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I’m In Best Women’s Erotica 2012
Monday, December 5th, 2011
The Best Women’s Erotica books from Cleis Press are one of the longest-running erotica series. Violet Blue has been the editor since 2006 and she’s shown herself to be quite the talented curator of dirty stories.
The 2012 edition is out tomorrow (6th Dec) and I’m pleased to say that a story of mine made the grade this year. My story Tweetup is listed second and appears under my Louise Lush pseudonym.
Here’s a small excerpt:
“I should have recognised you,” Scott said as he handed me my glass.
“How?”
“Your hoop earrings. You wrote you always wore them. A few weeks ago?
I thought for a moment. “That’s right, I did. Gee, you pay attention.”
He smiled. “I like your tweets.”
I laughed. “Now there’s a 21st century compliment.”
We fell into a very easy conversation, comparing thoughts on politics, computers and whether Stephen Fry was worth following anymore. Scott seemed to hang on every word I said, eager to hear my opinion, his eyes always on me, seemingly oblivious to the rest of the room. I felt flattered by his attention and found myself responding in kind, drawn to his presence, keen to hear what he had to say. The wine had started to kick in and I felt warm and happy in his company. I also felt more than a little flirtatious.
“Are you married, Geekguy?” I asked.
“Uh, no, not yet,” he said. “IT guy, remember? That means lots of lonely nights at home eating two minute noodles and playing World of Warcraft.”
I nodded, laughing at the stereotype. “Yeah, me too. Just me and the frogs.”
“And the porn.”
I shrugged, blushing. “Uh, yeah, the porn.”
“I like how you tweet about porn.”
Best Women’s Erotica 2012 is available from Amazon.
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Women And Male-Male Erotic Fiction
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The Sydney Morning Herald has featured an article about the popularity of male-male erotic fiction (slash, yaoi or gay male romance) with straight women. It features quotes from me, using my Louise Lush pseudonym. The journalist (Alyssa McDonald) has treated the subject well, talking to various different sources and not descending into sex-negative language.
When Alyssa contacted me she wasn’t particularly well informed about the subject. Her main source of info was the Billion Wicked Thoughts book, which I’ve already ranted about here. I sent her a bunch of links and gave her my less-than-perfect opinion about M/M erotica (it’s not really my thing). She has written a really good summary of it and also including both my and Suraya’s criticism of the “Wicked Thoughts” book.
The comments are interesting. There’s a lot of people who are shocked by it, matched by an equal number of slash fans.
I do want to include more male-male erotica at For The Girls and create a gay category on Ms Naughty. My problem is that, as I said, it’s not really my bag, although that’s no good reason to not include it. It just means that I’ve got to learn to spot good content and to get to know what’s out there.
Also, in the past I had a “no gay” rule for the Ms Naughty linklist. This was because the adult industry used to dismiss “for women” content as being another gay niche, refusing to believe that women actually looked at porn. So I worked hard to distinguish my site from gay ones. It was the same with For The Girls. I’ve since learned how much women do enjoy gay and male-male content. It’s now just a matter of finding the time to create the category and find good content.
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Enter Filament’s Erotic Fiction Contest
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Are you a writer? Enjoy writing erotic fiction? Then I urge you to consider entering Filament’s music-themed erotic fiction competition.
Suraya and the lovely people at Filament want you to “write a fantastic, filthy, luscious, delightful piece of fiction that meets our guidelines and suggest the theme music.” For The Girls is sponsoring the whole thing and I’ll be judging the contest so get your entries in before the deadline on July 31.
Over the last few years FTG has run its own fiction competitions and I spend a lot of time reading hundreds of erotic stories. In the process I made a list of what I thought were the best things for aspiring erotica writers to do:
How to win an erotic fiction competition.
I’m looking forward to reading the entries. Good luck.
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Sex Fantasy Stories
Friday, April 15th, 2011
In late 2003 I bought SexFantasyStories.com and put a few examples of my erotic fiction on it. I then expanded it to include an AVS site a couple of years later. Since then, however, it’s been horribly neglected. The design was seriously ugly and very much in need of a revamp.
And then I noticed it was getting traffic after Google’s nasty Panda algorithm change on Monday. In the meantime, Ms Naughty has once again been booted to the back of the index (I believe this is officially known as “sad pandas”) Thus, I’ve spent a few hours rejigging the original Sex Fantasy Stories site and making it look much nicer.
