Back when I wrote my first solo novel, I thought it would be great to force two people to get stuck together. Seems like my plan was to injure the hero so he had to stay around the heroine, therefore writing a romance without too much extraneous fuss. I finished the book but it's not one I have revisited since I sold. I made the heroine a little too damaged to be commercial. I still think it is quite the writing challenge to make a story interesting when most of the action is talking heads...or sex scenes.

I finished Sex Drive by Susan Lyons yesterday, and it's a great example of how you can write a good book even when you've got two people stuck in place, and in this book, they're really stuck! Susan set a large chunk of the book on one long airplane trip from Australia to Hawaii, yet her characters are three-dimensional enough that it doesn't really matter that nothing much is going on except them getting to know each other and yep, having sex, since it's an erotic romance. Even more challenging? It's not a reunion story. These two characters, professor Theresa and writer Damien, are meeting for the first time.

If you want to see a romance writer doing a locked room scenario well, check out the book! It's the first part of a series, and lucky me has the next two books ready to go! If you are a Kindle user, the second book, Love, Unexpectedly was a freebie a few months ago, so you might have it somewhere.

Sex Drive on Kindle

 

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