BDSM: A Conversation with Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin Pt II + GC Giveaway

Eden Bradley / Eve Berlin

Welcome back to the final post in our series, Kink In Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit?

Erotic romance and BDSM themes in particular have been discussed extensively in the media of late leaving some say good, and others say not so good impressions with the community at large. We at BLI sincerely hope that those of you who have followed our Kink series have found it positive and maybe piqued your interest in the genre. On the other hand, if erotic romance isn’t your cup-of-tea we hope you have found the series informative. 🙂

We are once again delighted to have special guest author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin here to complete our conversation about the BDSM Lifestyle and BDSM themes in erotic romance. *Please refer to the March 1st post published here for the first part of …

BDSM: A Conversation With Eden Bradley (a.k.a. Eve Berlin) + GC Giveaway!

Eden Bradley / Eve Berlin

Welcome to Part III of BLI’s Kink in Erotic Romance: Forbidden Fruit or Guilty Pleasure? series.

I’m very excited about the next two segments of the series because BLI is welcoming special guest author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin who was kind enough to share her valuable time for an extensive conversation about the BDSM Lifestyle and it’s incorporation into erotic romance.

Eden Bradley/Eve Berlin is a full-time author whose many books are published by Harlequin Spice and HQN, Berkley Heat, Bantam/Dell, and Samhain Publishing. She has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember but became serious about her writing in the summer of 2000. She wrote romance novels, since that was what she thought she could sell, but eventually returned to what she truly loved: writing erotica, and eventually blended erotica …

Kink In Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit? Part 2 + GC Giveaway!

Welcome to Part II of BLI’s Kink in Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit?

This week I’m going to be rambling um chatting about:

Voyeurism, Exhibitionism & Orgies…

Oh My!

To try and increase my knowledge before tackling this post I did some reading about voyeurism and exhibitionism from a clinical perspective and was surprised to discover that these fetishes fall under the psychiatric realm of paraphilias which are recurrent, intense, sexually-arousing fantasies, urges or behaviors generally involving nonhuman objects, the suffering or humiliation of oneself or one’s partner, or children or other non-consenting persons. Yikes! Hopefully in the hands of a good storyteller, we don’t find the suffering or humiliation of one’s partner or especially children in erotic romantic fiction. But the key word here is consensual.

Wild, Wicked & Wanton by Jaci Burton

In erotic romance, authors are at …

Kink In Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit – Part 1 + GC Giveaway!

Welcome to Part I of BLI’s new four part series:

“Kink in Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit?”

This weeks segment is entitled:

Ménage à Many Your Cup-of-Tea or No?

We are chatting about (you guessed it) ménage themes in romance and I’m thrilled to welcome and offer a big thank you to Mary, our special guest visiting from Mary’s Naughty Whispers Blog!

First, just a little info about the series:

This will be a biweekly event during February and March.
There is a Giveaway opportunity and all the details noted below!
Every 2 weeks there will be different topics/thems discussed related to Kink in Erotic Romance!
And for the last 2 posts in March we will be welcoming a special guest author!!

Undercover by Lauren Dane

I’m not a huge fan of ménage themes, in fact I’ve gotten extremely picky recently regarding this …