Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Three For The Price Of One with Dee S. Knight
Ahoy, Maties! I'd like to thank the Bo'sun for inviting me to tell you about my newest book and ménage romance.
Monday, Siren Publishing released The Triple S Bride, a futuristic western ménage. Yes, there is such an animal, though I didn't know it myself until a few months ago. I'd never written a western and only one ménage, so I took this story as a writing challenge.
In The Triple S Bride, Sabina Volt escapes her abusive fiancé by changing her name and appearance and becoming a mail order bride to a man on a planet the farthest from Earth she can find. What she doesn't discover until she arrives is that she's actually committed herself to marrying three men, Walt, Dan and Charlie, the Sheridan brothers. Holy smokes! What can she do? If she balks at the contract, Walt will send her back to Earth and into the evil fiancé's clutches. Already the cad has circulated news reports accusing her of crimes for which Walt is duty bound to hand her over. If she wants to hide out on C8282, she must do all she can to make the Sheridans want to help her.
So let's recap. Dangerous, slimy fiancé on Earth if she recants her decision or if Walt decides she's more trouble than he wants, or three hunky cowboys who desire to please her in every way if she agrees to be their wife. Hmm. Golly gee wiz, I'm just not sure what I would do in that situation. Yeah, right. Step aside, Jack, and point me toward the shuttle. If you've a mind to read ménage romance, I hope you'll give The Triple S Bride a looksee.
Involving myself in ménage has raised a question in my mind, namely whether ménage romance is actually romance. Some people (including some legislators) define marriage as a covenant between a man and woman. Certainly that's what my mama raised me to believe, that any other "arrangement" fell outside the norm of acceptable society. Today, regardless of laws, most people accept different types of unions.
Readers of romance have accepted this more quickly than some other segments of the population, with sales of ménage, gay and all manner of bondage books sometimes exceeding what previously was considered "romance." A fellow Liquid Silver author set her romance between a human and a whale. I don't believe I could ever step that far outside my comfort zone--I'm afraid of water. Of course, until recently I never thought I would write a romance between a woman and three men, either, so who knows? Move over, Flipper.
One of the things I learned while in the ménage process is that there must still be romance. That is, however many people are involved and of whatever gender, there must be a bond between them. There cannot be jealousy, only acceptance of each others' desires and needs. Each must want only the best for the other members of the group. That's a tall order even when writing a romance between one man and one woman. It has taken me a little while to get my mind around the intricacies of these rules. I think the reason is that I had to come to understand that ménage romance is indeed romance.
Here's how I do it. I imagine each of two (or three) heroes as different parts of one perfect man. Every part (i.e., man) adds his own unique flavor to what makes the heroine happy and fulfilled. Which of us hasn't wished for that? For years we've all suspended belief while accepting heroes who are handsome, intelligent, quirky, fun, serious, sensitive, rich (don't forget rich), inventive and assertive. And he has good table manners, too. In a ménage, the reader still has all that, just in more than one man.
Explicit verbiage describing the various and sundry ways Tab A fits into Slot B aside, what do you think? Do ménages meet the romance criteria? Can there exist a romance between the princess and two Prince Charmings, or will ménage romance bite the dust as readers return to the tried and true, one man - one woman traditional romance?
Thanks again for allowing me across the gangplank for a visit and drop of rum.
To learn more about Dee and her books, check out her website here. And for an excerpt of TRIPLE S BRIDE, go here. You can click through and order from the website, or simply click the book cover above and go shopping.
Monday, Siren Publishing released The Triple S Bride, a futuristic western ménage. Yes, there is such an animal, though I didn't know it myself until a few months ago. I'd never written a western and only one ménage, so I took this story as a writing challenge.
