sensual romance – Page 4 – Dahlia DeWinters

Now Available – Love Bytes

From Sugar and Spice Press: Software designer Violet Connelly prefers code to cuddling, but is unable to resist the occasional closed-door meeting with her business partner and fellow developer Francis Rushmore. They’re on the fast track to submitting their educational game to a competition that has the potential to reap a lucrative contract and pull their failing company out of its decline. But unexplainable glitches keep appearing in the program. A change in deadline means they have only two weeks to do four weeks’ worth of work. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, the lovers’ holiday as well as a potential rival for Violet’s affections forces them both to examine their true feelings for each other. Will the added personal and professional pressures bring them closer or tear them apart?

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Learning Curves

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the craft of writing these past few weeks. There have been quite a few “freebies” on Amazon/Nook and I must admit I’m a sucker for “those who bought this book also bought…..”. Taking a break from the task of actual writing and examining the craft of writing is both a benefit and a curse. The benefit is that I can now begin creating patterns in my writing. No matter what we write, I’m finding out, there is an underlying structure that works its way through the storyline. In fact, we are all writing the same stories over and over again, simply with different characters and situations. It’s okay, though. People love familiar structure. For example, Jaws, Alien, Panic Room and Fatal Attraction are all the same movie. Not the same plot, characters, etc, but if you screen all those movies, you will

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Photo Post – Five Objects in My Office

I’m fortunate. I have an office to which I can retreat and type my little masterpieces. Let me give you a peek into what I look at every day. Enjoy! A plant that I picked up for two bucks at the grocer’s. Sale!! A teapot that I fell in love with at a thrift shop. Had to have it for 5 bucks. Coffee (or tea) cup – one of many. Makeup bag. It’s pretty psychedelic! And packed full. Harley Teddy! He doesn’t really have a name. Any suggestions?

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Short Stories

As a romance author, I’ve written quite a few short stories and read even more. I’ve read short stories by industry authors as well as the “classics” by Edgar Allen Poe, O. Henry, Richard Matheson and Stephen King. In addition, I’ve read anthologies of short stories. As an author, I feel that I am in a constant state of learning and try my best to expose myself to a variety of writing and writers. There was one thing I noticed about the good short stories: they didn’t explain me to death. Nothing bothers me more than a short story that tries to tell me every detail of each character’s back story in the first three paragraphs. It bores me. It bogs me down. Ditto to the over-explanations after each character does something. “She brushed her hair, something that she had done for years and her mother had done before she

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Buy a Book, Save a Life

Please welcome my author-friend Angelina Rain with a special message. BUY A BOOK, SAVE A LIFE The holiday season is upon us and it truly is the season of giving. Animal welfare is a very important issue to me, so I’m going to donate 50% of ALL my royalties from the sales of Rescued Love to the Humane Society of the United States (http://www.humanesociety.org/). If you buy a copy of Rescued Love between October 1 and December 31, a portion of the money you paid will go towards helping the animals. What could be better? You get an entertaining romance and to give back to a very important cause. What are readers saying about Rescued Love? “I’m very grateful that the author is making this a series. I certainly can’t wait until the second book! All these things make this a Must Read!” “Rescued Love is a beautiful blending of

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Blogtoberfest – Halloween

A big thank you to those who stuck with me through my kind of blogging marathon. I didn’t make all my days as planned, but I’m pretty pleased what I did accomplish. Blogtoberfest was a huge help in getting my blogging off the ground, planning posts ahead of time and most of all, sticking to a schedule. Now, I feel I can roll into NaNoWriMo with some purpose and determination. How did I do it? I pre-wrote a lot of the posts. Then, I decided, for it to be a true Blogtoberfest, I should make an effort to blog every day. At times, real life intruded, but to be honest, if I am going to be a writer….this IS part of my real life. Treating writing as a job rather than something I merely dabbled in, I learned, is the key to making it work for me. Your mileage may