My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.