Coming Attractions

by Janine Ashbless



Coming up this week on Lust Bites:

On Monday Olivia Knight will be talking orgasms. Multiple orgasms in fact - How to describe them: the metaphors we use for them when we’ve got ten or twenty to pack into a novel … Expect a lot of crashing waves, exploding volcanoes and steam trains rushing into tunnels… Or is that just me?

On Wednesday it’s my turn and having covered Bestiality and Death I did think it was time to do something sweet, harmless and fluffy. “I know,” I said: “I’ll talk about my crush on goatee Beards. That won’t be dark, disturbing or at all bonkers.”
Hah! How wrong can you be? NSFW folks.

On Friday Kristina Lloyd will be turning the spotlight on her new novel Split, “A gentle tale of tender romance set in the Yorkshire Moors,” it says in my notes. Er … I think I have the wrong notes. Face it: anything set in the Yorkshire Moors is wild and alarming; add Kristina and puppets (Puppets!! With staring eyes!) and you’re in for a hot, scary trip through the darkest reaches of the sexual psyche. She’ll be treating you to an excerpt and more…

Hold on tight -
And just wait till you see what we’ve got lined up for Hallowe’en week…

xxx
Janine Ashbless

Competition Winner

The gentleman above is John Abraham, Bollywood star and Indian supermodel. Wouldn't you just love to get your hands on every inch of his beautiful, perfectly sculpted body...

Ahem. Where was I? India ... Divine Torment ... Oh yes - COMPETITION WINNERS!

I've rolled my polyhedral dice and the winner of a copy of Divine Torment is MELISSA HEYWOOD.
T'SADE gets a copy of the Japanese edition. Oh, go on, you can have both.

Congratulations guys - hope you enjoy the read. You need to e-mail me your postal address at:

janineashbless[at]fsmail[dot]net

xxx
Janine Ashbless

Last Man Standing

By Janine Ashbless

Whoa!!! Check out ‘Last Man Standing’!

Six very pretty UK/US chunks ‘o’ muscle – a bodybuilder, a New-Agey fitness guru, a Harvard endurance athlete, a salsa-dancing kickboxer, a lumberjack/BMX champion and a wonderfully posh cricket player – are shipped around the world to meet various tribal peoples and compete with them in their indigenous martial arts.

It’s on BBC3 several times a week (UK) and … somewhere on the Discovery Channel (US) – because it’s EDUCATIONAL! See ripped near-naked men immerse themselves in tribal cultures, endure painful initiation rituals, work out against gloriously photographed tropical scenery and get covered in anthropologically significant dust, blood and sweat…

Ahem. Sorry. Needed some alone-time there.

Cultural appropriation, international bridge-building, sadistic semi-porn or just a chance to watch glorious testosterone-heavy eye-candy? I intend to watch every single episode before I decide.

Here’s the BBC website

There’s an introductory video clip HERE:

Oh, and Rajko the fitness guru is also a singer songwriter

xxx
Janine

Coming Attractions

Ha! On Monday I shall be here to tell you all how incredibly funny I am. Or something. I am going to be posting about writing funny and sexy. I, of course, do both wonderfully. How about you?

This week, Wednesday is a Crush Wednesday. Alison Tyler likes older men. And, you know, I used to like fresh faces but these days I think I might be coming around to her way of thinking.

Our nearly newest recruit, Olivia Knight, is here on Friday. She will be following up her wonderful post last week about the sex scenes missing from our favourite romantic classics. (If you missed that nip back and check out her dirtied up version of Jane Eyre.) Just like Jane, Olivia wants her happy ever after. But how do we do that in erotica and still keep the heat?

Meanwhile, if you live in the UK, nip out and buy a copy of the May issue of Cosmopolitan where I am featured talking about male/male smut for women. (I know, do I *ever* talk about anything else.) It's only a snippet but it's a good enough excuse to upload this lovely picture of Mr Gyllenhaal from Brokeback Mountain.

And, you know, when a man gets his arms to look like that, it really is a beautiful thing.

Tilly aka Mathilde Madden

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