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 […]
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 […]
Too Much Boogie Anthology
My story, Hole, has been published in Cole Riley’s Too Much Boogie anthology. There are a shitload of outstanding writers in this anthology and, although it was published without much fanfare, it is really worth a read. Summary Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas […]
Going Dark
I’ve taken stock of what I have posted in the last while and decided I need to take a break. You don’t visit my site to wade through this emo crap. You come here to read erotica. I find I’m currently not able to produce anything of value. So it’s time to shut up. I […]
Prisoners of Babel
In Babel’s tower glassless windows devour every wind-borne word. The ancient mortar holds each ragged stone in place. A brittle embrace. Only its great weight, its slumbering granite slabs, keep it standing up. What of our labours? Clutching mossy river stones to our thin, bruised chests. We shore up its walls in a futile effort […]
Demolition Day
We shake hands to show we come unarmed. We kiss to prove our bona fides, to smell each other’s fear, and know it for what it is. I spent so long convincing myself there were substitutes that would suffice. Metaphors built with such elegance they could take the place of the concrete. Letters for whispers, […]