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Cathryn Fox is probably one of the most generous and warm writers you’ll ever have the chance to meet.  This brilliantly talented author is easily accessible to her readers and has an aw...

  As we begin this new decade, JERR would like to help you keep that New Year’s Resolution! You know, the one you make every year but someho...

As it is now tradition at JERR, we dedicate the last issue of the current year to our wonderful team of reviewers. Some of them kindly shared with us their favorite reads of 2009. Some also shared ...

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Sakhalin and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration but some have ...

 That's right, ladies. If you're after a little action between the sheets, laughter is best kept on hold. Even if he IS prancing around naked except for his socks. I don't know why a naked man...

So I’m stumped about this article. I’m supposed to be writing about how you go about incorporating humor into an erotic romance.

I’m going to astound and amaze you with my...

Fellow bibliophiles- yes, I am speaking to those of you who can't walk by a book store without buying at least one book, or those who carry a book or maybe even two or three everywhere you go. Reme...

When I thought about writing this article, I literally came up with a blank and had a truly difficult time. As I continued to ponder, however, I realized that as the end of the year rapidly approac...

Several issues back reviewers and I discussed our addiction to series. As we feature Sherrilyn Kenyon the prolific series writer in this issue I thought it would be interesting to find out how some...

When we first decided that we needed a 5th Anniversary piece for the newsletter, I told Amber that I could write something, then my brain cells decided to go on strike. I couldn't come up with anyt...

Never judge a book by its cover. Or so we’re told a million times over. But sometimes we make crucial buying decisions, and opinions, based on what we see. I know I sometimes, more often than...

Many of us harbor a deep secret, we function day by day but wait for our next fix. We search websites for information and we monitor major booksellers online for publication dates. The pleasure we ...

Ethics in reviewing has always been a subject that has fascinated me. I guess that the main reason for that is the fact that there are no rules or regulations or anything of the sort involving an e...

The issue of editing (1) or lack thereof is not a new one in the epublishing industry. As a matter of fact, poor editing is quite prevalent in this industry, to the point in which some readers have...

Where do I start? The year is only just beginning for me and I already feel a wave of anticipation building. Why you ask? Well for one thing there is a host of books coming out on the market that a...

As we start the New Year and head towards JERR’s fifth we’d like to give an explanation of sorts. We started the JERR Files for several reasons. As we have grown as a review site we our...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
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October usually means one thing for me: Halloween.  I literally find myself craving paranormal reads more than usual.  Anything with vampires, shapeshifters, magic, demons, the occult, gh...

Hello everyone!

I cannot begin to express my gratitude to JERR, an elegant and intelligent ezine, for this opportunity. It also falls upon my birthday! I will be 30 years old today. Anyone ...

Now that Just Erotic Romance Reviews (JERR) celebrated the publication of its 100th issue and is on its fourth successful year as a periodical, I can’t help but think about the way erotic rom...

As we continue on our quest to gain better insight into the publishing world and the effect the recent proliferation of erotic romance publishers and imprints is having on the market, the JERR File...

Picture this …

An author is sitting on a therapist’s couch.
Author: “What if I said it was so easy a publisher could do it?”
Therapist: “Well th...

This is how I write sex scenes.

First, I slip into something sexy – could be that lacy bra and panties set I got from that big-name lingerie place or even a thin tank-top and pair of ...

Vampires, werewolves and witches, oh my! 

There's been an explosion of such paranormal creatures in both mainstream and erotic romance. I love reading (and writing) about them and so d...

That’s what my mother said to me on a recent visit home. “Honestly, I don’t know why people find that appealing. I mean, having something suck my blood, yuck! How could that be co...

When I was a kid and a babysitter, I’d go away thinking, "Man, that was bad. Those kids must be acting up like they would for a substitute teacher.” Because, you know, who would ha...

Seduction. Such a simple and complex concept rolled into one word. It fires the imagination, brings to mind all manner of images, affects your senses, and the connotations are as endless as they ar...

It seems I’ve always enjoyed reading.  A story opens the doors to an adventure.  It’s an opportunity to see things I would never see otherwise, to experience adventures that I...

Writing erotic romance means that we authors pretty much have to get intimately acquainted with a variety of sins. Not the ones we’d get arrested for, of course - research only goes so far! B...

The sun felt wonderful on her shoulders. If she could turn, she'd let the rays caress her breasts and belly, but her owner had positioned her so she couldn't control anything. Not only had he pulle...

Probably some of you are already wondering what is an average reader doing writing an article about editing, of all things. To make the story short, I just finished reading a book that, despite hav...

Being a self published author you are immediately faced with a certain stigma. People assume that you couldn’t get your book published by a ‘conventional’ publisher, when in fact ...