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Chatting With Birthday Girl Dr. J/ Donna Jennings on Her Book Release Day!!!

I have had a hot summer! I am in a new anthology and working on a novella for a new anthology series inspired by the Cards Of Passion. Cards of Passion is the brainchild of my friend Dr. J/ Donna Jennings, and I was thrilled to be asked to join her and the other authors for this series!

Today is her birthday and the first Cards of Passion book (hers), Shadows and Silhouettes is out today. Let’s wish Donna a happy birthday and chat with her!!!

I have known and loved you for years, but tell us about yourself!

The feeling is mutual, Leonora. I adore you and your work. Who am I? I’m a retired sex therapist and college human sexuality professor turned erotic romance writer.

My 48-year career in sexuality began with packing condoms for Adam and Eve. I got three degrees related to sexuality and opened a private practice for therapy, education, and consulting.

As I retired from my college teaching, my students said write, so I did. I started with erotica shorts and moved into novellas and novels. I’m the erotica editor for the sexual wellness platform Rosy. I live on the Atlantic coast and love to support the arts in my area. Most people don’t know I’m an avid sock knitter.

What inspired you to create the cards of Cards of Passion and series?

Great question with a long answer. I was in the process with a co-author of creating the Purple Sex & Love Journal for Women and because of a life change, my fellow author couldn’t continue. I needed to finish the journal and move it forward without them, but I didn’t know how. While in the North Carolina mountains, nature inspired me, and I created the cards and they helped me complete the journal.

The following spring, I hosted a writer’s retreat, and the cards were there. We were having a lively “what if” discussion, and the cards jumped in. We talked about what would happen if the cards showed up in different stories. And now they have.

I have nine authors who wanted to take part in this series, which I dubbed Cards of Passion. I sent each author a deck. They each write in different genres of romance, but saw a place in their writing where sex-positive affirmations could help. I think the cards are kind of like the pants in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

They selected one of nine topic sets: self-intimacy, sensuality, fantasy, sexual behaviors, gender, sexual orientation, pleasure, body image and desire as part of their story. It has been such a fun process and I’m looking forward to see how the authors used the idea. If the process of cover design is an indicator, they will be so interesting. And with a quirk of fate, I’ll be there for the Cards of Passion book launch.

You just wrote the Fiction Writers Sexuality Guide; how does that inspire the Cards of Passion or vice versa?

I love this question. I’ve told many folks that The Fiction Writer’s Sexuality Guide was my writing dissertation. It is my effort to highlight everything in the sexuality world to help authors with a sex-positive mindset and character development tools in their writing. This mindset provides a foundation and offers a new paradigm for embracing sexuality in writing.

The content of FWSG and the content of Cards of Passion is foundationally the same. They both highlight experiences through the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of sexuality on humans/characters and considers how the world around interacts with the individual/character. For FWSG, it’s about how to think about yourself and your characters in layersover a lifetime. With the cards, it encourages self-reflection on your sexual identity and if you have a desire for any modifications. Both make sexuality a balanced aspect of the person.

Tell us about your Cards of Passion installment!

This is exciting. I know how I created the actual cards in my world and it felt magical. But when we had the conversation about the cards in writing stories, I wanted it to tap into my imagination and create a story of the cards wrapped around two people who fall in love.

Nature continued to stay a central theme, as did the aspect of my life in sexuality as an educator. Liv the FMC is a sexuality educator who battles a sexual medical issue. The MMC also deals with a sexuality issue. The card’s creation element weaves between them as Liv’s creates the card project. This all occurs as they meet at a creativity summit to heal themselves. They both get some surprises.

What is up next for you or anything you want to share in closing?

It’s been a busy year. Three books came out and I’ve done a lot of speaking engagements, and I’m laying out next year’s books. My themes will continue to focus on sexuality as a setting or central aspect of the characters. I’m also teaming up with USA Today Best-selling Author Danika Bloom for a podcast/YouTube discussion on romance and sexuality for writers. Stay tuned.

Dr. J. is a retired sex therapist and college human sexuality professor. She is the editor for Rosy, a sexual wellness platform for women. Her passion is writing romantic and erotic stories that elevate sex-positive ideas. She hopes the readers perceive the characters as fully developed, with sexuality being an equal part of their makeup. She wrote The Fiction Writer’s Sexuality Guide: Sex—It’s More Than a Scene to share her process with writers.

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Guest Blogger and Fellow Sister In Smut Dr. J Takes Us to Destination Bordello!!!

I love having my Sisters In Smut come to visit on my blog, and in person (hint, hint Dr. J!). Dr. J is an AMAZING storyteller, she knows how to stimulate every sense that we have and make us connect with her words. There is nothing more for me to say–this is her post!

How do you find ideas to create sexy stories?

