Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I enjoy reading all types of books, especially hot, sexy erotica! I’ve written about a dozen volumes of erotica, mostly of the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and spanking varieties in my series Bottoms Up. They are all available on Amazon (of course). I like to offer vicarious alternative sexual “experience” to daring readers curious about the intimate lives of others. If I whet your whistle or harden your resolve to read more of my work, I’ve succeeded.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest erotic book is “Titters,” a volume of erotic essays that covers a variety of topics related to sex and sexuality in all its infinite varieties. Love is, as they say, a many-splendored thing. This volume celebrates love in its many forms, but, in doing so, pokes fun at lovers and the people and things they love.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wish i could say “writing naked,” but, no, I don’t have any unusual habits, at least none related to writing.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
As far as erotica is concerned, some of the many authors who’ve influenced me include Jean Genet, Andre Gide, Thomas Mann, Edmund White, Larry Niven, John Cleland, Bobby Z Brite, Bentley Little, Anais Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, the Marquis de Sade, and several anonymous Victorian writers of erotica.
What are you working on now?
I am writing some short stories. When I’ve written enough, I will assemble them into a collection and offer them for sale on Amazon. I like to share the flowers of my passion.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Twitter?
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Check out still images and videos (pausing the latter as necessary) before and during your writing of erotic scenes. Doing so should enhance your own lovemaking scenes and help to make them more realistic, erotic, and beautiful. Don’t be afraid to try new, exotic, or even “forbidden” sex scenes. Your reader will thank you.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Sexual pleasure is at least as much about the head as it is the hips. Be sure your sex scenes sizzle with both sex and emotion. I like to alternate between the male and the female points of view (on the relatively rare occasions I’m writing about heterosexual love). That way, my reader sees, hears, smells, tastes, and (especially) feels sex as both a man and a woman. I write about this technique in “Bottoms Up: An Erotic Reader: Vol. VI: Essays on Erotica.” (The essay is called “The Bisexualizing Effect of Erotica.”)
What are you reading now?
Nothing at the moment, but I usually read something related to femdom, sissification, feminization, transgenderism, spanking, or gay sex. I also like to read about heterosexual couples coupling, but, for me, “kinky” stories seem to resonate more. It takes all kinds, right? To make the world go ’round?
What’s next for you as a writer?
A new collection of erotic short stories, I suppose, looms upon my horizon.
What is your favorite book of all time?
In relation to erotic fiction, I especially enjoyed Thomas Mann’s novel “Death in Venice.”
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