When I asked the posed the question earlier this week about who you thought might make a better lover, I was surprisingly shocked at the response I received.   I figured at best it would be a fairly even split or lean more towards the mysterious stranger than a close friend.   You may have guessed […]

Bi-Curious
Have you ever heard the term Bi-Curious? Do you know what it means?
I have come across this term three or four times in the last few weeks. I all cases it referred to women but I suppose men could be bi-curious as well.
I found the following discussion involving Bi-curiosity on the internet and decided to […]

My new book came out Monday: The Good Student.
Finally, after over a year, it’s finally available. It’s a good book too, the best thing I’ve ever done. Handsome cover, great story. Won a bunch of awards in pre-publication. I should be celebrating, doing handsprings. Instead, I’m terribly depressed, moping around. This has happened to […]

When I sat down to write this blog tonight, I chastised myself for once again waiting until the last minute to start it, but I couldn’t help it,  I lost myself in the pages of Acheron, the newest book by Sherilyn Kenyon.  I absolutely love her Dark-Hunter series and find I can’t […]

An ongoing discussion within the erotic writing and reading community is to define the difference between erotic literature and pornographic literature and when does erotic writing become pornographic. There’s a similar discussion going on with romance writers and readers of when does romance become erotic. Since I don’t read or write straight romance, I won’t […]

I have a strong sense of smell. Sometimes I notice a smell that triggers something in the reptilian area of my brain, and I’ll remember an event from my childhood that I hadn’t thought about in years. For instance, recently smelling low tide near my home brought back a memory of the time I was […]

And the winner of Torrid Teasers #49 is:

DEBBY CREAGER!

Congratulations, Debby!
And thanks, everyone who commented - you made me appreciate all of those languages much more. But then again, I’m a language whore - picture Jamie Lee Curtis in a Fish Called Wanda, and that’s pretty much me! *grin*

My latest novella, Rose’s Garden, was written about a friend of mine. It isn’t a blow-by-blow account of her divorce by any means, and nor would she want anyone to think she had a hot and steamy affair with a younger man in the midst of the nuclear fallout that followed! But I did take […]

When I saw the commercials about “Swingtown”, I knew I had to see it. The Washington Post has covered the show. The show is set in an American suburb in 1976. I was sixteen years old that year, but I was raised in a conservative household in a working class, heavily Catholic neighborhood. I lead […]

As a writer and aspiring novelist, I had always assumed that length was important.  I mean, if you don’t give them a fat book, readers won’t buy it, right?  After putting off my novel projects for years (or writing only tiny, disjointed scenes), I began writing shorts, thinking, “I have to start somewhere.”  These were […]