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So about that book I'm editing...

I hope you all spotted my Call for Submissions for More Smut for Chocoholics. I've been asked by Smutter Kev Mitnik Blisse to come on board as a guest editor. And it's my first time. Yes, I edit stories for folks who find me at www.tillyhunter.co.uk. But I've never helped edit an anthology before, which is a whole different ball game.

I'm reading the first Smut for Chocoholics at the moment and thinking about what I'll be looking for. It's not just about what I, personally, enjoy reading, but...

Call for submissions: Smut for Chocoholics

More Smut for Chocoholics is being edited by Kev 'Mitnik' Blisse and me! Hurrah. Kev asked me to join him as a guest editor after we met at Smut by the Sea in Scarborough. His lovely wife Victoria and the fabulous Lucy Felthouse are busy on other projects, so Kev asked if I'd like to help him choose some stories about sex and chocolate. It's a no brainer. 

More Smut for Chocoholics follows on from the success of the first Smut for Chocoholics antho, which is out now. We're talking indulge...

Smut by (and in) the Sea

I read from one of my stories on Saturday evening. Out loud. To actual, real people, right there in the same room as me. And it was fun. People even sniggered in the right places. I’d do it again (something I’ll probably regret saying at some point in the future). It was probably a good job, though, that my story was one of my milder offerings. 

I was at Smut by the Sea in sunny Scarborough, the first event of its kind that I’ve attended and I read from my story in SbtS volume 2. Fortunat...

Review: Thrill Seeker by Kristina Lloyd

Sometimes, it’s nice to read a bit of light, escapist fantasy in your erotica. Thrill Seeker is not it; it’s dark and difficult and has no respect for the reader’s safeword. I have to admit that, sometimes, I even enjoy some pretty badly written BDSM on a bypass-the-brain, physical kind of level; stuff that has people do stupid things in the name of kink but glosses over the risk. Then I’ll read something that makes me remember just how bloody brilliant it is when a writer comes along and com...

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...

It's nearly time for Smut by the Sea, which takes place in Scarborough, UK, this Saturday.

There's an amazing line-up of erotica authors who'll be reading from their work, including.... Janine Ashbless, KD Grace, Lucy Felthouse, Victoria Blisse, Liv Honeywell, Lexie Bay, Slave Nano, Ruby Kiddell, Ashley Lister, Tabitha Rayne, Gemma Parkes, Rachel Kincaid and Jennifer Denys, a special show to launch Slave Nano's book Adventures in Fetishland and a Q&A on how to write erotica and get it publ...

Writing what you know

We’ve all heard this one: ‘Write what you know.’ And, as erotica writers, possibly worried about the assumptions people might make about us based on our subject matter. Just me? No, I didn’t think so. And no matter how many times you repeat the mantra that Agatha Christie wasn’t a serial killer, it's unlikely you'd write about kinky sex if you had no interest in it whatsoever.
But, and it’s a big but (no pun intended), writing what you know doesn’t mean that every story you produce is autobio...

Flash Fiction: Under My Heels

The few friends I discuss my writing with occasionally say, 'Why don't you write the next Fifty Shades and make your fortune?' and I have to explain that I don't write like that (so many reasons it's beyond this blog post to explain). But since there is so much excitement over billionaires in swanky offices and so many books in which the heroine seems to literally stumble into the presence of these hunky chunks of Alpha male, I thought I'd give it a go. So, in a mere 500 words, here's my roma...

Read Your Smut However You Want! by Lucy Felthouse

Lucy Felthouse is visiting today with some great news about Smut by the Sea Volume 2. Over to you, Lucy...
Firstly, I want to say a huge thank you to Tilly for letting me loose on her site today. Thanks, Tilly!
So, Smut by the Sea Volume 2 has been out for a little while now, so I apologise for being so slow in getting this guest post out, but things have been incredibly busy – but I’m not complaining. I’d rather be busy than bored!
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that you can now read you...

Random WIP excerpts

I'm doing my usual thing of working on far too many stories at once and deciding to write for far too many calls for submissions that stop me getting anywhere on the longer works I have on the go. But the end is in sight... until I see some fresh calls that tickle my fancy. 

These are what I'm working on at the mo. The first two are set to be those longer works I keep harping on about. The four after that are all short stories with summer deadlines:

1. This one's a contemporary story explo...

Get to Know Bella Buxom...

Author Jo-Anne Kenrick has been sharing some snippets from Coming Together with Curves over at her blog. She was kind enough to say this about my story, Six Lengths of Red Hemp, “There's no getting away from how deeply engaging this story is; every knot, every wrap... we feel it all thanks to Ms Hunter's rich descriptions.”
But whilst bigging up everyone else’s stories, she skipped over her own. So I’m going to redress this and tell you all about Bella Buxom, Just Squeeze Me.
The leading lady...