Opening Thoughts Innocents is a masterstroke of storytelling wherein to understand, fully, the story, you have to understand the self protective lies a neglected, abandoned 16 year old girl would tell herself to avoid the reality of her powerlessness.Written when...
I've been wanting to read Tampa since it came out. Now the book is nearly as old as the teacher's victims, and had me yelling "What the fuck" with every turn of the page.In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in...
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Amazon has made some huge changes to how it's paying authors for borrows under its Kindle Unlimited program. Previously, all authors were paid the same for all books, regardless of length - an average of $1.39 that has constantly been dropping over the last 6 months....
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As our spooktacular Halloween episode, we talk to fellow monster erotica aficionado, E.K. Sabins, about Amazon, taboos, and Gauis Baltar. https://jmkeep.com/halloween-2014/ https://jmkeep.com/newsletter http://www.amazon.com/E.-K.-Sabins/e/B00H2NUT7W Youtube: Libsyn:...
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~Originally posted on One Handed Writers~ Sorry for the lengthy title, but I don't know how to put it any better than that. Back in June you may recall that we had our Amazon publishing account suspended. The reason given was that we had tried to republish books that...
So the J.E. & M. Keep Fantasy Scifi Erotica Whatever podcast name just isn't working for us. We have no idea why. Something about 'constantly forgetting the name of our podcast' or 'moving away from erotica kind of' or 'what the fuck who names their podcast that?'...
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Normally we talk a lot about the typical sort of thing, us authors do enjoy talking about our for-sale books, and why wouldn’t we? That’s what puts the food on the table for many, that’s the substance of our dream before us: our physical (or at least e-physical) proof...
Despite our best efforts to play by Amazon’s rules (their rather unhelpful “about what you’d expect” rule that is) our publishing account was suspended this week. We watched in horror as our whole livelihood -- my full time job -- was threatened before our very eyes,...
One of the comments that we’ve gotten about The Mistress is that people weren’t satisfied with the ending. For a long time, this really confused Joshua and myself. There may be spoilers here, so go buy the book, read it, return here and discuss with us J So, now that...
Stoic characters have always fascinated me. I’m a chronic oversharer and an all-around incredibly open person. My heart is on my sleeve, and I don’t hide my emotions very well. So these characters that can avoid the lure of truthfulness are really interesting to me....
I really love Scifi fiction, especially when it’s paired with the popular ‘must breed!’ trope. I think it ties in with my desire to see this hang-up about sex and sexuality get abolished. I’m tired of monogamy being touted as the only way, despite being in a...
As you should likely know by now, Joshua and myself are big fans of H.P. Lovecraft. His mastery of horror and suspense is astounding, especially as it has held up so well against the test of time. But what I like most about his books are his endings. I talked before...
*Originally posted on OneHandedWriters, a blog for romance and erotica readers & authors.* I always thought that polygamy would be the lifestyle for me. When I was 16, I was friends with a woman on Livejournal. She was a sweet, if tortured, soul. Some said that...
Prostitution has never been illegal in Canada. However, there were certain things associated with being a certain type of prostitute that were. In the end, being a prostitute was legal, unless you were poor and unable to work in the comfort and security of a safe home...
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Feeling is very important to me. One of the greatest gifts I could possibly give to our readers and fans is emotion. Raw, honest, heartfelt emotion. After all, what more personal way can you reach out to someone than by tugging their heart strings? As a society we...
Maybe it’s because I’m an empathetic person, but I didn’t really find it funny or strange that the character in American Beauty was able to find such beauty in nothing more than garbage. Some days I, too, feel like I will be overwhelmed by the sorrowful beauty in the...
Death doesn’t wait for everything to be perfect. There was this silly saying that I used to mindlessly repeat, that no one dies with an empty inbox. I thought I got it – that there will always be things to do. But that’s not really what it means it all. It means that...
Anjasa is an enigma. She seems to be one thing – a calm seductress, a gold digger. She should be a courtesan or a stripper, parting men from their hard earned money, but she’s left those things behind. Instead, she’s looking for fun. A good time. But even someone so...
When Dreamers Wake was my baby. My present to Joshua after he plotted out a bunch of stories that played on my kinks and desires for stories. It was a lot of fun to plan the overall story arch, from the innocent beginnings with a random tryst to something so much...