If you hang out with a group of lively, smutty writer friends, they can come from anywhere. Mischa Eliot and I were going back and forth on a Twitter DM discussing story ideas. I shared that living on an island rich with pirate history and wenches, of course, piqued my creative juices.

In the late 1800’s, at a time when the new world was growing, my island was a transportation hub. As such, businesses flourished including brothels and bordellos. I wanted to verify that information as a fact since one of the road names in the old section of town was called Ladies Street, touted for all the bordellos there. My efforts at the local museum to document this failed. But I expanded my search and dug a little further and found a surprising inspiration. And with that spark, I created Destination Bordello.

This story is located exclusively on Radish Fiction. Download their app from the Apple or Google Play Store to read. I serialize the story Destination Bordello there. Writing in this manner is different than writing a novel. I create a new episode each week. In the first episode, I share my inspirational insights. Let me introduce to the main characters Laney and Carlton and their unusual situation.

As Laney Baynes lost her massage therapy lease, she received news from attorney Carlton Jarvis of a property conveyance. With a family bordello legacy revealed, Carlton helps Laney concoct a plan to gather money to pay off the back taxes and get her new practice established. How do they do it? They pull a page from history and find themselves lost in a contemporary setting of lust and fantasy at Destination Bordello.

Excerpt from Destination Bordello.

“People like to visit places they’ve never been, have experiences that might be a once in a lifetime experience. We had a small family ranch, and after my Dad died, we needed help. I came up with a ranch-cation idea. People lived there and worked the ranch. It helped us, and they had an adventure.”

“That makes perfect sense for your situation, but we’re talking about a building that housed a bordello.”

“I’m not suggesting you open for prostitution. Our firm holds the paperwork. I need not tell them how we are using the building during the transition. Instead, it’s a space for people to act out fantasies ‘as if’ they were in the bordello. They pay to come to this destination.”

Laney cocked her head and scrunched her face. “Like a destination bordello?”

“Yes.” She sighed and shook her head.

“I’d come to one, Laney.”

My eagerness for fixing a problem took over.

“Come on, let me show you this.”

I grabbed Laney’s hand and pulled her up the stairs.

I located the room with the hidden space. Adam and Eli’s muffled voices were nearby. “I found the books here.” I pulled a panel down and showed Laney the hiding space in the wall.

“Wow. It is secretive.” She reached out to touch it but pressed a panel above it which dropped opening a peephole into the next room.

As she tiptoed to peer inside, Laney slapped her hand over her mouth. She turned and nodded her head toward the hole for me to look.

What the hell?

Laney cupped her hands around my ear. “I can only see the tops of their heads. Are they role-playing?”

Her warm breath tickled my ear, and I wished I was role playing with her.

“I’m too short, tell me.” I leaned forward to look through the hole.

Eli walked around a kneeling Adam, and she smacked his butt. She continued her circle and loosened the top of her dress and exposed her lace covered breasts. She jiggled them in his face. I nodded my head at Laney.

“I want to see,” she whispered. Her eyes pleaded with me. How could I say no?

I motioned for her to stand in front of me and I lifted her up. My fingers brushed her side breast, and animal lust took over. When she leaned forward to look, her ass cushioned itself below my waist. I was on fire. After peering in, she patted my arm signaling me to set her down.

Sliding her down my body was glorious torture. When her feet touched the ground, she turned in my arms.

What did I see? Desire, longing, questions. I pushed a loose strand of hair behind her ear, and she sighed. Because it felt natural, I pulled her into my arms and hugged her. She clutched me with a quiet moan. I rubbed her shoulders, and then my cock joined the show. She pulled back. With a crook of her finger, she motioned me to come forward. I bent, so we were nose to nose.

She whispered. “It makes me horny knowing what they are doing. I like to watch.”

Laney didn’t have to share that, but she had to know it affected me. Her words caused my desire to surge and reeved me up. I took her face in my hands and kissed her. Her lips and tongue took charge, and I met her stroke for stroke. She broke the kiss and moved her mouth by my ear. “Do you think this is what they used this space for, watching?”

I dropped my hands to her ass and squeezed while I shook my head yes.

“What they are doing now?” Without dropping my hold on her ass, I moved us closer to the wall, and I peeked inside.

“Tell me.”

“Adam is sucking Eli’s nipples, and her hand is between her legs.”

I ached to have my fingers inside Laney. As I had that thought, Laney reached behind me, grabbed my hand from her ass and placed my palm between us against the opening of her thighs. Her other massaged my cock. “I’m feeling naughty, Carl.” I wiggled my fingers against her, and she cooed.

Now you want to explore all of Dr. J’s work, right? You can find all of her links on her Sisters In Smut page!

Dr. J. From Sex Therapist to Erotica Writer. ~Writing to arouse the mind and other parts. ~

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