Madison Chase – Romance Author

Too much s-e-x?

By Madison September 14, 2009

I’m slowly catchin’ up on my blog reading and I came across this post talking about sex in our industry. How much is too much? Is it harder to write sexy or to add sexy or to take it out?

I’m of the mind that the story should be as sexy as the premise and the characters. I don’t write my books with a set number of sex scenes in mind. There could be zero if the story doesn’t warrant one.

There are always things you can do to “up” the tension. And you can always add sex scenes. But does it matter? Does “more sex” make a book better?

Believe it or not, I’ve been told before that I don’t write sexy enough. Yeah, I shook my head at that too. What I guess they meant was that I don’t include love scene after love scene.

Oh well. That doesn’t bother me so long as people keep reading and enjoying my books.

I did like this part though: a paranormal romance author should be able to do solid world-building.

Let’s just hope I can keep doing that.

Monday with Madison