We Like Our Action To Be Front & Centre. What words of wisdom would Alex Caine offer someone before their first fight? Remember that however hard you’ve trained, however much you know, when the adrenaline of a fight hits you will forget at least 50% of your techniques, you will have maybe 50% of your […]
Why I Prefer Stomp Over Romp! Hello there! Jess Haines here. I’m a USA Today best-selling author who writes about all the furred, fanged, and clawed things that go bump in the night. Okay, I’ll admit it. There’s something infinitely sexy about the supernaturally strong getting down and dirty. It’s not just the combination of […]
The Power to Consent I’ve been thinking about the nature of consent lately. My first book, Mark of the Moon, opens with: “The skin at my wrists chafed, steel buffered by silk – but clearly not buffered enough.” Maybe you’re thinking it’s a 50 Shades rip-off. (It’s not – I wrote the line years before […]
5 Reasons Why Action Scenes are Better Than Sexy Scenes Action scenes or Sexy scenes, which will reign supreme? Action scenes can make people squeamish by being too violent. Sexy scenes can make people prudish by being too titillating. Both of them make fictional stories better by tying the fantastical to concrete aspects of the […]