Catching Up and Catching My Breath!

Hello, my lovely blog readers. For reasons unknown to me I am having a very busy week. It seems every single day has been scheduled up to the minute. By the time my day is done and I have finished everything, I collapse on the couch at 10pm and will myself to keep my eyes open for one more hour so I can spend some time with Mr. McKay.

He's still awfully sweet and awesome to hang out with even if he is neglected at the moment. (Don't worry, I scheduled a full one hour block of time last night to eat dinner and watch Downton Abbey with him.)

Some things have happened since last I blogged. First and foremost, Spanking Romance Reviews has a vote going on for the Best of 2015.

Click Here to take a look and cast your votes. Mastered was nominated for Best Menage and Dani, from Bound, got nominated for Best Minor Character.

I'm in the middle of working on Dani's story so this was exciting news for me!

So go on and vote!! You don't have to vote for my books, but vote and show some love for your favorites!

One other thing I would like to share: Bound got a really nice review from Vivi on Insatiable Readings. Hop on over and take a peek if you are so inclined. It really brightens my day when someone tells me they like what I have written, and it definitely helps the writing process of the new book.

That's all for now. Sorry, it was kind of a business-y post, no funny anecdotes today.

Thanks for stopping by and I promise a real post soon!

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Our Favorite Books!

I read. A lot. 

Sometimes I'll read a book and it will stay with me. Those are always the best. I'll recommend it to a friend, or re-read it, even if it's just a scene.

Or I will still be thinking about parts of it weeks or even months after I am done with it. Be it an engaging story line, witty dialogue, or characters I wish I knew in real life—sometimes certain books stick with you.

The end of the year is coming and there are a lot of year-end favorites lists being made. 

Spanking Romance Reviews is doing a "Best of 2015" for all books that fall into the spanking romance category (I think the criteria is it has to have some spanking and it has to be a romance—and it should be from 2015).

The nomination round is open until January 16th and there are a lot of categories! So you can nominate all of your favorite books from the year. You know, those books you just couldn't let go of even after you reached the words "The End".

Go back through your Kindle and refresh your memory. Who was your favorite book boyfriend this year? Was there a sci-fi romance you just cannot get out of your mind?

Click on the form and try to nominate something for each category (or just fill in the ones you can).

Nominate Here

Make sure you go back over to Spanking Romance Reviews after January 18th so you can vote for your choices! (And if you're anything like me, you'll end up with twenty more books you'll want to read.)

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Can You Have a Sweet Alpha Male?

How real do you need your characters to be?

I am the first one to say that fiction is fiction, it isn't always entirely believable and I think most readers will forgive some unrealistic characteristics if they like the story and relate with the characters.

I try to make my characters relatable, I want them to seem real, to seem like people you might meet in your day to day life. But I also want them to be nice and likable.

How do you do that when you are writing about a dominant alpha male who spanks?

It is very possible he is going to do or say something that makes you hold your e-reader away from your face and go "Oh, no he didn't!" Possibly with a head swivel and all. 

I think it's also hard to write a modern day, contemporary piece with a woman who gets spanked. Now you have the dual problem of your main man seeming like a dick and the heroine seeming like a simpering fool because she won't stand up for herself.

It's a delicate balance, and you can't make everyone happy. If it is true to life at least a little bit, then some of the characters are going to be a little unlikable once in a while.

Etta Stark actually cracked me up with her review (you can read it here at Spanking Romance Reviews) for my newest book Call Me Yours, she talks about how she really didn't like my hero, Simon, right from the start.

In the book my heroine, Caitlin, needs some cash and she decides to become a phone sex operator. When she first brings the idea up to Simon he tells her in no uncertain terms that she will never do that.

Etta's reaction to this- "What gives, Simon? You give a girl oral sex one time and now you think you get to dictate how she lives her life? Well, that’s not how things work in the real world, matey."

But really, how else would Simon, this dominating alpha male react? Is he going to give her a long drawn out response about how charging per minute for a simulated sexual experience over the phone is setting back the work her feminist sisters have been doing toward women's equality since before she was born?

