Ask the Author: Noël Cades
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Noël Cades
I have been a bit delayed with that due to some other writing projects, so I am now anticipating 2019. Thank you for your interest!
Noël Cades
I think there are different Harlequin series, I don't always notice what I'm reading half the time! In the UK it was always "Mills & Boon" and then it was bought by Harlequin.
While I think some of the modern ones verge on the erotic (like "Blaze") the vintage ones are far more tame. However some authors were putting actual sex scenes in, and very often forcible ones - "forced seduction" most often. You won't get body part names, but you'll get euphemistic references and it's clear what's going on.
If you look at my most recent review, Beware the Beast by Anne Mather, I actually posted a screenshot of such a scene. It was one of the darkest I've read to date, in a Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Usually the heroine ends up in (implausible) waves of passion despite her initial reluctance, but not in that book. It dates from the mid-1970s.
While I think some of the modern ones verge on the erotic (like "Blaze") the vintage ones are far more tame. However some authors were putting actual sex scenes in, and very often forcible ones - "forced seduction" most often. You won't get body part names, but you'll get euphemistic references and it's clear what's going on.
If you look at my most recent review, Beware the Beast by Anne Mather, I actually posted a screenshot of such a scene. It was one of the darkest I've read to date, in a Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Usually the heroine ends up in (implausible) waves of passion despite her initial reluctance, but not in that book. It dates from the mid-1970s.
Noël Cades
Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy.
Noël Cades
Hi Jada,
If you're able to rate/review I do have review copies available. Just pm me your email address if so!
yours
Noël
If you're able to rate/review I do have review copies available. Just pm me your email address if so!
yours
Noël
Noël Cades
Hopefully in the next few weeks, with a launch price of 99c.
It will be released on Wattpad but gradually, so it will probably be a few months before it's complete there.
So people will have the choice of being patient or paying just 99c to get it immediately!
I will also be offering some free review copies to people on here with active accounts (who rate and review works).
It will be released on Wattpad but gradually, so it will probably be a few months before it's complete there.
So people will have the choice of being patient or paying just 99c to get it immediately!
I will also be offering some free review copies to people on here with active accounts (who rate and review works).
Noël Cades
If you pm me your email address I can send you review copies!
Noël Cades
Hopefully in the next couple of months or so - it's about two-thirds done. Nanowrimo might get in the way.
I've even written a couple of scene for the third one in the trilogy. There's lots of subplot, plus a potential new love interest for Laura, however I can spoiler that people who liked Mr Rydell and Laura together probably won't be disappointed when it's all complete!
I've even written a couple of scene for the third one in the trilogy. There's lots of subplot, plus a potential new love interest for Laura, however I can spoiler that people who liked Mr Rydell and Laura together probably won't be disappointed when it's all complete!
Noël Cades
Hopefully in the next couple of months or so - it's about two-thirds done. Nanowrimo might get in the way.
I've even written a couple of scene for the third one in the trilogy. There's lots of subplot, plus a potential new love interest for Laura, however I can spoiler that people who liked Mr Rydell and Laura together probably won't be disappointed when it's all complete!
EDIT: I now have a date! It will hopefully arrive on Leap Year's Day next year - so 29th February 2016.
I've even written a couple of scene for the third one in the trilogy. There's lots of subplot, plus a potential new love interest for Laura, however I can spoiler that people who liked Mr Rydell and Laura together probably won't be disappointed when it's all complete!
EDIT: I now have a date! It will hopefully arrive on Leap Year's Day next year - so 29th February 2016.
Noël Cades
Read and live, and mix with people of different backgrounds and ages. Have a fantasy world existing inside your head.
Noël Cades
Crushes that my friends and I had back in our schooldays, and a very handsome cricket coach that we had one year at our school. I believe he married a teacher, certainly none of us! There's a reason my books are fiction, our wild dreams never quite came true.
Noël Cades
Just ideas that come into my head. It usually starts with a name, or the idea of a character, and sometimes a setting. I play around with them in my head sometimes for years before they make it onto the page.
Noël Cades
I just finished Summer's Edge, my second student-teacher romance novel, and published it today. I'm now planning a third student-teacher romance which I may release in serial form, on a site like Wattpad. Just to see what that's like and if people enjoy it arriving in instalments! Plus if people have feedback part of the way through, I can change the course of the book, so it should be more interactive than writing a regular book.
Noël Cades
Nanowrimo is a really great way to motivate yourself to write an entire novel. Compared to that, writing a novel over three or six months is kind of breezy. If you enjoy what you are writing and you really want to see your characters complete their stories, it helps you keep going.
Noël Cades
Being able to put dreams and fantasies into a book and actually have them come true. Real life may not be full of happy endings but a book can always have one!
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