When I first started researching my current book, Off the Record, which is a female/female romance, I unfortunately began by doing market research. I asked both men and women what they would enjoy about reading an erotic romance between two women.
The answers I got back from women were beautiful. They were all about celebrating emotive depth and the sexual passion you can achieve by knowing what it feels like to be a woman and then pleasuring another woman. Or about how women can connect so emotionally with each other, and what an intense experience that would be.
The men just wanted to see boobies rubbing together. Typical.
One of the men suggested I watch some lesbian porn to get a good idea about how to write lesbian erotica (which he must equate, but I do not). I quickly learned that there are two very distinct types of lesbian porn: made for women, and made for men.
But I found that there was little actually lesbian emotion happening in lesbian porn made for men. In fact, it was really just two women getting together who want to turn on some man behind the camera. To me, when men are the focus of the women getting together, that’s not lesbian porn.
How do I know that? Because I found some actual lesbian porn and it’s *completely* different. Completely. This porn is all about the woman’s body. Most of it didn’t include any penetration other than tongues or fingers. No toys, no vegetables or beer bottles or broomsticks. Lots and lots of kissing. A lot of 69, and a lot of eating pussy making eye contact. Very emotionally deep.
And that was more inspiring for my two characters than the heteroflexible performing women in the lesbian-porn-for-men. Not that there’s anything… wrong with that. But it definitely wasn’t going to work as inspiration for my story.
The love that Kit and Emily share in Off the Record is definitely quick-developing, and mostly physical at first, but they come to realize that they are so much on the same wavelength and want so much for each other to be whole and happy and successful, that they can overcome any obstacle. And there are plenty in front of them . . . I hope you enjoy Off the Record as much as I do.
~Camryn Rhys
Synopsis: Lust strikes as their eyes meet over a basket of overpriced Roquefort.
Surprised to meet chef Kit Parker at the grocery store, Emily goes undercover to Kit's restaurant that very night, only to crave more than her cooking. As a food critic, Emily finds it hard to resist the delectable cuisine or the busty, punky chef who created it.
Kit believes she's met the woman of her dreams, but her new lover is hiding something. When a scathing review hits right before grand opening, all blame points to Emily. Will their relationship fizzle before it sizzles?
About The Author:
Camryn Rhys grew up on the border of Canada and the US, and still hasn’t decided which country to call home. She splits her time between the Alberta and Montana Rocky Mountains, with friends and family in both beautiful locations. After running her own restaurant for several years and acquiring advanced degrees in writing, foodie romance seemed the only logical option. When she’s not watching the Food Network, she’s reading a romance novel, or if absolutely necessary, working as a consultant. Someone has to put really excellent food on the table.
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