Regular visitors to ERWA will be familiar with the name of fiction editor Bob Buckley. Boston-based, wise and witty, Bob Buckley has a background in journalism and a list of respectable publishing credits within the genre of erotic fiction that include The Mammoth...
Our writer's feast continues this month with musings on an intimidating, yet indispensable stage of the creative process: transforming a juicy story idea into a tale that will engage a reader. Or in other words, writing the first draft. One of the most dangerous myths...
As the wheel of the year turns to the darkness of the shortest day then back towards the light, many of us like to pause and take stock of our lives and our writing. No doubt the past year has brought pleasant surprises, valuable lessons and perhaps some...
Since Victorian novelist Charles Dickens coined the phrase "The law is an ass," many people have had cause to repeat it. As a remark made by a male character in Oliver Twist, that phrase referred to the nineteenth-century legal concept of "coverture," under which...
Once a wasteland stretching between my two favorite holidays, poor November has become my favorite month in recent years. To my writer's mind, the stark austerity of the denuded trees, the rich scarlet sunsets, and the apple-crisp chill in the air all serve as a...
It isn't Mardi Gras ... yet. But maybe it's getting there. It's the October-long celebration of everything weird, wild and not-quite-natural that culminates on Halloween in the city of Salem, Massachusetts. And what's the occasion for all this revelry? Well, a bit...
Lucy Felthouse is a UK based author whose steamy short fiction has appeared in anthologies produced by Xcite Books and Ravenous Romance. Aside from writing erotic fiction, Lucy also reviews erotica and wrote her final year dissertation on 'How women's roles in erotic...
“This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material? And what is its causal nature?” The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, v. 11 George Long Translation. True story. Last month, my Lovely Wife had to have surgery. ...
The title says it all. "Surrender to the feeling" is the message of much erotic literature. At least readers are invited to witness characters surrendering to their feelings, sometimes against their own principles. In noir-flavored erotica, common sense usually fights...
Another month has flown by and it's time to step on the scale for my monthly novel weigh-in. Have I been a good girl this month? Well, I'll admit, I've been no saint, but what use would that be for an erotica writer? On the other hand, I have generated some new prose...