Tame

Do you find "Wilfair" and "Redwoodian" to be tame? Or even innocent?

I just had an exchange with someone regarding this topic. I think the books lean that way, at least for this day and age, and yet there's innuendo and some veiled, uh, spiciness in both. There's no hard swearing -- if you want to count hard swearing as anything beyond the occasional damn, hell, and crap -- and no kissing. There's kiss want in the first two books. Kiss want is a different matter, of course.

Perhaps I'm walking a bit of a fine line and wanting to have it both ways. I want the soon-to-be 20-year-old and the soon-to-be 21-year-old people in the book to act their ages, but "Wilfair" is a rarified world of old children, too. The characters have a good sense of self, generally, and are pretty unconcerned about keeping even with their peers (at least Fair is, for sure); rather, I see them setting their own paces and being okay with that.

Anywho. Perhaps I see the books as less tame than others do.

For what it's worth, I told the lovely Kitzie -- you've met her in the comments -- that if a romantic scene doesn't embarrass me and make me feel as if I'm invading the characters' privacy, I keep working on it. It must make me hot in the face and flustery before I give it my final stamp of approval. I almost feel like I want to say "guys, I'm walking in the room, hellooooo, stop whatever you're up to!" during those scenes. Which is incredibly ridiculous and annoying of me, I know.

I think there are, uhhhhh. Three of those moments in "Redwoodian"? Double that for this next book.