Sizzling away on Day Three of the Championships, we have Round Five: Dakota Trace Vs Regina Kammer. Followed by Round Six: Beth Matthews Vs Jade Lee writing as Kathy Lyons. All four excerpts are M/F today. Go. Read. Judge. Then wander back here for some other fun promo stuff not related to the contest.
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships, Round Five and Round SixIf you look in the right places, you’ll see the internet simmering this week over many different cases of plagiarism brought to light. Some of it is mind-boggling. Some is just pathetic. Wait, didn’t I write this post last year? Yes, something similar. This may become an annual thing. Amazon’s Kindle and CreateSpace may have…
Read More CreateSpace and ChernobylThings are heating up! Today’s links take us to Round Three: Gina Gordon vs Leela Lou Dahlin, and Round Four: Mina Kelly vs Jack L.Pyke These are an interesting mix: kitchen implements in M/F foreplay, M/F exhibitionism, zero-G male/male lovemaking, and a stark reminder that M/M sexual tension can be every bit as hot as the…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships, Round Three and Round Four (adult content advisory)(Warning: the following links lead to the Scorching Book Reviews blog, and graphic adult sex scenes. If you don’t want to read them, if you are underage, or if you live in a place/culture/family where you are not allowed to read them…don’t follow the link. Simple, yes?) For the rest of us, the Championships are…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships, Round One and Round Two (adult content advisory)Adult content warning: for the next two weeks this blog will have daily links taking people to the Scorching Book Reviews website, where they will find some very short, very filthy excerpts squaring off for this year’s Sex Scene Championships. There will be smut of all types. Be forewarned. There will also probably be spirited voting, heckling, attempts at…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships T-1 dayC’mon, you know we all have them, in writing, art, work, and life in general. Those choke points where we stall, lose our grip, and can’t seem to drag ourselves away from old or even harmful ideas that hold us back. To be human is to exist in a fog of imperfect awareness, willful ignorance…
Read More Windmills, albatrosses, and self-erected barriersIn 2011 a group of spec fiction writers (who mostly knew each other from SFF.net) got together on a modest digital anthology: Past Future Present 2011, from Copper Publishing. Some of the authors are major award-winners with stories at well-known magazines and publishers; others are talented hobbyists and up-and-coming writers with much bigger projects in…
Read More Past Future Present 2011 anthologyYou’d think, as a writer, that I’d be all for strict enforcement of intellectual property rights. No, actually. I’m for *sane* enforcement. The way things stand now, intellectual property rights are a welter of lockdowns, extortion, and exploitation long after the original creator has died. Museums hold fast to image copyrights of pieces they own*.…
Read More Doyle, Disney, and intellectual propertyMy fellow AbsoluteWrite author Erin Lark has a new M/M romance out today from Entangled Publishing: Swan Prince. A confession: I’ve read the first two chapters, and I heard about it while it was being written. I’m pushing myself to read more paranormal romance and erotic romance shapeshifter novels, especially those from writers I know.…
Read More Swan Prince, by Erin LarkThere I was this morning, with ten paragraphs of what I hoped would be an insightful, well-documented, though controversial blog post about ‘(X) affiliation being used as an excuse for predatory/bad practices and substandard work in genre publishing’. It would have been about one facet of certain substandard small presses, vanity publishers, predatory and/or incompetent…
Read More Self-censorship is a bitch…or at least, I can claim the woozy, satisfied sleep of someone who has managed another 3500 words today, on a 70K book. Even better, I’ve figured out how to pull off a major plot twist. I think. I’m slightly sleep-deprived, so I may not know what I’m talking about.
Read More The sleep of the justI’ve been asked to cite some of my favorite M/M and M/F* fanfiction writers and stories. Why do I read them? They’re brilliant. Some of the authors are moonlighting professional authors, some easily could be. They can give me grinding Plot-What-Plot erotica, deep angst, high comedy, and breathless romance – often within the same story.…
Read More Fanfiction Recommendations (adult content advisory)This week has been about recalibration for me. One writing project is on hiatus while the beta-readers savage it. I’m looking forward to their criticisms more than their praise – harsh reviews have always motivated my spirit of competition, and the work ultimately merits the best I can do. I’m pushing through a major middle-of-the-book…
Read More Back in the saddleI’ve had an on-again, off-again fling with the idea of self-publishing a fantasy novella. At each stage in the game, the beast grows a little bigger. From the original 6.5K or so short story I started years ago, Singer in Rhunshan is now over 33K. (As of 7-20-2014, it’s now at 35.5K. I think it’s…
Read More Adventures in novella writingAt this point in my life, I’ve realized that everything I say might offend *somebody*. Silence is the only way to avoid that. Sometimes, silence is the worst possible answer. Author’s note: No matter what I might write about fictional 18+ adults doing to or with each other, I don’t like to write about young children as…
Read More The MZB scandals (adult content, trigger warnings)…in her Top Ten M/M Fantasy and Science Fiction list, in early April 2014, over at Scorching Reviews. Which I learned about only last night, via a friend’s email. I’m a little slow on the self-Googling, apparently. If I’d known about the list when the post and accompanying giveaway was live, I’d have happily contributed a…
Read More Megan Derr reviews Moro’s PriceZoe X. Rider has graciously agreed to cede her win back to the pool, so we have a new drawing today. As before, each comment equals one entry, and I’ll give the winner until 7-22-2014 to get back to me – or we do this all over again! The new comment list is: 1. Erika…
Read More the gods of Random have spoken againI waited through the 11th just to be fair, since I did promise that each comment got one entry chance. Then I drew up this quick list of comment posters on the Blue Night blog between 6-23-2014 and 7-11-2014. 1. Erika Lindsen, one entry 2. Lorna Elsewint, one entry 3. Lorna Elsewint, one entry 4. Lorna Elsewint,…
Read More The gods of Random have spokenLast day! We hope you’ve enjoyed our blog hop. We certainly have. Since it’s been a slightly different mix of authors and publishers this time, I’ve seen some great new books to add to my to-be-read list. Dee Tass rounds out the roster by interviewing Azalea Moone here. *** Housekeeping: to make up for some…
Read More 2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 15One more day to go! Today, Evelyn Aster interviews author Dee Tass, who is writing some sparkling, steampunk-style F/F romance. What’s that? You thought I was only into M/M? Puhleeeeeze, people. I’m a grown-up. Love is love. I come from the SFF side of things where, to quote Douglas Adams: “In those days spirits were…
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