I've never flown Southwest Airlines, and I'm sure I never will. So, it isn't like they've lost a customer. But they just keep perpetrating these horrendous PR debacles that make me put them near the top of my elimination list when choosing an air carrier. For a while...
You may have noticed, dear Readers, that last month "Cooking Up a Storey" moved to this spiffy new address in Author's Resources. There is a good reason for the change of residence. My goal for 2010 is to focus my writing energy on a new novel, and I thought it might...
In the Northern Hemisphere, February is usually one of the bleakest months of the year, which is why no one complains that it is so short, even with an extra day tacked on in leap years. To compensate for being the tail-end of a long winter, February is dedicated to...
February is the month for celebrating St Valentine's Day. Or, for those of a more pragmatic nature, February is the month for trying to get into someone's pants through the purchase of a saccharin greetings card and various gifts of chocolate, alcohol and lingerie....
When I was studying news articles and trends about which to possibly write for this month's column, a few ideas came obviously to mind. Tiger Woods and the problems he's had keeping his driver in his own golf bag? Nope. Too easy. Anyway, just a few months ago I wrote...
We're doomed. No kidding. In fact, we're all in so many crosshairs it's a wonder any of us are here at all. For at least a year now I've been fed a steady and authoritative diet of disaster predictions. I've received them in the wee hours of the morning. No, I'm not a...
Each erotica writer follows her or his own individual path into our fearless genre. Being the curious type, I often ask other writers about their initial motivation to write stories with explicit sexual content. The answers are as varied as they are fascinating, but...
PS Haven is a prolific author and illustrator of erotic fiction whose short fiction has been included in such titles as Best American Erotica, Coming Together, B is for Bondage, Playing with Fire, and far too many other titles to list here. An accomplished...
There's a time-worn adage about buying a used car: It's not the age; it's the mileage. It's a truism I've taken to heart recently after discovering it applies just as aptly to living creatures. We tend to think age equates with powering down life, shedding our...
Most people celebrate some holiday on or near the winter solstice in December, and these holidays are usually described in public as celebrations of the love of family and friends. The mass delusion that everyone else is happily spending time with their chosen posse...