Hello #CoSos It's Friday already and frankly I have no idea how I got here.
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I've been busy #writing both for profit and pleasure, and working through my editor's excellent notes on my latest. It's the second book in the paranormal romance series set in the lost town of Everlasting Springs, FL

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A quick #Wordle to start the day:

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Uy, pero muy au courant.

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https://wordle.danielfrg.com/

Another early start for me today. Yesterday, I was mostly off-line writing and didn't even get to Wordle. My editor sent me his notes on my next book, slated for publication in the summer, and they're great. It's so exciting to dive back into this story. Can't wait until it's out. #CoSoWriters

Whatever you're up to, have a great day and a good night.

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¡Y olé! 💃

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Setting the mood for the next chapter in my wicked little WIP—a wild paranormal romance set in a lost place I once knew intimately. (FL)

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.
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And I will give to you summer wine
Oh, oh summer wine

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Good morning and good night #CoSos Sweet Saturday night come Sunday.

It's another cloudy day here in Hamlet's hamlet, with rain clouds on the horizon. That is just perfect. There's lots more #writing to do.

And, of course, zee tricky Wordle:

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I'm not here to judge those who don't like 'smut.'

I totally respect their right not to read my books. I implore them not to read my books. They come with a content warning for a very good reason. Some of my books are triggering and others are just plain nasty.

Just leave those books for my lovely readers to enjoy. They deserve some pleasure in their lives. Everybody deserves that.

Life is hard. Love needs to be harder to endure it. Fin.😘

More importantly, it's all endangered work. Writing anything is an at-risk activity.

Censorship trends hurt everyone. It may start with the low-hanging fruit of the marginalized voices and tricky topics. But, eventually, it spreads to kill the tree. Ultimately, it wipes out a forest.

I say #WriteWhatYouLove while you can and #readwhateverthefoxyouplease🦊

(more, but last I promise...)

While words can barely express all that love and sex are, romance authors and erotica authors have the skills to find the right words. We find the mot juste while other authors struggle with titillating text. And that's okay. There are many different specialties in the #WritingCommunity They are all equally valuable. But authors should support fellow authors regardless of whether they enjoy each other's writing. It's all hard work. (more...)

The real reason for this complaint is that we who write steam and erotica are the first easy entry to more stringent censorship of other so-called 'taboo' topics.

Humanity is an odd beast, finding shame in the means of its procreation. Besides, sex is about so much more than reproduction. It's the expression of our identity. It's a connection to another being on a level words can barely express.

And that's the key thing here. (more...)

But that's not what's behind all of this. There has always been a push to regulate and censor love. War is okay. Murder is fine. Gore is welcome. Love... No.

The romance genre endures, despite this, as it has for centuries. One of my favorite classic smutty authors is Shakespeare and the Bible is full of awkward love and sex. So I roll my eyes at all the pearl-clutching. (more...)

Telling any writer to stick to 'clean' romance (I wince at that term) is asking them to censor themselves. It's also preposterous.

Romance is never 'clean,' if you're doing it right. At the very least, you're likely to get grass stains on the hem of your pantaloons while riding your tandem bike with your beloved. Or that ice cream cone might drip a little on your crisp white linen blouse. Love is a delicious, dirty, sticky thing. (more...)

So, this is my clean rant on 'dirty' books.

Is anyone else following the dialogue in the other Town Square™ about there being too much sex in books?

There's so much vitriol directed at the steamy romance genre and erotica. We who write what some call smut are writing for our audience. I love my readers. Shaming someone for enjoying a sexy book as a welcome distraction from the chaos of everyday life seems like a really poor use of time. (more...)

Uf... Sí o sí.

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https://wordle.danielfrg.com/

Good morning #CoSos (and good night to those going to bed.) I hope you have a lovely Saturday. ❤️

It's a bit grey out there this morning—perfect #writing weather. I intend to make the most of it by finishing my latest wicked WIP. #CoSoWriters 👩‍💻

Oh, and #Wordle:

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Hello #CoSos and happy Friday. 😊
Today's been... whoosh... 🌪️
I didn't get to my Wordle until now.

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