If you’re in the mood to read a bit of fantastical erotic fiction, visit Sex Fantasy Stories. Also, admire the css design. I’ll be doing this kind of revamp on more of my older sites, including the Ms Naughty linklist, very soon.
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The Thrill Of Tagging Erotic Fiction
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011I’ve just finished hand-editing every single piece of erotic fiction at For The Girls. It was a huge job, manually going through eight years of content, looking at every single story (400+) on the site, fixing the text and photos and then adding categories and tags to each one.
I’ve re-read every one of our erotic stories and there’s just so many brilliant pieces of writing. I’ve been immersed in FTG for so long it’s easy to forgot just how good this site really is. Not to mention hot! Phew. It could well be the steamiest bit of data entry I’ve done for a long time.
I’m so pleased we can tag our stories because it will make finding specific interests/kinks a lot easier. And one of the things that’s really become apparent in this process is just how ridiculously diverse our fiction is. A sample of some of the tags I’ve added over the last few days:
69, amateurs, anal, bisexual, blind, blood, CFNM, costumes, cunnilingus, dancing, double penetration, fairytale, female domination, first time, food, games, glory holes, girl-girl, gothic, infidelity, longing, male escort, MFF, mile high club, multiple men, nipple clamps, orgy, pegging, phone sex, pirates, priests, pubic hair, power play, queer, religion, role-play, romance, rough sex, seduction, sex toys, slaves, spanking, swingers, transgression, virgin, voyeur, wet, whip…
Yeah, so all those people who say “porn for women” is just about candles and romance… STFU, OK?
We’ll also be applying these tags to our photos and movies.
It’s such a huge job, but we’re getting there.
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Books About Cunnilingus
Thursday, May 20th, 2010I’m revamping one of my favourite sites Pure Cunnilingus* and it’s partly why my blog has been so quiet this week. I’ve done a bit of research into books on cunnilingus so thought I’d repost the info here.
She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide To Pleasuring A Woman
by Ian Kerner
Dispelling the widely held myth of genital penetration as the apogee of sexual pleasure, Kerner, who holds a doctorate in clinical sexology, offers this witty, well-researched manual for “consistently leading women to orgasm” through cunnilingus. Loaded with practical anatomical information (the clitoris has 18 distinct parts, and more nerve fibers than any other part of the human body) and graphic line drawings, the book also touches on the less mechanical, more psychological aspects of oral sex, including the three assurances every woman needs from her lover to feel comfortable: (1) “you enjoy it as much as she does”; (2) “there’s no rush”; and (3) “Her scent is provocative, her taste powerful: it all emanates from the same beautiful essence.”
Since studies show the average woman takes about 20 minutes to reach her first orgasm during a typical sex session, while men take a mere four minutes, Kerner advises men to delay their own climax and make oral sex “coreplay” (”the substantive phase in which sexual tension builds, culminates and then releases itself through the female orgasm”), instead of foreplay. Breaking down six stages of coreplay, from the “first kiss” to orgasm, Kerner speaks to both beginners and more seasoned lovers. His candor concerning his own bout with sexual dysfunction adds a compassionate tone and credibility to this decidedly pro-female methodology.
Oral Sex She’ll Never Forget: 50 Positions and Techniques That Will Make Her Orgasm Like She Never Has Before
by Sonia Borg
For many women intercourse isn’t enough to get them from “oh” to “oh-YES!”. Getting a woman to orgasm has more to do with movement of your lips than what you do with your hips. This ultimate oral sex guide teaches you all of the mouth moves you need to go down on a woman skillfully.
Oral Sex She’ll Never Forget gives 50 unique cunnilingus experiences from start to finish. You’ll learn how to combine positions, mouth moves, hand strokes, sex toys, seduction and setting to create the most exciting oral sex experience for her. Surprise your lover with something new and exciting.
Cunnilingus: Better Oral Sex
by Ian Bendtsen
Ian Bendtsen has for many years practiced cunnilingus – the art of giving oral pleasure to women – with a rather large number of women in a sexually emancipated milieu. In this book he tells his story openly, wanting to share his knowledge and experience. In praise and for pleasure for both men and women. Cunnilingus – better oral sex is a book about pleasure, pleasuring each other. It is the result of gentle pressure from many of the writer’s friends, both male and female, over the past years, urging him to write a book about cunnilingus. Ian Bendtsen is 38 years old and holds a degree from the Business School in Aarhus. He works as a senior consultant of business development and innovation. The writer has for many years been part of a sexually emancipated milieu – and he is the unofficial European champion of cunnilingus.