In The Triple S Bride, Sabina Volt escapes her abusive fiancé by changing her name and appearance and becoming a mail order bride to a man on a planet the farthest from Earth she can find. What she doesn't discover until she arrives is that she's actually committed herself to marrying three men, Walt, Dan and Charlie, the Sheridan brothers. Holy smokes! What can she do? If she balks at the contract, Walt will send her back to Earth and into the evil fiancé's clutches. Already the cad has circulated news reports accusing her of crimes for which Walt is duty bound to hand her over. If she wants to hide out on C8282, she must do all she can to make the Sheridans want to help her.So let's recap. Dangerous, slimy fiancé on Earth if she recants her decision or if Walt decides she's more trouble than he wants, or three hunky cowboys who desire to please her in every way if she agrees to be their wife. Hmm. Golly gee wiz, I'm just not sure what I would do in that situation. Yeah, right. Step aside, Jack, and point me toward the shuttle. If you've a mind to read ménage romance, I hope you'll give The Triple S Bride a looksee.Involving myself in ménage has raised a question in my mind, namely whether ménage romance is actually romance. Some people (including some legislators) define marriage as a covenant between a man and woman. Certainly that's what my mama raised me to believe, that any other "arrangement" fell outside the norm of acceptable society. Today, regardless of laws, most people accept different types of unions.
Readers of romance have accepted this more quickly than some other segments of the population, with sales of ménage, gay and all manner of bondage books sometimes exceeding what previously was considered "romance." A fellow Liquid Silver author set her romance between a human and a whale. I don't believe I could ever step that far outside my comfort zone--I'm afraid of water. Of course, until recently I never thought I would write a romance between a woman and three men, either, so who knows? Move over, Flipper.
One of the things I learned while in the ménage process is that there must still be romance. That is, however many people are involved and of whatever gender, there must be a bond between them. There cannot be jealousy, only acceptance of each others' desires and needs. Each must want only the best for the other members of the group. That's a tall order even when writing a romance between one man and one woman. It has taken me a little while to get my mind around the intricacies of these rules. I think the reason is that I had to come to understand that ménage romance is indeed romance.
Here's how I do it. I imagine each of two (or three) heroes as different parts of one perfect man. Every part (i.e., man) adds his own unique flavor to what makes the heroine happy and fulfilled. Which of us hasn't wished for that? For years we've all suspended belief while accepting heroes who are handsome, intelligent, quirky, fun, serious, sensitive, rich (don't forget rich), inventive and assertive. And he has good table manners, too. In a ménage, the reader still has all that, just in more than one man.Explicit verbiage describing the various and sundry ways Tab A fits into Slot B aside, what do you think? Do ménages meet the romance criteria? Can there exist a romance between the princess and two Prince Charmings, or will ménage romance bite the dust as readers return to the tried and true, one man - one woman traditional romance?
Thanks again for allowing me across the gangplank for a visit and drop of rum.
To learn more about Dee and her books, check out her website here. And for an excerpt of TRIPLE S BRIDE, go here. You can click through and order from the website, or simply click the book cover above and go shopping.
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Welcome aboard, Dee! Never met you, but heard many fine things 'bout ya. Never mind Jack, come sit at the bar and have a tall tankard a' rum.
Nice excerpt, btw!
Though not a practicioner of polyamory, I'm a big believer in it. And I think you summed it up beautifully, Dee.
All that, in more than one man. Or one woman for those inclined that way.
Love is love. I've read some excellent menage stories and I look forward to reading yours!
Welcome back, Dee!
I've said before that I don't think I could write this. Not just for the Slot A, Tab B issues. Personally, polyamory wouldn't work for me (in reality or in my fiction). I know I'd be too jealous and too petty to share the one I love in RL. I want to be the one and only and I'm sure that would come out in my writing.
I understand the idea of different facets of one perfect man in multiple bodies as a writing technique, but I wonder if it's even possible to get all the perfect facets in three (or four, or ten) people. To me, relationships in fiction work for the same reasons real life ones work: not because all the aspects of perfection are there but because both people accept the imperfection in each other.
