Comments on: Should love scenes be tested? Or stay a fantasy…

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:32:32 +0000

This is interesting. I never even think about the author unless I am reading an autobiography. I think about the author of fiction before I read it, as in “Oh so-and-so has a new one out”, or “I haven’t seen this one by so-and-so before” or “when did she start writing paranormals?” or “I haven’t read one of hers, yet..” Thoughts of that nature. I guess since we are dealing with fiction, I just read the story as fiction and don’t consider anything but the storyline and the characters. Now, if Feisty ever writes an auto, I’m sure I’d be thinking “wow this girl is a FREAK!”
I’m reading Shana Abe’s “The Smoke Thief” and I have yet to ask myself if she has the ability to turn into a dragon, or knows anyone who does.
As far as the TMI blog, if TMI bugs ya, don’t go out of your way to find it and read it and be annoyed by it. duh.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:24:00 +0000

Jenna! Sorry so late in chiming in - I ran around all day long w/ the kiddos. Sigh.

TOE SEX????

Um no thanks.

Great post Jenna!

By: Mima

Mima — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:27:38 +0000

As an author, there are times I make my husband sit with me in certain positions, then move to others, so I can see how awkward, or how to describe it. We usually snicker like 12 year olds the entire time. As a wife, I can say there is nothing that turns my husband off more than trying to live up to a mental fantasy I’ve got for/from one of my books. He prefers to be in the drivers seat, and for sex to be in the moment. That said, he doesn’t always *know* that some trick with my mouth may have come from my expanded horizons via reading…

By: Carolan Ivey

Carolan Ivey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:06:45 +0000

Hey, let’s face it, if I tried half of the positions/locations I get my characters in, I’d not only need bail money, I’d need an ER. LOL

Still, when my brothers-in-law waggle their eyebrows and ask with a smirk if I use my husband for “research,” it’s fun to snuggle up to his side, look adoringly up at him, and say “Why, yes. Yes I do.” That shuts ‘em up pretty quick, and guarantees will be paying extra special attention to me. Later.

By: Jenna Bayley-Burke

Jenna Bayley-Burke — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:56:50 +0000

Serious about the toe sex. I shuddered when I read it. To each their own I guess, but eeeww

I do check out balconies now since reading so many love scenes that take place on them ‘but no one could see’. I always look around, checking out if I can see on other people’s balconies.

Now THAT is something I am liable to be arrested for. Balcony peeping.

By: Shelli

Shelli — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:52:00 +0000

And yes, I would with a Fox. Yummy pic.

By: Shelli

Shelli — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:42:10 +0000

Toe sex? Say what???

If I wrote every sex scene based on my sex life, oh, I’d be writing Inspirationals.

By: Robin L. Rotham

Robin L. Rotham — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:10:29 +0000

It might be true that the reality is rarely as story-book orgasmic as the fantasy, but in my book, it’s the thrill of just knowing you did it that makes it worth fulfilling. Mr. Robin and I have been naughty in some unexpected places and had to break things up way before either of us was ready — but it was really fun to give each other surreptitious looks afterward, knowing there’d be time later to finish what we’d started. You can have an orgasm anytime, but an adventure…? That’s something that’s once-in-a-lifetime.

By: Jenna Bayley-Burke

Jenna Bayley-Burke — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:03:21 +0000

There was one book I read where the love scene had obviously been pieced together…things were one place and then another and then back and… That got me. So did one toe sex thing.

But I have had ‘friends’ assume I test everything for accuracy. I don’t even have a trampoline!

By: Feisty

Feisty — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:56:48 +0000

Interesting take on the TMI thing. To be honest, I really never think about if the author has actually done the scene in question. Maybe I will now…

And as for water sex? If I answered, it would be TMI.