August 2014

Yes, 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!)

Advancing 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)

Yesterday 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…

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Things 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 day

In 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 anthology

My 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…

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