It's Hot Around Here!

by Rebecca Royce

Would you believe that when I first started writing—and I don’t mean the writing I did when I was young—but when I first started trying to write professionally, I really didn’t write sex scenes?  I know. Its kind of hard to sit here now and look at my backlist and believe there was a time where I was so uncomfortable with writing the word ‘cock’ that I absolutely would not do it. 

Look at me. I just blogged the word cock.  Its morning as I write this and I haven’t had enough coffee so I will spare you the cacophony of other words that I would not put on the page.  And then something shifted inside of me.  The more paranormal I became in my storytelling (and that is mostly what I do now) the more the writing seemed to require hot language. These people—these creatures—were hot blooded. Of course, they had hot sex and these were love stories.  I didn’t want to read purple prose any more than the readers wanted to.  And the hotter both my writing and my language became. 

But, when I was first told about The Edge stories, and quickly wrote one, my very talented editor Valerie Mann, told me that while the story was hot, it wasn’t hot enough. Really? I’d not heard this before.  There was a whole step up I could go in heat?  And thus Unwanted Mate was born.  It really pushed me to my edge of comfort level and with each subsequent story in the Shifters and Bikers stories the hotter it became.

It doesn’t surprise me that when I read reviews of this series, the stories are so highly thought of amongst reviewers.  How could they not be swept away in the same pulsating, steamy direction that I was when I wrote it? I just couldn’t believe it that I’d created these characters that wanted each other that intensely and that I could put it on the page. 

But that was the point of the series.  To take these stories and really push them to the Edge.  Readers love them and, guess what, so do the writers who put them on page. 

Tell us what you think is hot to read in an erotica story and one commenter will win a book from Rebecca Royce's backlist at Decadent Publishing!

Shifters & Bikers and Bar Mates

by Rebecca Royce

For me, part of the appeal of writing stories for The Edge is that I get to take one scene and really push the characters to their limit sexually.  As they are forced out of their comfort zone, it is fun to see what happens to them and how it ultimately leads at the end of the scene to a real emotional connection between the two characters.

In Bar Mate, Nancy convinces Scott to have sex with her on the dance floor of the bar.  Now, granted, there is no one in the bar at the time but the potential is still there for someone to arrive and see them.  For the repressed Scott, this roll around on the floor with the wolf-shifter Nancy is a pretty big deal.  It pushes him to his Edge.

This made me start to think about myself.  What are the things that would really be my edge or even past it? Hmmm. Well, public sex is definitely one of them. As an author, I get to live those scenes with my characters.  Because in real life I am actually pretty shy.  When walking down the street people have no idea that when I get home to my computer, I walk the edge writing erotic romance. 

If you haven’t checked out Shifters and Bikers, I hope you will.  Comment and let me know what your edge would be.  One person will get a copy of one of my Decadent Publishing backlist books.