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- Comments -- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do?
There is nothing I can get at a bookstore that I can't get online at Amazon except maybe a coffee to go.
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:45:44 GMT - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do -- Or Is It?
Convenience more than any other factor seems to be the driving force behind the slow exodus from brick and mortar stores in favor of the online giants. Sadly, it is hard to compete with convenience of being able to shop from your bedroom in your pajamas. Most small stores do not have the ability to compete with that kind of convenience.
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:22:02 GMT - Emotion, Eroticism, Romance -- It's What Sets Black Velvet Seductions Books Apart
There is more to a great erotic romance than just romance and eroticism. Sales figures tell us that readers love eroticism in their romances, yet those same sales figures tell us that readers are often willing to forgo the deep emotion of more traditional romances in favor of more erotic content. But does increasing the level of eroticism in a romance novel necessarily mean that the novel has to be less emotionally compelling?
Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:44:25 GMT - Response: Emotion, Eroticism, Romance--It's What Sets Black Velvet Seductions Books Apart
There is more to a great erotic romance than just romance and eroticism. I believe there is room for all shades as a writer. I find a lot of pleasure in developing the characters, building romance, and building the erotic tension between hero and heroine. I like the blend, which comes from melding the erotic and the romantic. And as a writer I like the freedom to explore both the erotic and the romantic and see no conflict between the hardest erotic D/s or BDSM scene and the most romantic of meetings.
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:42:36 GMT - Erotic Romance -- The Tease Factor
There is certainly a tease factor in romance books, and there is an even greater one in the best erotic romances. Richard mentioned in his post that the tease factor in art is expressed as almost seeing something. He also said that in romance the tease is in wondering if the characters will or won’t do something. In some types of romance novels the tease factor is almost a requirement. If you think of marriage of convenience stories and stories in which the hero and heroine are forced to marry (or cohabitate) the early part of the book is almost always filled with a sense of wondering whether the couple will become intimate.
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:41:03 GMT - The Secret Ingredient
There is an ingredient that can take a romance book and elevate it to exceptional status. That ingredient is not eroticism, or romance, or plot, or even the characters. It is something else... To determine what it is…and even to land upon a definition of what an exceptional book is, one needs to think about what a reader wants when he or she picks up a romance novel.
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:38:17 GMT - Erotic Romance -- Have Readers Tired of It?
Sometimes we can get too much of a good thing. For example…while one piece of chocolate cake might be good…eating the whole cake might leave one feeling gorged and perhaps a bit nauseous. There has been discussion in romance circles lately over whether the same thing has happened to romance. Have romance readers tired of erotic romance? Is the pendulum beginning to swing back toward sweeter stories?
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:00:39 GMT
