Final Reflections on #EAACON and the future of the genre
I have to applaud the organizers of the inaugural EAA Conference for not only their courage, their incredibly hard work, and the great job they did on envisioning what the structure and format of a conference for erotic writers would look like. Today I did their survey for the conference attendees and it prompted some […]
Okay… OKAY. Toy Review.
I get a lot of mail from toy companies. Offers to send me some to review. Offers to pay me to put up a banner. Finally, after I rebuffed one of them, the lady emailed me back and rudely accused me of being anti-toy. This could have been because of my post a while ago […]
Summoner
I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look And a love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do. Sylvia Plath Tiny and wild, cinched up tight as a rubber band, I watch the woman teeter on outrageous heels to her place beneath the […]
Second and Final Day at #EAACON
The second day of EAACON (The Erotica Authors’ Association conference) began with the Editors’ Panel. Not a lot of new stuff at this for anyone who has been submitting to anthologies for a while. Basically, writers who don’t follow formatting requests when they submit tend to turn editors off. For anyone reading who has just […]
The First Day #EAACON
The first event of the morning was the Publishers’ panel and it was an interesting one. There was certainly a consensus that the rise of the e-book has done nothing but brighten the future of erotic writing. The people who spoke, representing a variety of publishers, all seem to have very solid understanding of their […]
Fear, Loathing, Guns and Delivery Whores in Las Vegas: #EAACON
I promised a number of people that I’d blog my trip to Las Vegas to the inaugural EAA conference. It’s been ten years since my last visit to the US. Of course, it is fair to say that Las Vegas is not really the US, nor is Los Angeles, but you can’t keep insisting that […]
Anything but that!
I recently had a twitter showdown with a fellow author who asked writers who write age-play and incest-play fantasy to stop following her. It’s not that I write much of that sort of thing myself, although I have. You can read it here. It’s that I am frankly disgusted by a writer who would seek […]
The L Word
No. Not that L word. The other one. Well, there are a couple of others, actually, but they pretty much mean the same thing: lust, libido, lewdness, lechery, lasciviousness, licentiousness, longing… It’s taken me a while to figure out why I can’t write any decent erotica. When I realized what it was, it actually frightened […]
The Last Hurrah
It catches her. Every so often, it sneaks up when she thinks she’s past it and resigned, floods over her with no warning, a pyroclastic flow of ash and rubble and the detritus of youth. It takes a half a Valium to stop the flow of tears. The drug leaves her listless but numb. She […]
Now for something completely different
You can’t judge a book by its cover. Which explains why I have this image here. Yes, I know what you’re going to say: ‘Hey, when you sell that many books, you can tell me Twilight was bad’. I’m going to say (because I fully own to being an elitist bitch): ‘No. Twilight is a […]