No.

What dude would say that?

So I gave him a real life answer. He just simply tells her "No."

Don't worry, Caitlin is equally as put off with Simon's answer as Etta was (and I think I was too when writing it).

But my point is- I inadvertently made him a dick, and then when I realized this, I left him that way because it seemed more real to me.

Don't worry, he does redeem himself (at least Etta seemed to think so), we get to see his sweet softer side.

My question is though, how real do we want our romances? I'd like to think I pushed myself this time around in trying to make my characters seem less like characters and more like people. Caitlin is kind of a spoiled princess and she's not exactly the sweetest person to Simon in the beginning. Simon is an alpha male, used to people heeding his advice, he can come off as kind of prickly.

I didn't sugar coat them. I wrote their back and forth arguments as if they were sitting here with me. And then after I got down their words I didn't tone them down, I let them be jerks. Because, in real life, sometimes we're all jerks.

Do you prefer the characters in your romances to be real? Or would you rather have some synthetic sugar coated sweetness?

There is no right answer. I am just curious what readers think.

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Sign Up for Summer Spanks!!

It's the unofficial end of summer. But we can still go out with a bang!

End of Summer Spanks September 5-7, 2014!!

Blog Hop Sign Ups!

Brought to you by Spanking Romance Reviews & The Saturday Spankings Blog!

Open to everyone in the spanking community!

It’s the end of summer which means, either last chance for a summer fling, or back to school.   Each participating blog will create a post based on the summer or back to school spanking theme. This can include a short story, poem, graphics/artwork, or any other creative avenue that you specialize in. Tell us a funny story, share an experience, it can be anything you dream of as long as it’s good clean spanking fun! No explicit nudity please. Bare bottoms are, of course, welcome!

We have some wonderful Grand Prizes & more rolling in every day!

• • Kindle or Nook from Blushing Books
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  • One month membership to Pandora Blake's Dreams of Spanking
  • Hand made paddle from Blondie's Place
  • $25 Gift Certificate to Amazon from Wizards in Publishing
  • You can have it all package by Variant Books
  • Six month membership to Discipline & Desire
  • $25 GC from Jolynn Raymond
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  • Ebook Cover Design & Matching Facebook Cover Picture from Kandes Pixels
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What’s required to participate?

1. Sign up by entering the linky list below (create a draft of your blog hop post & enter the url to the post you created into the sign up)
2. Grab the graphic & add it to your side bar linking it to http://spankingromance.com/the-june-spank…lenge-spanka2z/
          
3. You must offer an individual prize on your own blog, post links to the main blog hop post and prize entry, display blog hop graphic, & include linky list of all other participants (or link to linky list if you have wordpress)
4. Have your post up by 12:01 am EST on September 5th
5. All contest winners should be announced on Monday, September 8th
6. Spread the word!

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Spanking Round Table- The Evolution of a Writer

Welcome back to another addition of The Round Table Discussion- Spanking Hot Topics hosted by Spanking Romance Reviews.

Cara Bristol came up with this topic and I thought it was interesting. How have your spanking stories evolved since you began writing?

The funny thing is I don't even think I would have been able to answer this question a few months ago. I am still sort of a newbie at writing. My one year publishing anniversary was this past April, but I have been writing spanking stories in my head since... well, forever.

There was one distinct difference when I sat down and thought about it. In my head my stories run wild. They just happen. When I sit down and write, especially something I know will be published, I feel like I need to justify it. I need to have good reasons. I need to make the reader convinced that this should be happening. I want to be liked!!!

That is until recently...

I remember writing my first spanking story. I had read a lot of them, but really, I had no idea what I was doing. It turned out novel length. I wrote it with passion and heart. I also had no idea what the hell I was talking about. I really hadn't even been spanked at that point. I was talking to one of my other author friends about how you can tell in someone's writing if they have never really been spanked because the spankings seem kind of wimpy. And I am sure that is what all the spankings seem like in this first book I wrote, I am a little embarrassed by it (I am not even mentioning the name of it, as if this thing called the internet and google do not exist).

