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Naked Reader Book Club Discussion: Daughters of Darkness, Edited by Pam Keesey and Girls Who Bite, Edited by Delilah Devlin (October 25, 8-10 PM EST)

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Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by Antipova
Heh. We had to ban my mom from making tea on the stove when I was growing up... she ruined more pans than she could remember to count ... which is why I have a whistling kettle!
Oh my...
10/25/2011
Contributor: Delilah Devlin Delilah Devlin
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Originally posted by Diabolical Kitty
Delilah, I was wondering....What got you started with lesbian erotica?
I'd done a few f/f scenes in my erotica before, but my publishers, at the time, kept saying it didn't sell, and can you do more m/m/f, Delilah?

Then a friend asked me to submit to Zane's Purple Panties--I was accepted. And then I found the ERWA website where they publish all those yummy calls for submission for LGBT anthos.

Last month, I published my first f/f antho with Paisly Smith, with guess what? Female vampires. Yeah, we had so much fun with our Girls Who Bite stories that we teamed up for Bitten in the Big Easy which has vamps and witches joining forces to fight Elizabeth Bathory--the Blood Countess.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Sacchi Sacchi
Like Delilah, I'm sometimes lured out of my main niche by intriguing calls for submission. Besides my Dream Lover story, I have straight (or bisexual) stories now in Kristina Wright's Steamlust (just out now) and Lustfully Ever After (out in May, as is my own Girl Fever anthology with 69 (gulp!) short-short stories.) Sometimes a story's just gotta go where it's gotta go.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by removedacnt
I have a special offer for all of you!

Anyone interested in buying a copy of Girls Who Bite tonight can get $5 off. Just email me at Liz @ Edenfantasys.com and I'll send you the code. This is only good until Midnight EST. I'll reply ... more
Whoa, I like that type of prizes.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by WildeKnight
Delilah, Ivy doesn't know it yet, but I'm hacking her account and ordering your book.


...wait... I just put that in the public forum, didn't I?


...I love you sweetie?
LOL! You are so silly!
10/25/2011
Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by WildeKnight
Delilah, Ivy doesn't know it yet, but I'm hacking her account and ordering your book.


...wait... I just put that in the public forum, didn't I?


...I love you sweetie?
Oh, and I love you, too.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Diabolical Kitty Diabolical Kitty
Delilah and Sacchi,

I do a lot of writing. It's not erotica, more romance. If I was to want to publish some erotica, what's the best way of trying to get published? How did you first get published?
10/25/2011
Contributor: Sacchi Sacchi
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Originally posted by Delilah Devlin
I was sad when marketing nixed "Beastly Babes" as the title for the shapeshifting antho, but She-shifters has a certain ring to it--like She-ra! And I had some fantastic submissions for it! *wink*
Trust me, Delilah, you're better off without "Babes" in the title if you want to appeal to lesbian readers.
10/25/2011
Contributor: oldman oldman
Well, just a follow up comment to what has been said: gay, straight, lesbian, hetero...label it what you will...vampire lore is amongst the hottest stuff ever--very erotic and sensual...I have been a fan from the TV days of Barnabus Collins (Dark Shadows--soap opera on TV in the late 60's) and the earliest Anne Rice novels. It's all good.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by Delilah Devlin
I'd done a few f/f scenes in my erotica before, but my publishers, at the time, kept saying it didn't sell, and can you do more m/m/f, Delilah?

Then a friend asked me to submit to Zane's Purple Panties--I was accepted. And then I ... more
Really more m/m/f? Ah right, for female readers it would make sense. It's surprising at times how erotica seems so opposite to pornography, where the women are queens and have orgasms.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by Kynky Kytty
I'm definitely going to add that book to my list. I also have the Red Velvet and Absinthe on my bed table, I'm halfway through and I love it. Paranormal is hot. It feeds some fantasies.
I'm looking forward to reading "Red Velvet and Absinthe". I loved Mitzi Szereto's "Foreign Affairs". I imagine I'll like her choices for "Red Velvet" as well.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Antipova Antipova
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Originally posted by removedacnt
I have a special offer for all of you!

Anyone interested in buying a copy of Girls Who Bite tonight can get $5 off. Just email me at Liz @ Edenfantasys.com and I'll send you the code. This is only good until Midnight EST. I'll reply ... more
Woo! I might have been sucked in!
10/25/2011
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by Sacchi
Trust me, Delilah, you're better off without "Babes" in the title if you want to appeal to lesbian readers.
Beastly Butch? Sorry, I couldn't help laughing at my lame title.
10/25/2011
Contributor: removedacnt removedacnt
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Originally posted by oldman
Well, just a follow up comment to what has been said: gay, straight, lesbian, hetero...label it what you will...vampire lore is amongst the hottest stuff ever--very erotic and sensual...I have been a fan from the TV days of Barnabus Collins (Dark ... more
Dark Shadows! That's my kind of vampire story. I loved that show!
10/25/2011
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by Antipova
Woo! I might have been sucked in!
Good for you! Before I started reading books through the Naked Reader, I had only read lame unedited stories online, and I never went back. Those stories are good.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Delilah Devlin Delilah Devlin
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Originally posted by Kynky Kytty
Wow, well done in resuming the stories in so little words.
Wish I could claim credit, but my contributors and I helped each other with it. That was part of the fun working on this antho. I put together a yahoo loop where we talked about what to put in the back cover blurb, how to condense our stories to loglines, how to promo the book. We've gotten really close over the months!
10/25/2011
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by oldman
Well, just a follow up comment to what has been said: gay, straight, lesbian, hetero...label it what you will...vampire lore is amongst the hottest stuff ever--very erotic and sensual...I have been a fan from the TV days of Barnabus Collins (Dark ... more
I agree, I'm straight, and only slightly bi-curious and I was as turned on as when I read other types of erotica.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by Delilah Devlin
I'd done a few f/f scenes in my erotica before, but my publishers, at the time, kept saying it didn't sell, and can you do more m/m/f, Delilah?

