I love reading romance epilogues. I adore the cozy feeling of everything settling into its place, the sureness of the couple having overcome the challenges standing in their way. In the epilogue the characters have figured out their life together. Oftentimes epilogues are where you can find the true happily ever after. There’s always some kind of lasting commitment: a new house together, marriage, or, perhaps, even a baby. When I started writing The Secret Ingredient, I wanted to write a Continue Reading
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Excerpt: Flying Gold by Vanessa North
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- My Favorite Sexy Novellas by Jodie Slaughter
Novellas have always had a special place in my heart. When it comes to romance specifically, I love long, expansive books that allow me to get lost in pages upon pages of a love story. But I’m a total sucker for watching characters get or stay together in under forty thousand words. When they’re done well, they take a much shorter time for me to read, but still manage to give me an entire story to feel satisfied with. When I set out to write my very first romance novella, Just One More, I went Continue Reading
Guest Post: Sexy Fall and Winter Holiday Romances by Xan West
Xan West's new book, Eight Kinky Nights is out on December 16 and I asked them to put together a list of their favorite holiday romances to share with the Smexy readers. Take it away Xan- I love holiday romances, and read them all year long. As a reader, I particularly adore high heat holiday romance because it’s one of the few places where I can consistently find humor balanced with the heat. To help celebrate my first holiday romance release, which is an erotic romance, I put together Continue Reading
This day on Smexy…
Y'all it's been a week and it's not even over yet (sobbing). I didn't have much to anything new to share with you so I thought I would look back and see what we were talking about on September 26th over the last few years. Some of these are OLD and probably have broken links, so be forewarned :) 2009, 2010: No posts 2011: Review: Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep 2012: Review: Run the Risk by Lori Foster 2013: Mandi Rants but is also Intrigued by a Homeless Heroine (Who doesn't love Continue Reading
Guest Post: It ain’t heavy, it’s my romance by Ainslie Paton
Some romances are designed to read like sunshine and lollipops, some to please with sass and snark, or comic situations and big laughs. Some show the storm clouds. Like a lot of authors, I write romance in part to explore issues that interest me. Sometimes that means showing the darker underbelly of storm clouds. I’ve written a mentally ill hero who was homeless, a male nanny, a female executive in a male dominated industry, a tech titan who got sacked from his own company for being a Continue Reading
Guest Review: A Game of Sins (My Wicked Prayers Book 1) by Zurie Brunelle
When I got the review request for A Game of Sins, I knew this was my chance to get my sister Cori -- Resident Sexpert of my now defunct podcast, Romance Romp -- to write her first romance review. As she notes in her bio, she is into the "kinky kinks", so I hoped this book would be up her alley. Take it away, Cori! CW: explicit sex, blasphemy I was more than happy to see what Zurie Brunelle’s Game of Sins brought to the Priest sex game, especially since I’ve recently read Sierra Simone’s Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Fire on the Ice: Snow & Ice Games by Tamsen Parker Welcome to the Snow and Ice Games where competition is not the only thing that is heating up! The fourth book in bestselling Tamsen Parker's romance series continues with two female skaters from opposite sides of the rink. Blaze Bellamy is the bad girl of the short track speed skating world. Looking like a roller derby bruiser when she’s not in her Team USA uniform, she’s an unlikely American heroine. She’s got a punk attitude to Continue Reading
Feature: Exposed: A Romance Anthology
EXPOSED: A Romance Anthology Tamsen Parker THROWN OFF TRACK Teague has been License to Game’s bassist for over a decade, during which time he’s slept with almost everyone in his path. But it’s always felt like going through the motions. Until he sees his bandmate Christian naked at a charity photoshoot and suddenly, he knows what it is to want. All right, then. He can stay, he wants to stay, and I… How do people get anything done with all this wanting to have sex? I mean, I Continue Reading
Smexy’s Favorite Smex Scenes 2017
From Mandi, Tori, Kini, Helyce, Sheena and May - Happy 2018!! We had so much fun sharing books with you this past year. As always, I like to share some of my favorite "Smex Scenes" of the year. I feel like I really fell for the intense, growly hero this year. We can't wait to see what 2018 will bring. King's Captive by Amber Bardan - I usually don't love captive romances, but this one worked so well for me. There are some good twists and turns that kept my attention. Super Continue Reading