Thursday, June 07, 2007

A New "Portrait" on Fishnet

I’m very excited to announce that my story, “Portrait,” has just been published online in Fishnet: A Journal of Erotica. I’ve dreamed of making Fishnet for a long time. The stories are smart and extremely well-written—everything I aspire to—so, hey, I’ll pop a bottle of champagne and let’s celebrate!

I wrote “Portrait” back in 2003, inspired by an amazingly beautiful and sexy photograph of Clean Sheets' editor Bill Noble with a former partner taken by the awesomely talented Michael Rosen. You can see it here or in the book Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age by David Steinberg. I highly recommend it. It’s sexy without making you feel like you need a hot (not cold) shower afterwards.

The story also gave me an excuse to buy a vintage Playboy and indulge my nostalgia for mid-twentieth-century sexual mores. Plus poke a little fun at Japanese literature academics (not that any I met were as interesting as Robert!) Most days you'll find me kvetching about the writing life, but today, it's all smiles!

3 comments:

Maryanne Stahl said...

Daughter!

This summer I finally joined the blogoshphere, which means of course becoming a voyeur of how other people are doing it. Imagine my delight when my poking around led me to you!

hi!

Donna said...

Hey, Ma, glad you stopped by! I can't wait to chat and catch up.

XOX

DD

Maryanne Stahl said...

by the way, I forgot to mention that I LOVE your story and the photograph is exquisite . you clever gel!