Determined to take charge of her life, Candy abandons her inhibitions and heads West. Adam and Bryan, co-owners of a remote Montana cattle ranch, are eager for luscious female heat after three cold months in the saddle. Candy’s first step toward freedom is one glorious night of wild sex. The men prove what four hands, two mouths and hard driving muscles can do in a few determined hours.
But meeting her deep, dark fantasies requires more time. They invite her back to the Double R, promising games of Virgin and Pirates, Harem Girl and Sheiks. With hard working days and deliciously wicked nights, the last few weeks of the winter pass quickly.
Ranch life, and her men, are everything Candy wants. But she can’t live a fantasy forever, hoping they’ll ask her to stay. Unless they return her love, she must claim her independence and escape before her heart breaks.
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I’m proud to read, and write erotic romance!
My name is Reece Butler and I not only read hot and erotic romance, I write it. There, I said it.
Did the earth shatter? Sky fall down?
Since I’m still typing, I guess not. But admitting it took some time.
You see, reading erotic romance is easily kept quiet, especially if you download electronic books over the Internet. No one needs to know except you and your credit card.
But if you’re an author, people need to know about it. That means going public (insert whimper and cringe here).
After writing for five years, I’m no longer worried about telling (most) people that I’m proud to write hot and erotic romance. My second royalty check of five figures didn’t hurt (okay, I admit two of those figures were the seventy-five cents to the right of the decimal place).
But when the big boss asked me the title of my first publication a few months ago, I froze. Then I took a deep breath, looked him in the eye (not too difficult since we’re the same height) and said, “COWBOY SANDWICH”.
He looked at me blankly for a moment.
“Um, she’s the filling,” I explained.
He blinked. Eyes glazed over. “So, how are your children?” he said in a hearty way-too-fake voice.
“Fine,” I said, smiling just as blankly. “And yours?”
Obviously the explanation about the filling was too much for him. So I didn’t mention how my heroine, Candy, eager to abandon her inhibitions after her divorce, heads to Montana with her cowboy fantasies. She attends a Mardi Gras party at a swinger’s club on single’s night.
Adam and Bryan, co-owners of a remote cattle ranch, are eager for luscious female heat after three cold months in the saddle. Candy’s first step toward freedom is one glorious night of wild sex. The three of them, uh, help each other meet their needs.
The details as to how that happens are way too hot to describe here.
Now I’ve been told (mostly by men) that erotic romance is bad for relationships because it gives women false expectations.
I say, fantasy is wonderful!
There are no toilets to clean, dirty socks (and worse!) to pick up or children to feed. We already know what are partners are like. No, mine is not six foot five with perfect musculature (that’s my younger brother), but after thirty years, he’s still mine. That doesn’t stop me from fantasizing about delicious heroes. Many women find reading about sex makes them hot, just as men are into pictures. So, reading erotic romance helps a women create the mood.
Therefore, writing erotic romance is a helping profession. In some ways, we authors are inexpensive sex therapists. Readers (and their partners) can learn what fingers, tongues and other body parts can do, and how it might feel to both give and receive.
Yep. Erotic romance can help men and women (in any combination) expand their comfort zones, all in the security of their own homes. All you need is the ability to read, or have someone read to you. Even better, act it out!
Instead of your partner(s) sitting in the easy chair aiming the remote, what if you find a favorite scene and say, ‘honey, read chapter six and I’ll meet you in the kitchen’?
Why the kitchen? Do you know how many ‘pervertables’ can be found in such a mundane place? These are items which can be converted to a use for which they were not originally designed (ahem!).
Things to provide texture (a new plastic scrub pad scratched over a back), to lightly spank (rubber spatula) or surprise (ice cubes!). I won’t get into food, but we all know (or fantasize) about whipped cream and chocolate sauce!
And the countertop and/or table may be the perfect height to…ah, I’ll let you give your fantasies full reign.
Now you know what to say when asked what you want as a present.
Chocolate is good, wine is fine, but erotic romance makes it all sublime!
COWBOY SANDWICH by Reece Butler is published by Siren Publishing. It received 4.5 Cherries by Whipped Cream Romance Reviews. “… a hot yet romantic tale of three people falling in love with arousing sex scenes that left me looking for ice water…I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys cowboy antics”.
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Many thanks to Ms. Butler for being our guest today. For more infomation on Reece and her books, check out her page here and make sure you leave a comment for the chance to win a download of COWBOY SANDWICH. Good luck!
