Do you do reviews?
You can find any amount of ‘help a writer, leave a review’ memes on social media, but the whole business of book reviews seems to be getting messier and more frustrating by the day. Rumour has it that getting five … Continued
Musings
Writing Real Sex
While I’ve never tried sex blogging as such, I did have a nice sideline last century and the beginning of this one which involved writing about trips to various fetish and swinger clubs, with free rein to not any actual … Continued
Are You Coming?
We’re going to be celebrating National Orgasm Day with a slam, of course. Though we are perhaps being a little, er, premature by doing so on Friday 29th July. Still, we can promise plenty of fizz and plenty of filth, … Continued
Eroticon, Erotica and Porn
If you’ve ever been to Eroticon, you’ll know it’s amazing*. It blew my mind the first time I went . I loved it just as much the second time I went, but, well, they do say that three times is … Continued
Modern Classics of Erotica
Every now and again, you get these discussions about whether or not erotic fiction can ever be literature. Back when the previous Sallyanne Rogers blog was going, I wrote a couple of things about the whole concept of classic erotica … Continued
Next Slam: Best of British at Sh!
Friday April 22nd at 6pm we will be back at Sh! in Hoxton Square, hosting a slam that sort of, maybe, not in any kind of politically pointed way, celebrates the Best of British erotica. It’s the day before … Continued
SIGNAL BOOST AND FOOT SOLDIERS
When it comes to promoting books, there are all sorts of suggestions as to how you can get a bit of signal boost, and it has to be said right now that, unless you are Lottery-winning lucky, you are never going … Continued
SEX WRITERS AND THEIR KINKS
It’s probably true that people of all kinds have all kinds of kinks, and erotica writers are people, too (OK, there are one or two I have my doubts about.) As a veteran of the fetish scene as well as … Continued
HARD-WORKING WRITERS and other jobs
Marion ZImmer Bradley (I think) mentioned writers and their strange other jobs in the intro to one of her Sword and Sorceress anthologies, years ago. Of course, this was decades before the current horrorshow of the gig economy and the various … Continued
LOOKING SEXY, FEELING SEXY, WRITING SEXY
There are those two equal and opposite tropes of the erotic writer, particularly the female erotic writer: we are either sexy – too sexy, almost – or we are sexless, in amusing contrast to our written work. A lot of … Continued