steamy, witty, heartfelt
by evependle
Posted: January 29, 2017
On His Knees is my short story in the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year – Volume 2. Some recommendations for my story include: “Awesome collection of erotica; really enjoyed ‘On His Knees’,” “I particularly liked the one by Eve Pendle which had an interesting twist on the currently popular dom/sub theme.” “I was especially …
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Category: Blog, Short Stories
by evependle
Posted: July 30, 2016
A bit of acclaim for my Victorian romance: Six Weeks with an Earl won 2nd place in the Legend – A Man For All Reasons category of the Romance Through the Ages competition. AND in the preliminary round in the 2016 Golden Heart® Contest, Six Weeks with an Earl had a final score of 8.433333333. …
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Category: Blog
by evependle
Posted: July 6, 2016
On His Knees, my sweet and spicy story of a Dominant woman in Victorian England and the man who serves her, is going to be published in the Cleis Anthology, Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, volume 2. I’m seriously excited about this, as not only was a Cleis anthology one of the first erotica …
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Category: Blog
by evependle
Posted: May 16, 2016
Everett Hetherington, Earl of Westbury, is a finalist in the Legend Award: A Man for all Reasons, in the Hearts through History competition. This award celebrates the most memorable hero. When I told him about being a finalist, Everett laughed. “I hardly think knowing how to dance the polka and trying to keep my estate …
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Category: Blog
by evependle
Posted: May 13, 2016
I’m tentative about blogging about this, because I don’t like to jinx things. So no details at the moment. I received a Revise and Resubmit from a reputable digital-only publisher for Six Weeks With an Earl. An editor likes a piece I wrote and would like to include it in an anthology. <happy-nervous-dance> At the same …
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Category: Blog
by evependle
Posted: April 1, 2016
The enduring popularity of the regency romance is one of those things that we take for granted as a romance community. I haven’t considered why, but a tweet from Lawless asking about why Regency was the default for historical romance got me thinking. Yes, Heyer, Austen and Cartland are part of it. Anglo-centrism too. But as …
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Category: Blog
by evependle
Posted: April 1, 2016
This is the first of a series of posts about the old romances that I’ve read, which inspire my plotting, if not my writing, today. Many of these have been comprehensively forgotten, but have some element of being wonderful treasure. Or awful. Or both. Free Air by Sinclair Lewis was written in 1919. It tells the …
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Category: Blog
by evependle
Posted: April 1, 2016
I won the Carisa Press #WomErotica ‘flash erotica’ competition on twitter yesterday, with this tweet: As she lay, ass in the air, waiting for his touch, feeling his searing gaze on her skin, she knew she’d never been more naked. #WomErotica That short one liner, that doesn’t even include any skin-on-skin, was liked enough by …
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Category: Blog