Romance with a Bite Blog Hop
Welcome to the Romance with a Bite Blog Hop! For some, romance can mean tender kisses and gentle caresses, for others it means wrist cuffs, nipple clamps, a beautiful leather belt, and kisses that leave you breathless. But beyond the outer trappings, I think romance happens when two people connect at the soul level. When a man wants to get to know you, and spends the time to understand you enough to be able to see into your heart — that’s romance. Do you want your fictional romances to mirror real life, or do you prefer over-the-top fantasy? Or, perhaps you’re like me and you have different reading moods, preferring one thing this week, another next week? Sometimes I get tired of the manufactured drama, and I wrote Safeword: Matte for myself during one of those time periods. It’s two people who’ve worked through their baggage and come together without a million things trying to tear them apart. I more than made up for the lack of angst later, with my two Davenport books, though. I cried as I wrote them, and cried again on every editing pass. What’s your preference for books: pure fantasy, or fantasy with a dose of reality? Real life Doms make mistakes sometimes. When they do, they admit to it, talk about it, learn from it, and move on. One of my beta readers got terribly upset when I had Zach screw up, so much so that I took one of his screw ups out of the book. I wanted to make him human though, so I left the other instances in. What’s your preference? Perfect alpha male, or alpha male who’s human but takes responsibility for his mistakes? There are a couple of ways to win in this Blog Hop. There will be […]