When I first saw this tweet, I laughed until I realized that I was being dragged by Twitter’s #WritingCommunity. As you can imagine, thousands of writers liked and retweeted this image, making us all a band of scarred adults just trying to keep our collective shit together. Sure, I’ve had therapy and journaled my feelings, but there’s nothing quite satisfying like giving all my baggage over to another person and seeing how they sort it out. I’m not ashamed to say that I do that with my own Continue Reading
Guest Post: Iranian Girls in Romance by Negeen Papehn
Friends before we get to this amazing post by Negeen, let's flashback to RWA when I met her. It was Friday morning. I was on my first wave of tiredness, had the worst blisters on my feet and was all bandaged up. I was in the line at the hotel for a ridiculously overpriced egg panini, iced tea and a $6 bottle of water. Anyway as I was standing in line, I saw Tif Marcelo, who if you don't already know this is one of the kindest, sweetest humans in the whole entire world. She was accompanied by Continue Reading
Guest Post: Queer Romance Recs for your Pride Month Reading by Layla Reyne
Author Layla Reyne is back on Smexy for some recs for Pride month! Out this week, PRINCE OF KILLERS is book one of my new male/male romantic suspense trilogy, FOG CITY. Usually, when my writing brain is in romantic suspense mode, I’m reading a different genre. While working on Fog City, I’ve been binge-reading contemporary romance. These are just a few of my recent favorites that I’d recommend for your Pride Month reading. Top Shelf – Allison Temple – A cover with character, and a Continue Reading
Guest Post: Dream Cast for American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera
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
Guest Post: Relationships on the Rocks by Rebecca Grace Allen
Rebecca was kind enough to do a guest post on one of my absolute favorite tropes, the relationship/marriage in trouble. In my opinion it is easy to fall in love, but staying in love takes some work. That is one of the reasons I love this trope. I'll turn this space over to Rebecca and her thoughts on the topic. I’m not a rom-com kind of gal. When it comes to reading romance, I am here for the heartache and the overcoming of obstacles. I want to see the characters put through the 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
Guest Post: Minerva Spencer Talks about Life, Romance, Writing, & Her Debut Book-Dangerous
SmexyBooks is so happy to welcome author Minerva Spencer to the blog. WELCOME MINERVA!! Minerva Spencer's debut historical romance, Dangerous, releases June 26, 2018. My Journey Down Romance Road . . . I read my first romance novel—THE DEVIL ON HORSEBACK, by Victoria Holt—in seventh grade. I still remember how deliciously shocking the philandering hero was and how I stayed up all night to finish the book. I was hooked. I ripped through all the Holts in the library and Continue Reading
Guest Post: Top Three Reasons why Nicole loves Julia Quinn
Nicole from the fab The Book Pushers blog, is here today to tell us why we should all be reading Julia Quinn! Take it away Nicole. With Mandi off at the beach, I figured now would be a good a time as any to put my true book pushing nature to use! So while Mandi sits on a lounge chair, sipping on some chilly and delicious cocktail, reading a very dirty book, I am going to push my historical romance addiction onto all of you! About a year and a half ago my good friend and fellow bookpusher E Continue Reading
I’m Guest Posting….
To help celebrate the one year Blogiversary of one of my favorite blogs, Paranormal Haven, run by the fab Stephanie and Athenna, I have a little guest post up. There may be a mention of “delivery men ménage.” And I’m giving away a copy of Explosive by Beth Kery!Go check it out! Continue Reading
Guest Post: Hubs Reads a “Smexy” Book and Lives to Tell the Tale!
Hubs, aka Kevin, finally picked up a book I rec’d and read it – the whole thing. Then he picked up five more. Today, hubs is here to talk about his experience and I believe the words “I admit defeat” are spoken loud and clear ;) Take it away Kevin. I tend to read in large spurts because I read a book that particularly interests me, and then follow that with a few other novels until I get too busy. I personally read mostly sci-fi or thriller novels, most notably I am a big Stephen King fan. Continue Reading