In celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day - Sunday, September 19, 2021 - Smashwords is hosting a sale of pirate-themed books and The Pirate Lord was selected to participate! Argh, blast ye maties, my face is red for blushing.
Who doesn't love a pirate? Especially a romantic, daring, amorous pirate who makes the mistake of underestimating the lady he thinks is his prisoner.... Hah! Foolish man.
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Happy Reading!
We stumbled across this very helpful definition from Sylvia Day:
Porn: stories written for the express purpose of sexual gratification. Plot, character development, and romance are NOT primary to these stories. They are designed to incite the reader to orgasm and nothing else.
Erotica: stories written about the sexual journey of the characters and how this impacts them as individuals. Emotion and character growth are important facets of a true erotic story. However, erotica is NOT designed to show the development of a romantic relationship, although it’s not prohibited if the author chooses to explore romance. Happily Ever Afters are NOT an intrinsic part of erotica, though they can be included. If they are included, they weren’t the focus. The focus remained on the individual characters’ journeys, not the progression of the romance.
Erotic Romance: stories written about the development of a romantic relationship through sexual interaction. The sex is an inherent part of the story, character growth, and relationship development, and couldn’t be removed without damaging the storyline. Happily Ever After is a REQUIREMENT to be an erotic romance.
Sexy Romance: stories written about the development of a romantic relationship that just happen to have more explicit sex. The sex is not an inherent part of the story, character growth, or relationship development, and could easily be removed or “toned down” without damaging the storyline. Happily Ever After is a REQUIREMENT as this is basically a standard romance with hotter sex.
(https://www.sylviaday.com/extras/erotic-romance/)
Evelyn Ellis writes Erotica. Constance Kent writes Erotic Romance and Sexy Romance.
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Getting into the Actors' Studio is impossible. Staying in is worse. No second chances. No do-overs. Make it all the way and the industry hands you the keys to their kingdom.
My name is Willa Gallagher. I am eighteen years old and I have one dream--to graduate from the toughest acting program in the country. My controlling, A-list agent mother is not going to break me before I reach it, nor is my burned out, bitter director, Harry Carmichael. The only person who has a shot at knocking me off my path is Logan Reed, my high school nightmare turned college daydream.
Logan Reed. In high school, he was a drug dealer who spent most of his time in the parking lot and I was a theatre geek who spent most of my time backstage. Our paths rarely crossed but when they did, there were sparks.
Two years later, he's in my world. Brilliant and scary. A man with a reason for crashing the auditions and landing the role of Hamlet. A reason he won't reveal.
I didn't see him coming. Even after I fell in love with him, I didn't count on him having everything it takes to make it in this business. I didn't count on Logan Reed being the one to break me.
After a very interesting break from publishing and a long hard think over the problem of a pen name that we shall now refer to as Not That Catherine Lloyd, we had the brilliant idea of simply changing the name.
I know. A small child could have told us this years ago, long before we were some fifteen titles in to rebrand. The paperbacks have been unpublished but are still floating around in Internetsphere. They don't exist. Do not be fooled.
Since we were in there tinkering, we gave each title another editing pass. Some took more work than others, but the improvements made it all worthwhile. We are very pleased with the fresh new look and tone of the novels.
So here we are, back in the saddle with Constance Kent's latest release fresh out today! A contemporary New Adult Suspense Romance.
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"Daniel Razor is that guy. Hot, rich and written about in every major magazine. A tech boom billionaire who has one soft spot in his impenetrable armor--his agoraphobic brother, Joel. As of last month, I was a low level employee at Razor Industries until Daniel made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. I'm 22, I have no money and an expensive passion that I'm trying to turn into a career--the classical violin. I would do anything to keep playing. The deal I struck was like winning the lottery. For one year, I would be Joel's companion in his attic apartment in their Nob Hill mansion and Daniel would pay me one hundred thousand dollars. Joel was sexy, young and interesting. What could go wrong?
Quite a few things as it turns out ... problems I didn't see coming. The dark secret the Razor brothers share that they've now shared with me is one of them. The other is falling in love with the wrong brother ... because Daniel Razor is that guy. The guy a girl never gets over."
