Blog virgin no more…
January 31, 2007
Thank you, Sybil, and all you bloggers at the Good, the Bad and the Unread.
I’m pretty much a blog-virgin, so I appreciate your patience. And your many kind comments! I will continue to check in here and there, so if you have any questions . . . on anything at all! . . . please do post them.
I’m not shy, as Sybil can attest, and I love readers, being one myself. If you ever have a spare moment, please come visit me at my net home. I don’t have a blog, but I do have a message board, in which I’m visited by some really cool people from all over the world.
I thought it appropriate, with the publication of Scandalous Lovers, to rename my main posting area the Men & Women’s Club. Just like the club featured in my novel . . . and the real club founded in 1885 . . . we talk about the myriad facets of sex, and anything else that strikes our fancy!
Please do join us, if you are of that mindset. I assure you, you will be warmly welcomed. A word of warning. . . . We like our nekkid men, and our men like their nekkid women, so be prepared for occassional adult pics, as well as spicy humor!
Best wishes for the New Year,
A Scandalous Winner
January 31, 2007
Congrats to
Gwen in Texas!!!!
Email me with your address. I hope you enjoy the book!
A Scandalous Q&A
January 30, 2007
Robin Schone’s Top Five Most Often Asked Questions… with a bonus question *G*
Scandalous Contest - Ended
January 30, 2007
Any comment made today (1/30/07) on any Robin Schone Guest Author Day post will enter you to win a sign copy of Scandalous Lovers.
Contest will close at Midnight (CST) and I will announce the winner tomorrow.
GOOD LUCK!!!
What burns your pages?
January 30, 2007
I hate historical inaccuracy, but perhaps even more than that, I HATE it when an author cops out.
For example, if you’re going to write erotica or erotic romance, then by golly, give me SEX. Likewise, if you’re going to write a murder thriller, then give me blood and gore. I’ve been incredibly lucky in my New Year reads.
I thoroughly enjoyed To Die For and Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard; Master of Wolves by Angela Knight; Got the Look by James Grippando; and two books that I absolutely loved: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning and The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen.
Karen Marie Moning was a new author for me; I can’t wait to read the sequel to Darkfever!
“This trial and its out come affects every man and woman”
January 30, 2007
For a person who doesn’t care much for book trailers… I have to say this is really rather nifty
The Men and Women’s Club
January 30, 2007
Yes, Victorian women thought about more than England when performing their conjugal “duty.” I should hope that is no surprise to anyone, but for those who require proof, I think I have it!
You see, my February release, Scandalous Lovers, revolves around a society who call themselves the Men and Women’s Club.
The amazing thing is, this club actually existed in London, England in 1885-1889. The members - an equal number of men and women - congregated for the sole purpose to discuss the history and science of . . . sex.
The real Club meetings - as do the meetings in Scandalous Lovers - seethed with sexual tension and antagonism, unfortunate by-products created by the legal and social inequality between men and women.
Yet out of this anger and frustration arose a real-life romance: the Club disbanded, but the founder and secretary married, and are the inspiration for my two lovers, Frances Hart and James Whitcox.
Guest Author Robin Schone
January 30, 2007
I am not quite sure where to start with an into for Robin Schone, which might have to do with the fact I am currently running on info overload from interviews, essay’s and reviews.
We could start with how her first book was rejected 28 times before an agent loved it and sold it with in five days to Avon (yes Avon).
Or we could talk about the rant she did for AAR: Masturbation, Wanton Women, & Other Romance No-Nos and the reaction to it. Where romance was then and were we are now and if there is really any difference in the readership or if we just found new blood.
We could talk about her message board, her message, how sexually positive she is and we will prolly do all that and more at some point today. But personally I think the best thing about Robin Schone is that she took one agent telling her:
“You simply cannot start a romance book with a masturbation scene.”
then made a career of doing things ‘You simply cannot’ do.
Robin Schone follows no rules other than her characters. And she manages to push boundries, without the book reading like it is JUST about breaking the rules.
She the only author I could think of to use a woman masturbating to cause time travel, in the first pages of the novel. She had anal sex in her books before anal was everywhere and then some. Robin isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty or letting her characters go where they need to in order to tell their tale.
Robin’s characters range from a male prostitute (trained to please men) to a castrated hero. Some how she seems to always make it work, well for me at least. And now when some writers are getting kinkier and kinkier to try and be different and stand out, she does, simply by writing about real people with real ages facing real fears.
No were’s, no vamps, no virgins or ‘woe is me, my mother left me so all women are whores’ rakes to reform. It really brings home what Robin often says in her interviews: “I don’t write about sex, I write about people who have sex.”
And I think she does it rather well. You may not like her books. You may think what she writes isn’t romance. You may think she is too dark or too different. But I don’t think anyone could argue she doesn’t deserve respect and kudos for helping bring erotic romance out of the closet.
There were erotic romance authors before her and there will be many after her. But I don’t think there will ever be another writer like her. I haven’t read Scandalous Lovers yet. And I wonder how a book written over six years ago will read today.
But I am glad she stuck with it and saw her legal battle through and she did so professionally (although it somewhat sucks we can’t get details… and you know me… I tried)
So stick around, we have some guest posts, a contest, nifty quotes and a random thing or two. And if I can talk her into it… a new excerpt *g*.
Characterization. Emotion. I can’t stress those two qualities enough. Publishers—and readers—want two people making love, not two acrobats testing the limits of human endurance. They want to know those two people, to experience their sexuality with them and through them.
Robin Schone - Burning Desires and The New Erotic Romance Novel
Ladies, all the ladies, louder now, help me out
January 29, 2007
Let’s tell it how it is, and how it could be
How it was, and of course, how it should be
Those who think it’s dirty have a choice
Pick up the
Robin Schone is going to be blogging tomorrow and I plan to blog on a few topics if I get the chance. I doubt anyone who has been on my blog more than once is expecting a G rating and anyone who has read a Schone novel should know there is some sexing going on. And if you have ever visited Robin Schone’s message board, you all ready know she isn’t afraid to go there.
No matter WHERE there may be… to which I say cool. If you don’t say cool - check back in a few days.
Let’s talk about you and me
Let’s talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
One of the best blog titles evah
January 29, 2007
New Reader Blog…