The spankings weren't even the hardest things to write. Oh God, the sex scenes. I sat in a darkened room with my laptop blushing furiously as I tried to think of racier words for penis and vagina.

Today? I wrote an enema punishment scene while my husband watched sports highlights on the television four feet behind me. Yep, this is my life now.

I never thought I would write anything like that. How dirty! How inappropriate! People will surely be outraged!

Chances are they won't be, but that is how I used to think.

Even up until a few months ago I felt like I needed to justify every spanking. I needed to explain to my dear readers why these characters were engaging in this. I needed them to know that my heroines were still strong women with brains and feminist values, even while submitting to the men they loved.

I would almost drive myself crazy with the back and forth. And then I just decided to write. Not justify. Hey, you're already reading it, you can justify it to yourself.

In fact, I had two author friends- whom I love- both tell me that the hero in my most recent book is kind of mean at one point. He redeems himself mind you, but he is sort of mean in the beginning. Something like that would have torn me up and I would have rewritten it before, but this time I just let him be mean. Because you know what? Not everyone is nice 100% of the time in real life. 

Sometimes a girl likes to get kinky. Sometimes she wants to be spanked and put in her place. Sometimes she wants her will bent by the alpha male she's involved with. I don't think anyone should justify that. It just is.

This is how I believe I have changed in the last year and couple months. I have stopped apologizing for what I find hot. If I find it hot someone else will too, and they won't need a justification.

Cara posed a lot of awesome questions and I think I answered most of them above.

I have a question for you readers, and authors (because you all read too): What do you like in a spanking romance, do you need a little justification for the spankings going on? A clarification on the relationship dynamic, or is it okay if it just happens?

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you visit all the other Round Table posts today!

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Discipline vs Punishment- A Spanking Round Table Discussion

Thank you for stopping by the latest edition of the Spanking Round Table, brought to you by Spanking Romance Reviews! 

Today we are hosted by Thianna D and she came up with the topic of Discipline vs Punishment-- What is the difference to you?

At first, I would say there is no difference to me. When reading a spanking romance these are both hot button words. If the hero walks in a room and tells the heroine "You have disobeyed me, you will be punished." It has the same effect as "You have disobeyed me, you will be disciplined." Yum.

Even the word disobeyed kind of gets my motor going.

They don't mean the same thing. Discipline is following rules and staying within set guidelines. Someone can be a disciplined runner, or you can have a disciplined diet. Punishment is a consequence for not being disciplined.

It doesn't bother me at all if they are used interchangeably in a book. I may even use them in place of one or the other. At the end of the day if a reader is reading a spanking romance I think they will let it slide and won't mince the definition of your words.

I think I went straight to how it applies to reading and writing rather than real life because I do not have a domestic discipline marriage. But that doesn't mean there isn't some type of discipline or any punishments for that matter.

For instance, my husband hates if I use my cell phone while driving (okay, it is against the law and very unsafe-- but people still do it). I never text while I'm driving but I would occasionally make a phone call or two on my way from one place to another. I call it multitasking. Otherwise I have all that wasted time I could have been using while I was in the car!

(Side note- I at one point had a blue tooth, but I ran it over... so yes, perhaps my husband is right to be concerned that I would be distracted while driving.)

He mentioned to me about a month ago that the state that we live in just upped their penalty for cell phone usage while driving. He just casually mentioned it and then gave me one of those looks, no not a look like he would spank me, a look like 'I will never let you hear the end of this, we will be 90 and I will still be ragging you for getting a ticket.'

I am a big girl, I could pay my own damn fine if I happened to get pulled over for talking on my cell phone. But I know my husband would be annoyed and probably disappointed in me too. He's mentioned that it is unsafe and he would like me not to kill myself. So, I would feel terrible if something happened when I was specifically doing something he has asked me not to do. 

