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SIGNAL BOOST AND FOOT SOLDIERS

authors, leaflets, marketing, promo, success, Twitter 6th April 2016 Musings, Other Things

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

New release: Inked anthology

#Inkederotica, anthology, erotic stories, sexy tattoos, tattooed erotica, tattoos 18th March 2016 New Books, Other Things

This thoroughly fabulous collection of tattoo-themed filth features DSW regulars Zak Jane Keir, Jillian Boyd as well as other top erotica writers, and is edited by another DSW author, Anna Sky. There are nine stories in all, featuring tattoo artists, … Continued

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Silver Desire

15th March 2016 New Books, Other Things, Uncategorised 1 Comments

OUr very first Call For Submissions! SILVER DESIRE: Erotic Stories of Older Women Editor: Zak Jane Keir Publisher: Sexy Little Pages. Older women rarely feature in erotic fiction, yet many of us find our libidos as active as ever in … Continued

HARD-WORKING WRITERS and other jobs

fiction, inspiration, money, sexting, work, writers 8th March 2016 Musings, Other Things

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

appearance, authors, desirability, sexy, writing 29th February 2016 Musings, Other Things

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

VIOWER EXCRETION ADVISED: fanfic, fighting, fantasy and fun

EL James, erotica, fanfic, plagiarism, tropes, writing 20th February 2016 Musings, Other Things

Fanfic is in the news again, as an offshoot of the curious court battle between fantasy authors Cassandra Clare and Sherrilyn Kenyon over who has the right to a certain set of tropes. Clare, it is said, is getting an … Continued