In The Flesh Comes To London

One of America’s rudest reading events, In the Flesh, relaunches in London at the end of this month, giving well-known erotic writers the chance to share their work with their readers.

Sponsored by Xcite Books and hosted by bestselling erotic memoirist Suzanne Portnoy, In The Flesh London will be held on the last Wednesday of every month at the Alley Cat Bar & Club on Denmark Street. The first event is on 29th May, from 6.30 to 8.30.

I’ll be taking part in this inaugural session, and I’m very much looking forward to it.  I haven’t yet decided on what to read, though it may involve wolves… The lovely KD Grace will also be reading, as will prolific erotica author Jilly Boyd, and the evening will be hosted by Suzanne Portnoy, author of  The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: The Intimate Adventures of a Woman Who Can’t Say No.

For four years In the Flesh was a popular monthly event on the New York street calendar. Curated by erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, it featured the best writers in erotica from the US & UK.

Suzanne Portnoy, who read at the New York event, said, ‘Although it held its final reading in 2010, In the Flesh is fondly remembered by anyone who has ever written erotica. Authors would share their stories to get the audience hot and bothered. It was a great place where established and new writers/bloggers of erotica could share their work in a relaxed, convivial atmosphere. Many UK-based authors performed there and now we are bringing it back to the heart of London, where we hope it will take on a new lease of life.’

The Alley Cat Club is located in the basement of what was once the famous Regent Sound Studios on Denmark Street. Denmark Street, better known as Tin Pan Alley has an illustrious history. The Rolling Stones, the Kinks, Elton John and David Bowie all recorded songs but serial murderer Denis Nilson also worked in the Job Centre on the corner.

Hope to see you there, and if you’re interested in reading at a future In The Flesh night, contact Alison Stokes at Xcite (Alison @ accentpress.co.uk)

Fancy A Spot Of Exposure?

In the mood to read a saucy extract from my story Exposure, part of Rachel Kramer Bussel’s deliciously kinky Anything For You couples’ erotica collection? Well, if the idea of finding out what happens when a submissive husband allows his wife to manipulate him into a situation where he’ll have to reveal everything – and I mean everything - to her and her friends, click on the book cover below and it’ll take you straight to the Cliterati site, where you’ll also find news, reviews, a whole heap more story extracts and the chance to subscribe to their daily newsletter, all masterminded by top sexpert Emily Dubberley.

Anything For You also contains stories by a fabulous line-up of authors including Lisabet Sarai, Justine Elyot, Janine Ashbless, Heidi Champa, Charlotte Stein and Kay Jaybee, and is available from Amazon among other places.

It’s Official!

I’m sexier than Fifty Shades of Had Way Too Much Publicity Already – at least, according to The Daily Beast. Their article Sexier Than Fifty Shades of Grey: Naughtiest Bits from 12 Other Erotica Bestsellers features some real classics, including My Secret Garden, Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty trilogy and Shirley Conran’s epic bonkbuster Lace (goldfish of a nervous disposition, don’t worry, they don’t use that bit…). Also included, though, is Cleis Press’ Orgasmic anthology, edited by the ever-lovely Rachel Kramer Bussel, and though they don’t actually mention it by name, the ‘naughty bit’ they highlight – ‘I’m bucking my hips, feeling those little tickly sensations that mean my orgasm can’t be too far away, which is precisely when Danny orders me to stop what I’m doing and play the vibrator over my nipples instead’ – is taken from my story in the collection, The Waiting Game. I hope whoever picked out that little snippet enjoyed the rest of the story…

You can find the full article here, and Orgasmic is available from Amazon and other retailers of quality naughty bits.

Magnificent Obsessions

There’s a very nice review of Obsessed, Rachel Kramer Bussel’s latest anthology of erotic romance, over at Whipped Cream reviews. Reviewer Peppermint gives it 31/2 cherries and says ‘everyone who reads this book will find something they love’.

