Another EC author that hasn’t written anything new recently that I know of that you might like is Chris Tanglen. Her books have lots of humor – even laugh-out humor – in them, which is pretty unusual for the romance/erotica genre. The best ones are A Third Party and A Third (and Fourth) Party, which, as you might guess from the titles, involve menages.

Teddy- Wow! *laughing* You do dream big! Lear jet, Chippendales, copping feels and attitudes. This could be fun!

It is only a matter of time before I shall have to confess my first pBook publishing date. You and I will force ourselves to adjourn to your private Lear jet provided by Harlequin and torment our souls while we are whisked away to New York as we dine on peeled grapes from the well rounded and lovingly oiled muscular butts of a well hung group of young Chippendale dancers.

I myself will remain most meditative and recite passages from Nietzsche’s Precious Moments Collection while watching my morals take a nose dive into that dark abyss of the bourgeoisie.

However (there’s always a however, isn’t there?) I’ve found that my “mindset” at the start of a book is everything. In other words, if I envision the book as a novella or quickie, that’s what it’ll be no matter how much I might want to change that as I write it. If it’s a novel, so be it. The difference, IMHO, is conflict. In novellas or quickies, only one person has one. The other is la di da–much like you might find in real life. One conflict is much easier to solve than two. And that’s what I think is the magic formula that might be missing in some shorter works. KISS–Keep It Simple Stupid. *gg*

Janine- I don’t think you can go wrong with any of those authors. They all have very distinct voices and styles.

KSA-Best of a happy muse writing that novel. *whispering so as not to startle your muse* *G* It is a very different mind set writing different lengths. I naturally write about 125K. Shorter takes me a lot more time and concentration because I have to totally rethink the approach. No 5K love scenes when writing a novella! :(

I think you’ll love both these authors. They have incredible voices.

Jaci, I don’t mind dominant heroines a bit.

OK guys, where should I start with Joey Hill, Samantha Kane, and Shelby Reed? My TBR pile is so heavy it’s groaning, but I’m always open to more recs.

There are so many great EC books and authors. I could list all my favorites, but that would take up too much space. lol. And I second Keishon…Shelby Reed writes very emotional, character driven books that I just love.

Oh I know times they are a changin. You are right and I bow to your real world experience…. I think eBooks may have a loosening effect on the acceptable subject matter morals of the (new catch phrase!) pBooks.

pBooks! HAH!

Anyway, I shall remain an eBook snob holding my nose whilst crossing in front of bookstores harboring those immoral decadent paper pushers.
Till I get published at least, and start gathering my faithful internet warrior fan grrrrls as they beat my critiques into a bloody pulp and I shall start yelling at people to buy my hardcovers dang it! (baby needs a new pair of shoes).

I will have sold out by that point and have no personal integrity.
I am a pig ya know.

Ebooks being edgier. You know, that used to be true, but I’m not so sure anymore. My Spice books are as edgy/realistic as my PROMISE series, and for years, while editors loved that series they couldn’t buy it because it was “too outside what a reader had come to expect from a western historical”. Now, Spice bought the Hell’s Eight Series and I don’t have to change my normal word count (over 125K) nor a thing in the books to make them more “PC”. A very different reaction than what I’d been conditioned to expect from NY when I propose a Western Histroical romance. I did go through a time of angst post handing in of Caine’s Reckoning when I imagined Susan was going to kick the manuscript back at me and say, “This isn’t what we wanted, start over” * All in my head, I should point out. I just couldn’t beleive a NY house was going to set me loose with my verson of a Western Historical romance. I was worried precisely because the manuscript/series is romance. If it had been erotic fiction, I wouldn’t have stressed about being held to genre rules, but a book set in the old west and clearly being a romance, even when erotic, could trigger the knee jerk, “WH must fall within these parameters” response. Happy to report my fears were groundless. Susan loved the finished product.

A loosening up of genre restrictions, IMO, is a good thing, and another benefit I see coming from the rise in ebook popularity, but something I wasn’t sure NY was ever going to embrace again when it came to the more traditional genres. Seeing change in one of the most traditional sub genres is very encouraging.

It’s the only reason I read romance anymore.

eBooks as a whole are much edgier, more likely to contain subject matter most publishers would balk at and well, they are just plain addictive.

Teddy Pig, I hate reading on a desktop screen or printing out entire books, so I didn’t read e-books at all until this year. But Jane’s enthusiasm for digital books is contagious, so I recently got a PDA. Figured I should have one if I was going to blog here.

WTF? You never bought an EC novel?

Oh my god you mean you have not read Samantha Kane?

Get back over there right now and pick up both

The Courage to Love

Love Under Siege

*taps foot impatiently*

*tossing confetti*

There are lots of EC authors waiting in the wings for ya, Janine, praying, hoping…*gg*