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To the aspiring author who writes, revises, edits, polishes, queries, and submitsand then goes
back to the beginning as many times as it takes.

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Copyright 2006 by Alison Kent

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Foreword

My name is Kate Duffy, and I edit erotic romance. (Hi, Kate.)

Some years back, it occurred to some of us who labor in editorial offices that wonderful romances with lots of great sex were fun to read and profitable to publish. In other words, sex sells. And sex and romance sell a lot. With that, the amazingly popular new genre of erotic romance was born.

As this part of the romance market was developing, I was asked to define exactly what I, as an editor, was looking for. I had to develop a new language in some cases because while I knew it when I saw it, I hadnt analyzed why one book worked for me but another didnt.

The book youre reading now would have saved me some time. In these pages, Alison Kent has given us alleditors, writers, and readersa language for discussing and creating erotic romances. And she is uniquely qualified to write this book. She is talented and analytical, practical, and imaginative. The characters in her erotic romance novels are smart, brave, attractive (to put it mildly), witty, and truly heroic. Her stories are true page-turners that make the reader eager to see not only what the characters will do next but what they will say next.

The Complete Idiots Guide to Writing Erotic Romance is one of the most enjoyable and informative books on writing I have ever read. From the creative process to the publishing marketplace, there is not one aspect of our business that Alison Kent has overlooked, and the anecdotal information she includes illustrates just how personally invested in these books we all are.

If you are interested in publishing a romance, erotic or otherwise, you should read this book. Alison has furnished a Masters class in writing between these covers, and while the emphasis is on erotic romance, she shows us that at the core of these books is storytelling. Alison Kent helps you fashion your plot, characters, and dialogue in such a way as to make your story more accessible to readers and more commercial to publishers.

Compulsively readable and undeniably insightful, as are her novels, Alison Kents The Complete Idiots Guide to Writing Erotic Romance is money remarkably well spent.

Kate Duffy
editorial director
Kensington Publishing Corporation

Kate Duffy has worked in publishing for a very, very long time. She has worked at Dell, Pocket Books, and Paddington Press (London) as a senior editor. She was the first editor-in-chief of Silhouette Books, as well as editor-in-chief of Tudor Publishing and Meteor Publishing. She is currently an editorial director at Kensington Publishing Corporation in New York and founder of the Brava imprint. In 1991, she became the first individual to receive the Romance Writers of America Industry Award. And in November 2000, she was honored at the Romantic Times convention for her contributions to the romance book publishing industry.

Introduction

The first romance novel I ever read was Kathleen Woodiwisss The Flame and the Flower. I read it in 1977. I remember specifically reading the last chapters while sitting on the end of my bed in an apartment where I only lived for 6 months. My ironing board was up, my iron plugged in, a dress waiting to be pressed. Wherever it was I was going, I didnt make it. I had to finish the book.

Strangely enough, that was the only romance I read for a long time. I read Colleen McCullough and Phyllis Whitney and Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins but no more romancenot until 10 years later when a bookstore owner in Dallas introduced me to Sandra Brown, Linda Howard, Diana Palmer, and Elizabeth Lowell. From the get-go, I was hooked on authors who wrote the hot stuff. I couldnt get enough. I was in line for their every new release.

Is it any wonder my own writing traveled the same path? Or that one of the first writing contests I won was for sexual tension? I sold my first book in 1993, and during the editing process I was asked to cut a shower scene. That same scene would be considered tame by todays standards, but my editor at the time (who just happens to be one of my editors now) felt it was too risqu. My, how far weve come!

Ive now written more than 30 novels and novellas, almost all of them published under an imprint showcasing steamy stories. There are those who contend that certain authors are predisposed to writing with an erotic voice, style, tone, whatever. In other words, we cant help it. Were born that way. All I know is that this is how I write. And if youve picked up this book, then you know the same about yourself.

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