Hey, Cleis Press, can women have some muscle, please?
We’re watching Cleis Press on Erotica Cover Watch today and asking why, oh why, is a progressive, feminist, indie, queer publishing house creating erotica covers with the same tiresome gender bias as all those other publishers?
Xcite’s Backside Outsides
On Erotica Cover Watch this week, Mathilde Madden is looking at women’s butts and Xcite books. We love Xcite’s insides but reckon their outsides lack insight.
Please come along to share your thoughts and check out my latest LOLtits!
Ultimate Burlesque!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and, newly released this week, is Ultimate Burlesque, an erotica anthology published as part of Emily Dubberley’s Burlesque Against Breast Cancer campaign. All authors wrote their stories for free, and profits from the book go to Macmillan Cancer Support. You may just know some of the writers involved: Monmouth, Alison Tyler, Portia Da Costa, Jeremy Edwards, Nikki Magennis, Donna George Storey and me!
Go to the Ultimate Burlesque website for the full lowdown on all the authors plus details of the UK reading tour. And if you’re in Brighton on October 30th, then do come along to Waterstones to hear me read from my story, The Lion Tamer’s Scars.
In other news, I’ve been poking around in erotica publishing’s hidden corners and, after much blood, sweat and tears, can now bring you a bundle of truly taboo-busting images! Check them out on this week’s Erotica Cover Watch. Come on, don’t be afraid. It’s only bodies.
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ETA: I meant to say, if you still haven’t read my super-filthy, super-sexy, controversial bestseller, Asking for Trouble, it is currently dirt cheap on Amazon UK! (And this is not, as has been suggested (you know who you are), because I’ve been remaindered. I am currently flying high at number FIVE in Amazon’s erotica charts!) So pop Asking for Trouble in your basket when you buy Ultimate Burlesque and have yourself a serious smutfest.
LOLtits! I Can Haz Sexist!!
Check out LOLtits! I Can Haz Sexist!!, the latest, most fabulousest addition to Erotica Cover Watch.
Then tell us what you think about today’s topic, the covers of Susie Bright’s Best American Erotica series. They’re lovely images, sure, but are they fair to women? Or is it high time the smut shelves featured some man candy for us?
Join me and Mathilde Madden in our bid to Banish Inequality on Covers in Erotica, Porn and Smut (BICEPS)!
Kristina Lloyd
“Kristina Lloyd blends literary and popular styles beautifully”
I write erotic fiction about sexually submissive women who like it on the dark, dirty and dangerous side. My novels are published by Black Lace and my short stories appear in a range of anthologies, including several “best of” collections, in both the UK and US.
I live in Brighton, a seaside town in the south of England. Brighton is the setting for my controversial and most popular novel, Asking for Trouble. Check out some reader reviews here.
My fourth Black Lace novel, Thrill Seeker is now out in paperback and ebook in the UK, and will be available in the US and Canada in June 2013.
Read Chapter One of Thrill Seeker: Liam doesn’t usually come when I’m sucking him, but on the night it started he was different.
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Praise for Kristina Lloyd
“one of my favorite writers” – Alison Tyler
“Kristina makes no apology for writing transgressive fiction with some heavy female submission” – Elizabeth Coldwell
“a very gifted author” – Violet Blue
“Aside from being intensely erotic, Kristina’s fiction does not shy away from taking sex to extremes. And all of this accomplished with a literary finesse that makes her writing truly distinctive” – Ashley Lister
“disgustingly clever and graceful” – Graydancer
I’ll be running a writing workshop, Pen and Kink, at Brighton Fetish Weekend in June. Come and play!
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Interviewed by For Books' Sake
"Our culture doesn’t offer many options for women to be sexual beings on their own terms."
Interviewed by Ashley Lister
"It's the weight and lightness of sex that I'm trying to replicate"
Interviewed by Rude Words
"My world was quite small."
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