Other Things

Not so sexy sex scandals

behaviour, naughty, news, politics, scandal, sexy 26th June 2021 Musings, Other Things 2 Comments

Mate, couldn’t you have waited? Not so much for the ‘rules’ to change (because everyone knows that most of them are arbitrary nonsense rather than sensible public health guidance) but because if all the Matt Hancock Sex Scandal had only … Continued

Review Rage – Right and Wrong

authors, bad behaviour, books, criticism, reviews 27th April 2021 Musings, Other Things

Reviews can be the bane of any author’s life. Some people would advise never reading them because too many bad ones will make you miserable – and perhaps too many enthusiastic ones will make you bigheaded. Certainly one author recently … Continued

Poetry, rhymes and reasons

erotic poetry, erotic verse, performance, poetry 24th January 2021 Musings, Other Things 1 Comments

People seem to be paying attention to poetry again, it seems, which isn’t surprising in the light of Amanda Gorman’s magnificent The Hill We Climb. Her books have stormed up the charts and rightly so. Poetry for important occasions, state … Continued

Fiction and predictions

authors, erotica, prediction, speculative fiction, stories 13th January 2021 Other Things 1 Comments

Poor old Stephen King must be getting rather tired of denying he’s writing predictions rather than simply good stories. First he had everyone insisting that Trump is the hideous Greg Stillson (from The Dead Zone) made flesh, then everyone lost … Continued

Forward into 2021?

happy new year, New Year, resolutions, small traders 31st December 2020 Musings, Other Things

We have no option but to keep moving forward, that much is true. As to looking back on what must be the strangest year of most of our lives, it’s probably worth doing that so we don’t forget the stuff … Continued

Dear Father Christmas, I would like a revolution

Christmas list, Father Christmas, revolution naughty and nice 20th December 2020 Other Things, Rantings

Dear Father Christmas. I would like a revolution, please. Can I have the non-violent model that comes with extra social justice and economic fairness rather than the one that features tanks on the streets and ends with heads on spikes? … Continued

Xxxmas Reading and Festive Fun

Christmas, festive erotica, fiction, romance, shifter erotica, shifter romance 13th December 2020 Other Things, writing

For this week’s LAM Live I was talking about the range of erotica and erotic romance with a festive theme. There are definitely lots of writers who have been putting the Xs back in Xxxmas for quite a few years … Continued

Rare books and relative values

bookselling, fiction, rare books, vintage erotica 14th November 2020 Other Things

A long time ago, when I was a music-obsessed teenager, I had a few vinyl records which were apparently quite rare. There was one I used to refer to, as I grew older, as my pension fund. Of course, with … Continued