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Guest Post: Cotton Candy by Mae Hancock

2015-07-30T08:00:41Z

Today I have Mae Hancock here today, discussing the secrets characters carry in her new novel, Cotton Candy. Over to you Mae!

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Bertie Carvel

2015-07-13T15:16:31Z

2013 Drama Desk Awards

I’m delighted to be doing another Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance post after a long absence, and I’m especially pleased to be back with this gentleman: Bertie Carvel.

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Guest Post: Interview with Giacomo Lee

2015-06-11T08:04:12Z

Today I have a different kind of guest interview. Normally I feature other erotica writers, but for change, I’ve invited my friend Giacomo Lee to talk his new novel Funereal, which is set in present day South Korea (a current interest of mine, sparked by… well, if you were paying attention when I did my Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance series you might know why.)

Before the interview, first, a blurb about Funereal.

Throw yourself a funeral. But will it make you happy?

Soobin Shin is an aspiring young woman in a near-future version of Seoul. Ever since her college graduation, she has struggled to escape from her dead-end job in a doughnut chain. Her twin sister Hyewon is one of Korea’s most recognizable models, but Soobin just can’t seem to find her lucky break… until one evening, a creepy regular customer offers her a job in a company he has just started. OneLife Korea is going to save South Korea one funeral at a time… by burying the living in order to help them find some peace of mind in the country with the highest suicide rate in the developed world.

Soobin has already lost her mother, and her relationship with her boyfriend is on the rocks. What else does she have to lose? Everything at OneLife Korea seems perfect until high-profile clients actually start dying. Soobin Shin is Korea’s beautiful new angel of death, and Funereal is a snapshot of a city in flux, taking a look at the dark side to surgery, survival, and stardom in the near future of one of Asia’s most dynamic capitals.

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Release Catch-up! More Smut for Chocoholics: Eclair

2014-10-29T20:29:45Z

Ah, chocolate. The sensuality of it has long been exploited by artist. So following in this tradition are the two ‘chocoholic’ anthologies: Smut for Chocoholics, and now More Smut for Chocoholics.

My story, “Eclair”, features that most delicious item the chocolate elcair. It took me a couple of goes to get the story right. I knew I wanted a young female connoisseur of the pastry, and I knew I wanted an older, male experienced pastry chef/chocolate-tier, and it would involve some kind of punishment for some kind of transgression. The idea of my character winning something like a golden ticket to a prestigious party allowed reference back to Roald Dahl’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but there is no Oompah Loompah in sight in this tale.

(Has that just tempted someone to right Oompah Loompah smut? I kind of hope it will.) 😉

Oh, one last thing: my character’s Melanie and Herr Bauer are in no way shape or form I way totes promise is based (visually) on a certain pair of actors who appear in a certain Tarantino film. Nope. In no way whatsoever…

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New Release! Strange Appetites: An Anthology of Truly Bizarre Erotic Stories

2014-10-28T10:02:24Z

You know, I never considered myself a horror writer. But my editors at Forbidden Fiction think otherwise, and so included two of my stories, “Oasis Beckoning” and “The Ravening Season” in this anthology, Strange Appetites. 😉

So just in time for Halloween, you can read 11 dark, bizarre tales. Be warned: this is erotic horror, not paranormal erotic romance. In fact, I don’t think romance very much comes into it here. If you are after stories that embrace the darkness rather than the happily ever after, this anthology may well be for you.

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Guest Post: Fifty Shades of Green

2014-10-23T08:01:06Z

A Horned God in Her Garden— “Phallus Impudicus”

I’d like to welcome Rebekah Shardy to the blog today to talk about her story “Phallus Impudicus” from Fifty Shades of Green. Over to you, Rebekah!

As a married middle-aged woman, I hiked alone in wild places and sometimes felt the unexpected flush of raw desire. This inspired me to write about the lonely divorcee, Carol, whose bed (and flower beds) have been neglected far too long. Despite following the conventional female script, her once-rambunctious gardens, both real and metaphorical, are withering. What is a woman to do?

