True Confessions by Simone Sinna
I’m staring at this title somewhat panic
stricken. Part of me (the naughty side) is thinking about how I always wanted
to do a strip and when I finally did, or some of the research needed to write
about a ménage …but this week I read an article about how easy it is to find
anything about anyone on the internet and I while I have separated erotic
romance author from my other life both parts of me are married to the same man.
Now he’s getting famous I keep turning up as his wife – in both names! He could
be had up as a bigamist I suppose but I rather think it will just be my cover
gets blown. Not that anyone is probably all that interested, and my children
and mother run from the mere thought of anything erotic I might churn out.
My mother: “oh my god why would you want
to write that sort of thing?”
My daughter: “Oh my god it’s alright for
other people to write that but you’re my mother!”
My son: silence with bemused looks at
the posters I have on my office wall of the book covers featuring topless men.
He hastens any female friends past the room very quickly…
My husband…too busy appearing at ladies
luncheons and book clubs…mmm.
So getting back to true confessions.
Maybe part of a one anyway.
I wrote the Stephanie Beauman series as
a straight MF but many of the readers even though giving positive reviews
thought she was a tad promiscuous. I guess given the time frame this was true,
but I was doing research for a nonfiction book in this area, and Stephanie
given she gets married and HEA in Exclusive (and would have then of course been
faithful!) probably ended up about average over the course of three books.
The reality is however, that affairs are
very common. Marriages break up all the time and under 50 at least this usually
involves “someone” else. I am on my second marriage, a very happy 23 years, but
the shorter first marriage was considerably less happy. My true confession then
is about one of the many lessons I learnt from this, as well as from as a
therapist.
1. Keep
communication alive.
2. If
you’re thinking of having an affair- you will!
3. You
rarely really know why you are doing things when in the midst- it’s self
justification.
4. The
most astonishing one for me, as I have always thought honesty is the best
policy- well maybe not. In the words of William Blake: “A truth told with bad
intent is worse than any lie I could invent.” It probably isn’t told with bad
intent, just selfish intent which ends up being the same.
5. If
you do err but don’t want to end your relationship and hurt someone you love,
maybe your price is to live with the guilt. You can either lie (Bettina Ardnt recommends
this in her book the Sex Diaries) and sort yourself out, probably in therapy –
or tell the truth, and leave your marriage there and then. It might be the
worst of both options, to tell the truth and stay. Or at least if your partner
is not the type to forgive. Men murder women over this sort of thing!
As I hate lying, and
can’t keep a secret guess my husband is stuck with me! But that’s where the
wonderful world of fantasy comes into play…now back to the next MFM BDSM book
I’ve started writing…
THE GHOSTS’ RETURN
By Simone Sinna
For smokin hot excerpts, click here.
Lena Magnussen is
unhappily lost in a romance novel on a charter boat when fate intervenes in the
form of two hot men, Lincoln and Kael Tremain. Only problem is she is a ghost
vampire and they are the enemy, were-devils.
The men know who she
is and presume she senses them, but the curse, after two generations, is about
to turn against the ghosts. They find they are racing against time, battling
age-old hatreds between the groups, and trying to make sense of Lena’s
illness—the old curse or the Hendra virus Lincoln is working on, which could be
the one his father caused to mutate in order to exact revenge.
In a gripping climax,
the ghosts return to Tasmania to rescue Lena and her cousin Gabriella from the
were-devils they love, and in doing so threaten to finally wipe out the
remaining were-devils and their home Tarrabah.
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