The secret of writing a great romance is to take a classic plot and twist it to make the story unique. Here is a list of the classic plot types used in romances:
1. Secret Baby - a pregnancy results from a romance and the father doesn’t know about it.
2. Cinderella - a rags to riches story.
3. Beauty and the Beast - one of the main characters is physically marred in some way.
4. Good Girl/Bad Boy - opposites attract. This can also be reversed with a bad girl/good boy.
5. Stranded - a couple is stranded together and the enforced intimacy leads to more.
6. Marriage of convenience - an arranged or forced marriage leads to love.
7. Family feud - think Romeo and Juliet.
8. Mistaken Identity - one of a couple isn’t who he or she appears to be on the surface.
9. Lady and the Cowboy - a class difference sets a couple apart.
10. Secret - a secret stands between romance.
11. Twins - lots of possibilities here.
12. Kidnapping - an abduction.
13. Business competitors - two people fighting for the same prize and only one can win.
14. Friends to Lovers - a friendship leads to more.
15. Masquerade - pretending to be someone else.
16. Amnesia - where one of the characters has lost their memory.
Which type of plot is your favorite? The one you most dislike? Have I missed any from my list?
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During the last couple of weeks I’ve tripped across lots of quotes by Mae West. Wow! She was a fascinating lady, and one who has left a legacy of some great quotes that cut straight to the heart of the subject, whatever that may be.
1. Mae West was born Mary Jane West on 17 August 1893 in Woodhaven, New York, US. She died on 22 November 1980 at age 87 in Los Angeles, California, US. West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. Here’s a link to some photos of Mae West. She was famous for her large number of quips, some by herself and others by her characters. Below are some of my favorites from the lady who said, “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
2. His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
3. Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.
4. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
5. When I’m good, I’m very good. When I’m bad, I’m better.
6. Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.
7. I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
8. I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.
9. Look your best - who said love is blind?
10. Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
11. I like my clothes to be tight enough to show I’m a woman… but loose enough to show I’m a lady.
12. Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.
13. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Have I missed any of your favorites or is your favorite one of the above?
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1. The dictionary defines a kiss as a touch given with lips as a sign of love, affection, greeting or reverence. Kisses come in many forms. There’s a kiss curl (a small curl of hair on the forehead), the kiss of death (apparently friendly act causing ruin), the kiss of life (artificial respiration). Some kisses are loud - the band KISS. Some kisses are delicious - Hersey’s kisses. Some kisses are personal - a kiss between lovers.
2. When you think about it - kissing is pretty yucky. It’s basically swapping spit. Experts say lots of bacteria journey from one mouth to another during the kissing process. You can get diseases from kissing - like meningitis, herpes and mononucleosis.
3. Despite this danger of disease anthropologists report that 90 percent of the people in the world kiss. Most people look forward to their first romantic kiss and remember it for the rest of their lives. Do you remember the awkward bump of noses, the apprehension of your first kiss?
4. Several other animal species have behaviors that resemble kissing. Many mammals lick one another’s faces, birds touch one another’s bills and snails caress one another’s antennae. In some cases, the animals are grooming one another rather than kissing. In others, they’re smelling scent glands that are located on faces or in mouths. Regardless, when animals touch each other in this way, they’re often showing signs of trust and affection or developing social bonds.
5. Your body physically reacts to being kissed. Most people like to be touched, and that’s part of your body’s response to kissing. But kissing also affects everything from your blood to your brain.
6. Kisses have lots of variations. There’s the beginner’s kiss where lips brush or gently press together. There’s a butterfly kiss where lips just graze in a light touch. There’s a French kiss where participants kiss with open mouths and probing tongues. Gently please! No stabbing for tonsils allowed.
7. There’s a virtual kiss - :-*
8. If you’re kissing a lot you want to have fresh breath and kissable lips. Here are some instructions for kisseable lips:
Step 1: Prep
Smooth lips with lip balm. Avoid slick products, such as Vaseline or anything else petroleum-based (they will make the lipstick slide off). Instead, apply a waxy balm, such as Chapstick, and massage into lips with your figertips. Then let it sink in for a few minutes.
