I’m very chuffed to have been invited by Harley Moore to write a monthly column for 4-Letter Words, e-Book Eros‘ lively blogzine on erotic lit and its readers. My column is called ‘Read My Lips‘ and my post this month is on the myth that women aren’t visual, sexually. This month also features a...
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” …But we have speech, to chill the angry day, And speech, to dull the rose’s cruel scent. We spell away the overhanging night, We spell away the soldiers and the fright. There’s a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear…” The Cool Web, Robert...
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Thinking about the metanarrative possibilities of the Happily Ever After trope, it has occured to me, in re-reading Foucault’s “What is an Author?” that there is a kernel of something here to be explored. In examining the relationship between writing and death, Foucault gives us two examples: the hero in the Greek epic and...
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This is a post to introduce you to a few erotic fiction writers you may not have read yet. They all very generously talked to me on the subject of non-con in erotica and they are all writers I respect. Please take a look at Gillian Colbert’s site Catherine Leary’s site Kathleen Bradean’s site...
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It has taken me years to figure this out, but I’ve finally come to the conclusion that when people send you stories and ask for feedback, most of them just want you to say ‘it kicks ass’. Which, in a way, is good, because a few lines of praise are SO MUCH EASIER to...
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I’ve been giving a lot of thought to approaching the subject of happily ever after endings. I have a deep prejudice against any form of literature which prescribes plotlines. As a writer, I’ve been deeply influenced by theoreticians like Eco who view formula driven fiction as a lesser form of literature. As a creative...
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Today I’m sad. I’m sad because I read this: Frank Miller’s invective-filled hate piece about the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s a pretty shocking piece of badly reasoned, idiosyncratic garbage. Not because he disagrees with the OWS folks, but because he unloaded a shitload of baseless hyperbole on a movement he clearly doesn’t even...
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Has it ever struck you how inadequate punctuation can be? Do you find yourself over-using ellipses? Have you ever yearned to use both an exclamation mark and a question mark at the same time? Sometimes, when I write, I just get so frustrated by how punctuation-poor our language is. Commas seem brief. Periods seem...
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I have been disdainful of romance and erotic romance, and yet it is undeniable that it brings a huge number of women, and no small number of men, joy. These people are not idiots. They are not intellectual midgets who cannot cope with writing that reflects the harsher realities of the human condition. The...
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If you’ve come to my site for a quick wank, you’ve come to the wrong place. Let me assure you that for sheer sexual stimulus, nothing works like porn. So get over whatever hesitation you’ve got about it and get your ass over to xhamster. You’re bound to find a clip that will do...
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You don't say 'no' to Shindo. And if you do, there's a very steep price to pay.
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