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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!

Out of Place Mate

by Rebecca Royce

When was the last time you went somewhere and you were completely out of place? I mean…totally wrong. For me, it always comes down to wearing the wrong thing. This doesn’t happen often because, for the most part, I know what to dress to specific venues. I know what to wear if we have to go out with my husband’s business associates. I know what to wear to certain types of restaurants, to bars, to school functions for the kids.

But, every once in a while I can still feel out of place. At a wedding, for example, if we’ve traveled to a part of the country I’ve not been before. I wore an outfit to a wedding in Georgia on a Saturday night that was way too dressy. Up in the New York City area, a Saturday night wedding is always going to border on black tie even if its not stated as such. Everyone was really dressed down for the occasion on Jekyll Island in Georgia. I just dressed wrong.

A girl my brother dated for a while came to an anniversary party for my parents at one of the nicest restaurants in New York City wearing a completely slutty dress. I felt sorry for her the whole night. She was surrounded by my parents and their friends and she looked like that.

How about you? When have you felt Out of Place? Comment and I one winner will get their choice of one of my Edge stories.

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RR

Mate By The Music

by Rebecca Royce 

When I was writing Mate By The Music all I could think about were my days back in college. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights we would go out. Late.  It’s rather amazing I did as well in college as I did but I digress…

Some of what stands out in my mind about that time (that isn’t lost in a haze of Whiskey Sours) it’s the music.  We seemed to always be dancing. Dancing in bars. Dancing in frat houses. Dancing in someone’s living room.  Dancing.

Writing Mate By The Music reminded me so much of that time because it takes place in an empty bar, with just the hero and the heroine, and a juke box.  All of a sudden all of the things I’d heard others did in bars (nothing I would admit to doing of course.) had a place to be written about.  (I kid, sort of.)

But it made me wonder. What is the sexiest song out there? What song makes you want to find your loved one and have a good night?

For me, its In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel.  Cliché but it works for me.

Answer my question for a chance to win a copy of your choice of book from my Decadent back list. 

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.  

I Don't Write a Series, It Writes Me

by Rebecca Royce

I don't write a series, it writes me. Sounds like a funny thing to say, but lately that has been how I’ve been feeling about world building. For example, when I sat down to write Unwanted Mate, for The Edge, I had this idea of how I thought the story should go.  Two people who had known each other, one a shifter, for a while who were now coming to terms with the fact that they were meant to be together.  Great.  The story progressed as I imagined it would and I was happy. 

But, I kept thinking. Gunther owns a bar and he lives above it. The bar is happening down below them. What is happening at the bar? Oh wow. There could be a whole series of things happening down stairs in the bar.  Suddenly, I didn’t have a story I have a series. 

However, bars, as much as we might sometimes wish otherwise when we are having a bad day, don’t exist outside of society, they have to be part of it. So, what was happening in the world right outside of Gunther’s bar that brought in patrons?  Well, there is a major construction site going up down by the river.  All of a sudden, we have a whole slew of characters that need their night on The Edge and I’ve found myself a series that I am excited to write.

Not to mention, the stories are HOT! Sizzling and so much fun to do.  Comment here and tell me about your craziest night in a bar ever.  One lucky winner will get to choose from my Decadent backlist and select a book.

Hope you’re all doing great today.

RR