Step 2: Pick Your Stick
Grab one that lets lips show through, such as a sheer lipstick or light gloss. Apply…LIPSTICK straight from the tube. Blend into lips and along your lip line with fingertip. Apply LIP GLOSS with the wand or a lip brush. Smooth out with your fingertip.
Step 3: Blot
When you are finished applying color, lightly kiss the back of your hand. This will get rid of excess product without cutting down on the sheen. Then, gently smack your lips together to even out the color one last time. Pucker up!
9. There are kissing games like SPIN THE BOTTLE
You put a soda bottle or a flashlight in the middle of a circle of people. One person spins the bottle (or flashlight in the dark) and when it stops spinning and points to someone of the opposite sex, they have to kiss.
10. We sing about kisses - here’s the great Louis Armstrong singing A Kiss to Build a Dream on.
11. There are kissing quotes:
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. -Emil Ludwig (1881-1948)
I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them. -Mae West
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -Ingrid Bergman
13. James Belshaw and Sophia Severin locked lips for more than 31 hours to break the world record for the longest kiss.
James Belshaw, 26, and his girlfriend Sophia Severin, 23, from London, shared an unbroken kiss for 31 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. They began kissing in the Plaza Shopping Centre in Oxford Street at 11:15 BST on Wednesday. The pair broke the previous record, which was set in the US four years ago, by more than half an hour.
Throughout the event they were not allowed to sit, or fall asleep, could only take sustenance through a straw and had to stay kissing even while visiting the toilet.
Do you have any kissing trivia to add? Stories of first kisses? A comment?
Tomorrow I’m having another post about kisses and would like to invite you to post a kiss excerpt (in the comments section). If it’s published post a buy link. Unpublished authors are welcome to leave their kiss excerpts as well. I’m giving out some spot prizes so come along and say hello, even if you don’t post an excerpt.
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Wanderlust is out today from Cerridwen Press. It’s a contemporary romantic suspense set in India. Since I’ve already covered the travel through India angle of my new release, today I thought I’d talk about murder and intrigue.
Thirteen Things about Murder and Death
1. The first murder in Wanderlust happens before the book starts. It takes place in Aleppo, Syria in a crowded market place. When we visited there were lots of narrow roads, running through a confined space. People shared with donkeys, camels, and noisy motorbikes. With all the pushing and shoving I could imagine a motorbike colliding with a person. The first death appears to be a hit and run. It’s not…
2. The most common cause of death in the USA is heart attack followed by cancer.
3. The current medical-legal definition of death: Death has occurred when all cerebral function has ceased and is irreversible.
4. I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen
5. Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. ~ Emily Dickinson
6. A smell of a patient’s breath or body may help identify toxins or other medical conditions. e.g. Ammonia - Uremia (kidney failure), Violets - turpentine, almonds or bitter - cyanide.
7. The law requires a physician or the coroner or medical examiner to certify the cause of death. When a person is declared dead, the exact time must be recorded for legal purposes. The term “time of death” refers to the legal time of death, and is the moment that a professional person first sees the body and declares it to be dead.
8. If a body is warm, the person has been dead less than three hours; if cool to the touch, between four to six hours; and if cold and clammy, eighteen to twenty-four hours. Loss of warmth varies with environmental temperature, but averages a drop of 1 1/2 degrees per hour.
9. One of the characters in Wanderlust is found in a lake. Suicide by drowning is rather uncommon, and it is very difficult to prove without other circumstances (suicide note). Death in the bathtub is frequently suicide. Often the person is under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of death.
10. Food poisoning is still a common killer around the world, involving everything from botulism, to mushrooms, to puffer fish in Japan. Something to ponder when reading Wanderlust…
11. Falling - there are two ways to fall: a vertical “controlled” fall, with the person landing upright and feet-first; and an “uncontrolled” fall, with some other part of the body hitting first, such as landing on your head, back, stomach, etc. the important thing to remember is that you can “kill” one of your characters by having them fall short distances, or survive falls from great heights if your plot calls for it. Just saying…
12. What are your chances?
Your chances of dying by a terrorist’s hand if you travel overseas 1 in 650,000
Your chances of dying from skiing 1 in 500,000
Your chances of dying from rock climbing 1 in 5,000
Your chances of dying from parachuting 1 in 4,000
On the news yesterday I heard a teenager had recalculated the chances of a huge meteor hitting Earth 1 in 450. I’m sure I heard that right. Evidently it’s more possible than they initially thought.
