Okay I am without a doubt totally cheating here today. What do you think? And if you click on the cover, you can read an excerpt on my website :)

Here’s the blurb from the back:

When the Cavanaugh sisters* inherit the family moving company, they figure they’re “man” enough for the job. They’ll show those bad boys of Texas just how good these three gals are at getting exactly what they want….

Reecie is a caretaker from teh word go–she’s all business,w ehther it’s family or work. So she is more htan ready to let easygoing Jack Sunders step in and take care of her in the most intimate way possible…

Robbie Jo loves a good time at work and in bed–until she meets rodeo rider Cash McBride and realizes she’s ready to settle down and ride one man long and hard…

Carla is tired of sweating for a living. But getting hot and bothered around real estate attorney Josh Winters puts her in the mood for some seriously steamy sex…

Now…here’s where the NOT cheating comes in. Here’s where knowing how to write a killer query letter pays off.

1. Killer queries get you noticed (requests)

2. The most important part of your query is, without a doubt, the part where you tell your agent or editor about your book–We’ll call it the blurb.

3. Killer queries means writing a killer blurb.

4. I write killer blurbs. Matter of fact, my editor said I made her job easy. Why you ask? I’ll show you.

(more…)

Today we have author Jenna Bayley-Burke visiting Naughty and Spice. She’s writes for multiple publishers and today is asking everyone quite a fun question! Should love scenes be tested? Or stay a fantasy…

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Would you could you in a tree?

Could you would on your knees?

Would you could you in a box?

Could you would you with a Fox?

Would you could you on a boat?

Could you would you do what you wrote?

Maybe?

Thanks for having me at Naughty & Spice y’all. When I started to write this post I knew I wanted to talk about where our characters make love because it plays a part in my last two releases…but Feisty’s post yesterday got me thinking…if there is such a thing as TMI from authors about their personal lives, isn’t it sometimes because people ask?

I know I had to be careful in both For Kicks and Her Cinderella Complex when they had water scenes. When I read a sex in water scene written as a slip and slide I roll my eyes. It’s not that easy. It works, yes, but it’s all in how you do it.

In For Kicks the heroine is a virgin. Kinda. It’s complicated. But anyway, sex in the tub that first time? Not so much. Fun in the tub? Great prelude to coming attractions. Things progressed. Phone sex. Hotel room sex. And THEN pool sex. But that is the cherry on top. Hmmm…pun intended?

Locations for lovin’ become part of the dirty talk for the couple in Her Cinderella Complex. When Heather realizes she’s just lived out two of her fantasies (skinny dipping, kissing under water) she decides to list them all…and then improvise a few more as things go really, really well. The pool, under a waterfall, on a trampoline…

I love reading about different locations as much as I love writing about them. But do I want to know the reality behind it? Do I want to know if an author made sure you really can have sex on a cruise ship balcony or in a treehouse?

Nope. I like my fantasies much better J No worries about pictures surfacing on the internet or having to call your best friend and explain why you need bail money. But then, I am a total chicken.

What do you think? Do you like thinking the love scenes in books come with an ‘reliably tested, completely approved’ stamp, or should they just stay part of the fantasy? And if you ‘don’t wanna know’…then next time you hear someone make a snide comment about how acrobatic an author must be to keep up with all the research for her writing be sure to chime in that Stephen King never killed anyone to research his books. That we know of at least…

Thanks for having me, y’all!

Jenna Bayley-Burke

http://www.jennabayleyburke.com/;

HER CINDERELLA COMPLEX

FOR KICKS

Dirty talk.

So, do you talk dirty in bed? I don’t. In fact, it totally turns me off. However, I have found that many of my um, characters like to whisper sweet nothings into their partner’s ear. Well, my characters are dirty little things and they have minds of their own. Plus, I think dirty talk is pretty common amongst even vanilla some folk.

Do you watch Rock of Love? That episode where Brett Michaels had all the contestants talk dirty over the phone to him was pretty hot. And hey! Didn’t Poison sing that song, Talk Dirty to Me? That song was a total hit. I mean, if a song goes crazy on the charts there must be something to it, right?

Anyhow, if you want to get started on the verbal nastiness, here is a tip. Just talk about what you’re doing, or what you want him to do to you. For example:

“Oh, you rock of love! I just love it so very much when you plummet your man member into my vagina!”

Or:

“Oh, I just love to take your man member into my mouth and suck, suck suck your man juice down my throat!”

See? Instant hotness. Am I right?

I said purse–in case your mind went dirty. Purses are so fun and personal. What kind we use in general, and what goes in them.

So today I have a two part question for you. We’re getting purseonal. *Wince* Bad joke? Well I made it in the subject line, too. I’m full of them. Don’t get me going. Okay. Onto the question.

The first part…

Do you like a designer purse that screams designer–like has the name somewhere on it.

Or do you like to a purse that still looks fabulous–but doesn’t scream who made it.

Me, I’m the purse with no names. That little hippie purse above is by Isabella Fiore, but you may not know that unless you happen to drool over her stuff (like me! And some day, with a nice royalty check/advance I’ll buy one. Maybe.).

Second question. If we were to turn your purse upside down and shake it, what would we find? Besides a wallet. What’s in your purse? Like without fail? Here’re mine…

1. Cell phone. I can’t imagine not having my cell phone on me. When I forget it at home or something, I feel naked. Panicked. Isolated.

2. Inhaler (yes I’m asthmatic) That’s another panic moment when I forget it. If I don’t have it I swear it’s hard to breathe. Just because I know I don’t have it.

3. Lip gloss I don’t do makeup every day by any means, but I AM a lip gloss addict. Completely. Like any brand from cheap to way too much. I love it. All flavors and colors. I. Dig. Lip gloss.

4. Fortunes and receipts: these tend to just be sprawled around the interior of my purse. I need to clean up my purse, like, daily. I save my fortune cookie fortunes (well I do have fortune cookie Thursday on my blog!) and forget to throw away receipts.

5. USB key chain: though I don’t use it enough at all! It’s the free pink one I got at RWA last year. With Harper Collins on it I think? Like the best free promo item EVER!

So come on ladies–and gents?–spill it!

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We’re giving a big shout out and congratulations to fellow Naughty and Spice member Lillian Feisty!

Yesterday, Ms. Feisty accepted representation from Roberta Brown of the Brown Literary Agency.

Yay, Feisty! We’re so proud of you! Keep celebrating!