Sara Dobie Bauer's Blog, page 9
June 9, 2017
Light and Scales: Freaky Friday Fiction
There are people out there who would have you believe love cures mental illness. Find the right guy or girl, and your depression will go away. Your monsters will go away. Fact is, no one can heal you but YOU. Be wary of thinking otherwise …
Light and Scales (Excerpt)
by Sara Dobie Bauer
Featured in Twisted Sister Magazine
You meet him your second day in Charleston. More so, perhaps, you meet his violin. He’s wearing a suit you imagine cost as much as a car. As he speaks to you, he’s still hol...
June 6, 2017
The Bite Somebody Else Photo Shoot
I do love a warm blood bath. To prepare for this spectacular homage to the Bite Somebody series, I didn’t drink any blood for weeks! Some brave folks got close enough to snap pictures, but … well, I may have taken a couple little bites. Imogene would approve.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
[image error]Photo by Steph Gentry.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
[image error]Photo by Steph Gentry.
[image error]Photo by Bill Thornhill.
In case you didn...
May 16, 2017
Underlanders: When the world ends …
When the world ends, I’ll be sitting on my back porch with a bottle of scotch, toasting the zombies on their way to eat me. I don’t see myself as much of an apocalyptic fighter. (I mean, how do you expect me to live without Netflix?) However, some people are fighters: namely, the people in my new short story, “Underlanders,” featured in Arizona State’s literary magazine Canyon Voices. Here’s a teaser …
“Underlanders:” An Excerpt
By Sara Dobie Bauer
Published in Canyon Voices
Marie found her...
May 9, 2017
Vivian’s Boots: A Bite Somebody Short
Originally featured as part of Literary Escapism‘s “Hidden Treasures” series, here’s a quick note from host Jackie …
My longtime readers should know by now that I love the mini-fiction events; a glimpse into the world, a story by a beloved side character, or an introduction to never before seen action.
I’m hosting Rust City Book Convention here in the Metro Detroit area, and to help spotlight the authors attending, I’ve come up with a fabulous new feature series – Hidden Treasures. I’ve asked...
May 1, 2017
I needed help being a sexy mom
[image error]When I saw the Cwtch Press anthology call for stories featuring erotic moms, I thought, “I should write something!” I have no idea why.
Let’s face it: I’m not a mom. I don’t have children. Yes, I have dogs, but I have no idea how to be an actual mother. I don’t know what it’s like to be pregnant or give birth. I respect women who are moms, but I could never do it. I’d be a horrible parent, because I would realistically have to say things like, “What do you mean, I can’t tase my kid?”
And yet,...
April 19, 2017
The Bite Somebody Else Pilgrimage
I spent last week with my crazy family down in Longboat Key, Florida—the real life setting for my Bite Somebody series. This pilgrimage has been going on in the Dobie-Schwind clan since I was a little kid, although I’ve only partaken in the trip (usually alone with my Aunt Susie) for the past five years.
It is a week filled with decadent drinking and eating, silly stories about sex, tumbles in the waves, and shameless flirting with strange beach boys. For Susie and me, it’s a time to laugh a...
April 5, 2017
Burnout: When you just need to freaking STOP
In her book, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson writes about something called The Spoon Theory. She says that each day, we’re given a certain number of spoons. Each spoon represents something you have to do, whether that’s shower or work or eat. Every time you accomplish something, you give away a spoon.
Well, I have run out of spoons, no matter what my dishwasher says.
I began to notice the spoon shortage last week as I prepared for my trip to Tucson where I would be the Mental Health Awareness...
March 22, 2017
Bite Somebody Else Cover Reveal
The much anticipated book two in the Bite Somebody series is Imogene’s story, so of course, Imogene had to be on the cover. It’s been generally acknowledged that Imogene looks a lot like me, so when the cover artist asked for a description of my lovable (albeit twisted) female lead, I sent her this, from a photo shoot I did with photographer Chris Loomis:
Add some animation magic and the artistic acumen of Amanda C. Davis, and you get the Bite Somebody Else cover, revealed … in a moment. Fir...
March 15, 2017
KINKED contributors: What makes a great sex scene?
Ben glanced at his college friends, and finally, finally, took her hand and pulled her around the corner of a women’s clothing store.
Mr. Manners was pleasantly un-mannerly in private. He pushed her back against the wall and dove for her lips. She was ready, open-mouthed and hungry. She pulled hard on his hair and wrapped one leg around to the back of his, which gave her better leverage to stick her tongue in his mouth. His hands cupped the bottom of her ass, and she moaned when pelvis found...
March 9, 2017
Zombie Walk
The worst thing about being dead, in Don’s opinion, was the critters. His coffin was damn comfortable—better have been, what with all the cash he left behind after that car accident on the I-10. It was nice and cushy, top of the line soft velvet interior with solid bronze to keep him warm. Despite all this, there were the critters, the little beetles and centipedes and God knew what else that crawled up his nose when he slept. He spent most mornings huffing them out like snot rockets.
The be...
