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| Introducing: Back Door Lover |
| 2012.02.04 01:04:06 | |
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I'd like to share with you the introduction and table of contents to my first editorial success, Back Door Lover: Erotic Tales of Anal Sex. If you like what you see, be sure to grab a complete copy here at Ravenous Romance! Introduction It happens in every generation: People learn about sex. They wonder about it and marvel at it until they process it away from "People do WHAT?" and into "Oh, my God, yes!" Then they learn about anal sex, and the entire process begins anew. The very idea that one's back-end is an erogenous zone-and not an erroneous zone- dumbfounds us at first. However, curious creatures that we are, it isn't long before we're thinking about everything from timid intrusions and full-out thrusts. But anal pleasure as a means to intimacy and, dare I say, romance? That's another story all together. And one I saw as a challenge. It's easy to push the erotic edge when writing about anal sex, but to write about anal pleasure as an expression of love and commitment? As a means of discovery and fulfillment? As a way of finding or rediscovering or redefining love? Ah, well. Yet the authors in this anthology accomplished all this. The women authors brought a sense of the protagonist's quest to their stories, of journeys taken and discoveries made. The men, of longing fulfilled and of love born through intimate courage. The women wrote of sex-positive adventures, of love and lust and the binding power of intimacy braved. The men melted my heart, their tales poignant, candid, and revealing. And, of course, some of the stories were downright no-holds-barred sex romps. All of them left me awe-struck and beguiled. An editor couldn't ask for a better experience. I hope you'll find similar discoveries as you read Back Door Lover. May its stories challenge your thinking, your creativity, and, most of all, your personal romantic and erotic energy. Table of Contents Exit Only by Dominic Santi Taking It by Clarice Clique The Silence After by Simon Dan Good Girls Don't Do That by Ellen Tevault Silver Sandals by Tiffany Rose Access All Areas by Gemma Parkes Recognition by Robin Tiergarten Hot Cheeks on Horseback by J. T. Seate Island Daydreams by Ivana Gepthard Gabe's Wedding Gift by Felicity Chapman A Question of Compatibility by D.C. McMillen The Hottest Babe on Guam by Evan Sanders Making Girls Come by Angel Propps The Meridian Motel by SS Hampton Sr
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| Ravenous Nights Celebrates Sapphic Stories! |
| 2011.08.27 07:24:49 | |
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Ravenous Nights' September 2nd event spotlights sapphic storytellers Nell Stark, Trinity Tam, Xan West, and KT Grant and their wide-ranging works of steamy erotic fiction.
Nell Stark is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the Writing Center at a college in the SUNY system. Trinity Tam is a marketing executive in the music industry and an award-winning writer/producer of film and television. They live, write, and parent a rambunctious toddler just a stone's throw from the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City. For more information about the everafter series, visit www.everafterseries.com. Xan West is the pseudonym of an NYC BDSM/sex educator. Xan's story "First Time Since", won honorable mention for the 2008 National Leather Association's John Preston Short Fiction Award. Xan's short fiction appears in Best SM Erotica Volumes 2 & 3, Best Women's Erotica 2008 & 2009, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 & 2012, Hurts So Good, Say Please, and Sugar and Spice. KT Grant is a self-proclaimed eccentric redhead who not only loves to read a wide variety of romances, but also loves writing it. Under her alter-ego, she is a well known book reviewer and blogger who doesn't shy away from voicing her opinion. A proud native of New Jersey, KT is multi-published and known for writing "out of the box" romances. KT has been quoted in such publications as the Romance Writers of America's Romance Writers Report and Night Owl Reviews. She has also been mentioned in the Guardian.UK, Publisher's Weekly's Beyond the Book and at Bookseller.com. KT is a top ten best-selling PAN (Romance Writers of America Published Authors Network) author at Amazon, as well as being a multiple All Romance Ebooks best seller and a Night Owl Reviews Top Author Pick. Sponsored by erotic romance e-book publisher, Ravenous Romance, and hosted by its editorial director, Lori Perkins, Ravenous Nights spotlights authors and their works with readings, door prizes, and endless enthusiasm for hot, steamy fiction. The reading series celebrates erotica and erotic romance the first Friday of every month. Our website: ravenous.journurl.com Event Details: Tags: erotic reading | Ravenous Nights | Lori Perkins Hits: 244 | Read more... |
