For me, what makes a story hot is when we see the attraction build between the main characters, bit by bit, as they get to know each other. And as the sexual excitement increases, they discover something new that makes their love life sizzle. There’s a lot of talk about how gorgeous the hero and heroine have to be. While they do have to be attractive, especially to each other, I don’t find it necessary to read that over and over again through the story. I’d rather see the attraction grow as they make new discoveries about each other–the sparks from the first kiss, the beauty of an exposed leg, the sensation from a touch in a newly discovered erogenous zone. Sexual tension should build before their first love scene, but I think it’s lots of fun to keep it up (so to speak) during each sexual encounter. In “Power Play,” when Sergio gets his payback, he arrives at Liz’s home on one page, strips her naked on the next, but then spends more than twenty pages seducing her through every room of her house. (I had intended this to be a short story, but once I started writing that…