One of the new terms floating about in the online BDSM world right now is the “alpha sub.” It’s showing up in my Tumblr more and more, and while I always take Tumblr kink with a grain of salt – putting your porn through a black and white filter doesn’t necessarily make it artsy, folks –… Read more Don’t call me an Alpha Sub
A while back, I wrote about the Wide World of Sex Toys. In the post on vibrators, I mentioned the Hitachi Magic Wand vibrator, now just called the Magic Wand. Known as the “Cadillac of vibrators,” its mind-numbing intensity combined with its “I could be a back massager” near-respectability have made it famous. I get a… Read more We Need To Talk About This Giant Vibrator
I need to get something off my chest. I’m sick and tired of the way people talk about romance novels and the romance genre. Here are five things we need to stop doing immediately: Stop treating romance like “writing for dummies.” I can’t count the number of times someone in one of my writing groups has said the… Read more 5 Things to Stop Doing When Talking About Romance Novels
Some women are just catty, right? They’re manipulative back-stabbing bitches, and we want them to face their comeuppance. When they appear in movies or books, we cheer for them to be taken down, for our heroine to triumph over these mean girls. They’re the women we love to hate. Maybe all those things are true.… Read more Why I stopped writing bitches
I love sex. I love having it, thinking about it, reading about it, and definitely writing about it. I think sex is fun and wonderful, and I think erotica and erotic romance are fantastic. Thus it really riles me up when I see something like this on a writer’s forum: “My characters are going to… Read more A Defense of Erotic Romance