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Scifi – Must Breed!

I really love Scifi fiction, especially when it’s paired with the popular ‘must breed!’ trope. I think it ties in with my desire to see this hang-up about sex and sexuality get abolished. I’m tired of...

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In Defense of Fanfic-Inspired Erotica

One of the most common complaints I’ve seen about the infamous Fifty Shades of Gray is that it started its life as Twilight fanfic. That’s always bothered me a bit, mostly because there are so many...

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Evil As A Perspective

Or perhaps I should say: Evil is a lack of perspective. A literary trick I’ve often employed — and seen employed — boils down to a simple matter: the protagonist and antagonist are often just a matter...

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Reader Expectations

I’ll be honest, we’re not great at managing and writing to reader expectations. It’s funny to me, because people complain so often that they can’t find anything new, that people just keep remaking the...

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Standing Alone

Recently a fan posed their concern that in Magic Academy, our latest novel, that we didn’t quite give the main character, Firia, enough time to shine on her own. To stand against challenges without the...

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My Queer Erotica – Where Have All the Heteros Gone?

Do you ever have those moments where you look back on your life and notice something is missing? I haven’t, lately, since my life is pretty good, but I did notice something missing from my catalog, as...

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Bad, Bad, Bad Boys

When I was younger and first started writing fanfiction, I wanted bad boys. Not the smoking, swearing, won’t bring them home to mother types. No, I wanted bad boys. Boys that might just murder you and...

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Dark Erotica in Fantasy or Contemporary Settings

I have a really difficult time reading dark erotica in contemporary settings. It’s fairly popular (if you know what you’re looking for) to find kidnapping, and sexual slavery, and rape erotica. There’s...

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The Fantasy of Being A Writer

I know my partner talked about this not long ago, but it’s something that keeps playing with my mind. The expectation of what it is to be a writer, what my life is supposed to be as a writer, how my...

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Empathetic Characters

Once upon a time, back in the days before we started writing and publishing, Joshua and I were walking in a book store. This was one of our biggest hobbies, going and checking out the new books, or old...

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Erotic Roleplay in MMORPGs

If you know me, or have known me, for any bit of time, you should know that I love erotic roleplay in my MMORPGs. Not just that, but that’s what inspired my first bouts of real storytelling and...

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Cliffhangers and romance

Earlier this month Tamsin wrote about serials with cliffhangers: TV serials often end an episode on a cliffhanger, but when it comes to books many readers dislike them. The commonest reason seems to be...

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