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Release Catch-up! Bi Magic

2014-10-22T08:01:07Z

Not just my own in this one! While Bi Magic includes Gods Among Men, it also anthologises several other terrific stories from Forbidden Fiction. The basic theme is the same – fantasy tales with bisexual protagonists. I have included another excerpt, continuing on from last week’s post, below, but do check out the whole anthology.

Blurb

Best Bisexual Fantasy Anthology
Edited by D.M. Atkins, Rylan Hunter and Lon Sarver

Bi Magic collects nine of ForbiddenFiction’s most popular tales of magic, mystery, romance, and of course, steaming hot sex. These high fantasy romps prove that whether you’re a man, a woman, a shapeshifter, a fairy, or a trickster god from a forgotten pantheon, you really can have it both ways.

Sacrifices to Ecstasy by James L. Wolf
The Thief’s Dungeon by Madeleine Swann
Chaining Flame by James L. Wolf
Fools Rush In by Elizabeth Schechter
Milk by Claryssa Berg
To Market by Elizabeth Schechter
The Snake and the Lyre by Annabeth Leong
Gods Among Men by Jacqueline Brocker
The Fair, Laudenum, and Passion by Madeleine Swann

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Eddie Redmayne

2014-10-20T16:10:26Z

Well, this is one of those Gentlemen I sat down to write about and realised how little I’ve seen him in. Apart from Pillars of the Earth (thorough entertaining) and a film called Savage Grace (an interesting work if nothing else and also boasts Julianne Moore being excellent as usual), I really didn’t have much to say about Mr Redmayne’s career. So I dutifully sat down to watch Les Miserable. Which was quite decent. For someone who was not as enraptured with the musical as so many seem to be, nor holding a rabid hatred for it, I thought it was well done.

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Release Catch-up! Gods Among Men

2014-10-15T15:17:25Z

Today’s release catch-up is Gods Among Men, an m/m novella published by Forbidden Fiction.

The idea is essentially a reworking of the myth of Perun and Veles, Slavic gods who are kind of related to Thor and Loki respectively. Despite how the cover may look, I was not influenced by the Thor films, nor by Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston (the story came to fruition in 2011), but hey, it works quite well in my favour I suppose.

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New Release! Hot Highlanders and Wild Warriors

2014-10-14T10:01:27Z

After a massive lead up of posts at the anthology’s website, Hot Highlanders and Wild Warriors is here! This collection features 14 erotic romance stories all around the theme of knights and warriors. But don’t be deceived by the highland warrior on the front cover though – while there are highlanders to be found in its covers, there are also vikings, medieval knights, mongols in Armenia… and mine, about samurai.

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Andrew Buchan

2014-10-06T13:03:07Z

And you thought I’d forgotten about this series.

So, am going to try restart Gentleman of Intriguing Appearance. I enjoyed doing it – then I hit one week were the words just didn’t seem to come, and a series of posts without text came out after that. Which I wasn’t that keen on – the words I felt added something to the post beyond just ‘the pretty’ and ‘the intriguing.’ I might go back and add words to those posts.

But for now, to kick it off, we have Andrew Buchan.

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Release Catch-up! The Ravening Season

2014-10-01T09:00:33Z

I have been somewhat lax on this site of late, failing to announce new books that have come out, not posting in general. So, for the coming Wednesday in October I’ll be announcing the books and stories that have come out over the past few (more than few in some cases…) months.

So to start, The Ravening Season.

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Guest Post: Female Characters in The Bone Cup by LJ LaBarthe

2014-09-25T08:01:52Z

Thank you so much for having me again, Jacqui. I’m so happy to be visiting your blog again!

The last book of the second trilogy of “The Archangel Chronicles” is out, and I’m very excited to talk about it. This book is called “The Bone Cup,” and is book six in the series. (Full list of all books is here: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/index.php?cPath=598) The blurb is:

Gabriel and Michael, hand in hand and leading the Brotherhood of Archangels, the Venatores, and the Archdemon Guild of Glass Knives, march into the mouth of madness to retrieve the Holy Grail with the blessings of both God and Lucifer. They cross dimensions and battle for the future of all realities: Heaven, Hell, Earth and Purgatory.

