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May Chats at Coffee Time Romance & More

Please join us for a fun full Month in May!
Coffee Time Romance & More Chats
9:00 PM EST
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3rd Tease Publishing

6th Kathleen Gilles Seidel

7th Lyrical Press

13th Sandy Blair

15th Samhain Publishing

20th Amanda Carrell

21st Eternal Press Authors

27th Jacquelyn Frank, Karen Whiddon

Reader's Retreat
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Petticoats & Pistols: Romancing the West - We're a batch of sweet and sassy western romance authors from Wildflower Junction, USA. We shoot straight for the heart with stories about hard-loving, hard-living, rugged-to-the-bone men and the spirited women who match them stride for stride. You'll find us blogging at www.petticoatsandpistols.com where you can put in your two bits and stay awhile, so come join us and have some fun! Yee-Haw! Petticoats and Pistols - Romancing the West

Seminars and Classes
Are you a published writer? Or are you looking to get published? We are here to help.
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Sascha Illyvich - BDSM in Romance: Marketing properly towards the fringe crowd!

This workshop is for authors particularly in the romance genre who dabble BDSM in any form, be it writing spanking stories, light bondage, or like myself, heavier darker things. What authors often fail to recognize about Kink and BDSM is that the term BDSM is a BLANKET TERM encompassing many different things that if utilized properly and marketed appropriately can expand an author’s audience. So, in order of author responsibilities after we’ve written the novel of course:
Establish the Brand (I’m Sascha Illyvich, paranormal erotica/BDSM romance author)
Maintain the Brand (Primarily through PR, I write about wolves, fae, vampires, but you’ll never see me write a western!)
Grow the Brand (I write paranormal romances, which puts me in with the anime crowd who likes dark fantasy!)
This workshop will focus on Number 3: Grow the Brand. What authors often fail to realize is that in including different elements like spanking or light bondage that they are writing for their normal audiences but with a little more effort could target not just the fringe readers; those who are closeted about their darker desires, but those who are a little open with their darker desires.

Location: Coffee Time Romance Forums
Length: The entire month of May
Cost: $25 a head (Valued at $200)

I have been writing in this genre for the last eight years, worked two large BDSM events in Houston with HPEP, been actively involved on mailing list discussions, read a few books, met and spent time with Jay Wiseman (Author of SM 101: A Realistic Introduction) Oh, and as I mentioned before, my Mom is a Lifestyle Domme – meaning when she realized that she enjoyed kinky sex, she sought out knowledge and became who she is today. My previous workshop, Writing from the Male POV and creating better heroes was a success both at Coffee Time Romance and at Collette Thomoas’s Erotic Workshop yahoo group.