The Respect of One’s Peers
I don’t think there is anything as pleasurable to a writer as praise from another writer you admire. Yes, I know we are supposed to be writing for readers and it is wonderful to run a blog like this that allows me to get feedback from them, but a review is a different thing. Personally, […]
Metaphor in Erotica
“The mastodon hours lumber their way into extinction, sinking wearily into the sticky tar pit of the evening†In the last piece of flash fiction, I used the above imagery – a metaphor – that prompted the following comment from Oatmeal Girl: “I could hate you for this. I was going to say I could […]
A Erotica Writers Blog about Writing Erotica
I wanted to let you know why I’ve been pretty quiet the last week or so. I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a group blog called Publish and Be Damned. It’s a blog about erotica – writing it, reading it, loving it. It also aims to provide a resource for people who are just […]
M. Christian’s Coming Together Anthology
One of my favourite erotica writers and the first person to ever accept one of my stories for publication is M. Christian (blogs at Frequently Felt). I wanted to bring your attention to his Coming Together Anthology which was published a few weeks before mine. It really does represent his incredible writing range: From hot […]
In Print: Coming Together Presents….me…on paper!
Just a short note to let those of you who wanted to know that the print version of the Coming Together anthology is out. You can get it at Amazon in Print ($12.00) or Kindle ($9.40) versions, and from All Romance E-books, in an electronic format. I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Lisabet […]
Setting & Theme
I decided to write this post in coordination with the release of my novel, The Waiting Room, partly because reviewing Emma Holt’s edits forced my head back to Cambodia, and partly because, for those of you who have already read the novel, I thought a discussion about setting in the story might be interesting. Not […]
The Waiting Room – Published
“…We are all animals, Sophie, all of us. We think we are so smart—masters of our destinies, yes? We lie to ourselves that we have control. But if it does not rain, we die of thirst. If it rains too much, we drown…†Everyone needs to discover his or her own special place in the […]
Cyclone
My demon has returned. I felt him today when I got up. Not immediately but, as I stood there, making coffee, the tips of his gnarled, organic fingers suddenly latched onto the rungs of my spine. First one, then the other, starting at the small of my back, pulling himself up my spinal cortex like […]
On Sleep
I was looking for poems in Spanish on sleep and found this one by Borges. I’ve tried my very poor hand at translating it – not word for word, but for the spirit of it. El Sueño by Jorge Luis Borges Si el sueño fuera (como dicen) una tregua, un puro reposo de la mente, […]
Everything is Happening All at Once!
It’s been a hell of a week. Apologies for the lack of posts. This morning, however, I have two bits of news. Monocle has just had his story collection, Through A Tinted Lens, published at Republica Press. Through a Tinted Lens contains six delightful, daring, and dangerous erotic stories for women: A cheated-on woman finds […]