Is that a form of discipline? I think so, someone else is imposing expectations on me and I am following them. In this case there is not definite punishment (although the ticket itself would be a consequence), unless you count the fact that he would never drop it, ever.

I also think it works both ways. I am sure there are things he does or doesn't do because I have asked him to. These probably have less to do with safety and more to do with cleanliness-- not that either of us are at all disciplined about the cleaning of our house. But I like to think it is a bit cleaner since I live here.

One thing that I definitely see as a discipline/punishment scenario is writing. When I first started writing I would complain about not having enough time, or getting easily distracted and not meeting the goals I was setting for myself. My husband finally told me to just write, or not to write, but to stop whining about it. If I wanted to do it-- I would find the time.

"You don't understand," I said. "It just isn't that easy."

"Fine, no spankings until you get some writing done."

"Um, what?"

"You heard me."

It actually does motivate me. It isn't like he keeps track of when I am writing or when I'm not, and I could probably easily lie about it. But when I do accomplish a lot I like to share and tell him all about it... and then I usually get rewarded :)

Does he withhold spankings when I haven't accomplished my goals? Occasionally. Mostly he will tease me, but I have ways of convincing him to give me what I want, I just have to work a little harder at it.

Check out the other blogs talking about this topic this week! Thanks for stopping by! 

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Spanking Romance Review's Book Launch Party- Coach's Discipline

Join us for fun and prizes!  Book Release Party for Coach’s Discipline by Katherine Deane

Spanking Romance Reviews is now hosting Book Release Parties!  Join us Saturday, July 12th at noon EST on our Facebook page for the book launch party for Coach’s Discipline by Katherine Deane.  

Prizes include books by Cara Bristol, Maren Smith, Natasha Knight, Patricia Green, Casey McKay, Tara Finnegan, Etta Stark, Renee Rose and more!

Coach’s Discipline by Katherine Deane

Claire Jacobs always dreamed of making it to the Olympic Trials in the marathon. Unfortunately, she has a habit of getting in her own way. Enter Nick Fox, a no-nonsense coach, willing to use unconventional methods to bring her in line. Traumatized by her last coach and still recovering from self-destructive habits, Claire finds it hard to trust Nick’s authority about what she can and can’t handle on the trails. Still, her attraction for him deepens, even when she discovers he believes in good old-fashioned spanking as a method of correction.

As Nick spends more time with Claire, she enchants him with her drive and deep commitment to help her fellow runners. But when she gets into an argument with a teammate, he realizes he only has one option—to give the talented woman he cares about the first spanking of her life, a spanking that is not going to be fun for either of them.

Claire and Nick grow closer and she comes to crave Nick’s dominance and direction. Discovering the emotional healing and strength to succeed during training, she moves past her shyness and self-doubt to step into a leading role with the young women on the team. But when team politics, jealousy and misunderstandings create drama, will she revert back to her old pattern of running away? Or can she learn to trust in love and race toward her goals with an open heart?

Publisher’s Note: Coach’s Discipline is an erotic romance novel that includes spanking, including domestic discipline in a contemporary setting, anal play, sexual scenes, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

Available for sale on Saturday!

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W is for Woo Hoo Westerns!

I'm already up to W, the end is near! I've been having a blast with the Spanking from A-Z Blogging Challenge, I hope you had as much fun reading.

Full disclosure, the title of this post is stolen from the subject line of the email Renee Rose sent me with her book info.

If you had told me 18 months ago that I would be getting personal emails from Renee Rose-- I would have told you that you were nuts! Sometimes I still get a little fangirl star struck, and then she sends me an email with that as a subject and I am all like "Stars, they're just like us!"

Anyway, I reached out to Renee to see if she wanted to visit for my W post with an excerpt from her new Western because I just finished reading The Outlaw's Bride, and I loved it!!

