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            For a couple of years now, I have self-published romance stories on and off on Amazon. I have a confession to make, I did not have my work edited before I self -published most of my books.   It is a mistake that has lived in perpetuity.   I can’t market my books because of the editing and grammar mistakes in them. I am too embarrassed.                 After I did this, I took a step back and remembered that no one likes a badly put together book, no matter how interesting the story, or so I have been told by readers who took a chance on my romance novellas and found a story badly in need of editing.                 Truth be told, I have a fine grasp of grammar but not great, and   I   also have a college degree but   I self- published without even reading over the ...

I once wrote an erotic short story  for an anthology that was rejected. I was told that I needed to work on my sex scenes. One suggestion the editor made: was to watch porn. Needless to say, I was not going to watch porn, and I decided writing erotica is not for me but writing romance novels was right up my alley.  When I started to write and self-publish romance novels the question of not having love scenes in them did not come up. Of course, there will be love scenes in them. It was one of the reasons that I loved romances but reading sex scenes and writing them is a different kettle of fish. My journey of writing sex scenes in my romance stories was awkward at first. Although I have gotten used to writing them, they are not perfect. First, my sex scenes are short. They are about two or three paragraphs long. Two, I use the same language in each love scene i.e., he gave her a French kiss in her vagina.  Three, I use the term vagina and I wonder if i...