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March 9, 2012
Friday Excerpt: True Tales
I have a couple of really big projects in the works right now. Two novels on the horizon! While I’m busy working on those, here’s another excerpt from my little book of true stories from my dating life… ### “I’ll call you tonight when I get back,” he said and I kissed him through his car [...]
March 5, 2012
A Writer's Responsibility
There are those who say that one should "write what you know." And how far does that get you? What can I be said to "know"? I can write the experience of a white, middle class girl in America and that's about it. So I have not heeded that advice. I've needed to have male [...]
March 3, 2012
Update on PayPal Situation
Well, it sounds like this problem is bigger than just PayPal. They are saying they are under pressure from the credit card companies. I just received a lovely email from the owner of the ebook store Smashwords.com. He gives some real advice about why this issue is a problem, why every author and reader should [...]
March 2, 2012
Friday Excerpt: New Dev Dreams
There's a new volume of Dev Dreams out! This one is much more erotic than the last. I also decided to make each of the stories available separately, but buying the bundle is a significant savings. You've seen some excerpts from the stories in this book before. It includes Coworker Crush, My Hot Cousin, Stewart [...]
February 25, 2012
PayPal Decides it is the Morality Police
A very disturbing development has been happening behind the scenes at eBook sellers across the Internet. Paypal has forbidden them to sell erotic materials that they have decided are too weird or wrong. This includes "barely legal" in which both characters are consenting adults, but one is 18 or 19. It also includes "pseudo incest" [...]
February 24, 2012
Friday Excerpt: True Stories
A friend pointed out recently that people are really fascinated by true stories. He suggested that I might want to think about sharing more of my real experiences with my audience and not just my fiction. I thought that was a great idea. I do get emails and other messages from people curious about my [...]
February 17, 2012
Friday Excerpt: Coworker Crush
I've excerpted from this story before, but that was when it was still in progress. It is finished and on sale now. My first blind lead. *** The next morning I go into work early. When I open the door, the room is dark. No one has come in yet to turn on the lights. [...]
February 13, 2012
Fetish Map
I ran across this on another blog and found it really fascinating. I wonder if everyone is represented on here? Someone must have put a lot of work into this. There's so many different sort of kinks out there. It makes me wonder if no one really gets to adulthood without at least one odd [...]
February 10, 2012
Friday Excerpt: From a new book collection
Paradevo.net is working on putting out a second collection of short stories. The first, Paradox, is 400 pages from a variety of dev authors (and it just made its debut on Kindle, where it is free until tomorrow!) I've submitted a story called Faster for the second collection. It will not be appearing anywhere else. [...]
February 2, 2012
Devotee and Non-Disabled Partner
There are many devotees in relationships with partners who are not disabled (and farther down I'll be talking about the different ways this happens). Does that make them no longer devotees? Not at all. This can be a tricky concept, because I know I had trouble with it when applied to a situation with some [...]
