Thursday, March 1, 2018

Out Now! All You Need is Love #99cents #GLBT @AdrianaKraft #MFRWAuthor


All You Need is Love

A Limited Edition Romance Collection

With stories by

Tamsin Baker, Jess Buffett,‎ Kristine Cayne,‎ Adriana Kraft,‎ Cate Farren,‎ Valerie Ullmer,‎ Kai Tyler,‎ Lexi Thorne,‎ Izzy Szyn,‎ Aeryn Jaden, Dana Kenzi, Celia Fay, and Dani Gray

Romance Collections is proud to present these fourteen stories of love that knows no boundaries. Like rivers flowing through the canvas of earth, these stories will run deep, touch softly and leave you breathless.

No matter who it is with, passion is magnificent, desires are bold, and love is beautiful.

From Louisa Bacio: What a fabulous collection of authors and stories. Thrilled to help support this collection. I missed out on being included, and now I'm incredibly jealous! 

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STORIES

The Omega Shift, by Tamsin Baker
Running in Circles, by Jess Buffett
Burning for Him, by Kristine Cayne
Three: A Love Story, by Adriana Kraft
Stop me Falling, by Cate Farren
Fall for You, by Valerie Ullmer
Homecoming, by Kai Tyler
Lesbian Alien Affairs, by Lexi Thorne
Bound for Landia, by Izzy Szyn
Wide Awake, by Aeryn Jaden
Once Upon a Crush, by Dana Kenzi
The Honest Change, by Celia Fay
Cupid’s Valentine, by Dani Gray

BLURB Three: A Love Story by Adriana Kraft

As erotic romance authors, my husband and I love writing ménage and polyamory stories because they offer so many options for sizzling sex scenes. We craft sexual encounters on the page that appeal to both of us in hopes they’ll appeal to the fantasies of other men and women, as well.

But what happens when these hot erotic fantasies run headlong into real-life obstacles? What does polyamory look like when it happens to ordinary people? That’s the challenge we set ourselves in “Three: A Love Story,” our contribution to the Boxed Set All You Need is Love.

Three lives—but how many loves? Two bisexual women deeply in love with each other also enjoy dating men and even arranging an occasional three-way. What if one of these women starts to fall in love with a man?

EXCERPT

Jamie tilted her head to the side as Susan curled back in next to her. “So what do you think of Mason?”
“Ah, Mason. He’s the source of your stewing. Is he starting to wear on you? How long has it been—three months? Four months?”
“He’s not wearing on me. And it’s nearly five months.” Jamie paused to wet her lips. “You didn’t answer my question. What do you think of him? What do you really think of him?”
Susan flinched. “Well, I haven’t thought a lot about him, though I must say he has stayed around longer than any guy in recent memory.” Susan sighed. “Okay, to be honest. I think he seems like a very nice guy. When he’s over here, it’s because he’s come to see you, so I don’t really spend a lot of time with him. I’ve cooked a few dinners for you guys, but most of time he comes, you go out, you come back, and you fuck like two wildcats. I’m surprised the neighbors haven’t complained. And he’s usually gone before I’m up in the morning. And lately you’ve been spending much more time at his house than at our apartment…for your love nest activities, that is. I must say that’s easier on me. I get more sleep, and I don’t have to imagine what you and he are doing to each other.”
“That’s it?”
“What else do you want me to say? I’m an English professor, not a social worker. He doesn’t seem abusive. He’s easy to look at. He doesn’t…” Susan paused. “Uh oh. If he’s not wearing on you and yet you’re stewing about him...” She arched an eyebrow. “Jams, maybe you’d better tell me what’s really on your mind.”
Jamie didn’t miss the sudden flash of anxiety that crossed Susan’s face. 


About Adriana Kraft


Winner of the 2014 Bisexual Book Award for erotic fiction, author Adriana Kraft is a married couple writing Sizzling Romantic Suspense and Erotic Romance for Two, Three, or More. Whether readers open our romantic suspense or our erotic romance, they can expect characters they care about, hot sex scenes, and a compelling story. Our suspense stories deliver one man, one woman, danger and intrigue. Our erotic romance is edgier and nearly always includes ménage or polyamory, sometimes with two women and a man, sometimes with two (or more) couples.

Together we have published more than forty romance novels and novellas to outstanding reviews. We love hearing from readers at adrianakraft99@yahoo.com, and here is our website: When It’s Time to Heat Things Up http://adrianakraft.com

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Monday, February 26, 2018

Writing Tips from the Love Sabrists @wordsbykc @BoroughsPubGrp

Hello <waving>

We’re the Love Sabrists.

