Hi everyone. I’m Bonnie Edwards and I write for Aphrodisia from Kensington. I helped launch the line with the first anthology, The Hard Stuff, then moved on to Pure Sex and right now I have a series out that started in March. Midnight Confessions is set in a haunted bordello and the spirits who lived there tell my heroine their stories of love lost and found. Need I say they’re hot stories? (This is the naughty-and-spice blog isn’t it?)

When Shelli asked me to do this guest blog I jumped at the opportunity! It’s especially nice since I learned that Amie Stuart hangs around over here. We’re in BUILT together, an anthology that’s releasing at the end of July from Aphrodisia.

Even so, I’ve been at a loss to come up with a topic, until I found myself struggling with a first sex scene. I tapped my chin and stared at my blank screen. HMMMM….first sex…first time together…how fast? Or will it be slow? How will these people go at each other?

Sometimes I know without thinking. But other times, and depending on the story, it’s a conundrum.

Then, I thought. What’s sexy? What is it that my hero has noticed about this woman in particular? What small thing keeps his attention? The one thing that calls to him.

Her boots.

Are these thigh high boots? Long and sexy with eyelets up the front? Are they stiletto boots? Black leather? Red patent?

Nope.

They’re work boots.

She’s in a bra and panties and short, leather, steel toed work boots. With her thick wooly socks rolled to a nice round rim at the top.

With a strong, tanned man untying them. On his knees.

Is that sexy? I think so. What do you think is sexy? Especially in a first sex scene?

Bonnie Edwards