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    Steaming Up Your Love Scenes: A How-To For Romance Writers And Others
    Steaming Up Your Love Scenes: A How-To For Romance Writers And Others
    Steaming Up Your Love Scenes: A How-To For Romance Writers And Others
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    Steaming Up Your Love Scenes: A How-To For Romance Writers And Others

    By Emma Holly

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    Wish your love scenes had a bit more sizzle? Wondering why some writers get their readers fanning their faces and others not so much? No worries! Bestselling “red-hot” author Emma Holly’s simple tricks could help you do the hot-cha-cha!

    Nice Things People Say About Emma’s Books

    "Amazing ... red-hot to the wall." - The Best Reviews
    "A must read." - Romance Junkies
    "Enthralling." - ParaNormal Romance
    "Pure genius!" - NYT bestseller Jacquelyn Frank

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmma Holly
    Release dateFeb 11, 2012
    ISBN9780984916238
    Steaming Up Your Love Scenes: A How-To For Romance Writers And Others
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    Emma Holly

    Emma Holly is the award winning, USA Today bestselling author of more than forty romantic books featuring billionaires, genies, faeries and just plain extraordinary folks. She loves the hot stuff, both to read and to write!

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      Steaming Up Your Love Scenes - Emma Holly

      Steaming Up Your Love Scenes: A How-To For Romance Writers And Others

      Emma Holly

      Smashwords edition

      Copyright 2012 Emma Holly. All rights reserved. With the exception of quotes used in reviews, this book may not be reproduced or used in whole or in part by any means existing without written permission of the author.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This ebook includes sexually explicit excerpts that are only appropriate for adults—and not every adult at that. Those who are offended by more adventurous depictions of sexuality or frank language possibly shouldn’t read it.

      Steaming Up Your Love Scenes is an approximately 9,000-word nonfiction guide.

      Discover other exciting Emma Holly titles at: http://www.emmaholly.com

      eISBN: 978-0-9849162-3-8

      cover photo: korionov

      Wish your love scenes had a bit more sizzle?

      Wondering why some writers get their readers fanning their faces and others not so much? No worries! Bestselling red-hot author Emma Holly’s simple tricks could help you do the hot-cha-cha!

      Nice Things People Say About Emma’s Books

      Amazing ... red-hot to the wall.—The Best Reviews

      A must read.—Romance Junkies

      Enthralling.—ParaNormal Romance

      Pure genius!—NYT bestseller Jacquelyn Frank

      Emma Holly's name on the cover guarantees a smoking-hot read!—NYT bestseller Lara Adrian

      Unfreakingbelievably hot-hot-hot!—RBL Romantica

      I don’t know how Emma Holly does it but I hope she keeps on doing it ... a smoking HOT read and a great story. —In My Humble Opinion (inmho-read.blogspot.com)

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      Tales of the Djinn: The Guardian

      Tales of the Djinn: The Double

      Beck & Call: The Billionaires

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      Hidden Series

      Hidden Talents

      Hidden Depths

      Date Night

      Move Me

      The Faerie’s Honeymoon

      Hidden Crimes

      Winter’s Tale

      Hidden Dragons

      Hidden Passions

      Steaming Up Your Love Scenes

      A How-To For Romance Writers And Others

      This guide was originally developed as a series of talks to romance writers.

      Chapter 1: And So It Begins . . .

      "Writing the erotic scene is both easy and difficult. It is easy because the reader wants the erotic scene, more than any other to succeed. The reader invests his cooperation, his personal energy, and his furthest extremes of credulity. Not to put too fine a point on it, the reader is likely to have an urgent, palpable stake in the matter at hand and to hope feverishly for a satisfactory outcome.

      The erotic scene is difficult because the writer wants, or ought to want, to make the scene as good as possible for the reader.

      —from Elements of Arousal by Lars Eighner

      In this guide, I hope to tell you something you haven’t heard before.

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