Her take on my story, Raindrops And Rooftops, in which a journalist has one of the hottest and most romantic encounters of her life on a press trip to New York is that ‘it added a little bit of lightness to the obsessive side of people’.

You can read the full review, which gives individual thoughts on every one of the 18 stories in the collection here, and the book is available from Amazon and all the usual suspects. With contributions from the likes of Donna George Storey, K.D. Grace, Charlotte Stein, Kristina Wright, Ariel Graham and Justine Elyot, there’s plenty here to obsess over!

Sunday Quickie

With Easter not too far away now, you may be planning to get away from it all, so this week’s extract will get you in the mood for a very pleasant flight. It’s from Game In The Sky, my story from Rachel Kramer Bussel’s The Mile High Club anthology. With a name like that, you know all the stories are going to be about the fun you can have mid-air – and they’re way more inventive than simply having sex in the toilets. In this case, the narrator’s husband, who loves to play kinky sex games wherever he is, has designed a spot of in-flight roleplaying to help pass the time, and it begins when he handcuffs her wrist to the arm rest:

“So what is this game, exactly?” I asked, starting to become intrigued despite myself.

“Well, you’re a jewel thief who skipped bail and fled the country, and I’m the detective who’s tracked you down and is taking you back to face justice. Hence the handcuffs. I want to make sure you can’t go anywhere without my say-so.”

I was impressed. Sam had clearly been thinking about this in some detail, and with his floppy dark hair, stubbled chin and crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes, he looked as though he could be the kind of world-weary detective who was prepared to dispense his own unique brand of justice.

“But what if I have to go to the bathroom?” I said.

“I told you, you don’t go anywhere without my say-so. I could make you wait till we land. Or I could accompany you into the cubicle. But I might be a gentleman and decide not to watch.” Sam grinned, a feral, sexy grin that made my pussy tingle. “But that’s not your immediate problem. You see, I know you’ve still got some of the jewellery from your last heist stashed away somewhere very secret, and I’m going to use this flight as an opportunity to find it.”

That’s only the start of the excitement, as you’ll discover. The Mile High Club also contains stories by such stellar names as Alison Tyler, Thomas S. Roche, Jeremy Edwards, Donna George Storey and Geneva King and is available from Amazon, among other places. Take a copy on your next trip – it’ll be much more fun than reading the in-flight magazine…

Sunday Quickie

So how shall I spoil you all this fine spring Sunday? How about a glimpse into the world of a very demanding pop diva? The singer in question is Talia, and she appears in After The Show, from the Xcite Cocktales anthology Kiss In The Dark. Forget being constantly surrounded by puppies and kittens, as Mariah Carey is claimed to have requested; Talia’s desires are far more grown up, and her PA, Hayley, is expected to satisfy them:

If she had known just how much would be demanded in her role as personal assistant, would she have taken the
job in the first place? It was a question Hayley often asked herself, and as yet she had never found a satisfactory answer. There was undeniably a certain cachet which came with working for a woman so universally famous she was referred to only by her first name, but all those who envied Hayley for her glamorous position might change their mind if they knew just what her boss regularly demanded of her.

She had been perfectly prepared to accommodate any number of diva-ish demands, whether that was ensuring every hotel bed Talia slept in was made up with four hundred thread count Egyptian cotton sheets, or having the dressing room at every concert venue where she performed repainted in Talia’s favourite shade of soothing dove grey. That came with the territory. What she hadn’t expected was the singer’s insistence that Hayley supply her with her after-show sex partner.

