Black Lace author Portia Da Costa has an interview up on the WeWriteRomance.com website. Her books include her latest release Gothic Heat, a sexy hot romance novel of erotic proportions!

The interview is here.

She’s best known as one of the original pioneers of Black Lace, and the only author from the original line up who still produces new titles for the imprint. She also writes for Spice Briefs and Total-E-bound.

One of my favorite comments in the interview come from Portia Da Costa, when she says:

My days don’t have much in the way of structure or planning. I pretty much just stumble in disorder and confusion towards the resolution of a book, hoping for the best.

It’s amazing how this has worked so well for her! :-)

If you have a chance, check out the interview.

I’ve put up quite a few of the new and upcoming Harlequin Blaze romances. You can check them them out and buy or preorder them if you want.

I’ve updated my Lora Leigh book list. With the change over from static pages to a database, I just didn’t get all the books for some authors entered and I’m working on them a bit at a time. However, now I’ve got a great many Lora Leigh books listed with plans to add more of Lora Leigh’s books.

There are many more authors I need to get up to date on the site and if you have a preference for who you want updated first just let me know.

I’m excited to be getting the erotic romance lists all updated. :-) Here’s to many more happy book updates.

I’m going to be able to get quite a few more erotic romance novels added to the site before the end of the month.

The books will update the Kensington Brava, Berkley Sensation, Spice Books, Harlequin Blaze, Avon Red and Ellora’s Cave lists. The Ellora’s Cave book list doesn’t exist yet, but it will. :-)

The biggest targets of the update are the Sensation books and the Ellora’s Cave.

I hope to add Samhain to the lists too.

Are there other hot publishers of erotic romance novels out there that I should consider adding?

I go mostly by the authors I like but sometimes I miss things because I don’t read as much as I used to.

I’m definitely open to suggestion. :-)

Megan Clark’s interview launches a new feature to The Erotic Reader website–author interviews. I love talking with authors about their books or having authors talk to me about their books. :-) Either way works for me. That said, here’s the interview with Megan Clark. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s an interesting bit of information. If you enjoy reading the Harlequin Blaze books as ebooks, you can get them as a bundle by the month of publication. It’s a great way to save a few dollars (and trees). :-)

July 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

June 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

May 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

April 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

March 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

February 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

January 2008 Blaze ebook bundle

Today I’ve added in the August 2008 Blaze books. Preorder now, if you aren’t a member of the continuity program (readers club thing where you get the books shipped to you every month directly from Harlequin).

I also updated the Avon Red list. I know it’s not complete, but I’m working on it. :-)

I have several books to read and review for the site, and I should be getting to them this week or next, so keep checking back for erotic romance recommendations.

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My copy of Sea Witch arrived the day before yesterday, but I’m holding off reading it because I am currently reading a book by a favorite author that I somehow, someway, missed reading. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about when I say that books by favorite authors always come first. In case you’re interested, the book is After Glow by Jayne Castle. Not an erotic romance, but a great read nonetheless. Emmet is very sexy.

My hope is that once I read Sea Witch I’ll have found another fav to add to my list. I’ve already slipped and read the first few chapters, because I couldn’t wait to get a taste of the book. This is my first reading of novel length fiction from Virginia Kantra. I enjoyed her story in Shifter, which was the very first Virginia Kantra fiction I’d read. This one, so far, has proven to be exceptionally intriguing and I want to read more!

Of course I’ll post a review the minute I finish reading it. :-)

So, I made plans to renew the newsletter and begin publishing it on a regular basis. Then I realized I still can’t guarantee I have enough books to recommend on a particular schedule to make it worth my time to put it together. Of all the parts to this site, the newsletter seems to me to be the most difficult to keep a handle on. If I want to chat about erotic romance, I post here to the blog. If I want to recommend a book, I award it with the “recommended” title and that adds it to my recommended list.

So tell me, what do you get out of the newsletter–or am I wasting my time even worrying about it?

The June update has brought six new July 2008 Blaze titles to the site, along with several Spice books and Spice Briefs ebooks. Visit the pages to see the titles added. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been doing something of an overhaul to the site (behind the scenes, mostly). Although I had almost finished, there were a few things that still needed working on, and yesterday and today, I’m finally trying to wrap all that up.
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