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 […]
The Fabulous Orgasmic Life of Betty Dodson
The Fabulous Orgasmic Life of Betty Dodson Betty Dodson was a sexual pioneer who believed that in order to be truly equal, women must be independent from men for their sexual satisfaction. She is famous for her trailblazing work empowering women through masturbation, including her book, Sex for One, and her many hands-on workshops. “The […]
Forever 51 The Menopausal Vampire
Forever 51 The Menopausal Vampire I ran across the new vampire novel Forever 51 The Menopausal Vampire in a list of newly published books online. I’ve now had hot flashes for a quarter of a century, so of course I was intrigued by the premise of a vampire in eternal menopause. What would a menopausal woman […]
And Now the Days of Writerly Excess
And Now the Days of Writerly Excess When October has come and gone, when your costume is back in the box and your Jack O’Lantern has grinned its last grin, it’s time for that annual festival of writerly excess, National Novel Writing Month. If you have ever struggled with your Inner Critic, if she […]
