What Readers Want…

Brainstorming on possible Lust Bites blog topics, I thought I'd ask the readers what they'd like to see us blog about. Need sexual advice? Like talking dirty? Curious as to what we authors think about the different kinds of rubber—OUCH! *looking around* What? I was going to say rubber bands. Honest.

So let's here it readers, don't be shy. Tell us what you want!

Come in! Meet the gang!

Okay. The stage is set. The drinks are chilled. We've got a bevy of wonderful writers here, all raring to get started.

Like to hear a little more about all of your lovely hostesses?

Click on comments to find out who we are and what we do...

Continuum reissued today in the UK

I’m not sure I’m going to be any good at this, but I thought I might pitch in because it’s suddenly dawned on me that I have a reprinted book published today in the UK! I’d actually forgotten all about it until last night…

In his guest blog the other day, over at Romance By the Blog, our glorious leader Adam mentioned that in the mid nineties, Black Lace issued a lot of ‘secret erotic society’ novels… well, CONTINUUM, is one of those particular animals and I’m not ashamed to say so! It’s what I’d call an ‘old school’ Black Lace, but somehow, at the same time, it’s also modern, because it’s romantic and it’s a love story… so in a twisted sort of way it’s actually an ‘erotic romance’ too. Joanna, the heroine spends the whole book falling in love with the ‘boy next door’, sort of, while at the same time becoming obsessed with the mysterious Master of the Continuum, who seems to be able to control her entire erotic life without revealing himself to her. Won’t go into the details of the plot, but suffice it to say, Joanna has a lot of deliciously hair raising BDSM adventures along her path to a happily ever after.

CONTINUUM is one of my favourites of all the books I’ve written because it’s a ‘homage’ to the writing of my all time favourite erotic author. In the very early nineties, I read a wonderful trilogy of novels by one Cyrian Amberlake, The Domino Tattoo, The Domino Enigma and The Domino Queen. These books just blew me away! To me they were, and still are, exactly what erotic writing should be. Amazingly well written, fantastical, but also, somehow, completely ‘real’ at the same time. The books encapsulate the concept that has coloured most of my erotic writing to this day… the idea that there’s a secret erotic mirror world that exists alongside the mundane one we live in, and if a special lover chooses to, they can invite you through the mirror to play in this hedonistic wonderland. The prose of the Domino Trilogy is cool, yet at the same time warm. Elegant, yet also vernacular. I immediately decided that this was the standard I was going to aim for, and even though I’ve probably never achieved quite the same quality, I’ll never stop knocking myself out in the attempt. And CONTINUUM was my of saying thank you to that author, and creating my own version of the Domino Trilogy. Not being the world’s greatest plotter though, I couldn’t stretch the story to a trilogy, so I crammed the whole thing into one book!

Anyway, I think I’ll leave it at that, because I’m just blathering on really, and I do that quite enough in my own blog… But I just wanted everybody to know a bit of the background to the book of mine that’s reissued today in the UK.

Cheers

Portia aka Wendy

Read an Excerpt of CONTINUUM

Available in the UK from Amazon.co.uk - 7th December 2006

Available in the US from Amazon.com - 6th February 2007

Progress!

Delighted to see so many wonderful authors here!

I've started to add some links - bear with me while I work out how to work the um, widgets. (And thanks to Portia Da Costa, who, it turns out, is an IT wizard as well as a top-notch smut writer.) Soon we hope to have a banner, or a flag of the republic.

Just to whet your appetites, here's a dreamy picture of a Pop Band now sadly consigned to the wet dream of history. If you look closely you might spot a familiar face...(and I might just have committed career suicide).

Anybody else care to try posting something? Go on, go on, go on! You girls can start chatting while I fiddle with the carburettor.

Black Lace/Cheek coach party - this way please!

Welcome Mesdames!

We're still finding our feet here, so if you'd like to get involved, we'd be delighted to have you! Any ideas and input welcome, including what colour to paint the walls and what we'll have on the flag.

Just drop me a line with your email address - nikki dot magennis at googlemail dot com - and I'll send out the invites.

Look forward to meeting you all!

The People's Democratic Republic of Smut

Hi all.

Wow, what a wave of excitement!

Now there's a few of us here - we can really start shaking it! But how it forms and what happens is up to all of us...

How do you want this to move? What would you like a group blog to do? There's any amount of possibilities. We can try and attract as many readers and erotica fans as possible, as well as the best writers. We can invite guest publishers and editors. We can spotlight our latest books and shed some light on the smut-writing life.

This blog was borne first out of an idea by Mathilde Madden to have a Black Lace/Cheek authors blog. And then there was a blog-fest on romancebytheblog that seemed to get everybody stirred up.

Do we have any ground rules? Should contributors be female authors only? Published authors only? What's your angle on the subject?

I think if we work on it steadily and gracefully we'll get something going that could work beautifully. (You'll need to bear with me while I work out how to put up links and pictures - do let me know how we should decorate the place!)

x Nikki

Good evening and welcome...

Well hello.

Nice to see you here. This is a brand new blog, still wet behind the ears. Soon we'll have a gaggle of fine erotica authors* dropping by to chat, offer pearls of wisdom and news.

So watch this space...

*the person who can think of the best collective noun for a group of smut writers wins a prize.