Musings

Taking Stock: 20 years of selling naughty books.

books, bookselling, erotica, fetish, kink, markets 6th March 2018 Fairs and Markets, Musings

To be fair, it was initially magazines… I started taking a stall at what was then the Whiplash Market in the mid-90s, selling copies of the magazines I worked for. It was fun, but it was predominantly pocket money: I … Continued

#WorldBookDay and a lifelong love of reading

#WorldBookDay, books, erotica, reading 1st March 2018 Musings, Other Things

Quite a lot of you are probably snowed in today, so you can honour the festival by grabbing a favourite read, or a brand new one, and curling up contentedly in the warm, with the most perfect means of escape … Continued

Flashbacks and Photographs and the Good Old Days

fetish club, kinky, magazines, photography 11th February 2018 Events, Musings

Someone recently expressed an interest in buying some of my vast collection of Forum back issues, so I spent part of an afternoon excavating the back mountain of the office to see what I actually had in there. Of course, … Continued

Challenges and opportunities – writing righteous fiction

anthologies, erotica, fiction, rules, writing 1st February 2018 Musings, writing

It’s OK. No one is forbidding you to write the fiction you want to write. No one’s forbidding other people to write the fiction you want to read, either. Billions of people are writing billions of books, all the time. … Continued

Inspiration, travel and trading

books, erotica, event, fiction, market, travel 24th January 2018 Fairs and Markets, Musings

So I took myself and the book bag to the BBB last Sunday. After an aggravating start (one train cancelled, the next one delayed, only enough credit to send one text to announce lateness) I settled down to enjoy the … Continued

Venue hunting, erotica slamming and the great club crisis

erotica, reading, reading slam. event, slam 14th January 2018 Musings, Slams

It’s been quite a while since the last Dirty Sexy Words erotica slam. This whole site was initially planned as, oh, we’ll just have a little website and put slam dates on it, yeah, only needs to be a page … Continued

2017: A Retrospective.

2017, erotic writing, flashback, porn, retrospective, sex 30th December 2017 Musings, Other Things

New Year, retrospective, flashback, erotica, #soss

Twelve months ago, we were mostly floundering: angry, scared, searching for optimism, hoping for change. Another year end approaches, and it’s safe to say that most people are in a similar frame of mind. The darkness encroaches, but there are … Continued