Sexual Deception & Social Constructs
An excerpt of a twitter interchange I had recently: Him: There comes a time when wrinkly women should cut their hair, the woman on Wright Stuff has missed it by 10 years. Me: I’m so relieved I’ve already cut mine. I wouldn’t want to try and pass myself off for hirsute lamb in old bag […]
My Bright Penny
My bright Penny. My word warrior. My cherry thrice taken. Why mourn the loss of youth and innocence? What did they ever do for any of us? You wear years like a library. You wear scars like an itinerary. You wear experience like a map. All that wealth has been earned: none borrowed or stolen […]
The Splinter: An Erotic Novella
Fumbling, Simon began to undo the buttons on his shirt. “Pretty? Do you think it’s pretty? Do you think that God would want any creature he made to do this to the body he gave them?†Her gaze slipped from his face to his chest. “Oh, my God…†Whorls and lines, puncture marks, words and […]
The Rebuttal: Writing Taboo in Erotica and the State of the Genre
This week, it’s not a story I offer you, but a discussion on writing about taboo subjects and erotica’s future as a genre. This podcast is a response to The Good Parts Podcast, Episode 14. The Good Parts is a podcast produced by three excellent erotica writers: Helen E. Madden, Nobilis Reed & Ann Regentin […]
Claudia D. Christian’s Review of Gaijin
Apologies. I realize this is shameless tooting of my own horn, but I can’t help it. Claudia D. Christian has just posted the most magnificent review of Gaijin. For those of you who don’t know who Claudia is, you are in for a rare treat. She is a ‘writer of miserable love stories’ according to […]
Flash Teaser for Gaijin
Gaijin – At Republica Press.
Please help me celebrate my very first novella publication. It has just been released through Republica Press He pulled the edges of the dress aside and surveyed her bared chest. “Everything that is beautiful hurts.” His finger flicked at the small gold ring in her left nipple. It stung a little as the metal slid […]
Tentacle Dreams: Calls for Submission
Six months ago, I put an anthology together called A Slip of the Lip for ERWA. I received a lot of great entries and I think we managed to put a very nice e-book together from the submissions. I’d like to try to do another one of those, but this time I’d like to invite […]
New Valuations: Erotica and What It’s Worth
There is no other way to put it, writers get paid shit. Erotica writers get paid even less shit. At present, a writer of a short, say 4,000 word, story gets approximately $50 for the story. This works out at about 1 cent a word. Does that seem like the wrong way to work out […]
Onward and Upward – More Elevator Lust
A week ago, I posted a story called “The Virtue of Patience” about two people in an elevator and the way their relationship evolves over time. Monocle (Raziel Moore) took up the challenge of the same basic scenario and wrote a wonderfully raw and dystopic piece called “Vertical Hold” Today Redbud (William Crimson) has added […]