by Laura K Curtis | Jul 14, 2014 | Books, Freebies & Giveaways, Romance, Stuff!
In Toying With His Affections, the heroine, Evie, sells sex toys for a living. She works for a fictional company called Goody’s Goodies that has both retail outlets and a home party arm. Now, before I started writing this book, I knew very little about sex toys....
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 21, 2014 | Freebies & Giveaways, Romance
Last night I posed a question on Twitter. I wanted some recommendations for books that had romances in them but had a literary fiction tone. There was some back and forth on what literary fiction is, as one would expect, but I thought I would post the list of...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 17, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
Many of you know I will be publishing my first contemporary romance this summer. This is my cover. Isn’t it pretty? And here’s the cover copy: Good girl gone bad… Evie Bell couldn’t wait to get out of the small town that had labeled her a goodie...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 14, 2014 | Books, Romance
In one of those weird coincidences, my tweetstream and my email box are full of the same thing today: discussions of relationships and sexuality. It started with an article that was, I think, meant to be a puff piece to shine a light on women who write male/male...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 8, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
When I tell people that I’ve never written a query that didn’t result in a request for pages, they can’t believe it. When I tell them I ever sent out three (or six if you count the random assignments I was given to pitch to at conferences) queries,...
by Laura K Curtis | May 29, 2014 | Books, Romance
If you ask someone who’s been married a few years about their spouse, you’re apt to get an answer that begins with “I love him/her to death, but…” That’s because marriage is hard. The falling in love part, the part we see in romance novels, may be angsty and difficult...