That said, I say whatever floats others' boats. Polyamory, same sex, BDSM. I firmly believe people like what they like and as long as folks are old enough to make their own decisions about these choices, they should be able to live their lives out the way they choose, in their bedrooms and out.
In that vein, I'm not surprised that the market for these stories has exploded in the last decade or so. I know women who read M/M even though they obviously don't have the equipment to enact those situations. But fantasy is fantasy. That's why I don't see these genres going anywhere anytime soon.
Congrats on your recent release, Dee!!
Good morning! This book sounded so good from the excerpt, I bought my own copy last night. And that means I'm going to fight with my dreaded e-reader just for you. Feel special, I hate that thing. LOL!
I wouldn't have believed a story of this nature would work for me, but you make a really strong case here. And I don't think it's so much about creating the perfect guy, as fulfilling many different needs. That makes a lot of sense.
And I agree with Marn, it's all about fantasy. Our puritanical society has a tendency to turn fantasy into something dirty and negative, but I think sales of these sorts of books shows people are going to embrace their fantasies, even if they have to do it through entertaining fiction.
OMG, this is hilarious! "Move over, Flipper." Dee, I've missed you! Though I am sorta relieved we weren't high school bosom pals because I have a feeling I would have gotten up to a LOT more mischief if I had. And then most of my writing would have begun with the words, "Dear Penthouse...."
99% of the time, I prefer the one man-one woman variety of stories. Mainly because men are so irritating when you're not having sex with them, that the temptation to stab them would increase the more of them were around you. I know my limitations.
However, I could dig the idea of having more than one guy around simply because the odds of me having sex would increase. And I could always use more sex.
I think you totally nailed it with the men each fulfilling certain needs of the heroine, but no one man being EVERYTHING. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series (which is basically the extent of my menage reading--I think I like it because of the werewolves actually)--the menage scenes are very much like you describe. Each man brings something different to the table, something the heroine needs. For the most part, they put up with the menage lifestyle because they have to--they all need her as well--but there is difficulty, there is jealousy. These are a bunch of alpha men we're talking about. So...I can respect the menage aspect more that they make the characters more...flawed...like me, who'd be insanely jealous. *LOL* Even if I was having the best sex of my life.
I don't know if I'd go so far out as to say I'd read about a love story between a woman and a whale. Even if they are the most endowed mammals on the planet. I mean, I enjoy...er...never mind. I just couldn't get past it. Also puts a whole new thought to the concept of Deep Throat.
But I might eventually branch out to the Weresnakes. Just the concept makes me laugh hysterically.
Good morning, 2nd Chance. I've also come to believe love is love. Lord knows, following some of "the old ways," (God does that ever make me sound old!) doesn't always work, so why not explore other relationships?
Marnee, I am too self-centered (not to mention self-conscious) to share a loved one, so a group love relationship would never work for me. I want all the adoration, all the attention, all the diamonds...or at least knowing I was the only woman in the house receiving an "I will always love you" Valentine. I suppose Mama never taught me to share well. :)
I'm proud to say I looked for a picture of a whale, but resisted the urge to post the really, really awful one. (For the record, it wasn't technically a whale.)
You bought my book??? Good heavens! You could have had it for free. You could have critiqued it for money, lol. Thank you, Lady--I'm most honored, and also most nervous.
I know a woman who writes M/M romance, and she's so skilled if you closed your eyes, so to speak, her books could easily be M/F. A good love story is a good love story, regardless.
Strangely enough, I don't read a lot of M/M romances, but I seem to review a lot of them. I wonder what's with that?
I want all the adoration, all the attention, all the diamonds…or at least knowing I was the only woman in the house receiving an “I will always love you” Valentine.
I concur wholeheartedly with Marn and Dee. *LOL*
OMG!! Weresnakes? I'm rolling on the floor (yet still able to type...).
What do you mean men are irritating when you're not having sex with them? Aren't they irritating all the time?
Oh my gosh, if you'd known me in high school you'd have been surprised. I was about the most boring person imaginable. I never cussed even through college, and failed my sex ed exam senior year. (That's a little known fact. Shh! Let's keep it between us.)
