Sylvia Day turns people on for a living.
She is an author, whose latest novel, Bared to You, is a New York Times bestseller.
It is an erotic romance novel which tells the story of a young and passionate (i.e., horny) couple.
She’s a newly-transplanted New Yorker about to embark on a new job at an advertising agency, located in an office tower owned by a very wealthy man, with whom she will soon find true love.
The romance begins and off come the clothes, over and over and over and over again. In every manner you could imagine.
The pages are smokin’ hot.
In fact, I searched and searched to find a sentence or two that I could share with you to give you an idea of how sizzling and graphic the writing is, but I couldn’t find anything suitable for this newspaper. Seriously.
It’s pornography or at least I thought it was before the author corrected me.
“Porn is written expressly for the sexual titillation of the reader. There doesn’t have to be a plot or character development,” Day said.
(From what I can gather in this story the guy in question has quite the development — you know, his huge office tower. Hello, Dr. Freud, are you there?)
Apparently there are two distinct types of erotic literate.
“There’s erotica, which is based on one character and how their sexual journey changes them, and there is erotic romance, which follows the journey of the romantic relations of two or more characters,” she said, adding “you can’t take the sex out, the story doesn’t work.”
I’ve always believed that.
Days’ Bared to You follows in the wake of the mega seller Fifty Shades of Grey, the first novel in a trilogy which includes Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.
Fifty Shades of Grey chronicles the romantic journey of a young college graduate and her lover, who is also a young business magnate. Sound familiar? Therefore it qualifies as an erotic romance novel as well.
The book has been chastised by some for featuring bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.
A disc jockey south of the border organized a book burning.
But apparently readers don’t care.
Thirty-one million books have been sold and the rights have been sold in 37 countries.
It is the fastest-selling paperback of all time, surpassing Harry Potter. I wonder if Harry has magic wand envy?
Interestingly enough, both books are authored by women.
Day doesn’t mind being in the shadow of Fifty Shades of Grey. She believes it has opened up a lot of people to erotic literature and has been a plus for the genre.
It’s also been cited for the boom in sales of sex toys and it’s believed by some that it will trigger another baby boom.
Kind of like the NHL strike did.
But aren’t these books really just Harlequin romance novels with exposed nipples?
“That’s actually not inaccurate,” Day said.
It seems we’ve entered a new age of literature — a more liberal and open-minded one.
And if these novels are the new Harlequin romances, at least men won’t be so quick to complain when their wives bring a book to bed.
No wonder some women seem to be smiling more often these days.
Ted Woloshyn hosts “Saturday with Ted” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Newstalk 1010
She is an author, whose latest novel, Bared to You, is a New York Times bestseller.
It is an erotic romance novel which tells the story of a young and passionate (i.e., horny) couple.
She’s a newly-transplanted New Yorker about to embark on a new job at an advertising agency, located in an office tower owned by a very wealthy man, with whom she will soon find true love.
The romance begins and off come the clothes, over and over and over and over again. In every manner you could imagine.
The pages are smokin’ hot.
In fact, I searched and searched to find a sentence or two that I could share with you to give you an idea of how sizzling and graphic the writing is, but I couldn’t find anything suitable for this newspaper. Seriously.
It’s pornography or at least I thought it was before the author corrected me.
“Porn is written expressly for the sexual titillation of the reader. There doesn’t have to be a plot or character development,” Day said.
(From what I can gather in this story the guy in question has quite the development — you know, his huge office tower. Hello, Dr. Freud, are you there?)
Apparently there are two distinct types of erotic literate.
“There’s erotica, which is based on one character and how their sexual journey changes them, and there is erotic romance, which follows the journey of the romantic relations of two or more characters,” she said, adding “you can’t take the sex out, the story doesn’t work.”
I’ve always believed that.
Days’ Bared to You follows in the wake of the mega seller Fifty Shades of Grey, the first novel in a trilogy which includes Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.
Fifty Shades of Grey chronicles the romantic journey of a young college graduate and her lover, who is also a young business magnate. Sound familiar? Therefore it qualifies as an erotic romance novel as well.
The book has been chastised by some for featuring bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.
A disc jockey south of the border organized a book burning.
But apparently readers don’t care.
Thirty-one million books have been sold and the rights have been sold in 37 countries.
It is the fastest-selling paperback of all time, surpassing Harry Potter. I wonder if Harry has magic wand envy?
Interestingly enough, both books are authored by women.
Day doesn’t mind being in the shadow of Fifty Shades of Grey. She believes it has opened up a lot of people to erotic literature and has been a plus for the genre.
It’s also been cited for the boom in sales of sex toys and it’s believed by some that it will trigger another baby boom.
Kind of like the NHL strike did.
But aren’t these books really just Harlequin romance novels with exposed nipples?
“That’s actually not inaccurate,” Day said.
It seems we’ve entered a new age of literature — a more liberal and open-minded one.
And if these novels are the new Harlequin romances, at least men won’t be so quick to complain when their wives bring a book to bed.
No wonder some women seem to be smiling more often these days.
Ted Woloshyn hosts “Saturday with Ted” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Newstalk 1010
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