Censorship & Concrete Remedies: Who do you link to?
It occurred to me that as I waxed philosophical in my last post on censorship and the vagaries of being a writer of erotic fiction, I did not suggest any remedies. It’s all very well to bitch and philosophize, but offering solutions is far more constructive. While we’re all tearing our hair out about Kobo, […]
Censorship: On the Bright Side
It is easy to get tremendously worked up over the recent and ongoing changes taking place at the various e-book retailers. Many self-published erotica works are being cleared off the virtual shelves of stores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc. For more on this read Nate Hoffeider’s article: “Self-Published Erotica is Being Singled Out […]
The By-blow of Good Intention
Now she wants to get in. The woman who keeps fucking up my dreams. Cloth coat buttoned up to her aging chin and a thick scree of make-up forever threatening to slide off her face and reveal… what? She’s half-zombie, half-vampire, an undead machine of unthinking consumption. Even as I lock her out: imaginary bolts […]
The Honourable Mishap
Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. “Oranges and Lemons” Traditional English Nursery Rhyme There was before and there was after. I remember the chill silk of the quilt beneath my naked skin, crisply urging me to arch my back. My small, perfect breasts, […]
Veiled Girl With Lute – Last Chance to Read and Listen
My very long short story “Veiled Girl With Lute” has been accepted for publication and so I’ll be taking both the text and podcasted versions down over the weekend. **** This series has now been removed ****
The Privilege of Choice
I received a lot of gratifying comments on my last post on the subject, but it reminded me that I perhaps had an obligation to balance it. The wired world has become a mosaic of communities who share common interests. There are groups for every interest under the sun and it becomes easy, if you […]
Apologies for the Silence – Yangon, Myanmar
I’ve been traveling. After years and years of contemplating whether it was ethical to visit Myanmar (or Burma), and after it became even possible to get a visa arranged to visit the country from Ho Chi Minh City, I decided to go. Like Vietnam, Burma was also a colony. It was colonized by the English, […]
The Ephemeral Quality of Dominance
This post has been coming for a while, and then a twitter conversation with @DarkGracie sort of kicked me into finally writing it. If you’ve been reading my writing for a while, you’ll have noticed I seldom use terms like dominant or submissive in my stories. I tend to leave the labeling to my readers. […]
Just This And No More
I dreamed. Of him, lying fully suited upon a faded chintz bedspread in a nameless, placeless hotel, and I, curled beside him in a nightdress, my knees tucked up, feet covered by its hem. “This is the way the world ends.” he said, my hand tucked into his. The curtains were open to the rising […]
So Close, And Yet So Far: POV and Head Hopping in Erotic Fiction
One of the most common mistakes I see new writers make is something called head hopping: the act of showing what more than a single character is thinking in a scene. Basically, what is happening is the writer is switching from the POV of one character to the other and back again. If knowing what […]