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Just a Reminder…

…My interview as an author in The Cougar Book is up today at the Logical-Lust blog!

Also, as you’ll see at the end of it, if you stop by the launch party today at AuthorIsland and leave a comment, you’ll go into a drawing to win a free copy of The Cougar Book!

Love,
Emerald

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An Action-Packed Holiday Week!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Lots going on this holiday week—read on for details!

First, in addition to one of my favorite holidays, today is also the official release date of The Cougar Book, edited by Jolie du Pre, published by Logical-Lust, and including my story, “To Make It That Way”! I’m very excited about this release, which is out in both print and e-book form and features loads of writers with whom I am delighted to be in a table of contents including (but not limited to!) Donna George Storey, Heidi Champa, Jeremy Edwards, Craig Sorensen, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Shanna Germain, D. L. King, and so many more.

(Funnily, it also happened to be during Valentine’s week last year that my story with the title of “Cougar” was published at Good Vibrations Magazine.)

On Wednesday, February 17, my Cougar Book author interview will be up at the Logical-Lust blog, which is featuring author interviews throughout the month of February. Also on Wednesday, there will be a Cougar Book launch party at Author Island, and later in the week, on Saturday, February 20, another release party will be held at the Jeanie and Jayha Yahoo Group starting at 12pm EST. All are welcome at both!

In other news, in honor of Valentine’s Day Ms. Violet Blue is offering free downloads of two of her erotic e-books and audio books today! Visit here to take advantage of her generous horny holiday offer!

Today is also the day the new website F-Stop: Expose the Naked I, presented by Neve Black, Shanna Germain, and Donna George Storey, makes its debut. I’m planning to contribute to F-Stop myself in the future and am looking forward to seeing what the site has in store.

Also this week, tomorrow (Monday, February 15) Dr. Dick of Dr. Dick’s Sex Advice is celebrating his third anniversary of podcasting! Dr. Dick interviewed me last March, and I not only immensely enjoyed the experience but continue to appreciate the extraordinary work Dr. Dick does. Happy podcasting anniversary, DD! :)

Whew! Happy Valentine’s Day again—I wish all a beautiful celebration of love, not only today but always.

Love,
Emerald

I saw the smile in her cobalt eyes before it reflected in the curve of her lips. It was that same smile, the one I’d seen when she’d pulled up in her car outside the bar that night, the one she’d given me when she’d first told me her name, the one she’d flashed as she’d gone up to the bedroom to change out of her wet shirt. The one I never determined what lay behind, that was always the same for her but seemed to bring such a wild variety of things out of me. The one that, to this day, may still be the strongest mental image I have of Cole.
-from “To Make It That Way” in The Cougar Book

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The Cougar Book Available for Pre-Order

The Cougar Book, edited by Jolie du Pre and published by Logical-Lust Publications, is available for pre-order now! And Logical-Lust has extended a special offer: Anyone who pre-orders The Cougar Book will receive a free e-book copy of Swing! Adventures in Swinging by Today’s Top Erotica Writers (in which my story “What We Do” appears).

The Cougar Book comes out February 14 and includes my story “To Make It That Way.” On February 20, from 12pm EST, there will be a release party at the Jeanie and Jayha yahoo group.

In the meantime, throughout the month of February the Logical-Lust blog will be featuring interviews with authors in The Cougar Book (I’ll announce here when mine goes live). Several have already gone up — today’s esteemed interviewee is the magnificent Jeremy Edwards — and you can check them out now and throughout the month of February right here!

Love,
Emerald

“‘Til she came to me one evening, hot cup of coffee and a smile, in a dress that I was certain she hadn’t worn in quite a while, there was a difference in her laughter, there was a softness in her eyes, and on the air there was a hunger even a boy could recognize…”
-Garth Brooks “That Summer”

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“Shift Change” in Open Source Sex!

Isn’t it funny how I slack for almost two weeks here on my blog, and when I finally get it together and post something, another thing pops right up for me to post about the same day? Funny, sure, as well as enormously exciting — because the incredible Violet Blue has read my story “Shift Change” from Best Women’s Erotica 2010 for her amazing podcast Open Source Sex!

I am simply giddy that Violet wanted to podcast the reading of “Shift Change,” and she does such a beautiful, amazing job reading it that I was seriously left breathless. I’m also still blushing about what she said about the story on her blog as well as in the podcast.

The reading of “Shift Change” is not available on iTunes Open Source Sex because Violet reserves that for nonfiction podcasts, so you can check it out if you so desire directly at her Open Source Sex page online — it’s Open Source Sex 72. Violet also offers another brand new podcast (which is on iTunes — Open Source Sex 71) in which she reads the introduction to Best Women’s Erotica 2010.

To add to the excitement, Violet is also going to be on The Oprah Winfrey Show today (Tuesday, November 17)! The topic of the show is women and pornography and erotica; more information is on Violet’s Facebook page. I can hardly wait!

Love and breathlessness,
Emerald

Open Source Sex 72 (Violet Blue reading “Shift Change“!)

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Please Indeed (and Thank You!)

Adding to an exciting writing week for me, I have received news that Cleis Press approved the table of contents for Rachel Kramer Bussel’s forthcoming anthology Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission, and it includes my story “Power Over Power”! I am delighted, of course, to be included in this anthology, the table of contents of which includes authors such as Donna George Storey, Charlotte Stein, Justine Elyot, Heidi Champa, Alison Tyler, and Sommer Marsden, to name but a few. The full table of contents may be found at Rachel’s blog here.

The book, whose beautiful cover is off to the left there (complete with an outfit that I want), is available for pre-order on Amazon and is scheduled for release next May. Yay!

Love,
Emerald

“With characteristic efficiency of motion, Dominic reached with one finger and pulled my chin up. A shudder ran through me as I felt his power — the power I saw in every move he made, that he exuded at the front of the class, that he spoke when he told us what we were capable of, that coiled and expelled from him whenever he slammed any part of his body into the punching bag. The power that lived unquestioned within him, so seamlessly that it was as though it wouldn’t exist without him.”
-from “Power Over Power“

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BWE 2010 Release!

My contributor copies of Best Women’s Erotica 2010 arrived today! It looks so beautiful, and I am so excited to have a story in this anthology alongside fellow writers Heidi Champa, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Alison Tyler, Sommer Marsden, and many more. (The entire table of contents may be viewed via the “Look Inside” option at Amazon.)

So far I have only read the introduction, written by editor Violet Blue, and her obvious enthusiasm therein makes me even more eager to delve into the rest of it. I was also utterly beside myself to see what Violet wrote about my own story in the introduction:

Finally, bringing the fantasies nearer to reality is the book’s closer and showstopper, “Shift Change” by Emerald, which makes sure that for us, a trip to Apple’s Genius Bar will never, ever be the same. And the wait will seem just a little more endurable with the fragments of Emerald’s multipartner story floating wishfully—and giddily—through our heads the next time we have to “take a number” to get a minute with a Genius.

(”Showstopper”! I was seriously speechless.) Thank you to Violet and publisher Cleis Press for including me in this edition of BWE. It is an honor.

Off to read!

Love,
Emerald

“I walked up to him, and he turned to me, never breaking eye contact as he dropped his cigarette and crushed it out with his boot. I didn’t break stride until I was touching him, my lips devouring his, the smell of cigarette smoke fresh in the cold fall air. His response held no hesitation, and his arms wrapped around me, his hands roaming from my ass up to my neck through my hair. I normally hated cigarette smoke, but I loved the way he was touching me so much that at that moment it barely fazed me.”
-from “Shift Change“

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