2018 is off to a great start in terms of gigantic book releases… The one I want to point you to today is the Big Book of Submission Vol 2’s paperback release (on Barnes & Noble and Amazon)! While each story is under 1,200 words, 69 of them add up to quite the package. Speaking of kinky […]
Continue Reading....2017 Year in Review
Not all New Year’s resolutions pan out, but this one did–in December 2016, I resolved to send out at least one story submission every month. That meant lots of tracking new calls, lots of brainstorming and nurturing of plot bunnies, and of course, lots of writing! But I feel like the work paid off: this […]
Continue Reading....Book sale alert: Red Velvet and Absinthe
Book alert: the Red Velvet and Absinthe anthology is currently on sale at 10% of its original price (99 cents instead of $9.99)! This anthology of Gothic erotic fiction is quite possibly the best book of erotica I’ve ever read. I’m not in it, but you might say it’s in me. Every piece is lush and dazzling, […]
Continue Reading....Poem in Cliterature Journal
In an exciting slip into a new genre, I have a poem, “Stiff-Necked in Respect Life Month,” out in Cliterature’s latest issue–Birth Control. As you might expect from the title, it’s about a struggle with Catholicism on many fronts (and was actually written in October). It is, for now, the final home of a first line […]
Continue Reading....‘Tis the Season for…Kinky Flash Fiction
I didn’t plan it this way, but I have three flash fiction publications this month and they’re all pretty wonderfully perverse. So it’s a great time to work out the end-of-year tension and get your freak on in under 2,000 words. Today, my short piece “The Depths of You” goes live at the Erotic Review magazine. A little long to […]
Continue Reading....First Episode of “Smutty Storytelling”!
I’m excited to share the first episode of the Smutty Storytelling podcast, where my fellow erotica writer and editor Betina Cipher and I discuss the craft of sexy wordsmithing. In this first episode, we talk about how to use Point of View and tense, with examples from our stories in Getting It (though you don’t have to have […]
Continue Reading....More Free Fiction for Halloween
It’s the 31st of October and I still haven’t picked out my costume. From the array of cosplay/Ren Faire odds and ends in the back of my closet, I’ll have to decide what to go with based on the weather. If it dips below freezing, I’ll probably choose the Victorian frock coat in which to hand out […]
Continue Reading....Haunted is now out!
Haunted, Mofo Pubs’ latest volume of literary erotica, is out today–just in time for Halloween! Treat yourself to the eerie, sexy, chilling and thrilling: A young man feels a peculiar hunger to be loved, one he can’t survive without sating in a series of vivid homoerotic dreams that blur the boundaries of fantasy and fact, […]
Continue Reading....Music for making love to ghosts
A Walt Whitman poem says, “And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” I’ve always misheard that as “To die is luckier than any of us know, and stranger.” Because how could it not be? I don’t pretend to have any insight into what an actual afterlife might be like, but when I’m […]
Continue Reading....More About Hauntings
“Bodies of Ghosts” is one of the few cases where I set out to write a haunting deliberately. Most of the time, the literal or metaphorical ghosts show up…not by accident, but without me consciously willing it. Which is just like a ghost, really. Suddenly, a story finds itself centered around loss or grief, or a […]
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