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Remittance Girl

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http://www.goodreads.com/Remittance_Girl

born

September 16, 1962 in Toronto, Canada

gender

female

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http://www.remittancegirl.com

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Erotica

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Remittance Girl is a writer of erotic fiction. Most of my work is short stories, but I do write some longer pieces – serials, novellas, etc. I live as an expat in a small Southeast Asian country, where I teach, write and grow orchids. I live with a cat called Seven. Although writing is not my main profession, it is the focus of my life. I hope that shows in the quality of my work.

As a writer, I feel very strongly that the erotica genre has suffered greatly over the years from a lack of quality, good editorship, and a dearth of publishers willing to put new material out there. It seems to have been appropriated by two literary camps: romantic fiction and pornography. These days most erotic fiction is either a romance novel with the spicy bit...more Remittance Girl is a writer of erotic fiction. Most of my work is short stories, but I do write some longer pieces – serials, novellas, etc. I live as an expat in a small Southeast Asian country, where I teach, write and grow orchids. I live with a cat called Seven. Although writing is not my main profession, it is the focus of my life. I hope that shows in the quality of my work.

As a writer, I feel very strongly that the erotica genre has suffered greatly over the years from a lack of quality, good editorship, and a dearth of publishers willing to put new material out there. It seems to have been appropriated by two literary camps: romantic fiction and pornography. These days most erotic fiction is either a romance novel with the spicy bits left in or, on the other side of the spectrum, stroke fiction with the solitary and express purpose of providing guided masturbatory fantasies.

This is sad, because I think erotic fiction, as a genre, should be neither and both those things, but it ought to be more, as well. I have no objection to representations of romantic entanglements in erotica, just as I have no objections to them in a sci-fi novel. Nor do I have any objections to a reader finding that a specific story arouses them to the point of wanting to masturbate. That’s also fine. But there are perfectly good genres where either of those reader desires are fulfilled specifically.

I believe that erotica, as a genre, should deal with the theme of erotic desire and, ideally, how desire informs, changes and manipulates the lives of the characters who are desirous. If erotic fiction can be this, then I think it has the potential to be an important cultural product, and should be proudly included in the literary cannon.

Some of you will have cleverly noticed that Remittance Girl is not the name I was born with. I decided to use a pseudonym because it is in keeping with the tradition of the Victorian pornographers. I could have chosen a name that sounded like a name, but where would be the fun it that. This is my identity for my writing, and for my online persona. I’ve had it for many years now.

The name itself is a reference to a “remittance man”. Wikipedia describes a remittance man thus:

Remittance Man
In the 19th century, the English usage of the word usually referred to money sent from England – the opposite direction to today’s usual usage of the term. A remittance man was an exile living on money sent from home. Within Victorian British culture, this often meant the black sheep of an upper or middle class family who was sent away (from the UK to the Empire), and paid to stay away. These men were generally of dissolute or drunken character, and may have been sent overseas after one or more disgraces at home.

If you wish to contact me, please email me at remittancegirl(at)gmail(dot)com(less)

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MR James – One of My Favourite Short Story Writers

Montague Rhodes James(1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), was a Medieval Scholar and provost at Cambridge. In his spare time, he wrote ghost stories. Although his prose wasn’t terribly poetic, I always thought his sense of place and character was. He was also just a wonderful structural story plotter.

All his ghost stories tend to be of the ‘creeping dread’ variety, rather than having any shock value...

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Average rating: 4.25 · 219 ratings · 63 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Gaijin 405 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Waiting Room 439 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Coming Together Presents: Remittance Girl by Remittance Girl (Goodreads Author), Alessia Brio (Goodreads Author) (Creator), Lisabet Sarai (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 464 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Splinter 430 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Flood / Drought : Flash Fiction and Poetry 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Change 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shanna Germain (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Remittance Girl (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 416 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Please, Ma'am: Erotic Stories of Male Submission by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Teresa Noelle Roberts (Contributor), Charlotte Stein (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 439 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Red Phone Box by Salomé Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor/Editor), Tim Dedopulos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Steven Sautter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 488 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Best Women's Erotica 2012 by Violet Blue, K.D. Grace (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Remittance Girl (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 422 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Remittance Girl wrote a new blog post: MR James – One of My Favourite Short Story Writers MR James – One of My Favourite Short Story Writers Montague Rhodes James(1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), was a Medieval Scholar and provost at Cambridge. In his spare time, he wrote ghost stories. Al... read more »
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Remittance Girl made a comment on Gaijin Reviewed: "Or most men. "
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Remittance Girl gave to: The Velderet by Cecilia Tan (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
While not perfect, The Velderet is probably the best example of plot-driven erotica ever written.
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Remittance Girl made a comment on her review of The Queen's Head (Elizabethan Theater, #1) "grin Well, I'm wondering whether the author chose to write that way because most early writing IS diegetic. But it doesn't beg a close relationship...more "
29 de Mar 05:27 · see review
Remittance Girl gave to: The Queen's Head (Elizabethan Theater, #1) by Edward Marston read in March, 2012	My rating:
I'm finding this hard to get through. I like the setting and the characters, but I find the way it is written very distancing. Part of it is that the prose is quite diegetic - there's a lot of telling and little showing. But also I'm finding the actu...more
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