“How Poetry Saved My Life” Reading with Amber Dawn (& me!) on Wednesday in SF
I’m reading as a special guest for Amber Dawn‘s San Francisco book release party for How Poetry…
Erotica Call for Submissions: Book Lovers
from http://sealpress.com/submissions.php
Smart is sexy—and we know it. Book Lovers answers the demand for intelligent erotica, offering readers toe-curling tales written by real wordsmiths.
Calling all bad-boy authors, sweet young publicists, biblio-fetishists, and journalist nerds-gone-wild: ever engaged in book tour debauchery, pined for a professor or forced your partner to speak like Faulkner, just to fulfill a fantasy? Pleasured yourself to a Sookie Stackhouse novel, run your fingers through Malcolm Gladwell’s hair or wished for a Nicholas Sparks character to come to life? We’re desperately seeking steamy stories—both real and imagined—with a bookish bent. We want them now and we want them well-written.
Send us your well-crafted fiction, creative nonfiction and illustrated stories of hetero, homo and bisexual romantic encounters connecting literature to libido. Dazzle us with your literary prowess. Turn us on enough to make us turn the page. Wow us with words.
We’re looking for smart, sensual storytelling at its finest. Female, male and transgendered writers welcome.
GUIDELINES:
Stories must be titled. Author’s name must appear on actual submission. Stories should be between 1000–5000 words, doublespaced, paginated and word-processed. No funky fonts. Change character names to protect the guilty. Reprints ok, with permissions.
Pseudonyms ok. Please, no rants or political speeches. References to bestsellers and popular modern literature are appreciated, but we are not interested in fan fiction.
Please include a brief bio (1-3 sentences) in your cover letter.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
July 1st, 2013
Please send your submissions to: bookloverseditor@gmail.com
Writers chosen for the book will be contacted in the fall. Selected stories will be published in an anthology to be released in Spring 2014.
Each contributor receives two free copies of the finished book, shall be included in publicity promoting the book and will be invited to read at literary events associated with the release of the book. Compensation TBD.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Shawna Kenney is the author of award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Last Gasp), which enjoys international translation and is in development as a television series with the FX Network. She is also the author of Imposters (Mark Batty Publishers), a coffeetable-style book about celebrity impersonators.
Kenney’s work has appeared in Ms., Bust, Juxtapoz, Alternative Press, The Florida Review, The Rumpus and Creative Nonfiction, among others. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, including NY Times Bestseller Hos, Hookers, Callgirls and Rentboys: Professionals
Writing on Life, Love, Money and Sex (Soft Skull Press), Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (Seal Press), The Underground Guide to Los Angeles (Manic D Press) and Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop (Soft Skull Press).
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a BA from American University.
She teaches creative writing for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and her own online workshops. For more info see:
Knstrct: Libraries, ah!
- Stockholm Public Library | Olivier Charles (Concept)
- Stuttgart City Library| Yi Architects
- Selexyz Dominicanen |In Maastricht
- The Law Library of Munich
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In which Jack Halberstam calls Sinclair Sexsmith “dude.”
Want to win a copy of Jack’s newest book, Gaga Feminism? Just go leave a comment on this short but sweet interview.
Among the problems Nabokov’s Lolita poses for the book designer, probably the thorniest is the popular misconception of the title character. She’s chronically miscast as a teenage sexpot—just witness the dozens of soft-core covers over the years. “We are talking about a novel which has child rape at its core,” says John Bertram, an architect and blogger who, three years ago, sponsored a Lolita cover competition asking designers to do better.
Now the contest is being turned into a book, due out in June and coedited by Yuri Leving, with essays on historical cover treatments along with new versions by 60 well-known designers, two-thirds of them women: Barbara deWilde, Jessica Helfand, Peter Mendelsund, and Jennifer Daniel, to name a few. They don’t shy away from frank sexuality, but they add layers of darkness and complication. And like Jamie Keenan’s cover—a claustrophobic room that morphs into a girl in her underwear—they provoke without asking readers to abdicate their responsibility.
(via Recovering Lolita — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers)
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Sinclair Sexsmith’s Lesbian BDSM masterpiece, “Say Please” is on fire and blogs are raving about anthology. Here are a few more reviews.
http://velvetparkmedia.com/blogs/sinclair-sexsmiths-lesbian-bdsm-erotica-reading-tonight
http://butchlesque.com/2012/04/say-please-book-review/
http://thecsph.org/csph-bonus-feature-review-of-say-please-by-sinclair-sexsmith
http://theblackleatherbelt.com/review-say-please-lesbian-bdsm-erotica
Did you know you can catch Sinclair Sexsmith in flesh on her “Say Please” book tour? Check out dates here.
YOU GUYS.
the first copies of Say Please arrived at my house today!
I am so fucken excited to put this book into your hands. it’s been more than a year that I’ve been working on it, and I can’t wait to see what y’all think of it. I keep flipping through it and catching all sorts of dirty lines and phrases and mmm I just love it. but you don’t have to take MY word for it … :)
Amazing!
(for other reading recommendations, check out my books lists!)
(Source: pip-so-and-so, via mostsmartest)
this was one of the books that changed my life, I picked it up and couldn’t put it down, and thought, why do I like this so much? (turns out, I was gay.) really beautiful photography in here.
I NEED a copy of this book.
(Source: izfierce)
cover photo by Clayton Cubitt.
The Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 1: Week in Hell is up for pre-order! The journey of Week in Hell from crazy idea on how to spend my birthday to mad week long art binge to art book put out by IDW is something that fills me with all sorts of butterfly laden joy. And to celebrate, I’m doing a contest.
I have two 11 x 13 original cuts I made during Week in Hell, the kind that went for $100. And I want to give them to you guys.
To enter the Week in Hell Contest, either
1. Preorder The Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 1: Week in Hell on Amazon. Email your receipt to WeekInHell@Gmail.com
OR
2. Preorder your copy of The Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 1: Week in Hell at your local comics store. It’s in Diamond Previews now, for March delivery. It’s Diamond code is JAN12 0483. Email your receipt to WeekInHell@Gmail.com. Preordering from local stores is VERY important, both because we want stores to carry our weird little art book, and because supporting stores, rather than Amazon, is what keeps the world from turning into parking lots and Walmart
We will be choosing one winner who preordered on Amazon, and one winner who pre-ordered from their local store. Contest closes on January 31st, and winners will be chosen and notified by February 3rd
Thank you so much for your support!
A Queer and Pleasant Danger- Available for pre-order now!
rkb:
Via Full FIgure Entertainment (Seal is publishing my erotica anthology Curvy Girls in March).
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : FAT-POSITIVE ANTHOLOGY
Editor: Virgie Tovar – author, fat activist/lifetime fat girl, and MA, Human SexualityDeadline: November 15, 2011
Length: 1500-3000 words
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