The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus: How to Go Down on a Woman and Give Her Exquisite Pleasure
by Violet Blue
Blogger, author and sex expert Violet Blue provides everything you ever wanted to know about cunnilingus. Full of facts, advice and even erotic fiction, this book is a must-have for anyone contemplating the fine art of pussy licking.
Blurb: The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus is a complete step-by-step guide to oral sex for everyone – men and women! Inside has all you need to know to give and receive exquisite oral pleasure. Not only does this book include techniques for mind-blowing orgasms, advanced positions, tips and tricks, toys, games, fantasy and power play, and helpful tips on preparation and hygiene, but it also has a clear, illustrated guide to the female anatomy and what to do with it! In between each chapter, is a steamy short story by Alison Tyler to keep you motivated. Also, this book is friendly to all sexual preferences.
The Guide To Eating Out
by Palmer Strong
Everything You Know About Oral Sex is Wrong and I Can Help You Fix That! What you’ll learn in this book: – The critical things you must do within five minutes of getting her panties off – How to read her body language, so you’ll know exactly what she wants.even if she doesn’t say anything – How to make a woman feel totally comfortable with your tongue between her legs. even if it’s the very first time you’re together – The one, simple thing you can do during oral sex with a woman that will build sexual tension and leave her eagerly waiting for more – How to work a woman up to the “I must have him!” feeling of ecstasy, which will leave her begging you for something more than just your tongue – What you must do in the bedroom to keep a woman interested in you forever or at least as long as you’re interested – The one mistake almost all men do, which actually repels women. and often shuts the door on any chances you have of her wanting to have intercourse – How to make a great and lasting impression on every woman you meet and eat.
Cunnilingus:: 50 Ways To Lick Your Lover
by Brian Hodges
50 ACTUAL ways to lick your lover! Want to master the beautiful art of cunnilingus? You can now learn everything you ever wanted to know about pleasuring the vagina with your mouth… but were too afraid to ask about. This is the most comprehensive book ever made on woman focused oral sex, including 50 mild to wild techniques to try on your lover. This book is the master collection of years of research into various techniques, movements, patterns, speeds, directions, pressure points, and general combinations as it relates to her most feminine of openings. Forget an orgy or a three-way; you can have more fun 1 on 1 just following this book. Open a bottle of wine. Take off her shirt. Take off her bra. Light a candle as she gets topless. Admire her nipples getting hard in anticipation. Take off her pants, so she is almost naked. Take off her panties, so she is fully nude. Lay her down on her back. Open her legs. Then, try any quantity or combination of the 50 steps to really light her fire.
This book Includes 100+ illustrations with explanatory text. Straight men, as well as new lesbians can benefit from the techniques in this book. You will travel from her breasts to her ass exploring all of her erogenous zones, but will focus on the most important target; her clitoris, or “clit”. Some people will view this as XXX, porn, or NC-17, and it is likely to be banned by some countries… but what it truly is… is a beautiful oral version of the Kama Sutra. Oral meets tantric, with 50 easy to follow steps and ideas to try. Find her own favorite combination of techniques, and keep improving on it….
Tasting Her: Oral Sex Stories
The primal sense of taking in the essence, taste, smell, and sexy up-closeness of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac that affects one physically, mentally, and emotionally. Once this special connection is made, the heat of desire, passion, and lust focus before one’s eyes and tie arousal directly to them. Tasting Her explores the ultimate joys of oral sex from a distinctly male point of view.
“The book is a triumph of erotic fiction, offering a myriad of wonderful explorations of female oral sex, all of them different and all of them compelling.”
* If you followed the link to Pure Cunnilingus, you’ll see it’s a bit dated. In only a few days I’m relaunching it with a new tour, thousands more photos and a stash of sexy videos, plus more articles and fiction. I love this site and it’s going to be soooo much better, very soon.
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For The Girls Welcomes Tyler Knight
Monday, October 12th, 2009
I’m really late with this announcement but it’s still worth shouting from the rooftops: gorgeous male porn star and Heartthrob of the Year Tyler Knight is writing a regular column for For The Girls!
Tyler has long had ambitions to write and his straight-from-the-heart columns about life inside the porn industry are compulsively readable.
A taster:
We have never met. What happens between us is not chemistry. It is biology. The theme of the scene is this: she is an actress that needs coaching, and I am an acting coach… I try to defend against her advances, but I capitulate. I half ass the script, words dripping off my tongue like molasses.
