Last update: 3 August 2010.

Victoria Janssen

The Duke & the Pirate Queen, December 2010

The Moonlight Mistress,
an erotic novel from Harlequin Spice.
Nominated for an RT Reviewers' Choice Award!

RT Book Reviews (Romantic Times) awarded four and a half stars: "Well-plotted, and with an irresistible hero and a strong-minded heroine, this is pure pleasure."

Read an excerpt. Werewolves At Home, a tie-in webcomic. Three essays about paranormal romance/erotica.

Order from Amazon.com | IndieBound | Powell's | Barnes & Noble | Borders
If you're in India, the book is also available at Friends of Books and FlipKart.
Audiobook available at Audible.com, narrated by Patsy Kelland.

Carezze Di Luna was released in Italy in July, 2010. A summary in Italian may be found on the excerpt page. See the first few pages at Issuu.

The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover:

Read an excerpt.

Romantic Times awarded four stars: "Janssen's first Spice title is as wild as its title suggests, offering a little something for everyone - including light bondage, cross-dressing and eunuch-on-eunuch action. A solid plot and characterizations hold it all together nicely, and the ending is unexpectedly sweet."

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Audiobook available at Audible.com, read by Helen Stern.

Voilà the French edition!, titled Leçons de plaisir and translated by Evelyne Jouve. Translation at Amazon France and Harlequin France. French summary is located on the Excerpt page.

You can now pre-order the German edition, Die Herzogin, ihre Zofe, der Stallbursche und ihr Liebhaber, translated by Ira Severin and scheduled to release August 1, 2010 from Mira Taschenbuch Verlag. German summary is located on the Excerpt page. German excerpt.

Theme in The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover.
Acknowledgements page.

About Me:
Blog.
Publication List of my Elspeth Potter stories.
Appearances.
Biography (English, French, German, and Italian).

Social Networking:
Twitter.
Facebook.
My LibraryThing Author Page.
GoodReads Profile.
Shelfari Profile and Shelfari Author Page.
LiveJournal.
MySpace.
Reviews at eHarlequin.Com, where you can also visit the Forums for Harlequin Spice.

Free Reads:
Excerpt from my upcoming novel The Duke and the Pirate Queen (December 2010, Harlequin Spice) and a soundtrack. Also, Fabricating the World of The Duke and the Pirate Queen.

Download "Camille, Henri, Maxime," an erotic outtake from The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, in PDF format.

Download my first published erotic story, "Water Music," in PDF format.

17 Short Films About Hades and Persephone, short-form erotica by my pseudonym, Elspeth Potter.

Mo'o and the Woman, short-form erotica by my pseudonym, Elspeth Potter.

For Writers:

Writing Fortune Cookie (reload page for another one):

Short Fiction FAQ.
On opening sentences.
Some Notes on Revising a Novel.
Writing Historical Detail.
About Writing Erotic Short Fiction.
Reading for the Writer.
Three essays about paranormal romance/erotica.
The Official Real Writer Certificate courtesy of author Janni Simner.

Research and Recommendations:
My favorite romance books and research books on World War One.

LibraryThing for Victoria Janssen, the research library for my second book for Harlequin Spice, and my research URLs at del.icio.us for vjanssen.

Email victoriajanssen [at] yahoo [dot] com. Please feel free to email me if this site does not load or display properly on your browser or handheld device.

Offsite Links:

Making It Good, an essay at Circlet Press, on what I think makes a good erotic story.

The Tale of an Erotica Writer Part One, at Circlet Press, on how I made my first few sales.

The Tale of an Erotica Writer Part Two, also at Circlet Press, on making your stories stand out from the crowd.

Passionate Ink.

Romance Divas Forum.

Romance Writers of America.