(This is a cross post from jenbluekissederotica.blogspot.com)

-Elle Amery is an awesome editor.

-In movies, books etc. it's fun to root for the two people to get back together after having a rocky start.

-Trombone Tease has some unique sexual positions. Let's just say that in real life my husband does play trombone, and he really liked my story. He has been a very happy player since I wrote Trombone Tease!

-Black and white covers with a touch of color are super classy

-While you're looking for Rekindled Fire, there's a free book being offered on Ravenous Romance's website (www.ravenousromance.com) and it's hidden. If you click around the website and see an ebook or audio book that happens to be listed as $0.00, you can download it for free today.

-As my husband says, "Let's get brassy, cause I'm French Horny!"

-Valve oil

-There's a witch story by Angela Cameron.

-Jen almost has enough money to get her website up and running. I'm 90% of the way there.

-Being onstage is a ton of fun, regardless of the size of one's audience.

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Rekindled Fire releases on Monday, May 18th.  Check out "Trombone Tease," my male/female short story inclusion.

One a side note, I'm thrilled that I finally figured out how to insert pictures onto this blog!  I think my problem was the browser I was using.

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I've been incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to write short stories for Ravenous Romance's anthologies.  One of the things I love about short stories and the ebook market in general is the quick turn around time from turning in the story to when it goes into electronic print.  As I reflect that I began writing shorts for publication in November of 2008 and I already have stories in Power Plays, Experimental, Ambrosia, and Sweaty Sex and have received acceptance into the upcoming Rekindled, DILF, and Women of the Bite anthologies, I can't help but have warm fuzzies.  RR was the first publisher to which I submitted.

I'm still plugging away at some longer works.

All of my reflection has caused me to realize how important studying the craft of writing is to success.  As writers, we're all told that writing is only one piece of the puzzle to success.  There are marketing, blogging, freebies, queries, proposals, building a fan base, social networking, commenting on other people's blogs, building a platform, and endless other tasks to complete.

I agree that all those things are important, but experimentation, writing, rewriting, and paying attention to my mistakes couldn't be more important.  Sure, I write a dud every now and again.  Nobody receives acceptances 100% of the time.  My duds are fermenting into other pieces altogether.  Dud wine can be perfectly sweet after the pieces morph into something else altogether!

On a side note, I recently searched google blog search (www.blogsearch.google.com) using the world "erotica."  My personal blog today showed up on the first page as the 8th result out of 766,414 hits for the word erotica.  I'm thrilled that jenbluekissederotica.blogspot.com is doing well.  You all must be googling me!

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After contributing and working my way through Experimental, Sweaty Sex, Power Plays, and Ambrosia, I'm falling into a deeper love with anthologies.  Reading for a few minutes here and a few minutes there while taking a break from writing is turning out to be a ton of fun.  Not only am I able to sample other Ravenous Romance writers' work, but I get to flirt with several different characters in a short amount of time.  It feels naughty, and I like it.

As of late, my favorite short story (beside my own of course) is by Mark Farley and is in the Ambrosia anthology.  Kitchen Tongs and Pepper Mills was definately one that I read start to finish!

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Sweaty Sex releases today!  My short story, "Getting Lucky Isn't The Same As Being Lucky," is included.  I had a ton of fun writing this one and would like to mention a few things about the story that set it apart from some of my others.

"Getting Lucky," is a baseball story.  I'm a huge baseball fan.  The rivalry between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs has kept me up many a summer night.  The setting for the story is in Dubuque, Iowa and Dyersville, Iowa.  I'm originally from Dubuque, so creating a rivalry for the two minor league baseball teams, the Iowa Cobs and the Idaho Spuds, was a hoot.  (I was utterly tempted to type Kernels rather than Cobbs.  The temptation almost got the better of me, but the Cedar Rapids Kernels may not have appreciated my using their real life team).

My husband's family is from Idaho.  Now that I'm no longer living in Iowa, I can't tell you how many people with whom I've spoken have mixed up Iowa and Idaho in casual conversation.  I couldn't resist using both in the story.  Other than farmland, the two states are very different places.

I will also mention that most of the details regarding Dubuque are true.  There are only two details that I fabricated.  One of the things I made up is that Dubuque doesn't really have a minor league baseball team.  I even found a way to work Loras College into the story  I attended Loras, graduating with BA degrees in English, Spanish, and Secondary Education.  Go Duhawks!

On a completely different note, the kind folks at the Geek Squad were able to recover all the files on my laptop as well as wipe the virus clean.  I've been breathing a giant sigh of relief for the past two days.  Let's just say that now I own more thumb drives than I care to admit.

I can't help but thank all of my readers for putting both Experimental and Ambrosia in the top ten!  Let's put this anthology there too!

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Some of my close friends, when they found out I was writing erotica, were dumbstruck.  This was especially true of those people who had known me as a child.  The fun I've had while delivering the news has been a quiet joy for me because, until I was sixteen years old, I thought my purpose on this earth was to be a Roman Catholic nun.  Actually, not just a nun: a cloistered nun, the kind that vows never to leave a convent and also takes the vow of silence.

Needless to say, somewhere around puberty I changed my mind.  Now, it's my husband who is part of my drive to write erotic romance.  He didn't know me until I was in my twenties, so he has never seen that side of my personality.  

Oh, how the pendulum swings, eh?

I'm having a ton of fun writing for Ravenous Romance.  When Power Plays was released on Inauguration day, it only heightened the emotions I felt that day.  I also have upcoming short stories that will be released later, but soon, in various anthologies.  More details to come!

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