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Comment on 6 – Twenty Five Things Tuesday: South of France by Leta Blake

Leta Blake — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:08:57 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised at that percentage, though I have to say I’m one of the only people I personally know who has not traveled outside of North America. I’ve traveled to Mexico, the British Virgin Islands, and several places in Canada, but never to another continent.

Comment on 6 – Twenty Five Things Tuesday: South of France by Food,Photography & France

Food,Photography & France — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:53:05 +0000

Nice choice of villas. Isn’t it true that something like 40% of Americans haven’t been out of the States. Interestingly, the French tend to holiday in France – why go any where else.( unless it’s Italy, of course):)

Comment on Stop With The Slut Shaming by But Is It Feminist: Slut Shaming | Callie Garp

But Is It Feminist: Slut Shaming | Callie Garp — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:23:25 +0000

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Comment on Erotic Writing under Attack by Amazon? by Leta Blake

Leta Blake — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:03:29 +0000

Yes, it seems a Catch-22 indeed. Romantica is fun and I love writing it, but sometimes blowing off steam and writing some raunchy erotica is just the right thing. I hope that Amazon gets off their moral high horse sooner rather than later. If not, I hope someone comes up with a solution. Are there any internet based storefronts that provide erotica without bounds? It seems most everywhere I look has some sort of limits. It would be nice to see an independent place to turn to at a time like this.

Comment on Erotic Writing under Attack by Amazon? by selenakitt

selenakitt — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:39:44 +0000

Thanks for posting this. You’re correct in that you’re damned if you do (take all the obvious erotica markers off your book and remain unfiltered but hard to find) and damned if you don’t (leave all the naughty covers and bad words on and get filtered and be harder to find). It’s a catch 22 amazon is hoping will drive erotica writers out of the market. And to some degree it works. There are a lot of erotica writers switching over to writing romantica. Making object covers like Sylvia Day and EL James and vouching the dirty with romance.

Comment on 4 – Twenty Five Things Tuesday: Will Write For Food by Leta Blake

Leta Blake — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:35:15 +0000

You are so kind to me. Come live in my pocket and tell me this every day. <3

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Erotic Writing under Attack by Amazon? | ChristianBookBarn.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:33:19 +0000

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Comment on 4 – Twenty Five Things Tuesday: Will Write For Food by Nancy J. Silberstein

Nancy J. Silberstein — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:54:35 +0000

That seems achievable to me. You are SO talented. njs

Comment on Fear & Barebacking Research by Amelia C. Gormley

Amelia C. Gormley — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:07:38 +0000

Yeah it’s a tricky question. I mean, we often feel socially obligated to portray other things responsibly, not to stereotype minority characters or use plot devices of serious real world shit like rape irresponsibly and in ways that trivialize them, so I do think most of us feel a certain sense of requirement to portray things in the “correct” way, but realism suffers and the correctness begins to feel trite and cliched, and reading it you begin to roll your eyes and think, “yeah, that would never happen.”

And yes, writing the Highland story was nice because it was a total non-issue!

Comment on Fear & Barebacking Research by Leta Blake

Leta Blake — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:16:14 +0000

You might catch some flack, but maybe the flack will bring about controversy, which will make people talk about you and your books, and ya know what they say about that kind of thing. Sales!

In the one that I wrote which came out of this research and which I hope to submit at the end of May, there is barebacking, but it’s after doing something so much more insane and risky that it’s just sort of like a non-issue really. It also makes sense from the big picture standpoint of the reader who gets both POVs. I’m not sure what people will make of it. I mean, the situation itself is so intensely risky that to use condoms in the middle would almost be hilarious. Like, whoa, I’ve serious stepped off the cliff of fear here, but, hey, midway down this drop let’s pause for some safety! It just can’t be done.

In the fairy tales, we’ve skipped them entirely because, ya know, fairy tales. Ain’t no STDs in fairy tales, yo.

In my other books, they are used/addressed as fit the characters. Which means, for the most part, they are used or discussed. But I think there are situations where they wouldn’t be and it would be okay. Authors aren’t required to portray moral situations in their books. I portray a lot of things in stories that no one should ever do or think are okay. Yet this whole condom thing is like a big fat red herring. Prostitution? Okay, but wear a condom! It’s like the person is already doing this seriously high risk thing–sex with a stranger, prostitution, the mystery event in my story–but the m/m audience balks if the condom isn’t there, and why is that? Is it all that 80s sex=death stuff mired in our psyche? Or do we actually have a responsibilty to portray only smart sex? I mean, we can write a story from a murderer’s POV but stick that murderer in a gay sex scene and that condom isn’t debatable!