By day, I am a well-mannered librarian; an accountant; a
stay-at-home mom. But by night, we are
readers who escape into fictional worlds where Alpha men make our pulses race
and snappy plots take us on wild adventures.
We follow the rabbit hole into worlds of romance and lust to rendezvous
with our fictional boyfriends. From
Westerns to Paranormal, from Historical to SciFi, from soft Contemporary to
hardcore BDSM, we love the romance of the first glance, the first touch, the
first kiss.
But always we read alone, afraid to admit our guilty
pleasure. The stigma of “mommy porn”
moving us to hide our book jackets. The
movement started so small, we barely noticed it. First, one of us suggested we read about
Jamie Fraser and his kilt. Then it was
the Black Dagger Brotherhood and their leathers. But once we met Lord Mason, we were lost to
the world of romance and erotic fiction.
When Christian Grey walked into our lives, we could no longer hide our
obsessions. Our Inner Goddess demanded
to cha-cha-cha all the way back to the book store for Gideon Cross, or two-step
to Divine Creek Ranch.
If we wanted to talk about the books we were reading, we
knew others would too. And so we created
Inner Goddess, a book club forum for romance and erotica novels. We didn’t want to be another review site that
told people what to buy. We wanted to be
the site you went to after reading the book so you could chat with friends
about it (and about HIM). Since each of
us was comfortable with different types and levels of intimacy, we fashioned
the site after a salon: each room
catering to a specific level of intimacy.
Readers can post new topics or post replies to previous comments.
What we didn’t realize was that authors were dying to talk
to readers about stories just as much as readers wanted to talk to
authors. The forum began to evolve as
writers and readers interacted. It was
time to remodel, to rearrange, and to reimagine. We needed to provide access to their blogs,
tweets, and signings. We wanted to give
them a platform to talk to their readers.
We built the Blog page to provide all this and more. Each week an author will have the opportunity
to post a blog in the Author’s Corner on a topic of his or her choice.
And so with that being said, we are ready to re-open the
Inner Goddess forum. You can continue to
use your old forum address, but be sure to drop by the blog from time to time
to see which author has dropped by. Our
first author, Bella Juarez of the Black-Ops Brotherhood, will be posting this
Sunday, Jan. 6. Followed the next week by
Lisa Renee Jones talking about Rebecca’s Journals from If I Were You. And while you’re here, don’t forget to chat
about the book you’ve been reading. We
would love to hear about your fictional boyfriend.
InnerGoddess Administrators,
Love the look of the new forum! Looking forward to keeping up with the blogs and contributing. Kayla
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