Thanks for welcoming me at RR&H Novel Thoughts today. Looking forward to hearing your comments. Excerpts of COWBOY SANDWICH are published on my website: one has the first scene of the book, for general readership. Another erotic exerpt follows for those who wish to read more detail.
For the record, my definition of ‘erotic romance’ is a darn good romance with interesting characters, plot and happily ever after, but with more detail as to what goes where, how, and what it feels like.
Cheers! Reece
This books sounds amazingly hot! I’ve not read anything by this author yet. Can’t wait to start!
I already have “Cowboy Sandwich” and thoroughly enjoyed it! Great post.
Just the title is enough to give you a thrill!
I love your sentence, “Chocolate is good, wine is fine, but erotic romance makes it all sublime!”
Wow what a title… 😀 Sounds like a really HOT read… Thanks for the chance to win a copy of it…
Who can resist cowboys, not me! I’d love to read the book!
Great post! LOL I will never look at my kitchen quite the same way.
This sounds deliciously yummy. *____* Thanks for the chance to win!
Hi, Reece–great post! And that kind of sandwich does sound particularly appealing 🙂
Good to know your heroine just doesn’t shrivel up and die, but goes after her cowboys. Yippee for cowboys!!
Just the title makes me want to read the book!
Thanks, everyone, for the great welcome! My Internet’s been down all day so I’m only jumping on now.
Lisa — you’re only the second person I’ve ‘met’ who admits reading Cowboy Sandwich — congrats for that alone!
The other woman told her boyfriend “hon, I want to do this” and pointed to something — she did not tell me what 😦
Her boyfriend refused to try it, and she proudly told me that he is no longer her boyfriend. If he couldn’t have fun with her, then he wasn’t worth her time. Obviously, he wasn’t a cowboy….
Reece
As if the title alone doesn’t make me want this book, the snippet seals the deal. Crossing my fingers I win this!
I loved the story about telling the big boss the title…I can just imagine my boss’ face if I ever told him something like that!
I saw this book at ARE today and almost bought it, after this blog I am buying it. Thank you so much for such a great interview and I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Keep up the hard work.
“Now I’ve been told (mostly by men) that erotic romance is bad for relationships because it gives women false expectations.”
Perfect response to any man making this claim: And porn flicks have been catering to men’s “false expectations” for decades. What’s yer point?
Women deserve their own fantasy fulfillment as much – if not more than – their male counterparts. WOOHOO!!! for you, and every other erotic romance author, reader, or combo in the world!
PS: Would that six-foot, well-muscled brother of yours happen to be single? 😉
Regarding women and their fantasies: the first easy-to-read research about this was Nancy Friday’s “The Secret Garden” which, when it was published (before the Internet existed) created a storm.
For the first time, women saw, in print, other women’s fantasies. They realized they were not alone in their thoughts. When I first began researching romance, I read a book on romance subject written by a number of now best-selling romance authors. One of the articles that struck me most was about why strong women wanted to read about Alpha male heroes ‘dominating’ the lives of the heroines.
What I got from it was that, rather than female romance readers being weak (in wanting to read about the heroine wanting a strong protect-and-provide male presence), women have to make so many decisions, take care of so many things, that we fantasize about having just one man, a big, strong hero, to sweep us off our feet.
Not that we’d want to spend our lives with the arrogant son-of-a-gun, but the fantasy of being with someone so strong, handsome (add in whatever) lets us handle the stuff that fills our long days.
So many of us now live in cities and are surrounded by men who get calluses from keyboards and Blackberries rather than doing something heroic, outdoor and muscular. We love our men (most of the time) but the thought of being swept away does get us through those days where chocolate becomes one of the main food groups.
As to my brother, he has a he-man meet-the-emergency protection-type job, perfect for a hero. However, he’s well married to a wonderful, equally heroic woman (aren’t they usually?).
But who knows what is around the corner with a whole new year starting soon. Fantasies can become reality, especially if we close one eye and squint after having a couple of glasses of wine….
Sounds like a great book and a new author to me too.
Cowboy Sandwich sounds interesting. The story of you telling your boss about it made me laugh. I’m not sure how you were able to keep a straight face given your description of his reaction to it.
Two cowboys does sound better than one! LOL On to the list it goes.
Very hot book!
Cowboy Sandwich…enough said…. SIGHS
ooh fun, I love a good menage book and I have not read this, please enter me!!!
I can’t think of anything better than two cowboys, except maybe three, but then again three might be too much to handle.