| Story of the Story |
| 2011.08.05 20:48:30 | |
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Friends who know me are likely gonna think what took her so long when they see my newest title, Story of L. But those same friends also know this about me: I either intuit things in a blink of an eye or I'm totally clueless. I mean if-it-were-a-snake-it-would've-bit-me clueless. And I was completely clueless about the concept of recasting and modernizing an S/M classic. But Ravenous Romance's editor director wasn't. She saw the possibility -- and knew my potential. When she proposed that I write a lesbian version of Story of O (and that we would unapologetically call it Story of L), I almost fell out of my seat. By the time I righted myself, I knew I'd write the book. Love at first sight works like that. Building a relationship with your novel is like any other relationship. It takes work. I decided I wanted to write a kink novel featuring characters already experienced in BDSM. We have plenty of novels from the newbie perspective and plenty of light tales of BDSM love. We don't have many novels set in the "experienced" world of BDSM. That decision made Story of L a challenge from the outset, made it a much higher platform than I had ever before attempted. Now I know how high platform divers feel when they step up their game. The original Story of O is a seminal work. It won both public scorn and literary awards upon its release in 1950's France. It was, if I remember correctly a book club choice twenty-plus years later in America, placing it in nightstand drawers across the country. The late Susan Sontag composed a essay arguing that O was as literary a novel as anything in the stuffy institutional literary cannon, raising eyebrows everywhere in either scowls or elucidation. Which told me this: I had to write Story of L as if it had to be a legacy work. And I had to make sure it reflected the queer leather world as contemporary to our here-and-now as O was in it's. Only time will tell if I achieved the former but I'm reasonably confident I've managed to produce the latter. I'm deeply satisfied that Story of L, the story that overtook my writer's existence for quite some time, has finally stepped into the light of day. I hope you favor it with your time and that it rewards you with the satisfaction of am engaging and erotic read. Tags: Debra Hyde | Story of L | BDSM | lesbian Hits: 242 | Read more... |
| Ravenous Nights Reading Series Celebrate Hot Summer Nights! |
| 2011.06.22 07:12:09 | |
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July's Ravenous Nights event welcomes the Romance Writers Association conference and its attendees to New York City with a Hot Summer Nights reading. Join us as authors Louisa Bacio, Daisy Harris, Gwen Masters, and Kathy Kulig read from their latest nobels. The Ravenous Nights reading series celebrates erotica and erotic romance the first Friday of every month. Sponsored by erotic romance e-book publisher, Ravenous Romance, and hosted by its editorial director, Lori Perkins, Ravenous Nights spotlights authors and their works with readings, door prizes, and endless enthusiasm for hot, steamy fiction. Event Details: July 1st, 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Casual dress. Happy Ending Lounge 302 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
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| Ravenous Nights Reading Series Spotlights Summer Love |
| 2011.05.27 22:54:41 | |
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June's Ravenous Nights celebrates the thrill of love, lust, and the longer days of summer. Join host Lori Perkins as authors Rob Byrnes, Hope Tarr, and Isobel Kelly read tales of blossoming desire and summer flings. Let's kick off this summer of love of right! Door prizes!
The Ravenous Nights reading series celebrates erotica and erotic romance the first Friday of every month. Sponsored by erotic romance e-book publisher, Ravenous Romance, and hosted by its editorial director, Lori Perkins, Ravenous Nights spotlights authors and their works with readings, door prizes, and endless enthusiasm for hot, steamy fiction.
Event details:
June 3rd 8 to 10 pm.
Free. Dress: street casual.
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
New York, NY
www.happyendinglounge.com
Our website: ravenous.journurl.com Tags: reading series | erotica | erotic romance | Ravenous Nights Hits: 300 | Read more... |
| Ravenous Nights, Ravenous Romance's signature reading series! |
| 2011.04.22 00:28:28 | |
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May’s Ravenous Nights celebrates the daring dazzle of burlesque and stripping, and it’s shaping up to be a great night. Joining host Lori Perkins: authors Logan Belle, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Aimee DeLong, all of whom will share risqué tales with us.