We interviewed Tyler a couple of months ago and I got chatting to him via email. He really is a true gentleman and we’re so pleased to have him contributing to our online magazine. It’s fascinating to hear the inside story on some of the bizarre things that occur on porn sets; his anecdotes are alternately hilarious and heart-breaking.
Tyler’s latest column goes live today and it’s a corker. And yes, this is where I shamelessly plug the site and say: You’ll find it inside the member’s area of For The Girls!
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A Tempting Cover
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
This is the cover of Temptations 2, an erotic fiction compilation from Xcite Books. Nice, isn’t it?
It’s one of 3 recently released by that company. They have responded to calls from Erotica Cover Watch to have more men on the covers of erotic fiction books. I think it’s very appealing.
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Erotica Label Black Lace Shuts Up Shop
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
The Guardian reports that major erotica publisher Black Lace will not be publishing any new titles in the coming year.
The 16-year-old Black Lace imprint specialises in erotica for women, by women, and has sold more than 4m books worldwide, but its publisher, Virgin Books – part of the publishing giant Random House – has decided to stop commissioning new titles for both itself and its sister imprint, Nexus, which pitches itself as “the last word in fetish fiction”.
Erotica Cover Watch has a more in-depth look at the decision here. Interestingly, the Girl’s comment was rehashed in the Guardian article without attribution, which is rather rude.
Black Lace is blaming stalled sales and the availability of free erotica on the internet.
Writers Kristina Lloyd and Mathilde Madden (who run Erotica Cover Watch) have written a great opinion piece decrying the decision.
In erotic fiction, you’ll probably find truer expressions of female desire than in the popular memoirs from strippers and sex workers, whose job it is to please men. But we’re also unsurprised. Women’s erotic fiction authors are often regarded as randy Barbara Cartlands writing purple porn for the sex-starved, their prose replete with throbbing manhoods, dungeon dynamics and swoon-inducing bastards: “Mills and Bonk”.
Personally I think it’s a shame that Black Lace should make this decision because it cuts off one of the few major outlets for female erotic expression. I do understand the need to maintain profits – publishing seems to operate on very small margins now – but I’m wondering if the imprint was really losing money or if they just lost interest in maintaining it.
And it once again comes back to the issue of the internet. Since I run an adult site I could be considered responsible for the loss of hard-copy readers.
And yet… it’s not the full story. Yes, you can probably find free erotic fiction online but have you actually read some of that shit? The stuff you see on Literotica is often illiterate, nonsensical, cliched and downright unreadable and a lot of it isn’t written for a female audience (I know this because they seem to want to also submit it to FTG). On top of that, the world of online erotic fiction is primarily focused on short stories and smaller pieces. Curling up in bed and getting involved in a novel isn’t quite so appealing via the internet.
If Black Lace withdraws, it creates a gap. I do think there is a opportunity here. Perhaps it’s time For The Girls became a publishing label?
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An Interview With Emily Dubberley
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Emily Dubberley is the editor of Scarlet Magazine and she used to run Cliterati which was a great female-friendly erotica site ages ago. Now she’s got a book out about kinky sex. I found this great interview with her so thought I’d throw up a quick link to it.
I tend to sympathise with this comment:
Occasionally I’ll get turned on writing about sex, but 99 per cent of the time it’s just work. I love my job but there are times when I tire of it. If I’ve got PMT, the last thing I want to do is test three sex toys.
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A Backlash Against Female-Focused Erotic Fiction
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Bam. Two negative, almost hateful diatribes against female-focused erotic fiction books in as many days.
Instead of being condemned as a cheapjack book slut pandering to male fantasies, you will be profiled in the serious press, with a photograph of you dressed demurely, and women will not be ashamed to be seen reading your book on the Tube. Feminist websites will praise you for “provoking debate in intellectual circles” and claim your book “does not intend to function as porn” (even though it sort of is porn).
- Feminist slant for female erotica writers – The Times Online
and
Roche and others from the new wave of women shock-jocks tell us that baring their fantasies, or recounting their love lives in lurid and exhaustive detail, is uniquely emancipating.
While I would fight tooth and claw for women’s right to sexual freedom, I’m not sure the sisterhood has gained much if it sees that freedom as a chance to brag about sex and conquests in the same kind of tedious and lewd manner that made the new lad so obnoxious back in the Nineties.
Un-erotica? As another female writer publishes an explicit novel is this new feminism or a tawdry betrayal of women? – The Daily Mail
The first piece derides all those nasty women writers for daring to dabble in erotica, because it’s really just porn, you know. And porn’s for men, after all.
