Rekindled Romance

Elle Amery let me know today that she accepted my story "For George" for Ravenous Romance's upcoming anthology about rekindled love. She said it was "well-written, entertaining,
passionate, and a perfect fit for the anthology." Thank you, Elle!

I love acceptances. I hate rejections.

Drollerie Press-Beautiful Cover!

I am very excited to see the cover image for the "Maiden, Mother, Crone" anthology due out later this month from Drollerie Press which will include my story "The Blessing of Desire." You can see it here. This story was my first try at fantasy. As usual, the characters of Ardis and the Mage came first, the setting came later. I had started drafting a story about a maiden warrior and a man of magic when I saw the lengthy and wonderfully descriptive request for submissions from Drollerie Press asking for stories about the three faces of the goddess. That's it! I thought. That's what I need to tell my story! I am curious as to how the other authors responded to this prompt. Should be a very interesting book!

"Love Notes Anthology"

My story "Fuck Music" is in Ravenous Romance's Love Notes Anthology.
This was a quickie written in response to the request for stories dealing with music and musicians. I had been thinking of a woman who is infatuated with her neighbor and goes to great lengths to seduce him but I didn't have a setting. I saw the call and wondered what would happen if the neighbor was a musician and the woman had to use music to seduce him. I really enjoyed writing this. I think the anthology may have sunk out of sight on RR's list, but you can find it here.

"The Bitch in His Head"

My first erotica story "The Bitch In His Head" is in Violet Blue's Best Women's Erotica 2009. Lisabet Sarai in the March edition of the Erotica Readers Association reviews the book here and says:
Janne Lewis’ “The Bitch in his Head” wins my prize for the most intriguing characters: a demanding executive trapped by his obsessive-compulsive fancies, and the woman who loves, indulges and liberates him.
Thank you, Lisabet!
As with most of my stories, the characters came to me before the plot. I had been thinking for awhile about what it would be like to have a relationship with a person afflicted by OCD. I read an article about a person who was not sexually active because her OCD incapacitated her but just filed this away for the future. Then I saw an episode of "Monk," (I don't watch much television, usually I stumble on programs my husband or kids are watching) and the idea gained some ground. What if the person with OCD had a terrific sex drive? How would he manage? How would his lover respond to his demands? Wouldn't she get tired of them after awhile? The story developed from there. The idea for the "Bitch" came to me as I was writing. It was one of those Eureka! moments. Once I began to write, the story flowed. I didn't want to do anything else for the three days I worked on it until it was finished (at 4 am). And when I was done, I hated to leave the characters.