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 […]

There are some things that are fairly easy to research, whether on the internet or - the horror! - in an actual library. I am currently writing an erotic Regency-era romance, and have been very successful in finding out, for example, what sorts of undergarments my heroine, Caroline, might wear on her wedding night. […]

I’ve been writing for a long while now.
I wrote silly runaway adventure stories when I was six or seven, and started writing “poetry” around that age, too, and kept it up all through school, and on until I was in my early twenties.
Four years ago I started my first novel, and now three have been […]

I write a lot of BDSM, also known as D/s, Dominance and submission. I’m wary of referring to it as D/s (though I do for convenience’s sake), because that can imply superiority and inferiority between the participants, which I don’t think has to be part of it, an important issue I’ll get to in a […]

When writing, this is a question that I find myself asking. What one person might find sexy another might not. While one woman might like having her toes sucked on, another might find it revolting. Where I find tall, dark men attractive, I have a younger sister […]

I was talking about erotic heat in porn stories, about what makes a hot story hot and what makes it arousing to read. Is it just the actual explicitness? The simple description of people having sex? The description of organ slipping and sliding inside organ and the gross anatomy of sex that turns us on? […]

On a recent trip to a used book store, I noticed that books were categorized as, among other things, “Science Fiction,” “Mysteries,” “Romance,” and “Adventure.” It got me to thinking: all of these categories depend on what the book is about, or what it’s underlying theme or premise is. In contrast, […]

Confucius say: “man who go camping with woman have one in tent…”
OK, so that’s a made up saying that I happen to find amusing, but you have to admit that there’s something about being outside in the open air all day, then snuggling up together with only a thin sheet of canvas between you […]

I have this mantra: boys are pretty, too.
Everywhere I turn, hour by hour, I see images of gorgeous women. Billboards hawking beer, perfume and engagement rings; fliers pasted on telephone poles and bulletin boards advertising local club nights, live bands, and burlesque shows; web site after web site, from Seattle’s queer-friendly, somewhat avant-garde free weekly, […]

I am sure that I not the only writer that found themselves in the position of trying to juggle their daily life of home and work with the deep burning desire to write. You know what I mean. The kids fighting, the stack of dishes in the sink, […]