6:30 pm – 8:30 pm The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge St. Hosted by Luminato’s Literary & Ideas Curator, Noah Richler Twitter’s immensely popular #ReadWomen2014 has been busy affirming the contributions, gifts and unique perspectives of female novelists and the challenges they still face. Four of Canada’s bestselling [...]

I really love this interview by Rachel Kramer Bussel, one of the leading lights in erotica today. I thought I’d share it with you: Rachel: How did you get the idea for the S.E.C.R.E.T. series, and did you have it fully plotted out when you started to write the first book? It was one of [...]

Be sure to tune into CTV’s Canada AM at 8:45, October 15th, launch day! I’m so excited for you to finally get a hold of book two in my trilogy, S.E.C.R.E.T. Shared. It’s hard to believe that launch day is already here! It’ll be a busy week, so be sure to check the Events tab, [...]

 I like rules and lists and hints and steps and tips. Especially when it comes to writing. And I’ve read them all, too, Stephen King’s book, On Writing, Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird—all the classics. When people ask me for writing advice, I always recommend these books. There is a lot of useful information in those pages. [...]

Casting the characters for the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey was always going to be fraught–with such a passionate and vocal fan base. I wonder how E.L. James braced herself. I picture her taking a few belts of scotch, one of the producers is on the phone, the screenwriter’s on speaker, she presses [...]

Q. S.E.C.R.E.T. was your first erotic novel. Was there anything that surprised you about the process, during the writing/editing stage or after publication? A. What most surprised me about writing erotica was how much sex tells you about your characters. What they like, what they don’t like, how far they’re willing to go, it all [...]

What do you find sexy in a man? Who’s your fantasy man? When you write  a book about a secret society of women that recruits fantasy men, people are going to ask you this question. So here goes. There are two men who “do it for me”. This blog post concerns Fantasy Man Number One: [...]

I’m am SO excited to (finally!) share the covers for S.E.C.R.E.T. SHARED, both the U.S. and Canadian covers. Seeing how your book is interpreted by designers is something that will never get old— and I feel really lucky to have two beautiful covers that express different aspects of S.E.C.R.E.T. Shared. Here’s my take on what [...]

It’s a question I’m asked all the time: Will Cassie end up with Will?  Can they have a happily ever after? In the S.E.C.R.E.T Trilogy (yes, it’s going to be a trilogy—so be patient), love’s an accidental outcome of great sex; it’s not the goal. It isn’t that I’m against love. I just don’t think [...]

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