Care and Feeding of Your Sexy Novel – Negotiating with a Publisher
Care and Feeding of Your Sexy Novel Negotiating with a Publisher (without an Agent) Part One of Care and Feeding of Your Sexy Novel is here. First you wrote a great erotic novel (perhaps with inspiration from Aphrodite’s Pen). Then you found a publisher without paying an agent (see Part 1). Now it’s time for the […]
Care and Feeding of Your Sexy Novel – Do You Need an Agent?
Care and Feeding of Your Sexy Novel Part One: Do You Need an Agent? Let’s say you’ve played your way through a sexy first draft. Then you sailed through your edits, adding great material as needed, then carving away the nonessentials like a sculptor chiseling marble. You’ve sent your prize manuscript to beta readers, taken […]
Publish Sexy Stories after Midlife
Publish Sexy Stories after Midlife Some of us who are writers don’t quite know what we think until we write it down. So writing our erotic stories is liberating, even if we never show them to another living soul. If you would like a boost to keep the pen moving, you’ll find two FREE self-taught […]
Everyday Life Is A Revolutionary Act
A woman in a longstanding lesbian marriage once told me, “I love it that my everyday life is a revolutionary act.” I remembered that while reading the new novel, Fishwives, whose main characters go about their daily lives exemplifying for their friends and neighbors the lasting and perfectly imperfect love of two women. In the […]
Too Many Images Too Little Touch
Too Many Images Too Little Touch April 2020 exists as a haze in my mind. One of my few clear memories is looking out the window at two squirrels running and playing in the newly green yard. Even then I knew it was absurd to envy wild squirrels with as little as a one-year […]
The Challenge of Male Violence
The Challenge of Male Violence March 8 was International Women’s Day. As they say on their website, the theme this year is #ChooseToChallenge. Spoken word poet Anisa Mandaula celebrated our power to change the future in a video for the day, saying, “Choose to create history, not to be created by it.” Her poem calls on us […]
