This week's sexy song is Gotta Get Thru This, by Daniel Bedingfield, because lets face it sometimes we just need a little pick me up.  

I found out some really bad news yesterday, bad enough that I may be taking a little hiatus while some things get aligned once again.  

Everyone goes through points in life where they just want to quit, where someone dies, a loved one leaves, someone has to fight something scary, jobs go away...  Emotional roller-coasters are a part of life, ups and downs and all that.

The good news with Erotica is that it will be here when we're ready again, when we don't feel like the world is falling apart, and maybe it will give us some inspiration and make our pieces that much stronger. 

If you loved The Binding: An Erotic Fantasy you will love the novella follow-up, Bound To Him: An Erotic Fantasy, on sale at Amazon and coming soon to Barnes and Noble.

Often with erotica plot and character development is slimmed down in favor of hot, hot sex.  I have been guilty of that with my Sweet Release Quickies, simple "stroke" stories, full of explicit sex and little else.  (That and their shortness is why I have put them at $0.99)  I read a blog once that stated Erotica should be 70% sex.  Seventy percent! Wow, that's very little time for the story.

Putting together a story dependent on the plot and characters and only enhanced by sex causes the questions of "what category do I put it in?"  "Is it still erotica?"  "Is it erotic enough?"  The sex is still very explicit, deeper than your standard "romance novel," but will classifying it as "erotica" upset readers out simply to stroke? 

I wish I had answers, I guess we'll see how this one turns out, a plot heavy, character driven piece with erotic elements, I've classified it as Erotic Romance.  

For your chance to win it and The Binding: An Erotic Fantasy, be sure to drop by Heartthrob Haven!