Being a Fan

I'm a fan of a good many authors. Almost all of them you're heard me mention on my blog. Just for the heck of it, I'll see if I can list those who are automatic buys for me without missing too many: Anne Stuart (Love her bad men heroes. She teeters on that dark edge so well.), Susan Elizabeth Phillips (New author to me I've been going on and on about. I never loved football before, but she's making me reconsider.), Victoria Dahl (My goodness I love her sense of humor and her books are hot! The latest hero has tattoos that just make you melt.), Jenna Black (I don't usually like demons as good guys, but hers are hard to resist.), Kresley Cole (Ditto what I said about Jenna's, plus her books are so fast pace, I have to remember to put the book down to breathe), Shannon McKenna (Hers is like crack sex and her men are so alpha male.), Debra Webb (Her single title books are my favorite. She gets on the gritty side with those and I love that.), and Christy Reece (I love spy/undercover books and she does them right).

There are others but I don't read everything they write, mainly because they write such diverse books, the stories don't alway hit the spot with me. Some of these authors I've read for more than twenty years. Maybe they've changed and I've changed and we've kind of gone our separate ways. I do still keep an eye out for their books but costs of books being what they are, I've learned to look at the story first.

Oh, Yeah, Hot Chemistry

I've talked about alpha heroes before. Somewhere in my blog or Romance Magicians'. In one of my favorite series (Jenna Black's Devil books) the heroine has a secondary character who's very alpha. He's a demon possessed male who likes BD/s and has a gay lover and we've just found out in the latest book, he swings the other way too. Okay. I know for some you out there this is TMI (too much info). The point I'm getting to is he shouldn't be a character I normally would be interested in, but I find the "relationship" between him and the heroine to be interesting. He's for sure an alpha. And she is too. He's a cop who helps her even through they dislike each other. But there's a hot chemistry between them the author has worked in that I want to examine and bring out in my books. Oh, yeah, I want to examine it long and hard. LOL! I couldn't resist saying that.