I’m In The Feminist Porn Book
Today I was thrilled to receive a copy of The Feminist Porn Book in the mail. Not only is this a fantastic look at all aspects of feminist and sex-positive porn, it includes a chapter by me! Read More …
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I’m In Best Women’s Erotica 2012
The Best Women’s Erotica books from Cleis Press are one of the longest-running erotica series. Violet Blue has been the editor since 2006 and she’s shown herself to be quite the talented curator of dirty stories. The 2012 edition is out tomorrow (6th Dec) and I’m pleased to say that a story of mine made the grade this year. My story Tweetup is listed second and appears under my Louise Read More …
For The Girls Welcomes Tyler Knight
I’m really late with this announcement but it’s still worth shouting from the rooftops: gorgeous male porn star and Heartthrob of the Year Tyler Knight is writing a regular column for For The Girls! Tyler has long had ambitions to write and his straight-from-the-heart columns about life inside the porn industry are compulsively readable. A taster: We have never met. What happens between us is not chemistry. It is biology. Read More …
I’m In Best Women’s Erotica 2009
I really don’t know why I haven’t blogged about this before… I was actually bursting to tell the news when I first discovered my story had been accepted into Best Women’s Erotica 2009. But then I wasn’t sure if it was a secret, and then I just never got around to it. I thought I’d wait until the publication date. So anyway, my point is, I have a story in Read More …
Tips For Aspiring Writers
In the wake of For The Girls’ fourth erotic fiction competition, I feel the need to make a post urging aspiring authors to follow a few simple rules when writing erotic fiction. I feel this because, even though there were plenty of absolutely gorgeous and cleverly written short stories entered, there were also plenty of bombs. Yes folks, there are people out there who fancy themselves as masters of the Read More …
FTG Short Story Competition Winners
The winners of the For The Girls annual short story competition have been announced. All the winners and judging comments are here. This year the theme was “transgression” and wow, it certainly inspired people to come up with wild, outrageous and very sexy stories. The top three stories: WINNER Julienne by Sommer Marsden Judge’s comments: Exhilerating and undeniably hot, Sommer’s intense story of a stale relationship revived at the point Read More …
You Vill Submit To Me!
Writers! Please! This is a call for more submissions to For The Girls – both to our regular erotic fiction and Wicked Ways sections and also our erotic story contest. I realise that it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that you guys are probably more interesting in BBQs and swimming and not doing a damned thing, but please, please, can you spare a few thousand words of steamy, arousing, Read More …
The Four Great Motives For Writing
In 1946 George Orwell wrote an essay called Why I Write in which he mused about the motivations of writers. The cool thing is, they apply just as much to everyday blogging as they do to writing novels. Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and Read More …