I’ve talked about it in my newsletter and on social media, but I’m not sure I’ve yet broken the news here on this blog that my longstanding interest in reading poetry has, over the past year or so, turned into an interest in writing poetry. It’s not completely out of nowhere – in 2018 I […]
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“For Myself” in Delicate Friend’s BODYLOVE issue and other updates
I’m delighted to announce my flash piece about self love on a sunny day, “For Myself,” has been reprinted in Delicate Friend, a quarterly literary magazine about eroticism and other forms of desire. Clicking the cover below will take you to the full issue. I’m very grateful to the editors at Delicate Friend, not only […]
Continue Reading....New Flash story in “Marriage”
My flash piece, “Mine,” appears in Pure Slush Books / Bequem Publishing’s Marriage anthology. The latest in their Lifespan series, Marriage collects poetry and prose on all aspects of marriage and long-term cohabitation, including what my story tackles – sex, infidelity, and dissatisfaction. My legs wrapped around him, so passionately it threatened to roll us […]
Continue Reading....Those Linguists sure are Cunning
And Cunning Linguists is up for preorder! The New Smut Project’s 4th anthology contains 30 tales of language, literature, and lechery and comes out May 18. It’s now available for preorder on Gumroad–do check the product descriptions for both the paperback and ebook editions, as they include discount codes to use with your preorder!–and elsewhere. […]
Continue Reading....“By Steam or By Sail”: a prose poem
My prose poem about being bisexual and in lust (with people of all genders, and with words, particularly boat metaphors), and a bit of kink if you want to read into my cable metaphors, is up at Litro Magazine as their Friday Flash! You are strung with cables humming in high winds, singing like the […]
Continue Reading....Cunning Linguists’s Table of Contents and Pre-Orders Up!
I’m thrilled to at last share the list of authors and stories I’ve been editing for the New Smut Project’s fourth anthology, Cunning Linguists. Language. Literature. Lechery. Thirty authors, including Rachel Kramer Bussel, Sonni de Soto, Kristan X, and Good Sex Award honorees D. Fostalove and jem zero, share clever, sensual stories of the many […]
Continue Reading....“Tell me a truth.”
“Tell you the truth? About what?”“Not the truth. A truth. Tell me something true about yourself. Something I don’t know.”“Truth?”“Truth.”“I hated you in high school.”That got her attention.We lay together atop the bedspread, not really doing anything, our fingers intwined. I had been looking up at the popcorn ceiling and thinking of nothing in particular, […]
Continue Reading....A rotisserie of knifeplay
I never thought of myself as a Halloween girl, not like some Halloween folks I know, but I have always been into ghost stories and uncanny magic. Now six of my stories on those topics are collected in The Season, which comes out October 1. (But if you’re already in a Halloween mood, you can […]
Continue Reading....Can’t stop, won’t stop making cover art
Canva.com and Unsplash are miracles of the modern age. Plus, frankly, really fun to play with. Maybe a little addictive? Here are some almost-final drafts of covers I’ve designed for the books I’m releasing and re-releasing over the next few months (the Muse has inspired me to get publishing again with that expensive auto repair): […]
Continue Reading....A thrilling week: three broken things, four story collections, 350 miles and a submissions deadline
Some of the thrills were great, some…less so. The last week of submissions for Cunning Linguists saw an outpouring of some fantastic smut. My co-editors and I are still reading through it. If you submitted, you SHOULD have received a “Thank you, we received it!” kind of response from us. If you didn’t, please query. […]
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