Guest Author: Readers choose their own erotic adventures in Angora Shade’s Dragon’s Gift

Book Cover for The Dragon's Gift by Angora Shade

It’s cold and blustery in my neck of the woods, making it the perfect whether to warm up with a hot read. So it’s my pleasure to introduce this fascinating new release from erotica author Angora Shade. Based on her earlier story The Dragon’s Gift, this version allows readers to forge their own path, choosing from various plot twists to work toward the ending they most desire.

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Guest Author: Shiloh Saddler on lesbians in the Wild West

Shiloh Saddler is here to talk about her historical lesbian romance novella The Virgin Madam. It’s about Laura Rutherford, who inherits a brothel in 1879 Bitterroot Flats, California, after her Papa is murdered by a member of the Fletcher Gang. She secretly lusts after the working girls in her establishment, but thinks she is destined to live life as a Virgin Madam. When Joe Bascum comes to the brothel asking for a room, Laura is surprised to learn that this young cowboy is actually a woman in disguise. Sparks fly, but a member of the Fletcher Gang is hunting Joe for revenge. Will the outlaws prevent them from starting a life together? … Read more

Guest Author: Kari Trenten with Fairest

cover from second release of Fairest

Author: K.S. Trenten Title:  Fairest Cover Artist: Kris Norris Release Date:  May 11, 2016 from Prizm Books; rereleased in November 2017 in Once Upon a Rainbow from NineStar Press Heat Level: 2 Pairing: F/F Length: 27,425 words Genre/Tags: Lesbian Romance, Fantasy, New … Read more

Quote: What happened to the women Beat writers?

A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.”Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg  (via thisisendless)

Quote: Virginia Woolf on women as people

Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques –literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own)