Are you clutching your pearls over the 50 Shades movie? Here's what to do.
Oh my goodness the imminent “50 Shades” movie adaptation has people in tizzies from all sides. We have the sex-negative nellies who worry that the W...
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Erotica reading, slush pile panel, and more in my Arisia schedule
This year’s Arisia is once again shaping up to be tons of geeky, sexy fun–which is pretty much what this con has been about for over two decades! La...
Gender Equality at Magic University
I guest blogged this time at the online home of Catherine Lundoff, award-winning author of fantasy and alternative sexuality books like A Day at the Inn, A Nigh...
Confessions of a Fanfic Hipster
Racheline Maltese and Erin McRae were gracious enough to invite me to write a guest blog at Avian 30. I originally met Racheline through Harry Potter fandom, an...
"Appropriation versus Diversity" Glossary
I’m teaching a workshop this weekend at Alternicon on Sunday entitled “Beating the Double Edged Sword: Appropriation versus Diversity.” I̵...
The winner of the Maggie Award for Excellence in Erotic Romance is…??
So I came to Atlanta to attend my first Moonlight & Magnolias Conference this weekend. I had a lot of romance industry firsts this year. I attended my firs...
I Will Be Keynote Speaker at 2015 BDSM Writers Con in NYC!
I’m so excited to announce I’ll be the keynote speaker at the next BDSM Writers Conference! AUGUST 20-23, 2015 in New York City! What’s BDSM W...
Review: Beyond the Pale Motel by Francesca Lia Block
This ended up being less of a review and more of an essay on why I feel this book is a brilliant piece of modern literature that may go under-appreciated by cri...
Slow Satisfaction Casting Call: who would play Karina or James?
Many people have asked me who I would cast in a dream movie version of the Struck by Lightning trilogy. When Slow Surrender first came out I had posted the foll...
Some thoughts on success (as a writer)
Some thoughts on success. If you want a concrete measure of how different this year was from every other year of my career, here’s one: This was the first...