Survey results for readers and book buyers

Author Lisabet Sarai (who you should be reading if you like terrific erotica and/or erotic romance) conducted a survey on the reading and book buying preferences of readers at her Beyond Romance blog. 

First round of results is up here:

Beyond Romance: Reader Survey Results - Part 1 

Interesting stuff!

CFS - Girls on Campus

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Conferences and award winners, oh my!

Here are some recent write-ups that I thought might be of interest:

Suleikha Snyder on RWA 2015, a Tale of Two Conferences - http://www.suleikhasnyder.com/2015/07/rwa15-in-nyc-tale-of-two-conferences.html?m=1

Winners of the 2015 Golden Crown Literary Awards for Lesbian Fiction - https://marygriggs.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/2015-goldie-award-winners/

This is focused on YA reviews but is worth reading and noting. When you review erotica or erotic romance featuring PIC and/or LGBTQ, how do you write about those works? 

http://www.diversityinya.com/2015/02/perceptions-of-diversity-in-book-reviews/

"Summer Love" up at Women and Words!

Read all about the fabulousness that is the new Ladylit anthology "Summer Love" (includes my summer theater story "Summer Stock") at Women and Words. Enter to win a free copy! http://womenwords.org/2015/07/17/summer-love-with-harper-bliss-and-caroline-manchoulas/

Boosting an excellent essay by writer Tamsin Flowers...

On the state of writing and publishing literary erotica. Highly recommended! 

http://tamsinflowers.com/2015/07/14/has-e-l-james-broken-erotica/#.VaelWhOPQ0o.twitter

Review love!

In which reviewers say nice things about books I have stories in and mention my stories!

Erotica for All - Forbidden Fruit review, in which my story "The Further Adventures of Miss Scarlet" is mentioned as a particular favorite.

Erotica Revealed - Reviewer Kathleen Bradean "strongly recommends" Forbidden Fruit.

Forbidden Fruit is also a Goldie Award Finalist and has some lovely reviews on Goodreads and Amazon.

Summer Love has several nice reviews so far. I particularly like this one which mentions my story, "Summer Stock."

Bossier has been getting nice reader reviews and is currently free for Kindle Unlimited!

Spy Games has its own book page on Facebook where you can keep up with the contributors and read snippets of the stories and get notified about new deals and reviews.

I should have some more good news soon. In the meantime, I'm working on novel edits!