Dee, that's exactly how I feel. I read somewhere once that people feel loved in different ways. Some women need gifts, some women need actions or word and the key, in part, is finding someone who fulfills those needs (and ideally that you fulfill their needs in that department too).
I'm definitely a woman who needs words and deeds and if I felt like my guy was handing said words and deeds out to others besides me, it wouldn't make me feel as special or as loved. Or if I felt like I had to compete for that? *shudders*
So I guess I don't share well either. At least not when it comes to my guy. :)
Terri, I was so looking forward to that whale picture, but you done good.
What's technically not a whale mean? I mean, was it a big goldfish with an amorous look in his eyes, or what?
...if I felt like my guy was handing said words and deeds out to others besides me, it wouldn’t make me feel as special or as loved.
It would make me feel like a widow, Marnee, because that man would be dead.
Mates, I have to go downstairs, pick up some dog doo-doo and inject some coffee in my veins, then I'll be back. It's snowing here (yet again) and I had to dash out to Wal-Mart to pick up a prescription before my morning caffeine.
BRB!
I think you could teach sex ed now. LOL!
And technically, in your story, she's not really sharing the guys with other women, right? So, that's an interesting spin. And the men are all brothers, so they aren't exactly *there* for each other either. Sounds like a pretty good set up to me.
Here's a link to the pic, but don't say I didn't warn you.
http://tinyurl.com/4yf2hp
What do you mean men are irritating when you’re not having sex with them? Aren’t they irritating all the time?
Yes and no. But I find they talk less during sex, which makes them more tolerable. That, and the great sex puts me in a more tolerant state of mind.
It would make me feel like a widow, Marnee, because that man would be dead.
ROTFLMAO
Dee, I always love when you come aboard the ship.
I like to read menage fiction. I'm of the opinion that it takes more than one person in your life to make you feel fulfilled in all aspects. But I'm also a strange person and marriage to me means something completely different than to someone else. Someone can satisfy you sexually and not do anything for you intellectually. Or the other way around. Or that person can do it both ways but you still need something else.
Anyway, we all have our opinions. I think there is a lot of be said about romance in menage stories. You can be romanced several different ways, but not every man is going to be able to fulfill your every want and desire (unless he's down with all kinds of stuff and open to new things and some are and some aren't, just like women) but there adds a dash of excitement when being romanced by three different guys and guys that don't mind sharing. Menage is exciting and a little forbidden. It gives the reader a chance to experience something like that without actually experiencing it.
So while I like historical H/H HEA (yeah, I said it), I like my contemporaries a little more off kilter. You can be in love (and be loved) with/by more than one person. Except in books it's easier to not to destroy someone's heart.
Good golly miss Molly, that is a WHALE!
Good thing I left my coffee downstairs or I might have spit it all over the screen.
Hi, Sin. Thanks for the welcome, sweet lady!
Isn't that what reading is all about, the chance to experience and dream about things we might never do ourselves?
In The Triple S Bride, each man fulfills something for the heroine, and she does for them, too. It's a win-win. But I could never enter into a menage relationship.
I might consider letting two (or more) men drive me wild with passion once (or twice) because who could resist? But to take on the care and feeding of more than one man at a time? Huh-uh. I'd rather have a cat and a good vibrator.
Well, I have the cat part of that.
...to take on the care and feeding of more than one man at a time
This statement gave me hives.
Ah, Hellion, I like it when men talk. Especially when they tell me how ravishing and exciting I am.
Oh wait. That's men lying.
Okay, I've decided I can live with that.
Honestly, I find feeding and watering my one man enough trouble, thankyouverymuch. Now if these additional men did housework.... Or if they could cook.... Now we might be able to strike up a bargain.
*passes Bo'sun the Benedryl* Me, too.
Oh, they could finish painting my apartment!
Oh, or be good with kids. Sort of a nanny but hot. That'd be okay too.