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13. And because it makes good sense to promo, here’s some of mine: Issy’s Infatuation, Best Man, Playing to Win by Shelley Munro - rugby. And coming soon - Cat and Mouse with a rodeo theme, New Zealand-style.
Do you like romances with a sports theme? Have I missed any of your favorites?
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You’ve probably already guessed I love to travel, and India is one of my favorite destinations. For sheer variety you can’t beat India. It has it all: history, palaces, temples, pomp and ceremony, wild life, gorgeous beaches, fun shopping, tasty food. People either love India or hate it. There are no half measures. It’s vibrant and in-your-face, and one day I hope to return. I’ve traveled to India twice and taken my travel experiences, combined them with teenage memories of Agatha Christie mysteries and come up with a book called Wanderlust. Anna is the tour leader for overland tour OE68. It’s a tale full of love and murder…
Below are thirteen destinations included in Wanderlust.
Most people own a pair of jeans. Finding the right fit can be an exercise in frustration and after many years of trying on jeans, can I say dark rinse, mid-rise, boot-cut. That’s me, baby. I’ll admit that having found my style I’m now feeling suitably smug. I did, however, take a moment to ponder about jeans and their history. IMO there’s inspiration to be found while checking out men in jeans, although if you repeat this to my hubby, I’m denying all!
So, in honor of jeans and the clever man who invented them:
THIRTEEN THINGS ABOUT JEANS
1. The word jeans comes from a type of material made in Europe. The material, called jean, was named after sailors from Genoa in Italy, because they wore clothes made from it. The word ‘denim’ probably came from the name of a French material, serge de Nimes: serge (a kind of material) from Nimes (a town in France).
2. During the eighteenth century workers wore jean cloth because the material was very strong and it did not wear out easily.
3. In 1853, the California gold rush was in full swing, and everyday items were in short supply. Levi Strauss, a 24-year-old German immigrant, left New York for San Francisco with a small supply of dry goods with the intention of opening a branch of his brother’s New York dry goods business. Shortly after his arrival, a prospector wanted to know what Mr. Strauss was selling. When Strauss told him he had rough canvas to use for tents and wagon covers, the prospector said, “You should have brought pants!,” saying he couldn’t find a pair of pants strong enough to last.
4. Exhausting his original supply of canvas, as the demand grew for his long-wearing overalls, Levi switched to a sturdy fabric called serge, which was made in Nimes, France. Originally called serge de Nimes, this name was soon shortened to “denim”. And, with the development of an indigo dye, the brown color was soon replaced with the now familiar deep blue, the trademark color of most jeans made today.
5. One of Levi’s many customers was a tailor named Jacob Davis. Originally from Latvia, Jacob lived in Reno, Nevada, and regularly purchased bolts of cloth from the wholesale house of Levi Strauss & Co. Among Jacob’s customers was a difficult man who kept ripping the pockets of the pants that Jacob made for him. Jacob tried to think of a way to strengthen the man’s trousers, and one day hit upon the idea of putting metal rivets at the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly.
6. These riveted pants were an instant hit with Jacob’s customers and he worried that someone might steal this great idea. He decided he should apply for a patent on the process, but didn’t have the $68 that was required to file the papers. He needed a business partner and he immediately thought of Levi Strauss. In 1872 Jacob wrote a letter to Levi to suggest that the two men hold the patent together. Levi, who was an astute businessman, saw the potential for this new product and agreed to Jacob’s proposal. On May 20, 1873, the two men received patent no.139,121 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. That day is now considered to be the official “birthday” of blue jeans.
7. Jeans can be worn very loose in a manner that completely conceals the shape of the wearer’s lower body, or they can be snugly fitting and accentuate the body, specifically the buttocks. Historic photographs indicate that in the decades before they became a staple of fashion, jeans generally fit quite loosely, much like a pair of bib overalls without the bib. Indeed, until 1960, Levi Strauss denominated its flagship product “waist overalls” rather than “jeans”.
8. The orange thread traditionally used to sew Levi Strauss blue jeans was intentionally selected to match the copper rivets that doubled the durability of the jeans.
9. How many pair of jeans do you own? According to the Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor™, each American woman and man own eight pairs of jeans on average.
