Nutmeg in the News

Nutmeg was one of the aphrodisiacs featured in my first erotic romance novel–APPETITE FOR PASSION. Check this out:

http://blog.friendseat.com/nutmeg-is-an-aphrodisiac/

Free Sexy Food Story

Check out Ravenous Romance today. they are offering Rachel Kenley’s “Just’s Desserts” for free. It’s one of the sexy food stories in AMBROSIA–the anthology I edited. It’s still available at http://www.ravenousromance.com

Foodies Guide to Kitchen Magic

When I first started to read Foodies Guide to Kitchen Magic, (http://lyricalpress.com ) two things were immediately clear to me. First, Sandra Sookoo knows her way around the kitchen. Second, Sookoo is definitely a writer who understands building tension. Delicious tension. Mmmmm.
Aidan, her main female character, wants to be a famous cook—except that she can’t really cook. The only thing she appears to be able to do is magic in the kitchen. I gather she has just learned she has the gift and is as sloppy and inattentive to this skill as she is to her cooking skills.
Enter Matteus, the man who is going to teach her a thing or two about magic and in the process, heats things up a bit in her kitchen…but, of course, when it comes to teachers and students especially of magic, things can be complicated, when it comes to attraction.
Sookoo deftly builds her characters, her scenes, and her story unfolds nicely. It’s a fun, sexy read, especially for foodies. I have one criticism—it sort of, well, left me hanging a bit. Some people prefer to hang there on the edge of passion, and so it’s not much of a criticism. But I would have loved a nitty-gritty kitchen sex scene at the end of the book. But that’s just me and we all know how hungry I am.

More about the Writing Adventure Group

How to Join the Writing Adventure Group

This weeks adventurers

Cora Zane

Christine Kirchoff

Sharon Donovan

Iain Martin

Mickey Hoffman

Lulu

Marsha Writes

Jesse Blair

Carol

Aunt Sally

Nancy Parra

Jon Strother

Next week’s Writing Adventure:

“WAG #5: Life In Motion” Sometimes it’s good to approach writing like taking a photograph with words. On the other hand, it’s important to remember that a scene is always in transition. For this week’s adventure, sit in a good observation spot and notice how the scene in front of you changes from one minute to the next. Has the light changed? The sounds? The people? What’s different now compared to when you first arrived? Is there anything you can see (or hear, smell, etc) that is changing right in front of you? Be creative and break the rules! This week is all about change!

Post the results on your blog, and read this post about the group for information on how to notify me so your post will be properly included in next week’s list. (Note, please include WAG #5 in the subject heading and tell me how you want your name to appear please!) Deadline: next Tuesday, March 31st.

Listening: this Week’s WAG Exercise

Here is my writing exercise for the writing group. More on  the Writer’s Adventure Group later.

Sounds on the field trip bus listening to Horton Hears a Hoo and other Sounds

The Speck called out for help
Against the whir of wheels on road
A cough
A giggle
Are you calling me a liar?
A bag crinkles
If you can’t see, hear, or feel something it doesn’t exist
Rumbling tires
A sniffle
The creak of a bus seat
Horton was right
Silences between the spaces
Quiet open space sound
A sneeze
A whisper
Children to spare
96 girls to love
A twitter. A sigh.
A bump. A jiggle.
A clatter. A banging.
White sound.
A clearing throat.
A person’s a person
No matter how small.

Review of Appetite for Passion on Book Wenches

Check it out at http://www.bookwenches.com/reviews.htm

If you haven’t gotten your copy of Appetite for Passion, you still can at Ravenousromance.com. It’s under the Modern Love category–what else?

This Week’s WAG Particpants and Instructions

How to Join the Writing Adventure Group

Cora

Iain Martin

Nancy J Parra

Marsha

Lulu – People Watching and Saving Lives

Jesse Blair

Jon

Nixy Valentine
Next week’s Writing Adventure:

“WAG #4: Do You Hear What I Hear?” So often, our brain filters out the sounds we hear every day, but sounds can make a story so much more concrete and help your readers feel like they’re really there in a story. This week, go out, sit and listen. (Close your eyes if that helps!) Let your attention move from the obvious sounds to the subtle ones. Try to take in the sounds you usually filter out, whether it’s voices, traffic, children, the hum of overhead lights, or whatever. Write a short description of the sounds and your experience, especially anything unexpected.

Post the results on your blog, and read this post about the group for information on how to notify me so your post will be properly included in next week’s list. (Note, please include WAG #4 in the subject heading and tell me how you want your name to appear please!) Deadline: next Tuesday, March 24th.

Ten Reasons to Purchase Ambrosia from Ravenous Romance:

1. Morgan James’ sexy hunk of a virgin.
2. Nixy Valentine’s scintillating spanking.
3. Mark Farley’s utterly sinful take on kitchen tools.
4. Jen Bluekissed’s naughty kitchen table escapades.
5. Rachel Kenley’s magical naughtiness.
6. Nicole Dennis’ scrumptious Italian food romp.
7. C. Margery Kempe’s swirling Nutella passions.
8. Yvette Davis’s voyeuristic feast.
9. Neve Black’s titillating games…
10. Edited by me, need I say more?

WAG # 3 Mother at the Theatre

She has two small girls by the hands as she shuffles them into their theater seats. Turning to help one off with her coat and mumbles something to her. They are a flurry of coats and bags and hushes until they settle into their seats. She has nondescript moussy brown hair falling to her shoulders , with a tad of gray streaked through it. She hasn’t bothered with much—if any—make up. And there are circles under her tired, but kind eyes. Yet, she is pretty. A huge quilted bag is slung over her shoulder—knitting? No. She pulls out a book to read while she’s waiting for the show. Her daughters each have one as well. I’d reach out to her, expect that she is at once, enmeshed in her novel. If she looked up, I’d smile. I have my book in my bag, you see, but the lights are too dim for me to read. She is exactly the kind of person, I’d befriend if only she’d look up.

Fellow Adventurer’s

Check out the growing list of the Writer’s Adventure Group

Cora Zane

J Strother – Mad Utopia

Nancy Parra

Jackie Doss

Criss – Criss Writes

Iain Martin

Marsha – Marsha Writes

Lulu – Introspective Liar

Nixy Valentine