I always tell people there's a fine line between steam and smut, and that line is "c🐓ck." Or, more specifically, "throbbing c🐓ck."
As such, Amethysts & Alchemy, as well as the first three-fourths of the Gilded Blood series, fall squarely under "steam". Gilded Blood #4 starts getting into steamy-smutty gray territory, as you can see in the below C🐓ck Chart:
Title | C🐓ck Count |
Amethysts & Alchemy | 0 (3 instances of "throbbing,"incl. "throbbing erecti*n") |
Inked | 0 (1 mention of "throbbing") |
Jinxed | 0 (1 mention of "throbbing") |
Linked | 0 (0 instances of "throbbing") |
Synced | 1 (3 instances of "throbbing") |
Silver BIood, on the other hand, is FIRMLY in c🐓ck Territory, with a whopping THIRTEEN "c🐓cks" mentioned at just 69% in, with three instances of "throbbing," including the touchstone phrase "throbbing c🐓ck."
Incidentally, Britt, Courtney and I had an emergency conference call to look up the C🐓ck Count of several well-known "smut" books, and thought you might find the results fascinating:
Title | C🐓ck Count |
Lights Out | 38 |
ACOTAR | 17 (but not once as a 🍆reference!!!) |
Fourth Wing | 5 |
50 Shades of Grey | 0 (!!!) |
The Never King | 20 |
(I gotta say, some of these c🐓ck counts really surprised me!!!)
Oh, and speaking of Courtney (who can now officially add "C🐓ck Counter" to her professional resume), everyone please say hello to my newest team member (heh, "member"😏) and Official Marketing Mistress (a.k.a Content Creator), Courtney! She's a published author and has informed me she used the "c🐓ck" 69 times in her smutty novella!
Courtney will also be helping Britt run my brand new street team, which just launched this month! 😍
Dani, meanwhile, is keeping busier than all of us this month thanks to all of the holiday orders coming in! BTW, I'm currently doing 20% off ALL BOOKS - yes, even special edition books - in my shop! Just use code "RR20" at checkout and it'll take 20% off every book in your cart! 😊
Okay gang, having finished the important work of getting all those 🐓's counted, I've got around 30k words to write before the end of the month and special top-secret projects to design in the BG, so I'm off for now! Have a Cocktastic Tuesday!! 🐓
Cheers!❤️
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A Word from our Queen Helper Bee 👑🐝
Actual call from Rachel today:
"Hey, Britt, stop what you're doing. I need you to help me count c0cks RIGHT NOW."
God, I love my job. 🤣
XoXoX 🫶🏼
Britt
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