Adele Dubois Blog

Here’s a review of some of the hottest hunks featured on my blog in 2009. Enjoy!

Adrian Paul

The Ellora’s Cavemen

Johnny Depp

Benjamin Bratt

Rick Mora

Jon Bon Jovi

Sagi Kalev

Jason Lewis

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Thanks so much for your enthusiasm and support.

Happy New Year!

The year 2009 has been good to me professionally and for that I thank my readers.

To show my appreciation for your enthusiastic support I will mail a gift of a DESERT NECTAR bookmark inside the continental USA to the first 50 readers who respond to this message. No strings attached. DESERT NECTAR is the trade paperback edition of the award-winning e-books DESERT FEVER and DESERT WILD. The bookmark features actor and model Rick Mora (Twilight) as the DESERT WILD hero Sonny Wild Horse Hendricks.

Email your name and mailing address to me at author@adeledubois.com or click the Contact link on my website at www.adeledubois.com with your mailing information. Please type FREE BOOKMARK in the subject line. I will send your bookmark and delete your address. You will not be added to any list. The DESERT NECTAR bookmark is my free gift to you.

Happy New Year!

Note 1/4/10:  This gift offer is now closed. Thank you to everyone who responded. I hope you enjoy your bookmark.

I write erotic romance for a living–what did Santa expect?

Every year at Christmastime I choose a day to wrap presents while watching my favorite holiday movies. We’re having a huge snowstorm on the eastern seaboard, making this the perfect afternoon to enjoy my yearly tradition.

Here are some pictures from the windows of the snow-covered Dubois family home. 

The woods in our backyard.

We fed the birds and left food for the four-footed wildlife before the snowstorm began.  See the squirrel feeding with the birds?

Our grapevine Christmas deer stands guard.

Merry white Christmas!

Red is my favorite color. It’s the color of passion, heat and spice, and the festive holiday season.

Who thought cyclists could give us another reason to love the color red?

I’m kicking off Christmas with author Michelle Polaris and other Ellora’s Cave authors with some kick-ass boots and shoes worn by our story heroines.

REV ME UP heroine Lisa Gibson wears the black boots shown above for her ride on the back of a motorcycle. Lisa has always been a Good Girl, but when she flashes her breasts at a hunk riding by on his Harley, all hell breaks loose. 

Here’s the link to the Ellora’s Cave author kick-ass boots event. Leave a comment and you may win a prize:

http://michellepolarisblog.wordpress.com

For more information about REV ME UP, which has received a TOP PICK and FIVE HEARTS review, visit this link:

http://www.adeledubois.com/bookshelf.shtml

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I’m blogging about REV ME UP at The Romance Studio Blue blogspot. Stop by and say hello!

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The Valley Forge Romance Writers had a wonderful time at our holiday party at Maggio’s Little Italy restaurant in King of Prussia, PA. The company of writers was great and the food was fabulous. Even the whacky gift exchange was fun. Everyone went home with a nice present and warm memories. Several of our members are not pictured, but here’s a sampling of our talented group.

Authors from left to right: Kate Welsh (Harlequin), Judi Fennell (Sourcebooks), Adele Dubois (Ellora’s Cave), Martha Schroeder (Kensington), Stephanie Julian (Ellora’s Cave).

From left to right: Judi Fennell (Sourcebooks), Adele Dubois (Ellora’s Cave), Martha Schroeder (Kensington).

From left to right: Leslie Lighton (Aspiring screenwriter), Miriam Newman (Dark Castle Lords), Adele Dubois (Ellora’s Cave), Ruth G. Zavitsanos (Wild Child Publishing).

Our tree is up, the lights are lit, and we rescued the red and white blanket beneath the tree from the dog, who wanted it for his bed.

Merry Christmas!

It’s been awhile since I posted pics of world-class bodybuilder, nutrition expert, and model Sagi Kalev. There are many pictures and videos of Sagi in my earlier blog posts. Isn’t he spectacular? Visit his website at sagikalev.com

Baby it’s cold outside, but it’s hot in here!

“I fucking love you,” he sobs into the phone. Takes a shaky breath. Lights a cigarette.

“I love you, too,” she replies. Cries. Sniffles. Wipes her tear-streaked face.

And so goes the dialogue from the blockbuster film I watched On Demand. I’ve seen other movies with similar scenes, where the commitment-phobic hero finally breaks down and confesses his love for the heroine, after escaping death at the hands of bad guys. Following the hero’s life-changing ordeal, he makes the inevitable phone call to profess his love.

For some reason (probably because men write most movie scripts), the simpering women in these action films seem grateful for the hero’s long overdue, under-whelming, and anti-climactic emotional revelation. Though some respond with equally surreal dialogue (“I fucking love you, too.”), I’ll bet most real-life women dislike hearing a man declare his love with the F bomb as a modifier.

Since when did those three little words become four?

Hollywood screenwriters need to take a page from a romance novel and get a clue. Women want to hear love professed the old-fashioned way, without the potty mouth, and not just because the hero almost got his head blown off. Women want to be loved because we’re lovable. A real man can handle that, whether he’s an action hero or a romantic lead.

Hollywood–where the eff is the romance?