Posts that relate very generally to life
Category: Life
FREE 19 Gothic reads
I thought you may be interested in 19 FREE Gothic reads, The Veiled Heart is featured it this great giveaway bundle: click HERE
Kilted Yoga
54 million views! I’ll not confess to how many clicks are mine! Any appetite for a series of Elsa Holland Highlander novellas??
Random Musings… in Bali
I am having a great couple of weeks putting writing first. The best thing about dodgy internet is that all those pressures to stay on-top of your regular responsibilities are forcibly removed. I make it to a cafe every now and again …
Michelle Augello… Dark poet erotic writer..
Michelle Augello, writes creative fiction, erotica and is also an editor for Siren. For those of you that want to publish edgier work go have a look at what Siren does. Her blog is here https://michelleaugellopage.wordpress.com/ Michelle has some works available …
Muses… they’re a handful
All the writers I hang out with have a muse of sorts. When writers describe their muse it ranges from a distinct presence to a form of inspiration or internal guidance. Some relay a sense of communication from within and others …
The Epiphany of a Kiss – Jason Silva
Jason Silva in his stream of consciousness style, talks of a kiss… “a Kiss is to be touched, touched in the most erotic and intimate of ways….” I have to admit, a kiss is my all time favorite of things to …
Random Musings
Luckily, I am broken. I have been broken for most of my adult life. They say your life runs in 3 and 7 year cycles, well I had a 7 year cycle from 15 – 22yrs which broke me three times. Breaks …
Małgorzata Chodakowska & Beauty.
I am a great believer in the role of beauty to shift consciousness. The impact of a breathtaking vista, the perfection of a fern frond as it unfolds, the prisms of light as they shine for the smallest moment through …
Quick Update on upcoming Release
The Painted Heart is getting another postponement I am sorry to say. I was planning to release later this month but it looks like that is more likely March 2017. As consolation I am about 65-70% through Painted Trust …
Snippet from The Painted Heart
Here is a Snippet from the Painted Heart towards the beginning of the book. It is at the end of their first outing which was part of last weeks snippet here. London 1898 Her heart pounded. Blackburn looked down at his …
Why do we write what we write?
Someone asked me recently. ‘Where do you get the ideas to write what you write? Why do you write about the topics you do?’ I hadn’t really thought much about it until I watched a recent interview with Kate Grenville and …
1822-1865 Photography from Lady Clementina Hawarden
People ask whether these were the first fashion photographs.
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Giant Calligraphy Brush
For those of you not sure how the scene in The Bound Heart, with the calligraphy brush might have looked, this will give you some ideas of how large a calligraphy brush can be and the art it creates. There …
A Brief History of Hairless Vaginas in Art (NSFW)
Hairless-ness… I have to admit I never thought about nudes as being shaved or waxed…somehow there hairless state seems to add a civility to the public nakedness.
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Random Musings: Elizabeth Gilbert on where inspiration comes from
This is a great video to watch about the creative process. There is a part where she talks about how a poet talks about the poems and how they come to her… just brilliant. There are other elements that underlie the …
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Where does the writing come from?
Emmanuelle de Maupassant is surveying erotic writers and will be doing a series of articles on her findings. You can find her here if you want to watch out for them. I thought I’d share some of my answers for those …
Beautiful Old castle video
Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
Sexy snippet – gorgeously erotic writing by Elsa Holland
Great write up on The Veiled Heart, at Josie Baker’s blog today!
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AUSSIE MONTH with Elsa Holland
Talking with Jaimee at AusRom today about The Bound Heart
Sara Moon Photography
Just have to share this photographer, Sarah Moon. She started her career as a model and then moved behind the camera and did fashion shoots and now art shots. The elements which attracted me were the moodiness of the images, …