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...it was good for me. :red:

Thanks for the review, Sarah!  I agree with you on the tragedy that ensues when an author has to describe female arousal.  It’s difficult!  At least in erotica, we can avoid being purple--"mossy love grotto” comes instantly to mind.  Especially a trickling one.  Ew.

Anyone have any suggestions on this sticky topic?  (sorry, couldn’t resist)

“Her body temperature rose as he neared, and she felt her cervical mucous taking on the consistency of egg white...”

Um.  It ain’t doing it for me, Sarah.

Oh come on now.  Egg white is sexy… right?  No?  Okay then.

Over-easy.  Clearly.

“Weeping” seems to be a common adjective to describe the state of a woman’s arousal in alot of erotica that I’ve read.  Along with “sopping”, “soaking”, and “gushing”.  I’ve also read some where the heroine’s puss “flooded” and some where she was so excited her womanly juices actually started to run down her leg.  Is that even possible?  Because that doesn’t seem even remotely sexy to me; I just think: eeewwww, get a tissue or something and mop that thing up!

I liked (and blogged about) this story too. Like you, I wished it had been longer. I’m definitely ready for the next book by this author.

----I’m definitely ready for the next book by this author. ----

you’ll get your chance - Loose Id is publishing an erotic succubus book of hers come December. (big grin) elias is a hoot.

Hey, Sunny, whassup, girl?  Don’t you have any suggestions for renaming the Mossy Grotto ‘o Luuuurve?  You’re probably too busy handcuffing your characters and doing naughty things to them.  I heartily approve.

And not that it really matters, because demonic boinking is pretty much demonic boinking, but it’s an incubus.  Hot, sexy incubus hero, erotic toystore-owning heroine.  Wow, was it ever difficult to come up with any sexual tension between those two…

penalized this work based on its length

*Snort* Am I the only one here with my head in the gutter?

As for weeping pussies: this sounds like a medical problem to me—like a penile discharge. What’s wrong with a good ol’ ‘hot and wet and sticky down there’? Tell it like it is. Even if ‘weep’ was a good metaphor for this process, its connotation of sadness ruins it as an appropriate verb.

This is totally off-topic, but I’m fired up enough to be rude and interject-

Just back from the grocery store, where some over-eager book distributor person had already shelved Cindy Cruciger’s Revenge Gifts, along with the September Blazes, of which Marie Donovan’s first book is one.  (Man, that was some shit for grammar...sorry!)

I bought both of them.

But no eggs.  Y’all are cracking me up with the egg jokes.

Stef

Cheese and crackers, people, there’s so much more you can do with this!  You forgot all about “swollen”! Female tissues get engorged with blood during arousal, and this makes them swollen, tender, plumper, aching, sensitive, full, engorged (I can use it again ‘cause now I’m being descriptive), pulsing, throbbing, wet, and the decks swabbed, ready for action, and prepared to be boarded.  Y’all should have been at my panel on “Crafting Sex Scenes” at Worldcon.

And Angela, a woman _can_ be so aroused that lubricating fluid starts trickling down her leg.  Doesn’t happen often enough, imho, but it does happen.

Finally, if you’re testing mucous for fertile times, you want to have it where when you wet your fingers and then slowly pull your finger and thumb apart, the mucous is elastic.  If it’s tacky, you’re not as likely to be ovulating.

Even after 20 years, there are some things you just don’t forget.[g]

I was going to say my mucous is never, ever tacky because I raised it better than that, but I’m afraid of being banned from SBs for all time.

I’ll never be able to look at an egg the same way again.  I’ll have to resist the urge to test it for tackiness and/or elasticity.  Okay...so that will be an easy one to resist.

Oh, thanks Stef.  I was meaning to buy Marie’s book.

And this book sounds rather good....maybe I need to expand my publisher horizons since this wasn’t ever on it. 

Er...or could be that I hate Fictionwise.

Oh sweet lord, is THAT what that is? Great, now not only do I have to have a period, I’m layin’ freakin’ eggs TOO?

I startled my kid in the other room laughing about the egg jokes. Lemon Merangue will eternally be suspect for me now.

I have to ask that no one really use swollen, lol. Swelling usually implies pain and ER visits in my head, like weeping makes me think she’s sad. (Gives new meaning to “crying, my ass”, don’t it?)

Other words to avoid: enflamed, grasping (I KNOW it’s tight in there, but seriously, I picture a sexual version of the extra mouth in Aliens) and flooding because then I think “Mudslide” and that’s a REALLY bad connotation.

Thanks for the laughs and great review!!
Dee

I’m with you on the gushing and flooding.  Copiously dripping anything is sorta… ew.  Same with male ejaculation--torrents pouring forth, frothing, running down legs, etc, just make me wanna gag. 

Hmm… it’s starting to sound like I’m writing the wrong genre!  Maybe I should write sweet contemps… Naah, I love the humpity hump too much to change. 

For the person who hates Fictionwise, Three Wishes can also be purchased directly from the publisher at http://www.AphroditeUnlaced.com so feel free to check it out there.