Cora J Ramos

Today I'm issuing a warning: HAIKU DANCE is a book for 18+ years old only. Although a sweet and suspenseful love story, it also has sexual content not appropriate for those under 18.

Which leads me to shunga.

"Shunga" is the traditional Japanese term for erotic paintin...

Countdown to publication: 4 days to go on Haiku Dance. Two reviews are in and I couldn't be happier:

Haiku Dance by Cora J. Ramos is the story of young love, intrigue, and the mystic of the ancient samurai. Our two main characters, Miyoshi and Shino, are childhood frie...

For today’s countdown, 5 days to release of HAIKU DANCE, Shino deals with his demons that have haunted him from his youth and what Master Kana instructs him to do about it.

“I will teach you ways to move forward in time. You will learn to see what lies ahead of you, al...

Countdown to publication: 8 days. Here's another excerpt from HAIKU DANCE:

Two days later, he still had not devised a method to thwart Kyekito’s plan. In a desperate attempt to learn more information, Shino had only one source he knew might be able to help him.

He swal...

Countdown to publication: 10 days

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ~ Lao Tzu ~

Miyoshi hurried down the watadono corridor to the wing of the emperor’s palace which housed her

father’s rooms. It had been...

It was a beautiful summer morning when the coaches were drawn to take Miyoshi and Akemi to the temple. Over the windows hung exquisite, colorful silk scarves that veiled them from the street. Kenji and his guards escorted their travel. It was a noisy trip while going t...

Countdown--13 days to publication

Late in the afternoon, Shino traveled home along a hot and dusty road near the river Kamo. After fighting in the employ of a wealthy war landowner in a skirmish in Kawachi Province, he was weary. Increasingly, he’d begun to feel soile...

Countdown to publication--Day 14

Well, everyone loves Kenji. He's younger than Shino, is smart, funny and has a way with the ladies. What's not to love? My critique partners, my story editor and even I want to give Kenji his own book. Whether it will be a whole novel,...

Countdown to publication: 15 days.

For a courtier to attend court, she had to prepare in very specific ways. Just as any woman would, Miyoshi enjoys the attention paid to her from her attendants when preparing to attend the court of the Empress, but it is not all that...

Countdown to publication--day 16:

Let’s talk about the setting for my novel, Haiku Dance.

Near the end of the eighth century in Japan, the Emperor Kammu decided to move his court to ‘the city of purple hills and crystal streams’ that became Heian-kyo or Heian Kyo, toda...