Dec01

There's A Party Goin' On!

by debrahyde on December 1st, 2009 at 10:55 am
Posted In: Shameless Promo

A year ago today, I watched Ravenous Romance roll-out to the public. It was quite a splash, with its sophisticated look of a website, its authors’ blog, and its many sub-genre offerings. And I got to be part of the action!RR anniversary image

A decade previous to this date, I embarked on writing short erotic fiction. Dozens of my stories appeared in major anthologies from Cleis Press, Alyson Books, the now-defunct Venus Book Club, Berkley Heat, and more. I celebrated every by-line and cherished every opportunity. But something was missing. I was one of those authors that the larger mainstream publishing world overlooked. I was an early blogger and diarist about sex and my sex life, yet no book deal came my way. I had a couple of novels in the can yet securing an agent was a multi-year exercise in futility. I watched the romance market embrace a certain level of eroticism in their publishing lines… but it did not speak to me in a way that was authentic to my experience or even paralleled the intensity of erotic writing I had done. Let me tell you, I felt left out in the cold.

Until Lori Perkins blew me away by inviting me to submit Ravenous Romance. She remembered my writing and publishing creds — something every writer prays for — and just when I questioned whether to continue on, she gave me the very outlet I needed to journey on. I had a whole new reason to celebrate and cherish opportunity. Since then, Lori and her partners have brought two of my novels into e-print. They’ve asked for several more, including one that is shaping up to be an opus of a lifetime. And, most soulful to me, they’ve allowed me to write from the erotic edge. Not once have they asked me to softball my erotic portrayals.

Today, all of us Ravenous Romance authors are celebrating our good fortune. We’re ecstatic. And our publisher is celebrating, too, by offering all full-length e-books to the reading public for a mere .99 cents. Go, check it out, and if you’re fond of my writing, look in the Wicked Pleasures section for more kinky fiction.

Happy anniversary, Ravenous Romance!

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Sep15

Weaving Erotic Wonders: The Naughty Campaign

by debrahyde on September 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Posted In: Shameless Promo

Or: naughty stuff, free for the asking!

Over the summer, my college-aged, production-savvy daughter helped me assemble an exciting DVD/CD promotional package, specifically geared to the erotic romance/erotica reader. It’s a DVD/CD package that has book trailers, author commentaries, and book excerpts of all my novels.wewPromo

My novels are exceptionally kinky and probably not for the faint-of-heart. But if you’re an adventurous, open-minded reader and game for interesting twists of erotic extremes, then you might enjoy my work.

If you’d like one of these babies, simply email me at debrawriting at cox dot net, provide your snail mail address, and I’ll send you a DVD/CD combo at no cost to you. (Adults only, please.)

I absolutely promise to regard your snail mail address as sacrosanct. I will not share it and if I have future offerings, I will contact you first via email.

I hope you’ll check out this freebie of mine. We had such fun putting it together and I’d like to pass our enthusiasm to you!

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Aug11

An Auspicious Milestone…

by debrahyde on August 11th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Posted In: Oddments

This past Sunday saw the tenth year anniversary of this here humble blog. Yes, Pursed Lips has reached the decade-old mark! My thanks to all of you who’ve followed me on this journey, whether you were among the few who joined me on day one or the many who discovered me after blogs exploded into the web forefront. A couple of years ago, I recalled:

I began Pursed Lips in August 1999 when the blogging community numbered less than two hundred individuals. Most of those blogs where tech-based. A few disseminated cultural tidbits to entertain us. But no one was writing about sex full-time in a blog format.

screen shot of Pursed Lip's debuit

screen shot of Pursed Lip's debuit

Oh, one or two entrepreneurial pornographers ran sites akin to a blog where they would post a newsy link, usually accompanied by a NSFW photo and always by links to hardcore material. But no one was writing about sex full-time in a content meaningful way.

So I did. Years before “not safe for work” entered the vernacular.

Ah, the joy of reminiscing!

Today, I’m not as avid a blogger as I was ten years ago. With the advent of new technologies, other competitors vie for my time. Like a quick 140 at Twitter. Or producing a book trailer for You Tube. And promotional give-away productions. Best of all, I’m busier than ever with my fiction writing.

But I’m still nostalgic for my past enthusiasms and I still love this little blog of mine. And to celebrate this modest milestone, I grabbed a screen shot of my first blog post to share with you — my foray into an emerging on-line avenue. Looking at it now, it reminds me of baby steps, good memories all.

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