Why, you may ask, are we popping up on Louisa Bacio’s blog?

Well, a few of the Sabrists – Kristine Charles, Nardia Sheriff and Tanya Kean- met Louisa in 2017 when she led an online course on writing short stories for Romance Writers of Australia. After that course, the Sabrists wrote some short stories that became three of the seven short stories in a new anthology – called, appropriately enough, Love Sabre – and so she’s partly to blame for this craziness being released into the world!

No, really! It’s crazy.

The idea on which the anthology is based came when we were overtired, and probably a little hungover, on the last day of the 2015 Romance Writers of Australia conference. Instead of paying attention at the AGM, we decided to start a discussion of all the squicky words and phrases in romance writing. You know the ones. Moist. Panties. Throbbing manhood.

The best one we came up with was ‘sheathe your love sabre’ and it stuck. The following year we dared each other to write the phrase into a story. And that’s where Love Sabre was born.

The stories range from sweet to spicy, from fun to intense. And they’re short enough that you can get through a story or two on your lunch break, or while the kids are at sport, or on the bus on your way to work. We’d love you to check them out – and let us know what you think (all our social media links are below).

Writing Tips from the Love Sabrists

In honour of the Love Sabre anthology being released on 6 February 2018, and in honour of Louisa’s input (directly, and indirectly) into a few of those stories, we thought we’d put together a list of the top five good (and not so good) writing tips we’d received over the years:

First, write. Stick your ass to the chair with bum glue, put your fingers to the keyboard (or pick up a pen) and put words on the page. You can’t edit a blank page is a phrase often attributed to Nora Roberts (amongst other writers) and, given she is the Queen of Romance, we’ll go with her advice here. Nora considers writing to be a job, folks. She turns up and puts words on a page. Do that, and, it might be the worst stuff ever written, but at least you’ve got something to work with.

As an aside, a quote commonly attributed (or misattributed) to Hemingway is ‘write drunk, edit sober.’ And that’s probably not a bad idea. Turn off your inner editor when you’re writing, drown him/her if necessary, in whatever beverage takes your fancy, just to get the words down. Once you’ve sobered up you can see how much of what you’ve got down is salvageable. But if the words aren’t on a page you can’t fix ‘em so… Salut!

Second, while not everyone’s a planner, completely pantsing it will, in our experience, generally lead to much cutting and tears later when you’re trying to edit the damn story so that it makes sense. So, before you sit down to put words on the page – make sure you have a rough idea of the key points in your story. You don’t have to have the entire thing broken down scene by scene on post-it notes (although, pretty). You just need to have a rough idea of where you’re going. It also helps if you get stuck, because you can jump forward to the next point where you know something’s going to happen to get the words flowing again.

Third, writers are often told ‘write what you know.’ To that, we say, crap idea. If you aren’t going on an adventure as your write, how can you possibly expect to take your reader on an adventure when they read? When you write, push yourself, your knowledge and ideologies (but also, do your research – nobody likes a butt plug without lube).

Fourth, when you’re on this crazy writing ride you should trust your instincts. Don’t (necessarily) try to follow a trend… vampires won’t really last forever. Just write what calls to your soul. And yes, if that’s vampires, or werewolves, or twenty-something Dominant billionaires, do your best! Just don’t write any of the above because you think it’ll make you squillions. It probably won’t.

And finally, segueing nicely from the trust your instincts/don’t follow a trend theme: don’t compare yourself to other writers. We cannot all be Stephen King, Nora Roberts, J.K. Rowling, or E.L. James. There will always be someone better than you, someone in the right place at the right time, riding a wave. That means, though, that there’ll always be someone not as great as you, waiting for their shot, and being dumped on a sandbank. Your time will come. 

Comparisons in the interim just make you crazy (or crazier… probably crazier.) Rather than tearing your fellow writers down, support them as you all travel this winding road. We’ll all be better for it.

And, a bonus tip, which is probably the best tip of all.

Just do what works for you.

If you’d like to chat more with the Sabrists they can be found at:



BUY LOVE SABRE – LINKS BELOW\

Seven Aussie authors decided the most purple prose phrase they could think of was, “Sheathe your love sabre.” So, naturally, they agreed to each write a story that included the phrase. From those auspicious beginnings, the Love Sabre anthology was born. From spicy hot to sweet, each Love Sabrist has penned a wonderful, yet very different story guaranteed to make you smile, laugh, gasp, or cry. All of them will make you go, “awww.”