I think I have a little crush on Mabelle. Yes, I know I should be crushing on her sexy outlaw man, Sam (who, trust me, you will swoon over), but Mabelle was so sassy I fell in love with her instantly. I also really appreciated that she did not lose her sass and in fact kept it right up until the very end.

This excerpt actually happens later on in the book, and I think it shows Mabelle at her sassy/sweet best!

“Who makes the decisions?”

“You do.”

“You has the final say?”

“You do.”

“Did I have your best interest at heart today?”

“Yes, sir.”

“What should I do now?”

She could not believe he wanted her to say it. She drew her brows together and scowled. Putting her hands on her hips, she suggested, “Kiss me?”

She felt fortunate when he laughed, because she knew she pushed her luck.

“I will be doing that, too. After our reckoning.”

She shivered.

He unbuttoned his jacket and removed it, tossing it on the chair with her clothing. The vest followed, and he rolled up his sleeves. Unfastening his belt, he slid the gun holsters off and wound the buckle end around his fist until a length just over a foot remained.

She watched, her heart beating erratically, her mouth dry.

“Lie over the pillows so your bottom is lifted in the air.”

The Outlaw’s Bride by Renee Rose

Mabelle Lawson had been managing her dead sister’s ranch without help for three months. The last thing she needs is a band of outlaws showing up and pushing her around. The Curly James gang members have no patience for her sass, and when their leader attempts to strike her with his fist, one of his men volunteers to spank her instead. She wants to hate the good-looking outlaw, but he seems to have her well-being at heart, even risking his life to protect her from the other men.

Unjustly accused of murder, Sam Pride is on the run and his luck worsens when he tangles with the Curly James gang. The only bright spot is the little spitfire rancher who steals his heart with her courage and spunk. When the two set off together for Cheyenne and then Denver, sparks fly and their magnetic connection grows.

Still, Mabelle is not sure if Sam will commit and even if he does, can he clear his name before a bounty hunter shoots him or brings him in?

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Spanking from A-Z, Anal-- When is it Too Much?

Welcome to my first post for the Spanking to A-Z Blog Challenge hosted by Spanking Romance Reviews!

The challenge is that I will have 26 posts throughout June, corresponding with the letters of the alphabet. I really hope no one gets upset when I post a picture of a sexy Xylophone for X.

Anyway, we are only at A! 

A is for Anal

I am a huge proponent of anal sex. I love it in real life so I tend to write about it, a lot. I mean, I try to switch it up, as an author I think it is good to try to keep things varied. But more often than not when I am coming up to a sex scene, I am gravitating toward making it anal.

Here is my question: If you are not really into anal sex, is this a giant turn off?

I am supposing if someone wanted to read a Victorian romance and they accidentally picked up a Victorian spanking romance, it would probably be a deal breaker. They might read one spanking scene and think, weird? But okay, it was a different era, brush it off and read on. Then they get to all the other spankings and all the references to spankings and at this point they probably stop reading (or decide they can finally give in to their deepest, darkest, spanko desires!).

I don't really know, I am trying to decide what would bother me in a book but I can't think of anything. Not sure what that says about me!

I am just wondering if I am turning people off with too much of the backdoor business?

Is it expected in a spanking romance? Accepted because it all falls under the BDSM genre? 

I would love to know! 

Lots of other blogs signed up for the Spanking to A-Z Challenge, check them out too!

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Your Kink or Mine? A Spanking Round Table Discussion

Welcome back for another edition of Round Table Discussion, brought to you by Spanking Romance, a place where we like to discuss spanking hot topics!

This week we are hosted by Katherine Deane, who came up with the topic: The Vanilla Spouse: What happens when your significant other does not share your fetish?

I think it is fair to say that my husband would not be considered vanilla by anyone's standards, but I can relate when we are talking about not sharing fetishes.

Spanking has definitely been my interest-- for forever. Him? Not so much.

I remember how I felt like it was this big deal to confess my kink to him and he was like "okay." That was it, no big deal, he'd obviously heard of spanking in a kinky way before and he really didn't think it was all that out of the ordinary.