Gosh, I didn't even think abot making the guys work. Where are my brains??? (Consumed with the Glittery Goo-HaHa. Did I spell that right?)
Bo-sun, I can't wait to meet your kitty! Thank God the sun is supposed to be shining Saturday! Hope you and the youngin are home and snug.
Multiple men...well, there's the garden, the kitchen, the bathroom...so much needs to be done! And if this fantasy is all about pleasing me...the more the cleaner the house gets!
Ah...one must know massage, one know car maintenance,a handiman...
Yes, I'm all in favor of this. I'd even go so far as wanting another woman or two around. For the company. ;)
Nope, I'm at work and kiddo is at school. And the snow has started to stick. Though it's stopped up here in Norfolk with little more than a dusting. How is it looking out your window?
Bumblebee is going to love you. Mostly because he loves everyone. I had to hold him so he'd stop crawling on the phone company dude a couple weeks ago. LOL!
Yes, sunshine all weekend and all next week. *sigh* I can't wait.
Chance - I'd bet money you lived in a commune in a former life.
Slight aside, I love the picture of the Ocean's Eleven in the blog, you know just in case we were thinking 3 guys in bed with us wouldn't be appealing, you held up a picture of 3 hot guys in the same shot and said, "Really? Are you sure?"
Hellie - That's EXACTLY what I was going for. LOL! And I hunted for a picture with exactly those three guys. Though I found some other interesting pics too. I wasn't willing to enter "hot male threesome" into Google. Just wasn't going there.
Well, you nailed it. *LOL*
And entering 'hot male threesome' would have just downloaded that damned virus.
Or you would have gotten more whale pictures, I'm sure.
Seriously, I'd rather google "homemade bomb making" than that phrase. Let homeland security look me up, I'm more afraid of the images the threesome phrase would throw at me.
So, I realize you say the slot A and slot B stuff aside, but uhm, how did you keep that many people busy? There are three brothers, so, did you actually write a foursome?
Well, it is a cowboy story. Maybe the other two whittle as they wait their turn. *LOL* Or maybe they're not in the same room. I mean, don't they have to work some of the time? Who's minding the cows?
Now I have that weird, old song in my head.
"I wanna be a cowboy....and you can be my cowgirl..."
I bet they're whittling alright. LOL!
I'm back again. Had to visit with the doggie for a few minutes. His "mama" is in the hospital and he's traumatized and looking for Pup Peronnis, you know?
Well, Bo'sun, you can do a menage a few different ways, from what I understand. The heroine (which does make 4, BTW. The Triple S Bride is a menage a quattre.) can do one cowboy at a time, do one while one watches, or, as in one of my scenes, each guy takes a part. This is a family site, right? :) Can't say much more than that.
Hellie, the cows manage themselves, thank God! Although, with their social structure of one bull and many cows, they already have a bovine menage a dix, or something.
I hope our Chair NEVER retires and works here forever. I'm going to be so depressed when he finally gets to enjoy his retirement and we no longer get chocolate covered strawberries for Valentine's Day.
Dude, I keep counting parts and am racking my brain to imagine how big the bed must be to accommodate all those bodies.
Seriously my brain has just shut down trying to imagine this...huh, wait...okay, I think I might have worked out the main possiblity. That might be interesting.
Honestly that requires a lot of "hand-patting head while hand-rubbing stomach" coordination of concentration on her part, in my opinion. Says the Bonnet Girl Who Can't Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time.
Dear Bonnet Girl,
The hat is too constricting. Remove it and your brain will work better. The bed need not be anything too large. People do not require their own space surrounded with two inches of air when engaging in the Dirty Deed. They can be like the Michelin Man: stacked and rotated.
Hand-eye coordination is not needed, especially when heroine is blindfolded. And she needn't worry about tummy patting because she ain't the one responsible.
With best wishes,
The Architect (with tongue in cheek)
And I forgot to mention--you get chocolate covered strawberries???
