How Sexy is Too Sexy?

There’s a lot of sex in our books. (Whether that’s a disclaimer or shameless promotion is left as an exercise for the reader.) Each series has its own spiciness level, in terms of the number of sex scenes and also how graphically they’re described. It’s important to us to be consistent about things like that within a series.

Well now we’ve just started a brand-new series, and already we’re faced with choices about how far to turn the knobs. (Phrasing!) Sex is a strong theme in the ghost series. There’s probably going to be a lot of it, as per paragraph one. We don’t want to sell it short, but we also don’t want it to turn into porn. And with two of us writing, it’s more likely for the tone to come out a bit uneven in this regard, at least for the first draft.

Once we reach a certain threshold, we’ll be able to review it and make adjustments. We need to keep in mind that how we play things in Book One is going to establish expectations for the other three.

A writing partner is someone who’ll help you figure out just how porn-adjacent you want your story to be.