Easter Romance Books

What does Red Rose Publishing have in store for you in the line of Easter and love? Find out....

How To Write Sex Well

Check out the How To Write Sex Well, by Eve Summers.

This book is meant for writers. Erotica writers, romance writers, writers who are considering spicing up their thriller or literary work with a bedroom scene. It’s not a comprehensive how-to book and it won’t give you a ready step-by-step recipe. Rather, it’s a handful of rules and reflections on the topic of writing sex, and doing a good job of it.

Bones and Booth

Spoiler: I know Bones and Booth end up living together, but I'm about halfway through Season 6 and it's a slog to watch. He's with Hannah, Bones cracks silly jokes and the cases are pedestrian at best. Trouble is, I really like Hannah, even if I find her friendship with Bones a bit of a stretch. So on the one hand, I don't want them to break up, but on the other, I can't wait for the story arc to reach a more satisfying point.

In many ways, I still find Series 1 the best. I loved Zack and Dr Goodman.

Romance And Marriage

... and they lived happily ever after.

Or did they? Did Cinderella's love for the Prince survive his mood swings, his long jorneys around the kingdom, the difference in their background? Did the Prince love her through PMS and adore her post-pregnancy belly?

How do you keep romance alive in marriage? Here are a few suggestions from friends:

• kiss every day
• say "I love you"
• dye the grey out (women) and shave off that stubble (men)
• respect one another
• treat them with the same politeness you'd offer your boss or client
• date night
• no, make every night as special as a date night, even if you're staying home....

• ???

Me Before You

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?

The above blurb (from Amazon) makes it sound like a romance book. When I read it, however, it was anything but. Yes, there was a love angle, but it wasn't a love story. Not as such. It was a story of love. See the difference?

It was also a story of friendship, family, financial reality, life's general unfairness and adventure. Written in a deceptively simple, yet beautiful language, this is a book to be savoured.

Romantic Recipes

You know how they say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach? Whether your man is a health nut or has a sweet tooth, cooking him his favourite dishes will put you in his good books. (And, conversely, if he ever annoys you, just prepare him something he's not crazy about... in our household, you know things aren't rosy when it's stir fry for dinner!)

Here is a recipe I do when I want to show my husband love and deep appreciation: chocolate mousse.

250g chocolate (I use chocolate that has no vegetable oil in it)
3 egg yolks
5ml real vanilla essence
30ml orange liqueur
200ml cream

1. Melt the chocolate.
2. Add egg yolks, vanilla and liqueur.
3. Stir until smooth.
4. Beat the cream.
5. Fold the chocolate mixture into the cream.
6. Refrigerate.

Yum!

Valentine's Day and Chocolate

Because it's almost Valentine's Day, I've decided to give away a box of chocolates to a lucky reader (or two, or three). Simply buy an e-copy of "Not Complicated" and send the invoice number to bestseller at xtra dot co dot nz (email subject: Love Romance!).


For every 10 emails, I'll select 1 lucky winner. So your chance to win is 1 in 10 (or 1 in 5, or 1 in 2, depending how many entries I get). Not bad for 99c, huh?