What makes a good sex scene for you? Long and drawn out or fast and furious? Perhaps the interesting use of accoutrements (honey, rope, water ....) is your jam. And that’s before we get onto angry sex, makeup sex, unexpected sex, or sex with the fear of discovery. I’ve loved steamy romance novels for as long as I can remember, and I have high expectations of that scene where they finally fall into each other's arms. I’m a fan of something unusual: Not tacky or totally unreal

Los Angeles. Hmmm . . . movie industry, bright lights, famous actors, wannabes and scriptwriters . . . There's something about LA that made this award particularly special. And c'mon , no author writes a book without thinking about how it might look as a movie and who might play those parts: Especially romance (Ryan Gosling? Please, pretty please). Suffice to say, winning the Los Angeles book award felt a bit like an Olympic gold medal. The book was judged by a panel of publ

In last week's post, I talked about finding notes from my kids, but also another set of notes that I found on the internet: notes to and from a romantic partner. There's something very special about a note from the person you're closest to in life, they can be revealing and joyous and excruciating all at the same time. This first one is probably my favorite. I love that this guy's wife offered a fight as a welcome home. And who hasn't enjoyed a nerf gun fight at some point in

The notes people leave or give to each other are like shining a light into the crevices and cracks of how we behave as people: Everything...