The second piece happily indulges in all the usual false consciousness assumptions about how women who explore their sexuality mustn’t really know what they’re doing. That they’ve been duped, somehow, and isn’t it a shame they’ve lost their femininity like that?
The shoes-in-handcuffs idea pays lip service to the concept that exploring your sexuality equals being enslaved or degraded by it.
There’s this ongoing idea that writing about sex is inevitably tawdry, that writing something to induce arousal is a less noble and certainly less literary pursuit, one that should only be done by dirty old men in raincoats.
Facts. It IS feminist to have sex whenever and however you want. That’s a choice that women should be free to make. It’s a feminist act to express your thoughts and feelings about sex. And when a woman challenges the whole Madonna/Whore myth by publicly revealing that she is a voracious sexual being, she does all women a favour.
Now, go and read Girl With A One Track Mind. I’m sure she has a heap more to say on this topic.
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I’m In Best Women’s Erotica 2009
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I really don’t know why I haven’t blogged about this before… I was actually bursting to tell the news when I first discovered my story had been accepted into Best Women’s Erotica 2009. But then I wasn’t sure if it was a secret, and then I just never got around to it. I thought I’d wait until the publication date.
So anyway, my point is, I have a story in Best Women’s Erotica 2009 which is officially released on December 11 (but you can order it from Amazon now). What’s cool about this is it’s the first time I’ve had anything published – I mean in actual, real-life on paper with real ink-type stuff – for about five years. And certainly it’s been a long time between erotic story drinks.
My first break into the world of writing and publishing was a nice little dirty story which appeared in Australian Women’s Forum in 1998. It was about a woman who tested sex toys, a subject that, at that time, I thought was incredibly unusual and titillating*. I still remember finding out that it was going to appear in the magazine and realising that I was going to get real money for it. Euphoric doesn’t begin to describe it.
That first thrill of seeing my name in print turned into a writing hobby that then turned into a part time job. And then it turned into this exciting internet experiment whereby I discovered my writing could actually make me money online.
Fast forward to 2008 and everything that I write is intended for online publication. I have millions of words floating around in cyberspace, the majority of them on this blog and at For The Girls. This earns me a very good living and I’m aware that I’m doing far better now than if I’d become the romance novelist I’d wanted to be as a kid.
At the same time, online publication has no prestige. People don’t call you an “author” unless your name is in print out in the meat world. And part of me hankers for that old-world glory.
So I sat down and deliberately wrote a story for BEW2009, hoping that it would be good enough to appear on paper. And by crikey if I didn’t lose sleep and sweat over that story. I reworked it repeatedly and worried that it was clunky or amateurish or just unsexy. When you self-publish you can lose perspective on what works and what doesn’t and, yes, you can also get a little lazy. Not this story though. It was honed within an inch of its life.
Thankfully, it made the grade and I was once again euphoric.
I must warn you, the story is about anal sex. No, stop clenching that butt, ladies, because anal sex can be very, very hot – when it’s done right. And my story is about doing it right.
Here’s a brief extract:
I’ve heard it said that women will try anal sex twice: once to see what it’s like and a second time to see if it really is that bad. I used to be one of those women.
The first time I ever tried it was in college. I was young and stupid – par for the course. I offered up my ass after much impassioned prompting from my then-boyfriend, Dennis. There was no preparation, no lube, no pleasure at all. What was more awful than the cringing pain and fervent wish for the fucking to be over was the fact that I collapsed into tears afterwards, turning my face to the wall. I remember Dennis worryingly stroking my brow and apologizing fervently, but I couldn’t speak. I’d been a willing participant, eager to try something new, but it was a sordid loss of that particular virginity, one that left me feeling violated and strangely sad.
From then on I was certain that anal was something men wanted but women shouldn’t offer. What was the point, after all? Guys seemed mad for it, if only so they could boast about it to their friends. What sane, pleasure-loving woman would want to stick a cock in her ass?
Stephan changed all that.
Editor Violet Blue has posted about the book and includes her rather fabulous introduction which is well worth a read. I’m grateful to Violet for giving me the opportunity to be “properly published” again. It’s an honour to be included in this collection.
* You can still read the story at For The Girls, by the way. And sex toy testing isn’t nearly as sexy as I’d imagined.
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Are Erotic Book Covers Sexist?
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Thanks to The Girl for pointing me in the direction of Erotica Cover Watch. This is a new blog that asks the question: why are only women featured on the covers of erotic books?
