{"id":2795,"date":"2010-03-29T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:10:13","slug":"elloras-cave-editor-answers-your-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/elloras-cave-editor-answers-your-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellora&#8217;s Cave Editor answers your questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, I&#8217;ve brought <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Grace Bradley <\/strong><\/em><\/span>(an editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellorascave.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Ellora&#8217;s Cave<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) back today to answer any questions you may have about the <strong>Ellora&#8217;s Cave Pitch Contest<\/strong> being held on the blog April 23rd. Please extend a warm welcome to Grace. She&#8217;s going to tell you a bit about herself and hopefully debunk some of the myths you may have about erotic romance. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never met a sub-genre of erotic romance I didn\u2019t like, so when I joined Ellora\u2019s Cave as an editor last year I felt as though I\u2019d hit the jackpot. I get to read what I love, every day, and work with talented authors who continue to impress me and their readers with imaginative, sensual stories.\u00a0 A short list of my authors includes Stephanie Julian, Tawny Taylor, Kim Knox, Marisa Chenery, Fran Lee and Nara Malone (who was discovered from a contest held by Passionate Ink).<\/p>\n<p>One of the aspects I most enjoy about my job is discovering new talent. There is something magical about coming across that manuscript that makes you take a deep breath and say, \u201cWow.\u201d It takes a while for the smile to fade from my face when this happens. I\u2019ve recently added three new authors who I\u2019m very excited about\u2014Crystal Kauffman and Erica Anderson who both write historical, and Heather Howard who captured my attention with her intriguing paranormal (sexy ghost, anyone?).<\/p>\n<p>From speaking with authors and the general population at large, I believe there is a lot of confusion about what an erotic romance or a women\u2019s erotic fiction book is made of. From personal experience, I\u2019ve been to more than one social event where someone has leaned in and said, \u201cYou do <em>what<\/em>?\u201d And then, of course, there was the unfortunate incident when I was coming out of anesthesia after surgery and explained to the surgeon, who had snickered earlier when he asked me what I did for a living, that people who read erotic romance have a <em>lot <\/em>more sex than those that don\u2019t and it would behoove him to buy a few for his wife. He told me at my post-op visit that he passed on the information to his wife, by the way. I\u2019m pleased that Beverley has given me the opportunity today to answer your questions, as authors, about erotic romance and erotic fiction, and how your writing fits within the genre. Please feel free to ask me any questions that you may have. If you\u2019re like many, I think you may find some of the answers surprising.<\/p>\n<p>As far as what I\u2019m looking to acquire, \u00a0I like books with solid, interesting plots, engaging characters I can fall in love with, <em>lots<\/em> of sexual tension and, of course, really hot love scenes. I enjoy and review books in all the sub-genres we publish, but have a soft spot for contemporary, historical and paranormal (if you shift or drink blood, you\u2019re a friend of mine). I also have experience in editing BDSM as well as gay\/lesbian erotic romance.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Beverley, for having me today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you, Grace for dropping by today.<strong> If you have any questions for Grace, please feel free to ask!<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2795\" data-postid=\"2795\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2795 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, I&#8217;ve brought Grace Bradley (an editor at Ellora&#8217;s Cave) back today to answer any questions you may have about the Ellora&#8217;s Cave Pitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[162,389],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-events","category-contests","tag-agentseditors","tag-pitch-contest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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