Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Hear About the Romantic Rambler?
Today I'm the featured guest at Sharon Kleve's Romantic Ramblings. Sharon and are I both in the Passionate Cooks cookbook (it's free!), so it's a pleasure to keep company with someone who loves good writing and good food. I also talk about an interesting book I'm reading, Wired for Story, by Lisa Cron, which discusses how and why readers are drawn to stories. It's more psychological than physiological, but definitely fascinating. Enjoy!
Friday, January 18, 2013
"Safe" Sex in Trouble and "The Naughty Chair"
It's the Friday before a much-needed holiday (two weeks is TOO long to go without a festive break), and the fun is beginning already. First Giselle Renarde reviews my story "The Naughty Chair" which appears in Alison Tyler's forthcoming The Big Book of Bondage. Let me say Giselle knows how to rub a writer in just the right way.
I've also posted a new column at ERWA, "The Trouble with 'Safe' Sex," which was inspired by an xoJane article on Lena Dunham's audacity is insisting an "imperfect" woman has the right to enjoy her sexuality. I argue that we seek the same "safety" in our depiction of sex as only existing between partners who meet our social standards of attractiveness. What do you think we're hiding from?
I've also posted a new column at ERWA, "The Trouble with 'Safe' Sex," which was inspired by an xoJane article on Lena Dunham's audacity is insisting an "imperfect" woman has the right to enjoy her sexuality. I argue that we seek the same "safety" in our depiction of sex as only existing between partners who meet our social standards of attractiveness. What do you think we're hiding from?
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Something New, Something Naughty Blog Hop
What are your naughty plans for the New Year? At the top of my to-do list is putting together a collection of popular favorites and brand-new sexy stories set in Japan due out this year with Iro Books. When Lisabet Sarai and Jennifer Wright invited authors to participate in the Something New, Something Naughty Blog Hop, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to whet your appetite with a tantalizing excerpt from one of the stories in the collection.
But that’s not the only treat I’ll be serving up today. The New Year is one of the most important festivals in the Japanese calendar. The whole country closes down for a few days while families gather together to feast on special good luck foods such as ozoni, a delicate seafood soup with grilled rice cakes. Unmarried children also receive red envelopes with money called otoshidama. In keeping with the spirit of generosity, your hostesses for the Something New, Something Naughty Blog Hop will be giving away special prizes. The Grand Prize is a $60 gift certificate to EdensFantasys. Two other winners will receive a $25 gift certificate to their choice of the following book sites: Amazon, All Romance eBooks, Barnes & Noble, or Total-E-Bound.
And I will be giving away one of my ebooks—your choice of Amorous Woman or The Mammoth Book of Erotica Presents the Best of Donna George Storey. All you have to do to be eligible to win is leave a comment on this post or at any of the other blogs listed below. The more blogs you visit, the better your chance to win!
And now, please enjoy a steaming bowl of ozoni and some spiced New Year’s sake, while I share an excerpt from my story, “Spring Pictures,” about an American bar hostess who receives a book of traditional Japanese erotic prints from a shy client. Drawn into the timeless sensuality of the pictures, Anna and her admirer, Kimura, decide to recreate the print below in a room at a romantic country inn in the mountains north of Tokyo. Sensuality, voyeurism, and new love all play a part in this naughty scene.
Anna’s body took on a strange languor as she knelt before the old-fashioned mirror stand—for that is where Kimura placed the futon—and set the book down. He knelt behind her and eased the robe over her shoulders, arranging it at her waist.
“Now fix your hair. Like the girl in the picture.”
Anna raised her arms and grabbed two thick ponytails of honey brown hair in each hand. The pose stretched and lifted her breasts, as if she were offering them--not to him, exactly, but to someone waiting in a mirror world beyond.
“Now, how was the man touching her?” Kimura pulled one side of the robe open like a curtain and began to tease her curls.
