5 stars! Should be required reading for all romance writers! Even non-erotic writers will benefit from the essays in this book. Theres something for everyone.
Heather Thurmeier , author, http://heatherthurmeier.com
5 stars! If you are an erotic romance writer, or are considering writing it, you *need* to read this book. Its jam-packed with information covering all different types of sex scenes. You might want to have a tall glass of ice water handy, too, because even these authors non-fiction is hot!
Cassandra Carr, author, http://www.booksbycassandracarr.com
5 stars! How to Write Hot Sex is like the Kama Sutra of erotic romance writing, filled with tips and techniques for putting passion and freshness into your sex scenes, whether you write sweet romance or kinky erotica. This how-to book will give you all sorts of naughty ideas for turning on your characters and tuning in your readers (and maybe turning them on, too!). Well-known and rising- star erotic romance authors share their personal secrets and tricks of the trade to transform your sex scenes from ho-hum to orgasmic.
Cara Bristol, author, http://carabristol.com
5 stars! How to Write Hot Sex is a must-have for any aspiring romance writer. The tips from the experienced pros are right on target, along with the blush-worthy excerpts, which demonstrate just how it should be done. Anyone who reads it is guaranteed to walk away with something that will improve their sex scenes. These authors pull no punches and take you from writing something sweet your great-grandmother would approve of to the downright naughty, which will make you blush. Theres something in it for everyone!
Dee Carney, author, http://www.deecarney.com
5 Stars ! How to Write Hot Sex offers practical, smart, nuts-and-bolts writing advice from some of the best erotic romance authors in the business. Its also a fun, sexy, cheeky readpossibly the only sex-writing manual youll ever need.
Juniper Bell, author, http://juniperbell.com
Introduction
How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors features everything you need to know about adding sizzling sexual tension, scorching sex scenes, and emotional impact to your romance writing in twelve info-packed essays from bestselling and multi-published authors so you can get published and get paid.
Whether youre writing sensual, steamy, or full-on explicit sex scenes, writers can learn from the authors who write and sell sexy books for a living. Do you want to write erotica? Or an erotic romance? Perhaps you just want to add some hot sexual tension to your romance novel.
Youve come to the right place.
Here youll find essays on the art of writing smokin hot vanilla sex, gay sex, BDSM, kink, and mnage, as well as information on how to find paying markets and publishers for your books and short stories.
How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors gives you all the information you need to write sex well and get published! The authors are published with New York publishers, small presses, and e-publishers, including Berkley, Kensington, Elloras Cave, Harlequin, Carina Press, Samhain , The Wild Rose Press, Loose Id, Running Press, Flying Pen Press, eXcessiva Publishing, Xcite Books, Circlet Press, loveyoudevine Alterotica , Amber Quill Press, Beyond the Page Publishing, Cleis Press, Resplendence Publishing, Total-E-Bound, as well as becoming Amazon Erotica Bestsellers with successfully self-published books.
So what are these gals gonna teach you? Well start this book off with erotica extraordinaire Cara McKenna, who also writes for Harlequin Blaze as Meg Maguire. Her essay Real Ugly will show you how to craft realistic, gritty sex scenes that will raise your prose above steamy to unforgettable. Then weve got the award-winning, prolific Desiree Holt. How prolific? Desiree recently released her one-hundredth book . Now thats what I call multi-published! She shows you how to use all five senses to bring your romance novel to life in Five Sexy Senses to Rev Up Scenes.
By now youve probably heard of the huge market for male/male erotic romance. Interestingly, the readership for these stories is mainly straight women. Christine DAbo teaches you how to cash in on a hot sub-genre with Boys Will Be Boys: Writing Male/Male Romance. Then L.K. Below dissects sexual tension in The Law of Attraction . With her advice, youll learn how to make your characters attraction to each other come alive off the page as the sparks fly.
Bestselling Kensington author Kate Douglas ( Wolf Tales ) discusses Writing the Fine Line Between Erotica and Porn . By infusing your stories with emotional impact, youll always have a love story you can be proud ofno matter how explicit or graphic your sex scenes get. Youll learn How to Write Convincing Fetish and Niche Market Sex from one of eroticas bestselling LGBT authors, Giselle Renarde . Not sure what all those initials stand for? No worriesGiselle will walk you through the writing process shes perfected over the years in the niche sex erotica market. You wont believe some of the things that could get you on an editor or readers naughty list. At least you wont be making those mistakes after reading her essay!
Then we get back to the basics with Amazon bestseller Charlotte Stein, who breaks down how to use varying sentence structure and wording to bring your Sexy Sentences from drab to fab . Even the hottest story idea wont sell if its not written well, so heed Charlottes advice to take your writing to the next levelthe level agents, editors, and readers need to see. You can also learn a lot about writing a good sex scene by studying the way fight scenes are written. Thats right, fight scenes, like sex scenes, can add levels of intensity and emotion to your stories. Award winning multi-published Isabo Kelly shows you how in her essay Fighting Sex.
BDSM erotica is hothot to read and hot to sell! Delphine Dryden asks So You Think You Can Kink? After reading her essay on Domination and submission in erotic romance, youll be answering hell yeah I can kink! Then we have New York Times bestselling author Jean Johnson, whose essay puts you directly in her classroom as she stands at the podium and plays sexy professor for us in Biology: The Good, The Bad, & the Sex Scene. Learning how our bodies physically and mentally become aroused will give you the tools you need to write hot sex with confidence.
But what if youve written a sex scene, and somethings just not right? Enter Fictionwise bestseller Cari Quinn and her Rx for a Sagging Sex Scene. Youll be able to diagnose an ailing scene and make it exactly the way you need it to be after reading her essay. Lastly, Ive contributed an essay on Getting Published . A year before this book youre reading came out, Shoshanna Evers didnt exist. In the space of one year Ive had eleven books release with four different publishers (and my sixth Elloras Cave book is coming out soon) plus my own self-publishing. I became an Amazon Erotica Bestseller with my self-published work, in fact. In the span of one year I went from not existing to leaving my job as an RN to write full time. If it can happen to me, it can happen for you.