Opening announcement related to the subject of this post: Smashwords’s annual Read an Ebook sale runs March 7-March 13, 2021. You can check out all the books included in the sale here. And you can check out which of my books are available here–including several that are free this week. You’ll note that no New […]
Continue Reading....(Bad?) Sex in Fiction goes Unrewarded
I write this post with a heavy heart. The Literary Review reports that its would-be judges of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2020 have decided, after difficult deliberation, to cancel the prize for this year. Their rationale: “The judges felt that the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify […]
Continue Reading....Why your story was rejected: Tales from the slush pile
Just over year ago, the New Smut Project opened to submissions for Erato. We had room to publish pieces from up to 50 authors. We received submissions from over 300. Stories we accepted including science-fiction prose poetry about a polyamorous triad on a diplomatic mission, a kinky story written entirely in dialogue, hilarious historical fiction, […]
Continue Reading....2020 is hindsight (a year-end review)
Okay, so it ended almost a month ago–can you blame me for taking several weeks to summon the necessary courage to anthologize last year? Ultimately, the thing I wrote in 2020 that most encapsulates the year is probably my girlfriend’s eulogy. At the same time, if you gave me the chance to relive 2020, I’d […]
Continue Reading....It’s that time of year!
Namely, the end of it, which brings the Smashwords Year-End sale! I’m experimenting with putting a bunch of my shorter stories out for free, and the two original New Smut Project anthologies are each 50% off. You can check them out at my Smashwords profile: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/tcmill Happy reading!
Continue Reading....Smart, seductive, short: Erato comes out tomorrow
The New Smut Project’s third anthology of literary erotica is released October 24, 2020. Each individual story is short (6 pages or less), but with fifty of them, there’s quite a lot of erotic adventure within. Explore Paleolithic caves and far-flung planets, seduced with magic, mythology, and dreams while wryly acknowledging the reality that sometimes sex […]
Continue Reading....Table of Contents Erato: Flash Fiction
It’s exciting to announce the 50 authors included in the New Smut Project’s first volume of flash fiction, Erato: Anything for the Mission by Gerri Leen Eleven Buttons by Jaye Raymee Touch by D. Fostalove The Inherent Eroticism of Cave Painters by Tiana Talaria Smooth Sailor by HD Synchron by Evadare Volney Snowblind by Jordan Castillo […]
Continue Reading....Widow’s Brain
It’s been a little over a month since my girlfriend/boytoy/submissive/beloved passed away in his sleep, shortly after swapping sappy and naughty texts with me about books we were reading. When I look back on this month, it is not a total blank. But time has blurred for me. And I am far less organized than […]
Continue Reading....A Love Story
On June 21, 8:24 am–almost exactly a week before I received the phone call from his father telling me he’d passed away–my girlfriend/boytoy sent me an email titled “I am a sappy little creature.” Hello love,This began life as an attempt to write a pegging short story, but quickly dissolved into a transparently fictional love letter […]
Continue Reading....Loss
Now that it’s sinking in a bit more, I can write this, albeit in a state of shock. My girlfriend/boytoy passed away last night or early this morning. Our last texts to each other were about how thrilled we were to know each other and be so compatible. (His exact last text was, “Do you have […]
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