Comments on: Still Swimming!

By: Heather Harper

Heather Harper — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:39:34 +0000

One more question…Why is this your last book for HQN? Do tell. Please.

By: Cherylann

Cherylann — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:25:26 +0000

I don’t mind waiting either

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:24:55 +0000

Me personally– I read romance to escape– from full time work, part time school, a 3yr old, 14yr old and hubby….a romance novel is an escape for me that takes me back to when I was dating my hubby and all we were interested in was sex, not what’s for supper, the bills, or the kids.. I like to read a book that gets my interest right off–I like great characters that I can relate to–absolutely a contemporary fan. I like some chemistry and touchy, feely up front–maybe not chapter one, but I would have a hard time waiting until 300 pages in… JMO. That’s why I like Blaze Romance so much–by the time you get to that middle insert in the book, you definately have had some hot sex!

By: Michele L.

Michele L. — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:28:52 +0000

Hey Leslie,

I love the tension that builds in those thick stories that are meaty in plot and light in romance in the beginning and middle but hot and heavy at the end. It is like the icing on the top of the cake!

Sweet!

By: catslady

catslady — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:20:05 +0000

I’m fine with it. In fact if that’s how it fits the story I prefer it so much more than when some authors tend to stick it in (no pun intended haha) before they should.

By: Lois

Lois — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:41:50 +0000

Oh, I certainly don’t mind it that late — I’ve read plenty of books that the story and the tension’s building for most of the book and the first time is more towards the end of the book. Obviously it depends on the story on if that can work or not, or if it’s expected more towards the first half, but I sure like it that way myself!

Lois

By: Estella

Estella — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:09:13 +0000

I like books where the sex is later in the book. The tension builds and the book is more interesting.

By: Cryna

Cryna — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:59:42 +0000

I like to have the sexual tension build, and if the actual consumation of the hero and heroine isn’t till late in the book, that works for me. Sometimes the challenge of actually being able to act upon what we all know that they want to do is just making the book more enjoyable. Not that I have anything wrong with it happening within the first few chapters, but I like to see the sexual tension build………. :thumbsup2:

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:56:27 +0000

Heather, in answer to your question, I use Courier New, 12 point.

And yes, as others have said, it’s a balancing act. I had the sex coming pretty late–for a Blaze–in Asking For Trouble. Again, the story dictated it, I did not. Same thing with this book.

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:02:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing the process with some of us who are aspiring writer! As far as the sex scene goes, I don’t think it matters if it is later or early in the book as long as it works with the story and there’s still some good sexual tension in between.