My horoscope today said not to be a show-off, so I hope you know I was joking in the above. Normally not being a show-off means typing with no mistakes, and I think I've already flubbed that. :)
LMAO!!!
I was having trouble with the arrangement too, but Dee seems to have opened up the possibilities. LOL! I will definitely be reading this tonight!
Stacked and rotated. I'm laughing like a loon!
Aside from the logistics... Dee, how do you counter the critics who moan about how it's fine as erotica but simply can't be considered romance?
Honestly, at RT last year, during a discussion with editor/agents about M/M romance, one of the instructors got her panties in a knot about how that wasn't romance! and stormed out of the room. We all ignored her, but this is something I hear a lot of when trying to have serious discussions reg. alternate lifestyles.
Those who live these lifestyles would love to see a book out there that, for example, portrays a love story between two men and a woman that doesn't have any actual bedroom scenes...or against the wall scenes...or whatever tab A, slot B scenes.
Eliminate the titillation factor and talk about the actual love...
Are they dreaming the impossible dream?
Oh yeah, and I'm positive this is NOT a family site.
But yer me family!
Dang, I broke through the "S" key on my keyboard! Now what?!
For a hippie, you must type with a lot of anger.
It's my super duper titanium tipped nails...and they aren't even long!
So, my super power is in the finger nails? Drat. That's fairly useless...
Yeah, that's all fantasy. I barely like being hugged by one man at a time, let alone crowded and pummeled, even if it was for my own good. *LOL*
But it's a good fantasy and I'm sure it's very well written. The excerpt was a quick read--I was engaged right away. If anyone could make the idea of being gang-banged be appealing, it'd be you, Dee.
And the strawberry was freaking awesome and huge. Seriously could almost not fit it in my palm and I gobbled it right down...which probably has some images and connotations that have nothing to do with an innocent strawberry, but whatever. *LOL* And it was doubly good because I ate it while reading my OK magazine, so I got celebrity gossip and a chocolate fix. LOVELY.
2nd Chance, I feel your pain! I sat through the furor at RWA nationals in Dallas a few years ago about who writes romance and who writes smut.
To me, if there there is an emotional bond and the people care for each other, it's romance. If a man and two women are temporarily together for sex, it isn't.
I'd love to see a book where there's little sex but there's real love between the personalities. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it would sell. I'm really unsure about whether people would believe it. For some reason, it's far easier to believe people will join up for sex, but not for love.
If anyone could make the idea of being gang-banged be appealing, it’d be you, Dee.
Why, thank you, ma'am. I think.
If you had gobbled up a chocolate covered banana instead of a strawberry it would evoke a stronger image, but I think I won't dwell on it
I'll be scrubbing that image from my brain all night, thanks.
Those who live these lifestyles would love to see a book out there that, for example, portrays a love story between two men and a woman that doesn’t have any actual bedroom scenes…or against the wall scenes…or whatever tab A, slot B scenes.
Eliminate the titillation factor and talk about the actual love…
What? Like a Christian fiction/love story? Good luck with that.
But again, it's hard to find a lot of love story fiction with M/F that doesn't include the titillating scenes. A certain amount of expectation comes with a bodice ripper cover.
Besides in M/M fiction, assuming males were buying these books, I'm pretty sure there would be an uproar if the sex was cut out, titillating or not. This is guys we're talking about. They like action, not Hamlet revelations of their feelings. Or at least if they're getting the Hamlet revelations scene, they want some sex after, for being good sports for listening about it.
If it was F/F fiction, you could probably get away without having titillating scenes. Maybe not. But here I go generalizing again, but women, as a whole, seem more tolerant about not having the sex be spelled out than the boys are.
How many women have I heard over the year who say, "I skip the sex scenes." (This never makes sense to me, BTW.) I don't think I've ever heard a man say he's skipped a sex scene. Not even a bad sex scene. Not even one with snard and weresnakes and threesomes with 2 men and a girl (instead of 2 girls and a guy). I will grant you that I talk to less men than women...so my research data is probably skewed.
