT The Unseelie, or Winter Court, open the series in THE PRINCE OF AIR AND DARKNESS. The old stories Continue Reading
Guest Post: American Sweethearts Playlist by Adriana Herrera
Hello Smexy readers! Can you believe we made it here? The last Dreamers story and this one is our M/F. Y'a'll I love these two and their playlist probably my favorite of the series. it's the perfect mix of breakup songs and old skool Latinx. I mean I start with Selena and we go from there. These songs are a great way to send off this series just as Pris and Juanpa are ideal to send off the Dreamers. Their love story is a hard-won one but it's also one that everyone in their lives is Continue Reading
Guest Post: Difficult People by Julianna Keyes
Julianna is here today to talk about Difficult People. Her newest novel, Bench Player, is out on March 30. I've already read and I can confirm, the heroine and hero are both difficult, but in the best of ways. People say I’m difficult, and sometimes that’s a badge of honor. – Bill Murray I like difficult people. Maybe not so much in real life, but in books? Yeah, I love ’em. Give me your prickly, your sarcastic, your snarky, your flawed. I want ’em all. And the reason I want them is Continue Reading
Guest Post: Second Chances Romances by Amanda Weaver
Amanda Weaver's new novel, Love Around the Corner, is out now, Amanda is here to talk about one of my favorite tropes- Second Chance. I think people love reading second chance romances because most of us have someone in our past we still wonder about, some relationship that didn’t end the way we wanted it to. Don’t we all secretly google that one who got away to see how their life has worked out? Gemma, the heroine in Love Around the Corner has definitely googled her ex, although she’d die Continue Reading
Guest Post: The Shatterproof Bond series by Isobel Starling
Isobel Starling stopped by to talk about her series The Shatterproof Bond which has been re-released. Check the bottom of this post to enter for a chance to win a copy of the series. Giveaway provided by the publicist and not operated by SmexyBooks The Shatterproof Bond series is a thriller M/M Romance story set between London, England, Scotland, and Europe. The protagonists are Scotsman Declan Ramsay and Englishman Samuel Aiken. When we first meet Declan he is in a bad Continue Reading