Can we ignore trends in African-American literature and the stimuli that touches us whenever we deem books page-turning delights? From Urban Contemporary fiction, to the so-called Chick Lit titles, and finally how the overall romance genre is faring nowadays, it seems as though the industry is relaxing a bit to paint pictures of pleasurable delight as far as giving readers what they want…and believe me, sex is certainly selling! And THIS is the gist of this new Romer Review installment. We feel it is time to talk about the steamy side of romance, where little is left to imaginable images, and where innuendo is much more than premise. If you look around you, the bookshelves are full of these books and it’s growing. Read the rest of this entry »

Roslyn Carrington

I know who you are, but for the benefit of the Romer Review audience, how would you describe the writer that you are, and most importantly – tell them your name!

My literary readers would know me as Roslyn Carrington, but readers of my Arabesque romances know me as Simona Taylor – a name I stole from my cat. But whatever name I write under, I see the writer I am — West Indian to the bone! The people around me, the scents and sounds of the Caribbean influence my writing. We are a very dynamic, musical, creative, passionate people and I am always eager to convey that in my writing. Read the rest of this entry »

Author, Gracie C. McKeever is a peer that also archives her material on the online website AuthorsDen as I do. Gracie and I have ‘met’ online corresponding via a stream of e- mails. Look for her to grace the contents of The Romer Review in a future segment and review of her subsequent books. Below is an interview introducing Gracie to you. Read the rest of this entry »

It sure wouldn’t hurt matters none if more often than not we can read a great storyline, have characters that are charismatic with style and substance that just happens to be sexually motivated as an adjunct, rather than the focus, right? No longer taboo, sex abounds and teems with anticipated verve in many of our literary efforts from authors who feel that if there’s no sex in it, then the book won’t sell. Suffice it to say, opinions will forever color this genre as an also ran among straight fiction, but the industry true to form will not abandon nor ignore anything that continue to allow cash registers to ring, and shelves to reflect how these books move! With legitimacy growing by leaps and bounds, the veil has been uncovered and brazen stories are being told with reckless abandon and getting Zanier by the minute

In keeping with our theme, I talked to author Gracie McKeever who agreed to talk about erotica and romantic fiction in today’s market place for The Muse Online. In addition to this short essay, we provided an earlier interview as she tells it like it is! as she submitted this timely ditty concerning her take on eroticism in her line of writing. Read the rest of this entry »

Sensibilities that stroke the mind for sustained stimuli in sexuality is par for the course for author, Noire. In the follow up to G-Spot more of her superb writing is at hand. CANDY LICKER is the name of the new title, and I must allude to accolades that tell more of good storytelling as opposed to sex dominating in lieu of a viable storyline. And if one’s mind is kept on this subject, suffice it to say that they may miss what the author is trying to convey. I did this in reading the book. I focused wholeheartedly on the story, immersed myself as if the setting was made for me, and read on with anticipation reveling in each page-turning thrill. Noire’s highly provocative writing style delivers everything that readers of this urbane genre look for Read the rest of this entry »

A Valentine’s Kiss
by Carla Fredd, Brenda Jackson & Felicia Mason

The collection begins with a theme of matchmaking and adds three talented authors who crafted excellent stories, and give value to intimate intrigue and romantic liaisons. All three of the stories are reminiscent of how love truly can be viewed as tokens of progressive methods to ultimate climaxes. I’m told that A Valentine’s Kiss is a classic and should be one of several books that avid readers of romance should place on special bookshelves. Carla Fredd, Brenda Jackson, and Felicia Mason are the authors comprising the triumvirate that gives romantic interludes and intimacy a new meaning. Read the rest of this entry »

Whispers Between the Sheets
by Victor McGlothin, Earl Sewell and Phillip Thomas Duck

Whispers Between the Sheets validates licenses for authors, Victor McGlothin, Earl Sewell and Phillip Thomas Duck to write with reckless abandon. Writing like this doesn’t need a ticket issued for malfeasance to justify misplaced intent. These brothers have written one hell of a book, with three rollicking stories that only whets your appetite for more! The first story submitted my the write brother, Victor McGlothin is reminiscent and synonymous of the types of books he’s known for – those that intrigue, but teem with sensitivity and dramatic interlude. A PLAYER’S PARADISE is a teasing story about an egotistical Adonis who feels that all women are ample game to the hunt. There’s no woman who can’t be made to be submissive to his whim and fancy. Games of chance, where cat and mouse jockey for position usually leave one of the players chagrined with loss, but in this tale Kenton Reese more than meets his match with Delta, a sultry, competitive, with beauty to match enters the picture, thus intellectual, thus giving him a taste of how it feels to be captured by the game. Read the rest of this entry »

Thicker Than Water
by Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Maxine Billings, and Linda Hudson-Smith

Three credible authors, heavyweights in their respective web of success collaborate to contribute stories worth reading, with verve and moxie. Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Maxine Billings, and Linda Hudson-Smith give us special kinship in their book, THICKER THAN WATER. The authors introduces three sets of twins facing their own individual trials and tribulations that are lessons in life and experiences that shape characteristic mettle so essential to familial order and being able to turn the other cheek. The stories, the characters, and settings allow readers to make it hard to choose which story reverberates best…but in my opinion they are ALL good! Read the rest of this entry »