I'll ask Dr. Barrow.
I live to serve, Bo'sun.
Yeah, but men aren't reading the M/M stuff. Heck, I don't think men are writing it!
I guess don't eliminate all the slot stuff, but make it about more than the slot stuff. I mean, I personally know polyamory people. And it isn't all about the sex. There is so much more to it than that. In fact, the sex complicates it to such a degree, it's the real mind field. Not who drops the socks on the floor and who does the laundry.
Yes, I know. Sex is always the real mine field.
But I must admit, the idea of Inspirational M/M sounds like the most delicious thing to throw in to the Rita awards.
*laughing hysterically at the image of that cover up on the big screen as it's announced
Hellion, I agree. No group romance without sex would sell. At least I don't think so. I mean, everyone would agree that it's nice to live together and love each other, but it might be a snooze of a book.
And I think men would love weresnakes.
And I think men would love weresnakes. Only if they got to be the Anaconda. If they were the garter snake, they'd probably be less enthused.
Her brain needed a scrubbing anyway. She's been traumatized quite a bit lately with images. She must say she needs to scrub her brain at least 3 times a week. You're just the cherry on the Sundae.
The Brain Scrub! Huzzah! Served with a bottle brush scrubby fer stirrin'...
Inspirational! That's the word I was digging for! Yes... Yes, the image that invokes of going up for a RITA is hysterically. I would love that.
I don't know about the M/M without sex though--though yes, stories should always definitely be about more than the sex (which is why I love Dee's hot stories--they always are!)--but I'm not sure I'd *believe* an M/M story without sex.
It would definitely take one hell of a story to convince me that such men could exist. Because in my world, men are about the sex. They'll say other things...but they're about the sex.
But I must admit, the idea of Inspirational M/M sounds like the most delicious thing to throw in to the Rita awards.
Ohhh, I see. You want to stir up a little trouble. Well, I'm all for that.
There is an imprint with the same company that does Black Lace that's basically for men and written by men. However, most of the books are about women and fetishes.
The woman I mentioned earlier though, has a good readership composed of men for her M/M.
The Brain Scrub! Huzzah! Served with a bottle brush scrubby fer stirrin’…
We've been blogging and offending people for nearly 3 years. I'm surprised you haven't invented this drink before now.
I scrub my brain that much? Really? See, I don't even remember saying that. That's how bad it is. I've scrubbed away all my brain cells!
Pass me that drink.
My brother is gay, but I have no idea if he would/does read the M/M stuff. I should ask him sometime. But from what I can tell from his house, you could not take the sex out of the story. When we went there for Christmas one year, he and his partner had to wrap most of the artwork on the walls in wrapping paper so my kiddo could actually walk into the house.
And we're talking in the living room! LOL!
When we went there for Christmas one year, he and his partner had to wrap most of the artwork on the walls in wrapping paper so my kiddo could actually walk into the house.
That is just funny.
I always figure men would rather wait until the book comes out as a movie and watch it then. *LOL*
Not all of them, of course. But a lot of them.
I'll have to ask my gay bro-in-law and his partner about the subject next time we're together... And I've never noticed any...ahem...art on their walls when visiting...
But this is California, maybe there is enough out of display in the RW so they don't need to surround themselves with it.
Hell, I have more erotic art in my house!
Oops, TMI!?
Hell, I have more erotic art in my house!
Oops, TMI!?
I assure you, no one is surprised. *LOL*
Woo-hoo! Erotic artwork!! I'd love a nice sensual piece that hid its real sexuality so that only Jack and I knew. Like a dude on a surfboard. He's riding a wave, working it...working it...cresting the surging power and then sinking down to shoot the curl in the final, heart crashing moments.
Everyone who looked at it would see a surfer, but I'd know it was all about sex. And no covering required for kiddo.