I don't think he realized at the time how all encompassing it was. I think he gets it a little more now (because I never shut up, and will tell him every little thing running through my head).

He gets how much I like spanking, but he doesn't 'get' it. He will tell me as much.

I have also learned that if I really want to try something I have to suggest it and then stop talking about it. He says no to everything the first time I bring it up.

"You want me to hit you with what? No."

"You want to do what with ginger? No."

Normally if I can supply him with links and he can research a little he is more receptive. 

He said that spanking me turns him on because it turns me on, but it has nothing to do with the actual act of spanking for him. I can live with that.

I was trying to think if there was any kink he could have that I would say no to trying. I honestly cannot think of anything. If I knew it was something he really wanted to do I would try anything once, or twice.

I think it's good to experiment, live a little, and indulge your partner's crazy once in a while. It helps when you trust each other and you can keep an open mind.

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The Books We Love

Welcome to another edition of the Round Table Discussion- Spanking Hot Topics, brought to you by Spanking Romance Reviews.

This week our guest topic was provided by Lucy Appleby: The importance of dynamic first chapters, opening paragraphs, & narrative

I signed up for this topic and then immediately questioned my judgement.

Sure, I have been dabbling in writing for the past year, but that by no means makes me an expert on our topic today. Then I had a thought, I have been reading my entire life, I know what books I like and what books I don't. So I come to you today as a reader. 

What makes me like a book? Well my first favorite book that I can recall was The Eye Book

"My eyes see. 
His eyes see. 
I see him. 
And he sees me."

Okay, not exactly dynamic I guess, but to a four year old it was high quality. Also, I loved the rabbit on the cover. He looks a little crazy, and even as a kid I could respect that.







Moving on in my reading career. I have a confession to make: I hated reading when I was a kid. This seems like such a sacrilegious statement to make as an author. But I did. I hated reading. Required reading for school was the worst!

We have to jump about ten years to get to my next favorite book in life. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Required reading for my high school freshman English class.

It may have been the only book I read in entirety during my high school career. I was wondering myself what would have made me actually read this book. Here is how it opens:

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."

I was recently wondering what it was about this book that enticed me to read it. It just may have been these opening lines. Even now it hooks me and I am thinking it has been a long time since I read this. I might have to go dig out my copy.

A while back we were all tagging each other on facebook to name ten books that influenced you. I ended up having a lot of plays on my list. I was a theatre geek and I always read plays. Well, they are shorter than books, makes sense I had chosen to read these over full novels. But I think the real reason is that they are all action. You can't have a lot of set up or back story in a play, it's dialogue, events, things are moving. The audience needs to know what's going on without someone saying "She was crying because she burned the muffins." You have to actually see her burn the muffins.

I think, to me, that is what makes a good book. Putting me in the middle of something that is already going on. As if I'm "joining this program already in progress," go on, do your thing. I'll catch up.

Taking the big picture and zeroing in on one thing you want me to focus on. It sets up an intimate relationship between me and the book.

His eyes see, and Jem broke his arm. Small things going on in a big world, but they were all I cared about for those moments in time.

Now I am all about the spanking, the romance, the sex. Please have sex! I'm not saying I don't like a book without sex, but if you are alluding to it the whole time and then don't seal the deal, I get a little ornery.

My favorite setups into a spanking romance are when it opens on the heroine doing something a little bit dangerous. Maybe a little naughty. Something that feels like it might lead to a spanking. Yeah, I guess I get a little single-minded about these things, but I'm not going to lie about what I like.

What about you? What about an opening paragraph makes you want to read?

Be sure to check out all the other Round Table posts for today! Thanks for stopping by.

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Scavenger Hunt Catch Up- The Winter Storm

Happy Sunday!

It's the start of a new week. Last week was a bit of a whirlwind for me!

The new book I co-authored with Katherine Deane and Renee Rose got released.

Well, and really, that was the cause of my whirlwind. The blog posts, posting about the release, getting together this scavenger hunt, biting my nails waiting for feedback for readers... everything else sort of fell by the wayside.

