Okay, I don’t ‘hate’ Lois Lowry’s famous children’s novel. I loathe it. I’m disappointed by it. I’m extremely irked by it, and what it has said about ‘mainstream’ Middle-Grade and YA writing for over 20 years.* I am too old to have suffered through it in my own school years, but I had the opportunity…
Read More Why I hate ‘The Giver’ (adult language)Step right up, folks: Round Fifteen opens with Danni Price’s M/F sizzling reunion in a truck, against Misa Buckley’s M/F lovers discovering more than just pleasure. Round Sixteen is all about opening moves: Lisa Fox gives us some serious M/F foreplay, while Lucy Felthouse’s female protagonist discovers what oral and anal can be like from…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships: Rounds Fifteen and Sixteen (you guessed it – adult content!)I’m a bit late in posting this (sleep-in Sunday!) but I wandered in here eventually. We have the winner of rounds 7 – 10 from the 2014 Sex Scene Championships, right here. ___ The winner of round seven is Tessa Bailey! Massive thanks to Kit Rocha for joining in (and filling in last minute!) The…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championship: Winners of Rounds Seven – TenYes, there are adult warnings. Heed them. You know something’s hot when even my summaries need warnings! Four very steamy links today from four very talented writers, over at the Sex Scene Championship page at Scorching Book Reviews. Round Thirteen pits Holley Trent against Jeffe Kennedy. Snippet 1: a searing M/F/M double-penetration scene shows the…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championship: Round Thirteen and Fourteen (adult content!)Quick drive-by from me, as I’m in the middle of some rare and precious revision time (the Singer novella is now at 43K and counting, and I still have great scenes to add: the black harp, more tension between E and H, a handsome male earthwitch in a cave, more backstory. This may end up…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships: Round Eleven and Round Twelve (adult content!)Wow, things are really heating up over at Scorching Book Reviews. We’re already up to announcing the winners of rounds 3 through 6: The winner of round three is Leela Lou Dahlin! Massive thanks to Gina Gordon for joining in! The winner of round five is Regina Kammer! Massive thanks to Dakota Trace for joining…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships: winners of Rounds Three – SixAdvancing along the championship roster, Round Nine features authors Laura Kaye and Ann Kane squaring off in two M/F excerpts. Snippet 1: love sneaks in during raw pleasure. Snippet 2: a wild reunion and bittersweet plans. Round Ten has Renee Luke’s sizzling M/F sexual power plays against Scarlet Day’s M/F/M menage, in which having an…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships: Round Nine and Round Ten (adult content warnings, duh)The votes are in: the winner of the Round One bracket is Samantha Ann King. Round Two’s winner is Cris Anson. These two fine writers will square off during Round 33 on the 26th of August, 2014. Tournament brackets can be seen here in the initial lineup post.
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships: Winners of Round One, Round TwoIn another writing forum, someone asked more or less: ‘How can I write strong sex scenes without turning everything into Twister: the Adult Version’? I’m a big fan of letting emotion and the character’s internal reactions drive everything, more than just a ‘insert Tab A into Slot B’ sex scene. But everyone has different likes…
Read More 2014 Sex Scene Championships: Round Seven and Round EightMy fellow AbsoluteWrite author Karenna Colcroft has a new book out today from Loose Id: Last Chance Tattoo. With a cover from the multi-talented Fiona Jayde. I’ll let Karenna explain this book, in her own words: “This past spring, I took a trip to Ludington, Michigan to visit a friend. I had never heard of…
Read More Last Chance Tattoo, by Karenna ColcroftSizzling 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 SixYesterday afternoon I heard about the death of Robin Williams. Possible suicide.
I’d heard he was battling depression again, and I’m sorry to hear it took him away from us. Like many brilliant and creative people, his humor had the depth and edge of a person who learned early to hide pain with a grin.
I’ll miss him. ∞
If 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 Lark