In Purgatory they are reunited with Naamah and meet her children, who are terrified of her. One of her allies is an angel, but they can’t identify the traitor. Gabriel faces his worst fear when Michael is injured and he might lose the unwavering comfort Michael embodies. If Gabriel cannot save the Holy Grail, he risks losing more than his one true love—all of creation might be destroyed along with them.

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Guest Post: Undone and the Language of Lust by Kristina Lloyd

2014-09-22T16:54:57Z

Delighted to welcome Kristina Lloyd with a guest post on the language used by erotica writers with reference to her latest novel, Undone. Over to you, Kristina!

Every now and then, a writer will receive a review of their work which is scare more than an upchuck of subjectivity. You know the sort I mean: “Amazon were late delivering this book so I had to go to the Post Office to collect it because I wasn’t at home and I stubbed my big toe on the step on the way to the counter. My poor toe was throbbing all evening and I couldn’t concentrate on the book. ONE STAR! I WOULD GIVE IT NO STARS IF I COULD! OH MY TOE!”

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South Bank Seduction FREE on Kindle until Sunday!

2014-03-14T09:01:15Z

Yay, it’s here! South Bank Seduction, An anthology of erotica from the banks of the Thames has been published on Kindle. Edited by Ruby Kiddell – who managed to edit this while also finding time to organise not one but two Eroticons in 2013 (while preparing for Eroticon 2014). Which is pretty awesome.

Sharing the pages with a bunch of great stories is my own Pulse and Flow, an m/m erotic romance set partly on top of the South Bank Centre. You can read an extract here on my site.

The great news? South Bank Seduction is FREE on Kindle until this Sunday (16 March 2014). So use one of these handy links to pick up a copy.

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Giveaway winner!

2014-02-25T12:30:18Z

The winner from last week’s giveaway on the Tailor Made post for works from Josephine Myles backlist is MarMight! Congratulations! Jo will be in touch with you shortly.

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Guest Post: Interview with Josephine Myles for Tailor Made (plus a giveaway!)

2014-02-20T09:44:46Z

Today I have a great interview with Josephine Myles for her m/m erotic romance Tailor Made, which has just been re-released. And there is also a giveaway – read to the bottom of the post for details on how to enter!

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Guest Post: Interview with Eva Lefoy for Lover Enslaved: 24 Hours in Mumbai

2014-02-13T08:32:05Z

It is my pleasure to welcome Eva Lefoy for an interview for her novella Lover Enslaves: 24 Hours in Mumbai. Today we have 10 questions and an excerpt, along with where to buy links and where else you can find Eva online. Now, on with the interview!

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: John Simm

2014-01-31T18:32:54Z

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Richard Armitage

2013-12-23T14:00:27Z

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Martin Freeman

2013-12-16T14:05:53Z

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Tim Roth

2013-12-09T14:02:49Z

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XXXmas Reading & Poetry Slam @ Sh! Hoxton

2013-12-04T13:20:01Z

Aural sex at Sh! Hoxton

Next Friday, 13 December, I’m going to be joining some lovely fellow erotica writers and poets to read some of our work at Sh! in Hoxton. I went along last year (or was that earlier this year?) when DL King visited the UK, and it was a blast. Looking forward to doing it again. If you are able to come along, please do – the writers are a wonderful bunch, and the Sh! ladies are great fun and terrific hosts – they also have the nicest pink champagne.

Bookings can be made by clicking on the picture, or below:

XXXMas Reading & Poetry Slam

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Gentlemen of Intriguing Appearance: Robert Carlyle

2013-12-02T14:02:10Z

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Week in Review: 25 Nov – 1 Dec 2013

2013-12-02T10:37:01Z

Randon pic from August trip to Bali to make the post look prettier...

So what has happend this past week?

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