It’s no surprise to me that Armistead Maupin’s new novel, Michael Tolliver Lives, gets a June release. It’s the month for gay pride celebrations of every kind, from parades to film festivals, all to commemorate the Stonewall riots that triggered the gay rights movement. But the book and the month have special meaning for me: [...]

They come from Circlet Press, an early adopter among small press taking on niche avenues that large publishers wouldn’t.
Circlet Press shepherded many volumes of sf/f/h erotica into print, a number of which are pictured here, and over the years it garnered respect and nominations galore — Lambda Literary Awards, Firecracker Alternative Book Awards, Independent Press [...]

Once upon a time, I collected comic books. I preferred fantasy comics over superheroes, although one could question my purity — on several levels — thanks to my girl-hood crush on Thor, God of Thunder. Much of the collection didn’t survive the breakup with my college boyfriend, but I do have a stack of E.C. [...]

That Salon would claim 2004 a year of bad sex events and that Tom Wolfe’s I am Charlotte Simmons won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in the same week I wanted to tell you about the good things happening in sex writing. Odd, that, but there you go.
I find it amazing that Tom Wolf [...]

collect vintage pornography. Sure Sotheby’s about to auction off the rare Sodom, or The Gentleman Instructed (attributed to the Earl of Rochester who supposedly wrote a considerable amount of porn) and it’s expected to bring big bucks to the table, but there’s plenty of vintage porn available to the attentive collector. For example, look at [...]

My apologies. Between holidays travels and the recent but unrelated deaths of two long-time friends, I’ve been a tad overtaxed emotionally and I’m likely to remain so until well after the second funeral has concluded late this week. With that in mind, I’m going to keep it simple and talk dirty books this week.
I’ve been [...]

Author/pornographer John Preston passed away. A one-time Advocate editor and creator of the uber-leather master Mr. Benson, Preston left us before protease inhibitors rendered HIV a chronic condition. His collection of essays, My Life as a Pornographer and Other Indecent Acts, was pretty seminal to my interest in writing pornography.* He was among those authors [...]

A letter from editor/author Alison Tyler telling me that Heat Wave: Sizzling Sex Stories is hitting the stores is ample motivation for me to blog about my latest findings in the lit smut arena. But before I get on with it, let me just say that I’m pleased to be part of this anthology. I [...]

Thought I was all caught up on book news when I discover yet another book’s out with a story of mine in it. The third Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica is out, this time carrying On Hallowed Ground, which originally appeared at Scarlet Letters. I must admit, I get a lot of satisfaction each [...]

The links have been piling up, telling me it’s time I gave my colleagues their due and listed the latest in books news. Of course, I have to lead off with plugs about books I’m in, however shameless that might be. So I’m pleased to announce that Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 has earned a Lammy [...]