And we’re fortunate that head mistress of NY School of Burlesque, Jo “Boobs” Weldon, will join us. She authored The Burlesque Handbook and has teasingly offered to give us a lesson or two!
So help us extol the thrill of stripping, give away door prizes galore — and maybe expose a secret or two in the bump and grind!
Event details:
May 6th 8 to 10 pm.
Free. Dress: street casual.
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
New York, NY
www.happyendinglounge.com
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| Book Trailer! |
| 2009.05.11 21:34:06 | |
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Hope you don't mind, but excited me *has* to tell you that I put together a book trailer for my newest novel, Training Desire! Thanks to better software, it has special effects and a voice over! And thanks to that same better software, I'm still in the grips of its learning curve so you audio/visual tech types will easily spot that I need to learn more about, well, audio/visual fine tuning. Enjoy the video and, if it leaves you so inclined, check out Training Desire! Tags: fantastica | wicked pleasures | Debra Hyde Hits: 608 | Read more... |
| Training Desires! |
| 2009.03.27 20:30:34 | |
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Yes! Ravenous Romance has released my newest novel, Training Desires! It's a fantasy-based erotic romance that, over four books, will take us from rangthiath Mira's innocent pleasure-giving beginnings and plunge us into an internecine conflict that will rip her from all she knows. Think Jacqueline Cary (Kushiel's Dart) meets George R.R. Martin (Song of Fire and Ice series) meets Anne Rice (Beauty series). Mira's world is an omni-sexual landscape where pleasure is ordained by the great goddess, Rangtha, and the people of her kith house cater to her worshipers in every way imaginable -- without prejudice towards orientation or taste. Which means there's plenty of het, m/m, and f/f couplings. And that's before Mira loses here virginity. Imagine the possibilities in future editions! Wonders await us all. Born into the pleasure world of Kith House, Rangtha in the fading city of Nameda, Mira is poised to enter the ranks of the revered pleasure-giver. Her only goal is to serve her goddess, Rangtha, by giving her virginity to a worthy recipient. Yet she's an innocent, unaware of the strife that surrounds her. Rival mentors pit themselves one against the other. Rapacious citizens exuberantly bid for hers virginity. And shadowy factions -- for good or for ill -- see Mira as the symbol of the future. Rarely has one so innocent had to stand up to dangers so blatant. But rarely has Nameda seen the likes of Mira, a celebrant determined to fulfill her goal according to the ways of her goddess. Spinning Mira's world into existence has been one of the most exhuberant writing experiences of my life and I hope you'll indulge yourself in Training Desires. Heck, make it a Ravenous Romance bestseller, please? That way, I can continue to sping her world, and other equally exciting realms, into existence. Because we all deserve pleasure. Tags: Hits: 573 | Read more... |
| Schools of Thought |
| 2009.02.25 23:11:49 | |
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When I was a much younger woman, I wanted to become a classical musician. Through high school and into college, I immersed myself in music and musical performance. I spent a year in a music conservatory, under a strict pedagogy of performance, theory, and history. One thing I learned during those years that not only did the arts have their historical eras, but that different schools of thought existed within those time periods. What the German opera composers produced during the Romantic era was distinctly different from what the Italians created. What Cubists created in the early 20th century was distinctly different from the Surrealists's works. The literary movements of naturalim and realism perceived and portrayed their world from markedly different platforms. Yet all managed to co-exist, inform one another, and, ultimately, create a shared universe. Something similar happened within erotic romance. And I think we're seeing a wonderful convergence of origins here at Ravenous Romance. Some of us arrived here from the sex-positive world of women's smut. Others have their perceptive origins with the romance genre itself, before or during its accelerated sub-genre explosion. Some of us found ourselves initially informed by the likes of Susie Bright and Betty Dodson, others by Sex and the City and Bridget Jones's Diary. Some of us fell in love with slash fiction while others had their roots in writing LGBT erotica. Yet here we all are, different schools of thought channeling our talents into erotic romances for Ravenous Romance. Erotic Romance, as a sub-genre, is a relatively young creature. Its characteristics are reasonably well-defined, yet some of the heated discussions I've seen surrounding it suggest that it's anything but a static sub-genre. In all likelihood, it will continue to develop and refine itself. But good stews come from time spent in the pot, though, don't they? And what I'm really excited about here at Ravenous Romance isn't just where us author have been, but where we will take erotic romance now that we're here. I'm excited about the various ways we might inform one another and inspire one another and, ultimately, how our collective works might influence erotic romance as a sub-genre. I have no idea how our various perceptions, backgrounds and aspirations will play out here, but I have no desire to predict an outcome. Instead, I want to live it. Because we're all in the same pot, we're bubbling away, and a great stew's underway. And I hope readers everywhere will discover Ravenous Romance and take a hearty taste. Tags:
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| And Then There's the Sex |
| 2009.02.03 06:59:47 | |
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Long ago, in my early days as a sexually aware young woman, I made a key sexual discovery: That sexual arousal felt wonderful. Up until then, my mother had guided the sexual messages I received, messages born of her generation's fears, fears that centered on loss and failure. The loss of one's virginity and, hence, one's reputation. The failure to prevent pregancy and, hence, one's reputation. The loss of future possibilities because, hell, you ruined your chances by having sex. I wanted work where people didn't die of their excesses, but actually achieved some level of happiness. Sadly, I didn't really see that until the big box boom brought a Borders to my neck of the woods. There, I discovered erotic writing that celebrated sexual enjoyment and actually advocated for pleasure. I hadn't seen such positivity since The Joy of Sex from my early adulthood. Four novels into it, and I wanted to be part of this sex positive movement. I wrote my first erotic short story soon after and never looked back. Tags:
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| The Transition |
| 2009.01.17 00:37:20 | |
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Recently, an interviewer asked me about the convergence of erotica and erotic romance and expressed some frustration over the genre-bending. I won't speak for my interviewer, but I suspect many of us who toiled as authors of erotica and found ourselves ignored and ostracised by most of the publishing community were more than mildly frustrating when erotic romance leap-frogged over us. When I first saw it occur, I considered taking a romance route with my novels. I started buying romance in piecemeal fashion, attracted to their plots and the promise of erotic content. But every time I read a title, I found myself stymied. I wasn't enjoying what I read. One novel pitted its protagonists against one another in an emotional wrestling match after every sexual encounter. They get it on, then get into it. And it struck me as so passive agressive -- and so lacking in the honest communication -- that I abandoned the novel before its midpoint. Several of the novels I read alternated its most of chapters between the female and male leads (sometimes with secondary characters commanding a few chapters, sometimes not). When the approach works well -- like Pam Rosenthall's recent The Edge of Impropriety -- it can make for a riveting read. But when it didn't, I put the book down. Sometimes the plot seemed too thin to sustain the story. Often, the characters didn't earn my loyalty. And many times the plot revolved around "things unspoken," secrets that pulled protagonists from one another's arms in day-after regret. For quite some time, the romances I read kept me from authoring erotic romance. Believe me, I love love as much as the next person. It's wonderfully euphoric and validating. But I'm also a pragmatist and I don't pussyfoot around when it comes to relationship issues. I'm of a mind that you get it out in the open and put it on the table. And not just for problems, but for compliments and joys as well. I'm as likely to put "I adore you; I cherish our intimacy" on the table as I am "I have a problem." The push me/pull you thing I see in some romances just don't cut it for me. It's a bad relationship habit and if I was single or uncommitted, I wouldn't date anyone who used it as a modus operandi. Yet I managed to join the erotic romance fold. Why? Because I realized that a majority of my erotic short stories already focused on relationships, a key romance element. Granted, my fictional relationships were already established but they served as the key backdrop for the erotic encounter. Love, grief, the fear of loss, the balm of intimacy, I explored them all in my characters. In erotic romance, I simply brought the backdrop into the foreground. But I remain resistant to characters dragging around a U-Haul's worth of baggage. I don't want to write a soap opera but a drama. I'm more of a "when bad things happen to good people" kind of author and I'm more interested in exploring how characters handle unexpected impacts, how they navigate their way through trouble, and, if they're part of an established couple, how they unite and protect the love they've shared. That's some of what you'll find in my first novel with Ravenous Romance, Blind Seduction, and I hope you'll find it a rewarding read. But that's not all that captures my imagination when I write. There's also the sex -- ah, another topic! Next time. Tags:
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