Are you leaving Twitter?
So, are you? Or are you one of those who could never be arsed with it in the first place? If you are a regular or semi-regular user of the blue birdie hangout you’ve probably noticed a huge increase in … Continued
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Date – or don’t date – whoever BUT…
If there’s one aspect of life where prejudice is sort of OK, it’s dating/choosing sex partners. You don’t owe anyone a detailed explanation of why you don’t want to spend leisure or social time with them; you don’t owe anyone … Continued
A collared PM or power bottom?
Back when I was writing the Brexit porn book, which featured a spot of erotic humiliation along with other things, I remember feeling that everything was just going too fast to keep up: the minute I had a story idea … Continued
The Night Market: an evening of surprises
The Night Market was certainly full of surprises. Possibly the first surprise was the organisers agreeing to let me take a stall: this is absolutely not a fetish or adult event (so yes, I left the hardcore bondage, fisting and … Continued
Meet-cute or meet-creepy?
An article came out this week suggesting that men are now scared to approach women in case they come off as creepy. Predictably, a fair bit of stamping and bellowing from unfuckable men has ensued – how will they *ever* … Continued
Fetish History: Der Putsch at the Museum of Sex Objects
I’ve written a few times about fetish clubs, particularly the history and reality of them.as distinct from the fetish party tropes you get in some erotica. So naturally I wanted to go and listen to Steve from Der Pustch about … Continued
A Dead Queen and Other Plot Twists
A dead queen, like war, pestilence, famine and all the rest, can be a bit of a nuisance to the writer of contemporary fiction, particularly contemporary erotica. There might well be another blogpost in the relatively near future about the … Continued
United Again in Smut: The Smutmarket
Obviously the first best thing about going to the Smutmarket was a chance to see some friends I hadn’t seen since, well, the Before Times. And there were plenty of other good things about it, as well. Smutmarket is at … Continued
Should you self-publish?
(The first in an occasional series for new or new-ish authors) If you’ve written, or are writing, your first book, you’re probably at least considering whether to self-publish. There are a lot of good reasons to go right ahead and … Continued
Threats, disagreement and attention-seeking
Almost everyone who uses social media regularly has had threats from some or other wingnut. I got some little 4Chan tosspot send an ART after me a few years ago which, due to circumstances, was more comedy gold than a … Continued