I’m back for the rest of A-Z after an eye issue interfered with post last week. While back, I’m not back to my topic of…
Another Obscure S-List Writer
Author: Herb
I had for a bit thought about blogging about quiet, but the day has been long with work and a bad eye (doctor’s appointment tomorrow),…
In her essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion says that writing is an imposition on the privacy of the reader. Specifically, she says, “there’s no…
Where do you write? That might seem like a simple question to answer: at home, at work, wherever I can are obvious answers. For me,…
Yesterday I discussed how marketing in indie publishing is strictly the province of the author. The major marketing tool is the mailing list, and the…
One thing I hear people saying scare them off of indie publishing is the need to do marketing. Indie publishers do need to do marketing,…
Lester Dent was a great author of the pulp era. His first published story in September 1929. His last published novel was in February 1959,…
is a rough letter. For days all I could think of was knowledge. I finally resorted to using a scrabble reference site for words starting…
Each of those characters embodies one or more things I want to talk about. A shortlist of those things could include gender roles and their relationship to sexual dimorphism in humanity, Orthodox Christianity, immigration, the Southwestern United States, the for purpose in life, my fears of aging, my fears of retiring, atonement and forgiveness, and a personal sense of moral worth or lack thereof.
Queen Takes Knight remains 80% finished. By the time I was writing it, I had started to drift away from the S&M world. As I gained distance, the passion for writing the first good F/m erotica or porn faded. The novel itself was less erotica; it had never really been porn and more a detective novel with three graphic sex scenes that advanced the plot. The graphic details could be cut without losing the story.