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When I’m scouting about for antiquarian/used erotica for purchase, I run acoss a fair amount of stuff that makes me laugh.  Ususally, we’re talking double entendre here, a type of humorous twist many people find juvenile.  However, if my first reaction is an automatic chuckle, then whatever the item is, it hit my [...]

Circlet Press started as a vision.  A vision to bring erotic elements into science fiction and fantasy.  To create genre literature that spoke to sexual communities.  To publish fiction that challenged norms.
And they’ve done so under the tenacious leadership of Cecilia Tan through thick and thin.  They’re survived the collapse of independent bookstores. They’ve withstood [...]

Lately, when I’m not working on the next novel,  I’ve immersed myself in researching BDSM literature and its history.  It’s an endeavor that satisfies my inner bibliophile and collector, ever-curious facets of my mind.  I suppose it’s what I get for never seeking an advance degree beyond the B.A. I earned too long ago.
I’m never [...]

In my collecting travels and endeavors, I sometimes snap up small pamphlets called “readers.” A close cousin to the Tijuana Bible, they were essentially dirty short stories….

As a collector of erotica and “curiosa,” an old bibliophile’s codeword for the pornographic, I come across a lot of unusual publications. Some are historical interesting — like a rare pre-Civil War erotic novel — and some are downright silly…

M/M erotic fiction, for the uninitiated, is, in its strictest terms, romantic erotica written largely by women for women and born out of the slash fiction world. But publisher ManLoveRomance Press isn’t satisfied with that definitional origin. MLR Press believes that although M/M fiction isn’t traditional gay fiction and that it is erotica [...]

Gloria Vanderbilt’s novella, Obsession, makes for a curious and stimulating read. But it’s not the kind of stimulating read you might expect from an erotic work. Rather, it’s more of an intellectual exercise in emotional intelligence in the guise of erotic read.
I’d seen all the buzz about Vanderbilt’s novel and I no doubt wanted to [...]

In May, I finally had the opportunity to attend Book Expo America, the publishing industry’s premier trade event. To say was Booklover’s Heaven is an understatement. It filled the huge Javitts Convention Center. And heaven isn’t for the idle. BEA was three days of constant walking, scouting out books and publishers, and [...]

As a card-carrying Borders aficionado (credit card, that is), I have the pleasure of letting those $5.00 Borders bucks coupons accumulate every month. Recently, I grabbed a pile of them, went to my local store, and bought Susie Bright’s new anthology, X: The Erotic Treasury. It was pricey at $35.00 dollars, but it’s not your [...]

Downstairs, in my library, sits a pile of magazines dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. I bought them in bulk sales, most often via ebay, fascinated by their existence. I’d discover they were produced by the father of science fiction, pulp publisher Hugo Gernsback, adding to my fascination. At one point, my curiosity spilled [...]