Anticipating #Eroticon2013 – In the Right Shoes
So, tonight is the pre-conference drinks thing before the start of Eroticon2013. I do hope to see you there, or failing that, to see you tomorrow or Sunday at the conference. I love these sorts of events. It’s strangely rare to have the pleasure of temporarily inhabiting a space where the word fuck is bandied […]
Weft
The cloth’s texture which rubs my flesh, chafes my thighs, catches on a moist lip, a drowsy eyelash is yours. The weave of affection, once so ordered and flat, so fit for purpose, is time-unraveled: a Turin shroud diligently laundered once too often. This once covered you took your form, trapped your sighs, sipped sleep-shed […]
The Unvarnished Truth of Current Reader Expectation
Here, publicly, is my response to Joan Defers ‘On “Dark Erotica” post. I posted it here because I’m so fed up to the teeth with the emergent relationship between readers and writers, I just couldn’t keep silent any longer. Please note that my comment was not a refutation of Joan’s post. It was simply a […]
Why I Won’t Crit Stories Privately Anymore
It seemed about time again to write a post on why I don’t agree to give people private critiques of their erotic writing. I’ll make this concise and in point form: 1. I used to. Then I realized that 90% of the requests came from people who wanted praise. Praise doesn’t help you improve your […]
My Workshop at Eroticon2013: The Lens of Eroticism: Romanticism with a big R & Eroticism with a big E.
I have the pleasure of offering a workshop at this year’s Eroticon 2013: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2013 which will be held at the Coin Street Conference Centre, 108 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH I’m privileged to be presenting along with a number of other wonderful writers, photographers, publishers and bloggers. Here, if you’d […]
Calls for Expressions of Interest
Since I am now living in a rather quiet environment, I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a monthly writing podcast. It would be a roundtable with creatives (writers/poets/thinkers/artists/performers/ etc.) on representing the erotic. The aim of the podcast is to examine and deconstruct the subject, its conventions, psychological, social, political aspects, etc. This […]
Nightmares & Visions: What erotica should be – Hot and Deliciously Politically Incorrect.
‘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 type. […]
Garden Exiles
I can’t tell you what happened. If I were to detail the event, list its stages, the sensations and the feelings, what I said, what he said… It would be like narrating a car-crash. The moment metal kissed, the sound of the glass shattering, the nanosecond of engine roar, the eon of silence in which […]
The Beauty and the Beast Trope: Children’s stories for Child-like Minds
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 the […]