Booklist is the trade magazine of the American Library Association. The September 15 issue “Core Collection” feature is on erotic romance and I’m hugely pleased, honored, and humbled to have been mentioned as an erotic romance “shining star”! 
Sex sells; there is no doubt about it. As long as there is demand for erotic romances and erotica, publishers will produce it. For librarians, responding to the preferences of readers is, perhaps, the most practical way of determining whether today’s erotic romances are the right match for their collection. Fortunately, the romance genre offers books with a wide range of sensuality, from the simply sweet to the supersexy. This variety of choices easily allows each library to decide just how “hot” its romance collection will be.
Shining Stars
Although settings and tone vary, and the sensual temperature ranges from steamy to scorching, each sexy romance novel on this list tells a strong, emotionally satisfying love story.
Day, Sylvia. Ask for It. 2006. Kensington, paper, $14 (0-7582-1472-3).
Day’s vividly sensual historical romance involves a coded journal that puts the clever heroineâ€â€and her hero, the arrogantly sexy man she once jiltedâ€â€in danger.
– John Charles and Shelley Mosley, each a former Romance Writers of America Librarian of the Year, are the authors, most recently,of Suffragists in Literature for Youth (Scarecrow, 2006).
Copyright 2006, American Library Association
