Other Orifices: New Ways In to the Erotic Moment
When you first start writing erotic fiction, most of us come to it with years of imagery built up in our brains. Stories we’ve honed through multiple self-tellings, over and over, with our hands between our thighs. At first you may stall a few times, but then the courage comes and with it words flood […]
#Eroticon2013 – Monday’s hungover recollections of Sunday
For personal reasons that aren’t germane to this post, Sunday’s experience was quite different. All I can say regarding my state of mind is that watching Molly (@MollysDailyKiss) getting flogged took me within mere milimeters of an orgasm, which is not usual for publicly reserved me. First up was the Anthologies Editors Panel with Maxim […]
#Eroticon2013 – Monday’s hungover recollections of Saturday’s sessions
I didn’t do my usual avalanche of tweeting during the Eroticon London 2013 conference, which goes some way to telling you just how absorbing it was. First and foremost, huge congratulations to Ruby Kiddell (@eroticnotebook) for her masterful organization of the event. It really was superbly done. Also, a big congrats need to go to […]
Enlazada (Interlaced)
Silence, half a world away, is broken glass underfoot. Whether traversed slowly and carefully, or at a run, you’ll cut yourself regardless. The only choice available is one of modality: fast and panicked or slow and aware. And the meaning you make of it; monstrosities are born from the womb of silence. Time, half a […]
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 […]
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. […]