Who knew putting a book out was so all consuming?? This is my third and I forget every time!

Let's recap! The Winter Storm Scavenger Hunt is in full swing!

It's okay if you missed some posts. You can go back and answer the question from each day up until Friday, March 14th where we are wrapping things up on Renee Rose's Blog!

Here's what's going on:

Rules: We will have a new excerpt from our new book The Winter Storm: An Ever After Chronicle everyday. All you have to do is read the post and answer the question below. Do not answer in the comments, we want everyone to have a fair chance!

Answer once each day and for each correct answer you will be entered into a drawing to win:

- $25 Amazon giftcard

- $10 Amazon giftcard

- A previous release by Renee Rose

- A previous release by Casey McKay

Go visit the previous posts:
Day 1: Katherine Deane
Day 2: Adaline Raine
Day 3: Casey McKay

Today we stop by Natasha Knight's blog. 

There are 4 posts for you to catch up on today! All have fun and steamy excerpts, all have your chance to win awesome prizes!

Check out the full list of blogs on Spanking Romance Reviews and make sure you play every day until Friday!

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Round Table Discussion- Spanking Relationships

Welcome to this edition of the Round Table Discussion, brought you by Spanking Romance Reviews. Today's topic was brought to us by Patricia Green:

Being of an Age and Spanking: a discussion about how one changes as a spanking partner over the years of a relationship 

From Patricia:

You’re 30 and spanking is a big part of your life. It shapes how you behave in many ways, and strikes a chord when you read about others living the same way. But how will you feel about it when you’re 50, or 60, or 70? You won’t be the same person at those ages, and your relationship will grow and mature as the years pass by.

Where do you see your spanking relationship as you get older? What do you anticipate? What do you dread? How do you feel about others who are older and still have spanking in their lives? Is that too weird a mental picture? Please think about it and share your take on spanking as we grow older.

Where do you see your spanking relationship as you get older? What do you anticipate? What do you dread?

I feel like my spanking relationship just started. We are in our early thirties, we've been married less than five years, it is all still very new to us. We don't practice Domestic Discipline, we are just into some good kinky fun. So where do I see us as we get older? I am hoping the novelty doesn't wear off.

Right now I will hint about wanting a spanking. I will flat out ask if he is not getting the hint. I think my husband is still amused by me. But he always mentions that the spanking is my thing, he gets nothing out of it. I do wonder sometimes if he will just stop wanting to participate in it. I have no reason to think this, just my own overactive mind.

Then there is the prospect of children. We are planning on having some at some point. That will definitely change the way we live our lives, never mind just the spanking and kinky part. We go through different phases of life and have to change the way we do things to adjust. That is just a normal part of living. But I am hopeful that we will still make time for each other and still want to do all the things that makes us so connected now.

I don't just mean the spanking and the sex toys and all the other things we do. I mean the communicating, the trust, meeting each other's needs. It started out as some foreplay and some kink and it evolved into the way we live our lives. I know we have grown closer, we listen to each other better, we respect each other more. I can feel it and I can see it. I guess in a way I am afraid we might lose that.

How do you feel about others who are older and still have spanking in their lives? Is that too weird a mental picture? Please think about it and share your take on spanking as we grow older.

I am a romantic and I love seeing people in love. So I notice couples and the way they interact- young, old, it doesn't matter. Do I ever look at an older couple and wonder if they spank or have some kinky life behind closed doors? Yes, all the time. And it makes me smile. I don't really get a mental picture, that seems like an invasion of privacy if they are standing right in front of me.

I think it actually makes more sense for an older couple to have a spanking relationship. I think if you have had more experience in life and love it would make a relationship like that run smoother.

At least that is what I think. But really, what do I know?

In the future I picture myself still living happily with my husband. Just living and loving and doing what feels right. I'm not naïve enough to think nothing will change, but I think I am optimistic enough to think it will always change for the better. 

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