‘Nightmares and Visions’ is a compelling collection of short erotic fiction pieces that invite the reader to wander the darker paths of sexuality. For a number of reasons, it is a remarkable collection. Before the rise of digital publishing and the advent of the e-book, many publishers were unwilling to publish collections of this...
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I just finished reading Gabriel’s Inferno, by Sylvain Reynard and gave it a rather scathing review on Goodreads. One of the reactions this solicited was the question of why the “Bella and Edward” trope is so popular at present. I’ve given this some thought. The “Bella and Edward” trope is, essentially, a Beauty and...
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I decided to read Bared To You because it was sold as a well-written version of Fifty Shades of Grey. And I thought: hey, maybe the optimists were right! Maybe FSOG was a flawed but timely incursion of erotic fiction into mainstream literature. To give credit where credit is due, Sylvia Day is not...
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Over on the ERWA Blog, Donna George Storey commented that perhaps one positive aspect of the massive popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey was that women who liked it might then go and seek out books that actually fess up to being erotic fiction. My worry is that they’ll read Fifty Shades of Grey,...
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I recently was interviewed by Alex over at Shiterotica. We had a very nice chat about writing, fisting, poor grammar, why I hate Stephanie Meyer and death metal bands. I wish I could say it was terribly insightful, but mostly it was just silliness. However, you do need to check out the Shiterotica blog....
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I had the good luck to meet Garce when he joined the Erotica Readers and Writers Association writing list. From the first story he posted there, I knew he was something very special. Garce has a unique way of looking at the world, at humans and at sexuality. He’s a searcher of truths. His...
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I’m pathetic at writing book reviews, and I rarely do it. But once in a while, you read something that so encapsulates the genre as you hope it will be, that you just have to grit your teeth and go for it. Hating Lady Gaga with a passion that rivals Camille Paglia’s, when Lisabet...
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There are few people I can point to and honestly say: ‘This person taught me how to write”. There is a good chance that you haven’t heard of Robert Buckley and, if you enjoy good erotic writing, that’s a damn shame because Bob is a masterful erotic writer with a voice like no one...
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On May 14, 2010, I wrote a short piece of #twitterfiction called ‘Amnesia’s Heart‘. After tweeting it, I asked people to tell me what they thought the moral or the meaning of the story was, and CD Christian said: “Don’t let someone take and eat your heart”. It seemed like a great theme to...
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“You keep me here, locked away, not knowing I do the same to you. So which of us is the monster?” Ordinarily, I don’t read romances and Love Unfortunate is most definitely a romance, but a truly twisted one. There is a brilliant lushness to Claudia D. Christian‘s language and a constant subtextual tension...
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