11. One of the best as well as easiest things you can do to protect your jeans in the laundry is to turn them inside out before washing.
When possible, use cold water to wash your jeans along with a small amount of vinegar added to the rinse cycle instead of fabric softener. The cold cycle is much easier on your blue jeans and helps to prevent fading. The vinegar is an added touch to preserve the color.
Another way to preserve the color of your jeans is to buy a detergent for dark colors such as Woolite Dark Laundry Fabric Wash. This detergent is made especially to help preserve dark colors and works very well for blue jeans.
12. Choose a style that’s right for your body type. A slim figure is well-suited to low-rise skinny, straight or boot-cut jeans. The latter two cuts are more flattering on muscular, athletic shapes. If you are pear-shaped, try low-rise boot-cut or flared jeans for balance. A higher-rise is recommended for curvier girls, as it better conceals love-handles. However, every figure is different and it really is best to try on many different cuts. To make your butt look perkier, choose a jean with low-set back pockets that are closer to the center.
13. I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent
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1. Definition of a smile - to have or take on a facial expression showing usually pleasure, amusement, affection, friendliness, etc., or, sometimes, irony, derision, etc. and characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and a sparkling of the eyes
2. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. Not true. According to Snopes.com this is an urban legend.
3. According to Wikipedia a smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth. The smile can be also around the eyes. Among humans, it is customarily an expression of pleasure, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it can be known as a grimace. There is much evidence that smiling is a normal reaction to certain stimuli and occurs regardless of culture. Happiness is most often the cause of a smile.
4. Among animals, the exposure of teeth, which may bear a resemblance to a smile, is often used as a threat or warning display - known as a snarl - or a sign of submission. In chimpanzees, it can be a sign of fear.
5. The BBC have a quiz you can do where you rate smiles. How good are you at telling if a smile is genuine? Me - I learned I’m not very good at judging smiles. Here’s the link.
6. A genuine smile is addictive, especially if accompanied by laughter.
7. To keep a nice smile it’s a good idea to use a toothbrush. It is important to change your tooth brush every 2-3 months or sooner as it becomes ineffective when worn out. Adults should choose a small or medium size toothbrush with soft or medium multi-tilted, round ended nylon bristles. The head should be small enough to get into all parts of the mouth. Children need to use smaller brushes but with the same type of bristles.
8. A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown
9. People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon
10. Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields
11. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
12. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
13. Wear a smile - one size fits all. ~Author Unknown
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There’s a really good documentary playing on our TV at the moment about the life of James Cook. It’s fascinating and these are some of the things I’ve learned during the last two weeks of viewing.
1. 1728: Born at Marton (near modern Middlesbrough), Yorkshire, Britain. He was the son of a farmer.
2. 1736: Family moves a few miles to Great Ayton, Yorkshire. He attends the village school and shows great promise.
3. 1744: He moves several miles to the coastal village of Staithes and is apprenticed to a shop keeper.
4. 1746: He moves south to Whitby, where he works for Captain John Walker on his ships. They’re not allowed to drink, gamble or associate with loose women!
5. 1755: Joins the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman.
6. 1759: Takes part in surveying the St. Lawrence River in Canada. He’s fascinated by a new method of surveying and is excited by the possibilities.
7. 1760-67: Surveys the islands of Newfoundland, St. Pierre and Miquelon off the east coast of Canada. His map was so accurate it was still being used over 200 years later.
8. In 1762, James Cook married Elizabeth Batts at Barking, just to the east of London. They were married for sixteen years and had six children. They spent only four years of their marriage together. Elizabeth Cook died in 1835 while in her nineties, living longer than all her children. Elizabeth burned all James’ papers and letters shortly before she died.
9. 1768-71: First Voyage round the world in the ship Endeavour. 1772-75: Second Voyage round the world in the ships Resolution and Adventure. 1776-80: Third Voyage round the world in the ships Resolution and Discovery, completed without him.
10. As a result of his experiences of astronomical observation and obvious skill in navigation and cartography, Cook was appointed leader of an expedition to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti organised by the Royal Society, in association with the Navy Board and funded by King George III. The Admiralty were less interested in astronomical observation than in the opportunity such a voyage offered for the secret exploration of the south-west of the South Sea (Pacific) for the Great South Land—Terra Australis Incognita. When the expedition returned in July 1771, the transit of Venus had been observed, an unprecedented number of botanical and zoological specimens collected, and though no Great South Land had been found, New Zealand and the east coast of New Holland (Australia) had been charted and claimed for King George III.
