H is for Hedonism

APRIL-2013-CALENDAR-001I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows: I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order, of course.

H: hedonism, horny, hot-blooded, head over heels, and hunky.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic H words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the seventh day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose the word hedonism -mainly because my first born was conceived at the Jamaican Tropical resort that goes by the same name – Hedonism II (no clue as to where Hedonism I was or is).

Hedonism: Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.

We won the trip to Hedonism II. Actually, my girlfriend won it and then gave it to us. We’d attended an  “Air Jamaica” launch cocktail party and they gave out raffle tickets as we entered. I told the woman giving out the tickets – “I never win anything – give them to someone else.” My girlfriend glared at me and said, “I’ll take them.”

Yep, you just have to know it – one of those 3 tickets won the prize – a free trip to Hedonism II.

When we landed in Jamaica, there was a bus waiting for us. As we boarded, the driver gave every person a ginormous plastic filled with rum punch. You have to know how that trip went – there was a babydoll disco party (you had to wear a baby doll costume), a pool that was a bar where everyone went skinny dipping, cocktails on beach chairs, a nude beach, a nude sunset (go figure) cruise, and no TVs.

One of the best vacations of my life.

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Jianne

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G is for Grenade & Genicon

APRIL-2013-CALENDAR-001I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows: I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order , of course.

G: genicon, g-spot, and grenade.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic G words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the seventh day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose the words genicon and grenade – simply because I haven’t a clue as to what they mean or why they’re considered sexy.

Genicon: A genicon is a fantasy sexual partner who is envisaged or invoked while having sex with someone else.

Grenade: The ugly girl with a cute friend. Your buddie has to jump on the grenade to save the team. AKA. wingman.

I find both of these words insulting. What do you think?

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Jianne

 

 

 

F is for Fantasy

APRIL-2013-CALENDAR-001I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows: I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order , of course.

F: fickle, fantasy, fellatio, f**k, and fuzzy pickle.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic F words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the sixth day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose the word fantasy.

Fantasy: The faculty or activity of imagining things that are impossible or improbable.

I love this word and its definition because we human beings spend much of our time on this earth struggling to live out our fantasies, and you know what—we’re all the better for it.

Everyone’s fantasy is different and, as the saying goes, that’s what makes the world go around. I have several and each one surges or abates depending upon what’s happening in my life. One abiding fantasy is to eat my way around the world and, lord, would I love that one to come true.

The thing about fantasies though, is that there are some you really don’t want to live out. That’s why, in my opinion, erotic romances about ménages are so popular. Women like the idea, but they’d prefer to read about it than to actually experience it.

What do you think?

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Jianne

Does Exotic = Erotic?

VengeanceHammer_ByJianneCarlo-453x680I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows: I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order , of course.

E: exotic, ecstatic, evocative, erection, ejaculate, and erotic.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic E words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the fifth day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose two words erotic and it’s kissing cousin exotic.

Erotic: Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

Exotic: Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange: From another part of the world; foreign

If someone or something is exotic, does that make them or it automatically erotic? And does the reverse work?

Antonio Banderas is both exotic and erotic as far as I’m concerned. So are Salma Hayek and Shakira. the cover above is for my coming release, Vengeance Hammer. Is it erotic, or exotic, or both?

What do you think?

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Jianne

D is for Dad

a-to-z-letters-dOkay, there’s no way I can blog about romance today, because twenty years ago at 4:44 pm on this day, my father died. So, today my blog is titled D is for Dad.

I am one of the lucky ones. The only girl in the family, I was the absolute apple of my father’s eye. Not once have I ever wondered if I was loved by him – I know with a forged certainty he adored me.

Joseph Anthony Bernard reared me in his own image and I have never regretted that for a second.

He brought me up not as a woman but as a human being and taught me that I was every bit as good as any male. That’s not to say he didn’t challenge me – he did so constantly.

From him I learned competition was only a bad thing if you didn’t win.  That while winning wasn’t the only goal, it was the best one, but you never, ever sacrifice your ethics to win. In a country where paying bribes was the norm, we once went 30 days without a drop of water in our taps because he refused to pay for what should’ve been a right. (He won that fight by the way – the district manager for the utility was fired).

My husband, three sons, and I lived next door to my parents for many years. We were, are still, a close family. My mom and dad helped the dh and I start our own business and he was chairman of our company’s board.  When he died my mom asked if there was anything I wanted to add to the description of dad for the funeral agenda. This was what I said:

He was my hero, my friend, my business colleague, but above all, my dad.

I miss you Dad and I so wish you could’ve seen my sons grow into fine men, whom I not only love, but like. They are all fantastic human beings.

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In mourning,

Jianne