“I smell your fragrance, Anna,” he whispered. “I could smell you when you were showing me the book. A most joyous perfume. I worried you thought I was nothing but an old fool. My English is too poor to say the things in my heart. My dream, Anna-chan, is to meet in a place where we don’t need words.” His finger inched closer to her clit. “Senzuri they called it in the old days. A thousand rubs. Do you think it will take a thousand tonight?”
She moaned and swayed back against him. Kimura wasn’t impotent. The evidence was pressing into the cleft of her ass. If only he would touch her breasts, too. The starched cotton robe the inn provided had been chafing her sensitive nipples all evening. They needed soothing with hands and lips. But that wasn’t in the picture.
And neither was the maid, now standing in the doorway with a tray in her hands.
With a yelp of surprise, Anna crumpled forward, scrambling to cover herself with her robe.
“You asked for more tea, sir?” The maid’s voice was as cool as a mountain stream....
A happy, healthy, and creative 2013 to you! Be sure to visit check out these exciting new and naughty authors below and leave a comment on their blogs--I hope you win a prize!
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Are You a "Real" Writer?
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
A New Year, A New Look at my New Book!
Happy New Year and best wishes for a happy, healthy and creative 2013! I'm starting off the year by joining in a popular writer's activity of 2012: The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. I was tagged by Emily Jane Trent, who appears with me in the very sexy and slinky Vixotica: Sexy Short Stories by Best-Selling Erotica Authors. Emily is the author of the Masquerade Series, a five-part tale which starts with Passion Unleashed and ends with Passion Embraced. Although it was first published in paperback in 2008, I am very proud of my beautiful new ebook version of Amorous Woman which was released this past autumn. The blog hop gave me an opportunity to share some information--including a few new secrets--about my book.
What is the title of your book?
Amorous Woman
What inspired your book?
I spent several years living in Japan in the early 1980s. Immersion is such a different and fascinating culture made a deep impression on me. Amorous Woman is not completely autobiographical, but the sensual memories and the yearning to become closer to Japan are very much my own. Of course, my greatest inspiration was the many wonderful people I met in Japan: friends, boyfriends, mentors, courteous strangers.
How would you classify it in terms of genre?
Literary erotica.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Ken Watanabe as Kimura. Emma Stone as Lydia.
Give us a short synopsis of your book.
It’s about an American woman's sexual awakening in Japan as she tests the limits of love and sensual pleasure. She almost always gets an A on the test.
Can you tell us about the publisher?
The new ebook version is with Iro Books, the erotica line of Stonebridge Press. If you have an erotica manuscript set in Asia, send it to them!
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I’d been wanting to tell the story since the 1980’s, but when I was commissioned to write a book for Orion’s Neon erotica line in 2005, I finally had the chance to write it down. I spent about six months writing intensely for the deadline—and I made it! Thanks to too many cases of diet Snapple....
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
It’s not unlike Memoirs of a Geisha with more sex. Lots more sex.
Describe an ideal setting for enjoying your book.
I suggest you take a long soak in a hot tub, then wrap yourself in a silk kimono and lounge on a futon (or bed) with a flask of sake and some sushi by your side. Soft koto music is good accompaniment, although I listened obsessively to Tupac’s “All Eyez on Me” as I was writing the novel, so that’s an authentic alternative.
If I read your book, what’s in it for me?
My novel will take you on an intimate trip to a Japan few tourists ever see for much less than a plane ticket to Tokyo. I’m talking threesomes, orgies, pornographic comics come to life, passionate affairs with married men, true love and descriptions of Japanese feasts to make your mouth water. Believe me, it’s a bargain.
The Q&A is over, so what are you waiting for? Pick up a copy of Amorous Woman for your e-reader right now. If you’re looking for more delicious erotica to satisfy your appetite, check out these new works by some wonderful erotica writers:
Kristina Wright's Best Erotic Romance 2013 with a wonderful story by the very poetic Erobintica.
Lisabet Sarai's Coming Together In Vein, an anthology of sexy vampire tales. Lisabet is a true master of our genre.
Emerald embodies the spirit of sex-positive warmth and wisdom and her latest publication appears in the Mischief anthology, Too Fast For Love.
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