Isn't it wonderful! ;)
You know, for years I looked at Georgia O'Keefe's flowers and never saw vaginas? Now I can't help but see them in all her art. I've become corrupted.
And Georgia would be proud.
The Crystal Hooglu convo has turned to HoohoHenna and using cake decorations. Between this blog and that one, my day has been totally made. LOL!
My kiddo freaks at the most innocent of pics. You should see her every Sunday when I open the blog. LOL! The prudishness OBVIOUSLY comes from the other side of the family.
Though we were watching NCIS the other night, and it cut to a scene with Tony and his chick in bed, all sweaty and out of breath. The "sweaty" factor freaked kiddo out. The harder I laughed and wiggle my brows, the more she curled into a ball.
LOL!!!
Come now, Terri. One day you're going to open the blog and your kiddo is going to look at the guy featured and say, "I'd like to ride that!"--and you're going to be missing her prudish days.
I can't say I blame her about the sweat either. I don't like sweating. I mean, I don't mind it now, for a GOOD CAUSE, but on the whole, it just grosses me out.
Ah, she's going to be a clean sheets, keep the AC on sort a' woman?
I'm glad you shared the Bejeweled blog because I've been able to share it with more women friends who found it equally funny.
Oh, she's been a true admirerer (sp?) of the male form for years. When she was four, I made the observation I liked Kenny Chesney's arms. She responded with, "I like all of him." But she gets more straight-laced the older she gets. It's the weirdest thing.
And the comments on that blog are killing me. I can't believe people googled the image. Some things should be left to the imagination. And I don't even want to see it in my imagination. Though the "mow the lawn first" comment nearly resulted in my monitor getting a Mt Dew bath.
The bejeweled blog was fabulous!!!
Tony was in the sack with someone? Was that an old one? I'm planning for him to get with Diva, or Tiva or whatever her name is.
I can’t believe people googled the image. Some things should be left to the imagination.
This said straight faced by the woman who put up a link for a WHALE picture.
Only because Dee pressed the issue! And I only posted the link with a warning. You didn't have to click it. LOL!
I never watched NCIS until a couple weeks ago when I let myself watch an episode on USA. Now I'm hooked and watching, but it's syndication so I have no idea how old they are. Tony has some nurse girlfriend he's keeping a secret in the ones I've been watching lately. But it does seem like Riva (I think that's her name) has a thing for him.
That show is so easy to get addicted to!
Dee. It's all Dee's fault, heeheehee.
Everyone, my friend is going to get something to eat before going back to the hospital to see her mom, so I'm signing off to visit with her awhile.
Thanks so much for inviting me to talk about my book and newfound, deep-seated menage tendencies. :) I love spending time with you all!
I didn't click it. I took your warning very seriously. *LOL*
Uh...Tony is dating the doctor undercover, by the head honcho's orders. The rest don't know about it. And it's Ziva... You'll get it!
So glad I did not click to pics of bedazzled hoohas...
Though I may need to add the Bedazzled to the drink menu...
Dee? You get a pin in the mail last week????
That's her name! And THAT'S why he's not telling anyone? Is he supposed to be sleeping with her?!
Well, I wasn't kidding when I said it's not a whale. And it's not a whale wee either, in case that's what you expected. Which, incidentally, on certain kinds of whales is the size of a VW Bug.
Can you imagine?!
(I know this because someone here at worked pulled up a picture of one once. And I have no recollection of why.)
Seriously talking about Whale Wees makes me not want to frolic in the ocean anymore. No wonder it's so salty.
*GROAN!!!
Another reason NOT to go in the water.
I'm not talking to her anymore... I look out on the bay and thoughts of ...
No, I'm not talking to her anymore! ;(
Hello! I told 2nd Chance I'd stop by ;) Dee, I read your excerpt and it was enjoyable! I want to know what else happened darn it.
I don't think I'd enjoy reading M/M romance, that's not a fantasy of mine. I don't like sword fighting! :) haha.
However, I could probably enjoy some multiple participants!
Barb
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