The Green Light District

“Is Not Gold” a Free Read at Erotica For All!

If you haven’t heard (and perhaps you have, as I have seen it announced in a number of places), the indomitable Lucy Felthouse has created a new website for erotica readers and writers called Erotica For All. The “About” section of the site includes the following description:

The idea of the site is to bring together erotica readers and writers. You can get more information about particular authors, check out the latest competitions, read free erotica, find out about new releases and much, much more. The site will continually grow and expand with new content being added all the time.

I feel so appreciative of Lucy’s attention to and hard work on behalf of the erotica genre, and I have indeed found the site lovely so far. I have contributed an Author Profile to it, as have many of my colleagues—you can find them all in the Author Profiles section right here.

Among the many things the site offers (including a Forum for both readers and writers) are Free Reads, erotic stories posted on the site for visitors’ entertainment. :) Lucy has graciously received a story I sent her for this purpose entitled “Is Not Gold,” which is now up.

“Is Not Gold” was originally published last year by the now-defunct Ruthie’s Club, and I am delighted to offer it now on Lucy’s new site. I wish Erotica For All all the best, and if you are a reader or writer of erotica, I encourage you to drop by!

Love,
Emerald

He kissed her and then came inside her, gripping her hair as his orgasm unleashed the ferocity inside him, the desperate frustration and carnality and longing that had driven him since he pulled her from the bench. He could barely bring himself to pull out of her as he slid off her body, dropping his head to the ground as they came together, side by side on their backs on the rough ground, and she touched her head to his shoulder.
-from “Is Not Gold”

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My Favorite Holiday

Happy Fourth of July to those who observe it, and to those who don’t, happy fourth day of July. : ) The Fourth of July is my favorite holiday, mainly because it’s in the summer and involves fireworks.

On that note, last July Ms. Alison Tyler posted my flash story “Fireworks Display” at her blog H is for Harlot (thanks again Alison!). I’ve created a podcast of “Fireworks Display” that I wanted to feature today in honor of the Fourth of July. (It plays automatically upon clicking the link; length is about six and a half minutes.)

Happy day today, whether you observe it as a holiday or not! ; )

Love,
Emerald

I glanced over my shoulder again. Six pairs of eyes immediately found mine. Even if we had wanted to talk to each other, the noise of the fireworks display would have smothered any opportunity. The young men were relegated by necessity to pure voyeurs, I the exhibitionist, a lone figure competing against a backdrop of spectacular light and fire.
-from “Fireworks Display”

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Interviewed at ERWA This Month!

I am honored and delighted to have been interviewed by one of my favorite people in the erotica world, Ashley Lister, this month for his “Between the Lines” column at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (ERWA).

ERWA has been a resource I have utilized (heavily) for years—since I first started exploring submitting work for publication in the erotica genre, in fact. It is the most useful/helpful resource I know for erotica authors as far as publishing calls and also offers an array of information each month from its brilliant columnists.

And speaking of those brilliant columnists, the name “Ashley Lister” was one of the first names I ever remember seeing at ERWA. I started reading his regular offerings there almost as soon as I discovered the site, and I have been vastly admiring him from afar ever since. To be asked to be interviewed by him for a site that was the most instrumental in my ever publishing erotica is a profound honor to me.

Our interview may be found in full here. Thank you Ashley!

Love,
Emerald

“In the course of the psycho-spiritual inner work that has been a primary focus in my life for several years, I have seen more clearly some of the historical propensities in me as well as experienced an expanded perspective. So within the same story one character may display a lot of the perspectives and propensities I recognize that I demonstrated in the past alongside a different character who embodies some understanding I didn’t have then but may see more now.”
-from my interview with Ashley Lister for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association

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Baseball Adoration and “Who’s on Top?”

Baseball season is in full swing (ha), and as usual I am captivated by it. Summer has been my favorite season as far back as I can remember, and baseball is a big part of why. As is probably evident from my standard “Yankees fan” picture to the right, I am in particular partial to the New York Yankees.

I had planned to post this a few weeks ago as Rick Write and I embarked on a mini-vacation to attend the three-game Yankees vs. Orioles series at Camden Yards in Baltimore. Alas, I did not, obviously, but the plus side of that is that now I get to share the following picture of the baseball Francisco Cervelli signed for me on the way in from batting practice before the third game:

Cervelli, by the way, is by far my number one baseball crush right now. (Even his signature is beautiful!) He is the backup catcher for the Yankees, and Rick was instrumental in helping me get his attention enough that he signed this ball for me. : ) I was just as excited by Cervelli’s simply making eye contact with me and smiling, but I certainly appreciate having the ball as well to remind me of the experience!

Anyway, last year on Opening Day I posted an excerpt of my baseball-themed story that appears in Alison Tyler’s anthology G is for Games. I thought now I’d share the whole thing (slightly revised and edited from its published version). Since it’s a bit long for a blog post, I’ve embedded most of it after the jump following the first section of the story below.

Before I go I’d like to mention that I was notified a few days ago that SexForums.com has deemed The Green Light District an Editor’s Pick “Best of the Web” adult website for 2010! I feel truly honored that this site garnered that distinction (see lovely prize badge in the left sidebar) and send a big thank you out to SexForums.com! (Incidentally, welcome to any new readers coming from that venue, and thank you for visiting!)

Okay, without further ado, on to baseball erotica. ; )

Love,
Emerald

“Got a game in your head?”