11. On 7 March 1776 Cook was admitted to the Royal Society for his success in defeating scurvy amongst his crew during his voyages and his paper on nutrition aboard the Resolution was awarded the prestigious Copley Medal, judged to be the best experimental research of the year. Elizabeth accepted the award however, as Cook had left on a third voyage in 1776 to search for a Pacific entrance to the legendary Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific, believed to lie north of Canada.
12. Following Cook’s death in 1779, the Endeavour journal of James Cook is thought to have been held by his wife Elizabeth. There is no record of the journal’s movements following Elizabeth Cook’s death in 1835 until its appearance in 1923 when it was offered at auction by its owners the Bolckow family of Yorkshire. The family were unable to explain how they came to hold the journal. It had apparently been in the family’s library ‘for upward of fifty years, having been purchased by the late Bolckow’s uncle, but from whom and in what circumstances is unknown’.
On 21 March 1923 the Australian government purchased the Endeavour journal for £5000 for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
13. James Cook died in 1779. His last voyage was characterised by violence. Cook meted out increasingly severe punishments to indigenous peoples following the theft of various articles whilst at the Friendly Islands (Tonga), St George’s Island (Tahiti) and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). And on 14 February 1779 Cook and four marines were killed on the beach at Kealakekua Bay while seeking the return of the Discovery’s large cutter.
James Cook was a great leader of men and his skills in navigation led him to rise from ordinary seaman to a position of rank. Many of his charts were in use until recent times and were very close to satellite images of the land masses.
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In honor of my upcoming release FANCY FREE, which is out tomorrow from Ellora’s Cave, here are Thirteen interesting things about Condoms
1. Condoms have been around since the time of the Egyptians.
2. During Roman times, a magic condom became popular. This condom supposedly protected the users from pregnancy and from evil spirits. To make a magic condom the woman collected a large handful of fur from a she-mule’s mane. During the foreplay stage, the man and woman wove a condom from the fur, which was then used during lovemaking.
3. Roman legions kept herds of goats for meat and milk. Some of the soldiers used the goat bladders or intestines for penis sheaths. Small pieces of leather or string held the condom in place around the top of the penis.
4. One size does not fit all. Correct condom use is critical in preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, yet an Indiana study found many men reported problems with the fit and feel of condoms. The range of condom sizes is limited yet men come in all shapes and sizes.
21% of men in the study reported the condoms were too tight.
18% of the men in the study reported the condoms felt too short.
10% of the men in the study reported the condoms felt too loose.
7% of the men in the study reported the condoms felt too long.
5. Condoms are currently made from three materials: Latex, Polyurethane and Lamb Skins.
6. Latex condoms are produced from natural rubber latex, derived from trees in Africa and Southeast Asia. It’s a very elastic material and can stretch to fit any size. Condoms are stretched and inflated to several times their natural size and shape during the manufacture and product testing stage. During trials they are put under more stress than they receive in sexual intercourse.
7. Polyurethane is stronger and thinner and has no odor or taste. It has only recently been used in the manufacture of condoms and is recommended for latex-sensitive users.
8. Lamb Skins are made from the intestine of animals and were one of the first forms of birth control. They have a natural feeling and although effective for birth control, the bacteria and viruses which carry STDs and AIDs can pass through the porous walls of the natural membrane. Only one company continues to make Lamb Skin condoms.
9. Condoms can be weakened by exposure to heat or sunlight or by age.
10. Don’t store condoms in wallets, they could get damaged or worn out from the heat of the backside of a person or the pressure from being squished so much.
11. Always check the expiration date. Condoms should come with an expiration date.
12. Condoms are 98 percent effective in preventing pregnancy when used consistently and correctly. Using a latex condom to prevent transmission of HIV is more than 10,000 times safer than not using a condom.
13. For a humorous look at condoms check out FANCY FREE, available tomorrow from Ellora’s Cave.
Blurb:
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.
Note: condoms were tested and a few harmed during the writing of this story.
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