So what happens when Hayley grows tired of finding lovers for her boss, and decides to give her an experience she’s never had before, one that will teach the spoiled diva that she needs to respect her put-upon assistant? Find out in Kiss In The Dark, which also contains short stories from a very talented selection of writers including Rachel Kramer Bussel, Charlotte Stein, Fulani, Sommer Marsden and Giselle Renarde. Just the thing to enjoy on a lazy afternoon…

Sunday Quickie

Continuing to bring you a choice little snippet from my backlist on Sundays, come with me to a hotel where the jurors in a big trial are cooped up, unable to go home until they’ve reached their verdict so they don’t somehow prejudice the outcome. This is the set-up for Guilty Pleasure, my contribution to Rachel Kramer Bussel’s anthology of hotel-based stories, Do Not Disturb. The narrator is bored, missing her husband and looking for a way to pass the time without him, when she bumps into fellow juror, Craig. Though they’re not supposed to mix outside the courtroom, she can’t resist inviting him into her room for a drink, where he makes a surprise discovery:

The bathroom door is open, and at first I assume he can see the tub, full of foamy water. And then I realise he’s staring at the bed – more specifically, at the hot pink vibrator which is still lying where I threw it.

My cheeks are flushing and I know I’ve been busted. “What can I say?” I ask, trying to make a joke out of the situation. “Sometimes I just get horny.”

“Particularly when hubby and his big, hard cock aren’t around to satisfy you, huh?” Hearing Craig use the word ‘cock’ makes my pussy clench with a sudden, fierce spasm. As I stand rooted to the spot, he picks the toy up, twists the base so it buzzes briefly into life, then switches it off again. “You know,” he says, “I’ve always wanted to watch a woman use one of these things on herself.” I think I know what’s coming next, but I just fiddle with my glass as he continues, “And I’d love it if that woman was you.”

So is their innocent friendship about to turn into something a little more intimate? You can find out – and read a selection of stories from outstanding writers including Alison Tyler, Shane Allison, Donna George Storey, Shanna Germain and Saskia Walker -  in Do Not Disturb, available from Amazon or your favourite supplier of quality erotica.

Sunday Quickie

In keeping with a growing trend for offering a sneak story preview at weekends (see Roseanne Dowell’s Six-line Sunday for a sweet, romantic example from the MuseItUp stable), here’s more of a Sunday roast for you. It’s the opening paragraph from Police Dogging, my contribution to Rachel Kramer Bussel’s forthcoming Gotta Have It: 69 Stories Of Sudden Sex, due out in March. Because I know you’re all keen to learn where authors find their inspiration, the first sentences came as I was leaving a football ground (possibly Sincil Bank in Lincoln, there were lots of policeman around that day!) last season. Not that I would ever look at large, well-built, imposing PCs as anything other than committed upholders of law and order, of course…

It’s not my imagination. Police officers really are getting younger – and hotter. Not that I should be noticing the incredibly blue eyes beneath the peaked uniform cap, or the broad shoulders leaning in the car window as he orders me to wind it down further. I should be scrambling off my husband’s lap and pulling the straps of my dress back up over my shoulders, not letting them dangle so this handsome policeman gets a perfect view of my big, bare tits with their lust-crinkled nipples. Everyone says they’re my best feature, and this man certainly agrees, if the way his gaze keeps flickering down from my face is any indication.

If that’s whetted your appetite for finding out what happens next – and reading 68 more short and spicy stories from some of the best-known names in erotic fiction – Gotta Have It is available to pre-order from Amazon or your local fave purveyor of naughty fiction. And keep your eyes peeled for more quickies on future Sundays!

We Live So Fast…

Fulsome praise for Rachel Kramer Bussel’s latest collection of hot erotica for women, Fast Girls, at R.S. Bohn’s blog. It takes as its theme women who are bold, daring and adventurous, who know what they want from sex and are prepared to do whatever it takes to have the kind of encounters they want. My contribution to the anthology, Princess, is described as ‘a story that took something that is not my pleasure at all, thank you very much, and had me sitting there thinking at the end, “Mmm… maybe… yes.”‘

The story, about a woman who is  given a very kinky present by her work colleagues, was inspired when I was walking up the City Road one morning and saw someone being guided, blindfolded, into the back of a taxi. If you want to find out how her adventure progressed from there, in my mind at least, as well as sampling a collection of beautifully crafted stories from talented writers including Charlotte Stein, Jacqueline Ashbee and Donna George Storey, pick up a copy at your local bookstore or via Amazon.  Hopefully they’re selling fast!