Saturday, December 21, 2024

Write What You Know? Creating Erotic Fantasies

Ok, confession time. Not everything I write falls into that 'Write What You Know" category. Especially in erotica writing, I'd either have...

To journal or not to journal? What’s Your Preference?

Here we fall onto another one of those areas I can’t rightly advise you on from any true personal experience. I don’t journal. I...

Naughty Memoirs; Erring On The Side Of Discretion

The subject I am tackling in this installment can add up to quite the sticky wicket when it comes to erotic writing (and God...

How Do You Create Naughty Characters?

My answer to the question I asked in the title here is simple: damned if I know! The people who come to populate my...

What Did You Say?-Making Money Via Audio Books

Just as eBook came to print, audio comes to eBook (and yes, print) as both another way to enjoy a story or 300-page tome...

The Wild Girls Club, Part 2, Tales From New York to...

I've always been a fan of Anka Radakovich, since she wrote her groundbreaking sex column for Details magazine. (She was doing Carrie Bradshaw's job...

I Hate My Shameless Self-Promotion

I have mentioned this before, in this column, to friends, in erotica writing classes I come to teach, commiserating with my bestie, fellow fantastic...

Writers Chill! A Lesson in Humility: Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously

Here's a joke from Steven King that I'm slightly paraphrasing:  A priest, a nun, and a rabbit walk into a bar. The rabbit looks around...

Go Out And Get That Writing Job, Bucko!

I am the last guy to toot my own horn or even go so far as to let anyone know I exist. This is...

Erotica Writers, Spread ‘Um: Finding Places to Publish

As an erotica writer, you might know a thing about ‘spreading;’ legs, libido, desires, play with various partners. For this column, though, I am...