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March 3rd, 2010
The First M/M Romance and Condom Use in Romantic Fiction

Today I’m doing a guest post at The Rainbow Studio blog where I’m talking about the first gay romance I read. I’m also doing a guest blog at Alternative Read.com where I’m discussing Fancy Free and the use of condoms in romantic fiction. Should we or should we not have our heroes and heroines using condoms? Those who comment on my Alternative Read post will go into a draw to win a download from my Ellora’s Cave or Cerridwen Press backlist.

Fancy Free

Warning: Condoms were tested and a few harmed during the writing of this story.

It’s not every day a girl inherits a condom company, and to say accountant Alice Beasley is astonished and out of her depth is putting it mildly. For an almost virgin, she needs a quick education in all things condom because her inheritance is in danger. Someone is intent on sabotage and playing nasty, trying to destroy her new company.

Alice is suddenly getting down and dirty with charismatic James, the factory manager, all in the name of business, testing new condom designs. The sex is hot. Mind-blowing. It’s a dark thrill and an erotic journey. Yeah, it’s a hard job, but a girl’s got to do what a girl’s gotta do.

The testing turns personal. Alice wants James. She craves his talented touch and sultry kisses, she desires passion and physical pleasure on a permanent basis but first she must convince bad-boy James to give up his fancy-free ways…

Related posts:

  1. Small Towns with a Side of Aliens
  2. The Humble Little Condom
  3. He said, She said…on Inheriting a Condom Company
  4. Alice Visits Sloan and Thinks She’s Found a Rabbit Hole
  5. Condoms and the Romance Writer

3 comments to “The First M/M Romance and Condom Use in Romantic Fiction”

  1. Mary Preston
    March 3rd, 2010 at 12:40 am · Link

    I love the storyline of inheriting a condom factory. The possibilities say I MUST READ THIS.



  2. Shelley Munro
    March 3rd, 2010 at 11:45 am · Link

    Mary, thanks! It was a fun story to write.



  3. Kaye Manro
    March 3rd, 2010 at 12:17 pm · Link

    Still a great topic. I just love that warning!