Well kids, we’ve talked about the cowboy’s horse, art, music and food. What’s left? The land! The Wild West! cc – Randy Pertiet Here is an interesting article written by J. Wisniewski and Kevin Nakamura about five myths of the Wild West. And here are a few eye-candy pictures of the landscape. Enjoy! cc – Phil Constantine cc – Frank Kovalchek cc – Ron Reiring
I’ve loved sexy cowboys ever since I wrote Overheated, so when Delilah said she was looking for short cowboy stories, I was all over it! In Drop Two Tears in a Bucket, my contribution to the Cleis Press anthology COWBOY HEAT, I imagined what it must be like to be a woman who owned a cattle ranch—a woman who has a bunch of super-hot cowboys running around taking care of business. When Ellie gets the final divorce papers from her…
Hi everyone! I’m Amber Lin, author of sexy, edgy romance. RT Book Reviews called my debut novel “truly extraordinary.” Since then I’ve been published by Loose Id, Carina Press, and Entangled, and my new adult romance HOW TO SAY GOODBYE comes out on April 7th. (Add it on Goodreads here.) I’ve always been fascinated by power differentials–during sex, yes, but also in the main relationship. Boss/employee. Rough/soft. Mean/kind. It manifests in different ways, but the question remains: how are these…
Hey, everyone! Mia Hopkins here. I’m thrilled to be a part of Cowboy Heat. The inspiration for my story “Remember” came from a trip to Las Vegas. On a whiskey-soaked lark, my girlfriends and I went to see Thunder from Down Under, the all-male revue show at the Excalibur Hotel. I was a total newbie and didn’t know what to expect. The lights went down, the dance beat started up, and a well-oiled gentleman who looked like Jeremy Piven’s buffer…
I was working on a story in a different sub-genre when I saw the call for submissions with a cowboy theme. As hard as I tried to stay focused, I just had to switch gears (and centuries) to start plotting a story about a situation that many of us can relate to: being on the outside of a coveted group. To my way of thinking, this theme is a universal one that many readers to relate to. Then I took…
One woman in a pair of rhinestone heels plus two sexy cowboys equals a highly combustible combination. And thus my contribution to the Cowboy Heat anthology, Denim and Lace came into being. Well, sort of— Several years ago, Margot Goodwin made a brief appearance in my erotic business romance, Cats and Dogs, when she offered a weekend refuge to her sister. She’s been patiently waiting for her story ever since. It’s also a good possibility that she’s merely been out…
A COWBOY FOR DELILAH…AND 15 FOR YOU! I have to say, I’ve had so much fun writing stories for Delilah’s Collections. I’ve been lucky to have several now, “Saving Charlotte” in Smokin Hot Firemen, “Five Alarm Fire” in High Octane Heroes and now, “A Cowboy for Delilah” in Cowboy Heat. The inspiration for this story was, of course, Delilah. When she put out the call for this Anthology, I knew I wanted to write something because, let’s face it, Cowboys…
“Cowboy Adonis,” my contribution to Cowboy Heat, owes its existence to “Drought,” the story I wrote for Cowboy Lust, the first anthology of erotic cowboy romance edited by Delilah Devlin. In that story I used an old western story archetype, that of the new schoolmarm and the rancher, and updated it to the 21st century. I also wrote about the drought then parching much of Texas and used it as a metaphor for the narrator’s nonexistent sex life. When Delilah…
I’m Emma Jay and I’ve been writing for about five years, after Delilah challenged me to try my hand at some spicier writing, and I found it extremely liberating. I’ve written 17 novellas since, cowboys, firefighters and groomsmen. I’m a teacher, which means secrets. It also means lots of testing. I was thumbing through a book while the kids were testing and read about this woman who was a rancher in Texas back in the day. Her cattle were rustled…
When Delilah put out a call for submission for cowboy stories I knew I had to submit. And not only for the obvious reason. Sure the iconic apple cheeks of a fine man in wranglers, broad shoulders made for toting bales of hay and the roughness of work-honed hands got me thinking. But what I love more than any cowboy I’ve ever met are the strong and agile creatures that set him apart from the crowd. Thanks to my horse-a-holic…