NaNo Postmortem Post (Numbers, Tips, and Plans)

In brief: I did it. 50,000 words in one month—actually, 62,006 words—were done. By me! It’s completely unexpected, and delightful, but not the golden promised land of a happy ending I…was never actually promised. Caveat: some wordcount came from revising (and expanding, and finishing) scenes I started writing last NaNo. But to make up for […]

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The Seattle Erotic Art Festival is this weekend!

From April 27th-29th, in a year when artistic erotic expression is more important than ever, a curated selection of some of the finest erotic art the world has to offer will grace the floors of the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. During regular festival hours, visitors are invited to view the art and daily entertainments, from […]

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“What You Want” in Pure Slush’s LUST

To celebrate 7 years of publishing, Pure Slush is releasing a 7-volume series about the 7 deadly sins.  Lust is the first, with poetry and flash fiction by 70 different writers from around the world.  My piece, “What You Want,” is about sadism, both the sexy and the scary parts. It gets to the point where you can’t […]

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Episode 3 of Smutty Storytelling: Reading the Good, The Bad, and The Sexy

Is this the most awful sex writing 2017 can offer? Erotica writers and editors Betina and T.C. do a close reading of excerpts from The Literary Review’s “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”, featuring: bizarre word choice! Awful details! Strained metaphors! Painful dialogue! “Erotic” scenes that beg for psychoanalysis!  And, most shocking of all…several pieces of sex […]

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Read an Ebook Week!

The only thing that can beat an ebook for convenience and gratification is a free ebook, right? In honor of “Read an Ebook Week,”  hundreds of books on Smashwords are on sale or even free. Time to load up on your indie reading list, but move fast–these discounts end tomorrow, March 10. And yes, this includes a lot of my […]

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