Month: November 2025

Haunted House, Hedy Lamarr Eyes, and Prohibition Tunnels

Co-Presidents of J. Tiffany Noore's Fan Club
~ Lily Chen

Lily: “Tiffans! We’re jumping into J. Tiffany Noore’s latest—The Wyandotte High Halloween Job—and wow, Depression-era Kansas City has never been this steamy!”

Liam: “Three women, one Rex, a haunted house project in high school. Casual Tuesday in Kansas City.”

Lily: “What I love is how Tiffany balances all four perspectives. Rex is our anchor, but we get inside Paget’s calculating confidence, Lizzie’s journalistic curiosity, and Madison’s internal conflict. Classic Ensemble HaremLit, even in a high school haunted house.”

Liam: “Can we talk about Rex? Poor guy just wanted to plant some trees in the CCC, and suddenly he’s got two girls fighting over him AND his favorite teacher giving him very un-teacherly looks.”

Lily: “He’s not her student anymore.”

Liam: “But Lizzie is!”

Lily: “But Madison is teaching them, isn’t she?”

Liam: “Fine. But admit it: you were rooting for Madison by the end.”

Lily: “I… may have feelings about the teacher-student dynamic being handled so well. And yes, their connection is beautiful.”

Liam: “Meanwhile, Paget Barker is out here practicing her Hedy Lamarr eyes in the mirror… And on Rex.”

Lily: “I love how Tiffany adds that historic reference about Hedy Lamarr’s scandalous role in the 1933 film Ecstasy, chasing the ‘whispered moment…when experiencing physical delight.’“

Liam: “Yes! She tries it on Rex and later discovers that a fully dressed embrace is a lot more intimate. That’s Tiffany at her best.”

Lily: “And then, let’s not forget TWO CRIME BOSSES battling over a secret tunnel beneath the school.”

Liam: “Yes, how they literally stumble into Kansas City’s criminal underworld while setting up paper bats and fake cobwebs.”

Lily: “The 1934 setting is so well done. Tiffany really captures the era—the poverty, the desperation, families struggling through the Depression, Rex sending money home to Ma…”

Liam: “She’s the queen of genre hopping: Civil War US with Prospector Finch, pirates with Red Jack, ancient magic and 1001 nights with Merchant Zayed. Her Steamy Holiday series is so diverse.”

Lily: “And all that while expecting. I’d like to end with a huge congratulations to Tiffany on the birth of baby Patrick last week! We’re so happy for her!”

Liam: “Baby Patrick has no idea his mom writes about prohibition tunnels and love triangles. That’ll be a fun conversation in about fifteen years.”

Lily: “Stay tuned for more updates from your co-presidents! And Tiffany, enjoy those newborn snuggles—we’ll keep celebrating your amazing stories!”

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Disclaimer: The J. Tiffany Noore Fan Club is a creative initiative to engage with readers. Lily and Liam are fictional co-presidents designed to facilitate fun and interactive discussions about J. Tiffany Noore’s works.

Cedonia

Cedonia from The Caterer and Miss Jones
~ Liam Ashford

Tiffans!

Check out the mysterious Cedonia from The Caterer and Miss Jones!

Cedonia from The Caterer and Miss Jones

A coven of witches is after the succubus who’s after Paul Devlin. One of them is Cedonia, an Augury witch who mingles at the French Ambassador’s wife’s Halloween party.

Cedonia wore a stylish 1920s vintage cocktail dress version of Cleopatra’s costume. The top had gold and black stripes and sheer gold sleeves. Her navel was uncovered, and the black and gold stripes stopped just above her mound. Shear full-length wide pantyhose covered her legs and a veil dropped from her waist to the floor. She was athletic, but all the curves she had were flattered by her costume. Her eyes were decorated with Egyptian curls and powdered blue eyeshadow.

“Madame De Villiers told me you organized this party, Mr. Devlin?” she said, oozing sensuality.

Paul swallowed. “My mother would be delighted if you could cater Egypt’s National Day,” Cedonia held onto his arm. “You are obviously a man of great taste. May I ask your advice?” She pulled him along Paul was surprised that she was taking him upstairs.

I’d go upstairs with her too!

Liam Ashford

-Liam, co-president J. Tiffany Noore’s Fan Club

Cedonia appears in:

The Caterer and Miss Jones

Characters in the Steamy Holidays series

Why I Write Across Genres

Ensemble HaremLit
~ J. Tiffany Noore

(And What It’s Taught Me About Ensemble HaremLit)

I have a confession: I can’t stay in one genre. I’m a wanderer, a time-traveler, a hopeless romantic who falls in love with every era I visit.

When I wrote my first Ensemble HaremLit story, I didn’t have some grand plan to romance every time period from the Roaring Twenties to ancient Persia. I just wanted to play. Tremayne’s Harem Adventure let me loose in the 1920s—that delicious era of jazz, rebellion, and women who refused to stay in their lane. And honestly? It felt good.

Then Merchant Zayed whispered in my ear. Return to Scheherazade’s world, he said. The original harem stories, where magic hums beneath silk and desire shapes destiny. How could I resist?

The Three Tiffanys seduced me differently. What if the women got to tell the story? What if we crawled inside their heads, felt their jealousies and victories, their midnight conversations and morning-after regrets? I spent a year letting Prospector Finch seduce me—getting that delicate mix of 1860s history and alien encounters just right, until it hummed.

And my Steamy Holidays stories? Pure impulse. Whatever fantasy grabbed me by the knickers that month, I followed. (The Man from G.I.N.G.E.R. actually started as JAG fanfic. Don’t judge me. 😘)

Here’s what all that genre-hopping taught me about writing stories where every character matters.

In short fiction, every touch counts. Writing Merchant Zayed and The Three Tiffanys as bite-sized serials forced me to make every word earn its place on the page. You can’t meander when you’re juggling three perspectives and limited space. Every scene has to seduce, advance, or deepen. That discipline? It’s made my longer works tighter, hotter, more focused.

Women see women differently. As a woman writing in a traditionally male fantasy space, I know what I bring to the table. The ensemble approach feels natural because we do work in teams. We form bonds that have nothing to do with the man in our bed and everything to do with the woman standing beside us. Whether my companions are on a spaceship, in a harem, or aboard a pirate ship, they’re building relationships with each other—and that’s where the real magic happens.

Hearts beat the same in every era. Here’s the revelation that surprised me most: people are people. Strip away the corsets or the space suits, and everyone wants the same thing. Connection. Understanding. Someone who sees them—really sees them—and still chooses to stay.

An Ottoman mystic in 1860, a sultan’s American wife in the 1920s, an AI who’s just discovering what desire feels like—they all navigate the same beautiful, messy terrain of opening their hearts. The costumes change. The longing doesn’t.

That’s my love affair with genre-hopping: the setting is just the bed we play in. The relationships? That’s where I get excited (well, in bed too… so there).

Ensemble HaremLit Musings

Kisses, Tiffany
Kisses,
–Tiffany