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Love and Disability
3rd February 2011 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Love is one of the most important things in human existence; a basic need that everyone needs fulfilling in some way or another. Romantic love is something that most people yearn to experience, and which can bring great happiness, but can also come with many pitfalls, particularly for people with disabilities. Love is not something that can be legislated about: people with disabilities have ever greater protection and support in...
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The Joy of Erotic Eating
2nd December 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Erotic foods need to be special. There has to be an edge of decadence, of luxury. A feeling that this is something unusual, to be treasured and enjoyed. Everyone knows that some foods are sexier than others – but why are they? What makes one substance erotic and another not?
Well, there's lots of reasons. The cost has a part to play: it helps to feel that this is something that... -
Cecilia Tan – Owner/Editor of Circlet Press
16th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
1 So, tell us a little bit about Circlet?
I started Circlet Press when I was still pretty much fresh out of college. I had been working at a respectable, venerable book publishing house for a couple of years at that point, but I'd always thought of myself as a writer and was trying to get published myself. The more time and energy I spent on other people's books, the further... -
Miranda Forbes – Editor for Popular Erotic Publishers Xcite
16th June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
1 So, tell us a little bit about Xcite...
Xcite was founded in 2007 by Hazel Cushion, Managing Director of Accent Press. She felt there was a shortage of quality erotic fiction that was empowering and positive for women whatever their sexual fantasies and kinks may be. The company originally started with short story collections but now also publish novels and some ‘How To’ books.2. How do you define 'erotica' as... -
Selena Kitt of eXcessica Publishing – the interview
8th June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
1. So, first of all,what led you to set eXcessica up in the first place?
The truth? I wanted a market for my more explicit work. I knew it would sell well (and it does!) but the traditional epubs out there didn't take submissions with things like nonconsent and incest. So eXcessica was born. And it began to grow. And grow. And GROW!2What are eXcessica's aims?To publish work that pushes the... -
Look out, look out, homophobia’s about
12th April 2010 | 5 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Okay, I'm lucky enough that I'm not on the receiving end of a lot of overt prejudice over my sexuality. So honestly? My first reaction after reading that the UK's Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling, had been caught on tape suggesting that B&B owners should be allowed to turn away gay couples was to look at the date on the paper. And no, scarily enough it turns out it wasn't April...
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Cheyenne Blue – The Interview
29th March 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
1. What made you decide to be a writer?It was one of those things that evolved rather organically, like much of mylife. Seldom have I ever sat down and thought, "Right. Now I'm going to be a writer/runner/bad but enthusiastic cook." They just happened. I fell into travel writing by a string of coincidences, and that rekindled the joy of creating something that has its own life on paper. I... -
Chris Power (Chris Quinton) – The Interview
25th February 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
1. What made you decide to be a writer?
It wasn't a decision, really. It was something I've been doing for as long as I can remember. Even my school essays turned into adventure stories whenever I was given a free rein. And sometimes when I wasn't...
2. What do you write?
Strewth – um, practically everything. Mysteries, gay fiction, contemporary stories, historical fiction - all plus Sci Fi, fantasy, and... -
The Not So Nice Jane Austen
8th February 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Jane Austen? Boring, twee, read by elderly spinsters because 'Jane' is so nice in her ideas.
Oh yeah? Welcome to my Jane Austen. A woman whose forthright opinions on sex and death - “I am proud to say that I have a very good eye at an Adulteress”; “Mrs Hall of Sherbourne was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child... owing to a fright – I suppose she happened unawares... -
Cassidy Ryan – The Interview
25th January 2010 | 4 comments | 2 people like this
So, you're an erotic writer. What made you decide to write erotica rather than anything else?
I don’t think it was ever really a conscious decision. I always wanted to write romance, and sex was an element of that. When I started writing Sleeping with the Past I always had in the back of my mind that I would have to write a sex scene, and I was nervous that I wouldn’t...
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Penelope Friday
I'm Penelope Friday. I write erotica and I also write articles on sexuality. When I'm not writing about sex, I'm writing about disability. Sometimes I write about them both. When I'm not writing articles about sex or disability, I might be writing about cooking with pre-school kids, or about the Regency period, or about environmental 'green' issues. When I'm not writing erotica, you might find me writing sci fi, teen stories, poetry or twitter fics. Quite a lot of the rest of the time, I'm blogging obsessively, and all-too-regularly on the subject of missing muses...
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