Is that even a word, eroticize? All I know is I happen to enjoy writing scenes with a bit of seduction and occasionally even sex. Let’s face it, sex is part of life and brings a lot of joy as well as causes a lot of problems for humans, whether we’re Christian or not.
Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the sweet Christian romance, but I also know it’s more fantasy than what I portray in my novels, which are pure fantasy - paranormal that is. And even those stories are of the paranormal with angels and demons, magic and dragons, I like to stick with what appears as close to reality as possible.
For instance, my dragons often are seraphs, upon which one rabbi wrote an excellent article wherein he argues the possibility that dragons in the Bible are seraphs, fiery dragons of a sort. Oh yeah. But let’s get back to the erotic element because I believe it’s very important. 
When I became a counselor and opened my practice the first time, I was astonished at how many Christians, men and women, were involved in affairs outside their marriage. And those not married, often had a partner of the opposite and sometimes the same sex, and were having sexual relations with same partner. Others, shockingly were in polyamorous relationships. Yes, they were Christians who believed they could commit any sin and not be condemned by God/ Yeshu’a.
It’s a shame the publishers of Christian romance won’t allow any sex outside of marriage to grace the stories Christian writers are writing. So, we have to go beyond to secular publishers to talk about sex in our stories. Have these other publishers never read Song of Solomon?
One writer said, "Some readers will cite Bible verses like Philippeans 4:8 and the need to think on things that are pure. Other readers will point to a book of the Bible like Song of Songs and the sexual references as God-given and something to delight in. Because of such diversity, readers won’t always agree on what accounts for too much sensuality in a novel.”
And almost exclusively they ignore stories about King David who was a man after God’s own heart — yet he was an adulterer and a murderer who Always turned to God for his salvation. This my friends, I believe it the important point. It’s not whether we write stories about pure sex only in marriage [fantasyland] but write about real life and, as in my books, when the hero or heroine repents and returns to God, then marry, if its their destiny, they too become one after God’s own heart.
So, I’ll keep on writing my smut (erotic) as some refer to it, and write about sinful characters who find their way to the Lord or not (some do end in hell) because sometimes fiction is life itself.

I haven’t been on my website for a while and in the meantime, I’ve created a new romance novel so different from what I’ve written before. In the past, my novels were about heaven and hell, angels and demons, cherubs, etc. And I’ve a couple more in the making sometime down the road.
However, in this new novel, "Whispers of the Wildwood”,  I've decided to step out of heaven’s realm into a new magical realm outside of mortal lands, while keeping to a romance theme.
Originally, the book was titled, “Shadows of Elysium.” Well, I should have done my research because there was a novel already with that title and another one close, and both had less than 4 star reviews, which means there’s a lot of people who found fault with those books. 
When I’m choosing a novel to read, I like to see over 4 stars so I know the majority of readers found the book entertaining. Now that’s not always the case. There’s a series of books about heaven and its angelic creatures engaged in war, etc. The book has over 30K reviews so who knows how many people read it. I loved the idea behind the story, but the way in which it was written was like reading a political war in heaven. I do not care at all for politics. But liking the story idea and the first couple of chapters, when the author started diving into the politic, I decided, I was not going to read the entire novel nor the followup novels. 
What I did do, was read the first few chapters, until the put-me-to-sleep political conflicts began between angels and then I skipped to the last few chapters - and I missed nothing of value - simply to find out how it ended. Fabulous stories read that way, and that was the way I reviewed the rest of his novels with apologies to the author.
What I could not understand was how he got so many reviews for that type of novel. There must be a huge number of people who enjoy reading about political intrigue. I’m not one of them, and thus, you will not see any obvious politics in my novels, but a lot of conflict between certain characters, namely the king and queen and their divine council, and a bit of the erotic.
I thoroughly enjoyed writing this romance novel and the characters, as well as the evil ones who caused so much conflict. And one sought redemption. One main character starts out as a rogue, becomes a wonderful guy who, because of his cheating wife, falls from grace, briefly. (He cannot be too good.) The wife-to-be starts out as pure and then being enchanted (so she has an excuse for her behavior) falls from grace and leaves the king her husband for a nefarious character. You guessed it, the enchanter who uses her poorly.
How it all turns out is for you to find out. There’s an excerpt on page one of the website with the first sixteen chapters included. Enough to intrigue you further I hope. 
And with any luck and some diligence, I may be back to write another blog in the near future.