It’s a very good point and the topic naturally delves into the whole feminist issue of the male gaze and the continued way that straight women are still considered to be non-visual.
It all comes down to official marketing wisdom which says that women on covers sell and men don’t. That’s why women’s magazines like Cosmopolitan don’t feature guys. Indeed, I suspect Playgirl was one of the few magazines to flaunt this official rule and that was probably only because they were marketing themselves to gay men.
The funny thing about this is I remember having this conversation over ten years ago with Helen Vnuk, then editor of Australian Women’s Forum, the Aussie adult mag for women. The editorial staff were busting to put some of the hunky guys on the cover, especially considering they were delightfully naked in the middle. Nope, said marketing, not doable. And I think the bean counters then proceeded to bring out sales figures that showed the covers featuring couples didn’t sell as well as solo women.
It was the last act of defiance for AWF that their final issue did feature a guy – and he was pretty hot too as you can see.
I suspect that women are just trained to see other women on a cover as normal… and of course the continuing justification of the need to make sales turns it into a self-fulfilling prophesy. On top of that there’s homophobia, which dictates that a guy won’t want to be seen reading a book that features a hunky, half naked man, in case people assume he’s gay and – possibly – beat him up. Much safer to go with the girly pinup pic, right?
The compromise is, of course, to feature a couple, but that rarely happens either. Is it considered too raunchy? Or is it cheaper to only shoot one model?
In any case, I’m glad someone is making a fuss about this. Maybe next year’s Best Women’s Erotica, which is absolutely and utterly aimed at women, should have a guy or a couple on it. Maybe we should ask Violet and Cleis Press what they think.
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Mills And Boon Gets Spicy In The UK
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Romance publishers Mills and Boon are 100 years old this year and they’re about to launch the Spice erotica imprint in the UK, according to The Independent. In the past, M&B books only allowed sex within the confines of a long term relationship. Spice, however, features stories where people “have sex for enjoyment.”
Phew, imagine that?
The article has an interesting timeline of erotic milestones in the Mills and Boon books. Like the first masturbation scene was in 1973 and the first oral sex scene was in 1982.
“There are other places to kiss,” the hero darkly informs the heroine of Antigua Kiss, who promptly surrenders to “waves of ecstasy”.
Wa-hey!
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Tips For Aspiring Writers
Monday, August 25th, 2008
In the wake of For The Girls‘ fourth erotic fiction competition, I feel the need to make a post urging aspiring authors to follow a few simple rules when writing erotic fiction. I feel this because, even though there were plenty of absolutely gorgeous and cleverly written short stories entered, there were also plenty of bombs.
Yes folks, there are people out there who fancy themselves as masters of the dirty story, but they’re not. They’re really not. Aside from the blow-by-blow porny sex descriptions there’s the awful spelling, the bad use of tense, the endless sentences and the dodgy punctuation. Little things, but they’re vitally important.
And when you’re sitting there cross-eyed, ploughing through over 80 stories about sex, you start to get kind of tetchy and you start to make lists in your head, wanting the would-be Anais Nins of the world to know that they could be doing it much, much better.
I even wrote a few things down:
Tip #1: Real women rarely refer to themselves as being “busty.”
Tip #2: Never use the word “retarded” in your stories. Go and watch Idiocracy and you’ll begin to understand.
Tip #3: Titles are good. As are paragraphs.
Tip #4: The rules are there for good reason. No, you are not exempt from them.
Tip #5: If you are writing erotica for women, it’s a good idea to leave out the misogynistic observations.
Tip #6: If your story didn’t do well in last year’s competition, it doesn’t help to submit it verbatim to this year’s comp.
But you know what? I’ve already been here, in 2006. Read my post How To Win An Erotic Fiction Competition. It’s all there. Everything I wanted to say.
Or you might want to read Susie Bright’s excellent book How To Write A Dirty Story.
Alternatively, go and visit the Erotica Readers and Writers Association and check out their many useful articles.
I was also going to direct you to Black Lace’s writers guidelines but the site seems to be down. Google it, maybe they’ll be back up soon.
I don’t claim to be a perfect writer. I’m probably guilty of numerous grammatical errors and spelling mistakes in my blog, and I still have to stop and think about the word “its” every time. But when it comes to something that has to make an impression on a judge or editor… then I get pedantic. And that’s what all aspiring writers need to do.
Anyway, I’ll leave you with my favourite spelling typo of the year. If this doesn’t convince you of the importance of proof reading, nothing will.
“The towel fell to the floor with his prodding and her juicers ran all over his fingers.”
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