They were the first words Corey ever said to me, startling me as he approached unseen from behind. I was standing in my neighborhood park, gazing at the silent baseball field in front of me. It’s a simple field, situated in the far corner of the park off the soccer field. It doesn’t have dugouts or bleachers, just a single metal bench for each team behind a chain link fence that borders the home plate corner.

But as simple as it is, a baseball field’s a baseball field as far as I’m concerned. A Yankees fan from birth, I grew up in New York with baseball in my blood; my parents met each other at Yankee Stadium during game six of the 1977 World Series. Having moved away from home but stayed on the East coast, I still go home for a game several times a summer, but for the most part I have to make do now watching them on TV.

In the meantime, I like to visit this field whenever I find myself at the park. My favorite time to come is at dusk, when the no-use-after-dark rule of the park is just about to take effect and parents are starting to gather their little ones and hurry home. I sit on the benches, wander the baselines, lean against the chain link fence behind home plate, appreciating whatever it is that attracts me about an empty playing field at night.

It was there I stood that evening mid-season, fingers laced through the metal as I watched the sun disappear behind second base, when I jumped at those words: Got a game in your head?

Turning, I saw an intriguingly hot stranger walking toward me, his hands in his jeans pockets.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you. I’m Corey.”

“Paige,” I said, stepping away from the fence to shake his hand. Glancing back at the field, I smiled and said, “I was just having a solitary moment of baseball appreciation.”

Corey laughed. “Yeah, I know what you mean.”

And he did, I could tell. I met his dark brown eyes and felt heat stirring in me as I looked him up and down. He joined me at the fence, and we turned back toward the field as darkness fell. I didn’t know it yet, but what attracted me about an empty playing field at night was soon to get a whole lot more involved.

»» Baseball Adoration and “Who’s on Top?”

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Relative Fabulousness!

I am utterly delighted to have received a contract for my story “Relative Anonymity” to be published in Best Bondage Erotica 2011, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel and to be released by Cleis Press in December!

I haven’t seen the table of contents yet, so I don’t know who else is in it, but it is available for pre-order on Amazon, and there’s the cover there on the right (I have almost that very same outfit! : )). I’m thrilled that “Relative Anonymity” will be included in this anthology, and big thanks to Rachel and Cleis Press.

I want to add that while I love, of course, announcing things such as this here, there have, as I mentioned in my last post, been other topics on which I am wanting to blog lately that I have not yet. I have felt somewhat tied up lately (ha!…okay, sorry…pun not really intended, but when it occurred to me I apparently chose not to resist using it ; )) in a number of areas, but I just wanted to mention that I plan to catch up on blogging about these topics soon.

Thanks, as always, for visiting and reading! : )

Love,
Emerald

Carly was breathless, her chest moving perceptibly as she pulled air in through her mouth. She did not remember when her mouth had fallen open, or when her breath had turned to gasps. Her panting, though silent, mirrored David’s as he backed away from Nate. She watched as he attended to undoing the restraints holding Nate’s wrists. She wondered if they were done.

They were not.
-from “Relative Anonymity,” forthcoming in Best Bondage Erotica 2011

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Passion Forthcoming!

There have been a number of things I have been wanting to blog about lately; for a variety of reasons, I obviously haven’t. Mostly this is because I was out of town much of last week and have been experiencing inconsistent Internet access at home the past couple weeks (that has presumably been fixed now). Really, I am utterly behind on all kinds of Internet-related endeavors right now!

I want to announce, however, that my story “If” has been accepted for publication in Rachel Kramer Bussel’s forthcoming erotic romance anthology, Passion, to be published by Cleis Press and released in November! I feel especially excited about this because I have not considered erotic romance to be a genre/angle toward which I have tended to feel inclined or certainly to specialize in. So I’m delighted this story seemed to work for the book, and I look forward to its being featured alongside work from authors such as Portia Da Costa, Saskia Walker, Justine Elyot, Donna George Storey, and numerous regulars in the erotic romance genre! The entire table of contents is listed on the anthology’s blog here.

Passion isn’t due out until November of this year, but it may be pre-ordered on Amazon now, and I suspect there will be more to come on the Passion blog as the release gets closer!

Love,
Emerald

I took the empty seat directly across from Hayden and did my best to ignore the fluttering in my stomach as I turned my attention to the cake on my plate. It was dark chocolate, with a layer of raspberries in the middle and creamy white frosting on top. I scooped up a dollop of frosting and gave it a delicate lick as I listened to Sarah talk about invitations. Nodding, I ran my tongue over my frosting-sweetened lips and glanced up to see Hayden watching me. I blushed and looked down—though not before I caught the deliberate interest beneath his cool gaze.
-from “If,” forthcoming in Passion

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Self-Examination on the Please, Sir Virtual Book Tour!

I feel profoundly delighted to have just discovered at ¡Qué sinvergüenza!, the latest stop on the virtual book tour for Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, a breathtakingly flattering mention of my story in the book.

Lila at ¡Qué sinvergüenza! excerpts from my story “Power over Power” and prefaces it with this statement: “The best kind of books, I find, are books that explain you to yourself, better than you ever could.”

Truly, there is hardly anything that could be said about something I’ve written that I would find more flattering. (She is speaking of the whole book, of course, but uses my story to illustrate an example.)

Thank you so much to ¡Qué sinvergüenza!, and remember the Please, Sir virtual book tour continues through the end of May!

Love,
Emerald

“All I really know is what I see, and everybody sees it differently, I wish someone could open up my heart and look inside of me, but I’m the only one who holds the key…”
-REO Speedwagon “The Key”

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