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…as evidenced by the success of the latest Marvel Studio’s movie Guardians of the Galaxy. I saw it on opening day. It was great, a proper mix of irreverent humor, solid fight and battle scenes, decent worldbuilding a la Marvel’s comics universe, and unexpectedly deep character moments. A worthy and wonderful change from the Disneyfied, focus-grouped…
Read More Space operas rockThere 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.…
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