Then a friend asked me to submit to Zane's Purple Panties--I was accepted. And then I ... more
Ooh! Sounds interesting. Are any stories going to include Marie Laveau? The voodoo queen of New Orleans?
10/25/2011
Contributor: removedacnt removedacnt
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Originally posted by oldman
Well, just a follow up comment to what has been said: gay, straight, lesbian, hetero...label it what you will...vampire lore is amongst the hottest stuff ever--very erotic and sensual...I have been a fan from the TV days of Barnabus Collins (Dark ... more
Welcome! Is this your first time joining us?
10/25/2011
Contributor: Delilah Devlin Delilah Devlin
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Originally posted by Antipova
I lilke how this is in so many different settings, rather than just Transylvania and the Olympic Coast.

The Sonoran desert, Rome, and the wax museum sound like really great locations for stories!
And that was what I tried to convey in my call for submissions to authors. I wanted them to look at other countries' mythologies and think outside the box a bit. Vamps have been done to death, but I knew there was more that could be said. I wanted to make sure that the book we put together would appeal to vamp lovers, not just the lesbian crowd, who were looking for something fresh.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by oldman
Well, just a follow up comment to what has been said: gay, straight, lesbian, hetero...label it what you will...vampire lore is amongst the hottest stuff ever--very erotic and sensual...I have been a fan from the TV days of Barnabus Collins (Dark ... more
Vampires have always been sexy.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Antipova Antipova
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Originally posted by Kynky Kytty
Good for you! Before I started reading books through the Naked Reader, I had only read lame unedited stories online, and I never went back. Those stories are good.
Oh, I know it! When this month's themes didn't appeal to me I bought a different Cleis book instead... I pretty much need a book a month now But now that I've been talked into two in a month maybe I'll have to up my dose
10/25/2011
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by Ivy Wilde
Ooh! Sounds interesting. Are any stories going to include Marie Laveau? The voodoo queen of New Orleans?
I never heard of that author. How are her stories?
10/25/2011
Contributor: Sacchi Sacchi
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Originally posted by Diabolical Kitty
Delilah and Sacchi,

I do a lot of writing. It's not erotica, more romance. If I was to want to publish some erotica, what's the best way of trying to get published? How did you first get published?
Kitty, your best bet is to watch the Calls for Submission on the Erotica Readers and Writers web site:

link

There are other places, too, but just about everything turns up there.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Diabolical Kitty Diabolical Kitty
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Originally posted by Antipova
Oh, I know it! When this month's themes didn't appeal to me I bought a different Cleis book instead... I pretty much need a book a month now But now that I've been talked into two in a month maybe I'll have to up my dose
Do you buy your books?
10/25/2011
Contributor: Top Kat Top Kat
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Originally posted by Kynky Kytty
Really more m/m/f? Ah right, for female readers it would make sense. It's surprising at times how erotica seems so opposite to pornography, where the women are queens and have orgasms.
"...where the women are queens and have orgasms." Love that!
10/25/2011
Contributor: removedacnt removedacnt
Quote:
Originally posted by Antipova
Oh, I know it! When this month's themes didn't appeal to me I bought a different Cleis book instead... I pretty much need a book a month now But now that I've been talked into two in a month maybe I'll have to up my dose
Congratulations Antipova! You won the second $25 Edenfantasys gift card of the evening. Please email me at Liz @ Edenfantasys.com
10/25/2011
Contributor: Ivy Wilde Ivy Wilde
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Originally posted by Delilah Devlin
Wish I could claim credit, but my contributors and I helped each other with it. That was part of the fun working on this antho. I put together a yahoo loop where we talked about what to put in the back cover blurb, how to condense our stories to ... more
That sounds like fun! Hard work, but fun to work with the authors that way.
10/25/2011
Contributor: WildeKnight WildeKnight
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Originally posted by Kynky Kytty
I never heard of that author. How are her stories?
Marie Laveau isn't an author. She was a very famous voodoo practitioner from New Orleans.
10/25/2011
Contributor: Diabolical Kitty Diabolical Kitty
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Originally posted by Sacchi
Kitty, your best bet is to watch the Calls for Submission on the Erotica Readers and Writers web site:

link

There are other places, too, but just about everything turns up there.
Thank you Sacchi I am going to save that site and just start reading it all tomorrow. I appreciate it!
10/25/2011