*Originally posted on OneHandedWriters, a blog for romance and erotica readers & authors.* I have to admit. I love writing. I love exploring new characters that are so different from myself, and writing books that I want to read. But publishing, too, affords me a...
*Originally posted on OneHandedWriters, a blog for romance and erotica readers & authors.* No individual is one-dimensional. We're all different, depending on who knows us. Depending on what parts of our personalities we let people in on. We can be depraved or...
I know we have a lot of fantasy romance fans here! Stay tuned because later this week is BIG news, but until then we're going to save you some money! A bunch of other awesome authors and us are participating in this really awesome promo for readers. Everything here is...
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Hey, We just wanted to let you know that things have gotten rather serious with our vendors as Joshua wrote about the other day. Kobo has temporarily removed all of our books along with many other authors. Amazon has removed the Teenage Slut series from sale and we're...
A crusade is reignited and a new witch hunt has begun. As the past has always indicated to us, yet again it’s the weak who shall suffer and the strong who proper, regardless of the intents of the morally indignatious. If you’re not aware, the media, abetted by a...
I admit, I’m the person who reads the reviews. I select ‘4 stars or greater’ on Amazon. And I think it’s a terrible habit I need to break. Why? Because it’s paralyzing. Because it leads to excuses not to buy something I probably would have liked. Because there is...
When I was younger, there was one song that I absolutely loved and identified with. It was actually from a movie, a Kevin Smith movie, no less. It was called “Alive” and was belted with such emotion by Joey Lauren Adams. The ballad is absolutely beautiful, I think,...
Join J.E. & M. Keep (https://jmkeep.com) for their third podcast on scifi, fantasy and erotica! You can get 3 free ebooks (including Part 1 of In Search of Innocence) by signing up here: https://jmkeep.com/newsletter Purchase Bound as the World...
One of the things that Joshua and I love doing is discussing themes and characters from our favourite entertainment. We went to see Elysium a couple of weeks back, and the next 24-48 hours was a joy of discussing the underlying themes (the division of rich and poor,...
Check out our second podcast, recorded, like... 6 weeks ago. Join J.E. & M. Keep for their second (and slightly delayed) podcast where they talk about all sorts of erotica. Doing historical research into the sex lives of 1920s upperclass women? Check....
What follows is something of my thoughts on inspiration but mostly a review of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs: One of my favourite genres to write in is horror. The macabre, the creepy, the gross and disgusting. That’s not to mention the more cosmic-horror of a...
Some people think that Cassidy, the female lead from Bound as the World Burns is dumb. An airhead. I mean, the apocalypse is here, right? Why isn’t she out there, kicking some ass? And I just have to boggle at that mindset. The story is this: Cassidy is an 18 year old...
Some people want romances to always have a happily ever after. I can get that, get behind it even, but that’s not what I want. I want the characters to be real, and I want them to have problems they don’t always overcome. I want them to love each other, even though...
We’re junkies for twisted relationships. Dominant characters with murky intentions, who have secrets and hoard them away. Characters who are opportunistic but find with this one person, they can be themselves. Their true selves. I think that’s what we really managed...
It’s kind of strange to call The Warlord’s Concubine a Paranormal Romance. When I hear paranormal, I’m still thinking of ghosts and the occult. Of modern day Satanists and wiccans. Yet calling it a fantasy romance makes me think of, like, a vacation cruise where you...
When we were the keynote speakers for the Risque Sex Expo in May, one of our speeches was on how to write erotica. We really want to share with you what we think are our top tips for burgeoning fetishists. Some people think that writing erotica is easy – I mean, how...
One of the things I’ve always loved about books is mystery. Not the detective with the magnifying glass, but just things that are left unspoken. Before writing, reading has always been a chance to flex my creative muscles, and to help spin the web of stories that the...
I know this is a common question. It’s one of the things that people want to know. Male, female, trans, cis, gender fluid… it doesn’t matter. People of all genders, of all sexes, of all orientations may, at times, have rape fantasies. And yes, it’s okay. I won’t go so...
What is dark erotica? Dark erotica is typically taboo erotica where the lines of consent or right and wrong become blurred. This might be because of a close, family relationship (daddy/daughter, brother/sister, mother/son, etc.) It might be because of lack of consent...
My greatest sexual desire is probably the urge to breed. To shove my dick into a warm, fertile cunt and dump my load with full knowledge of the chances of knocking her up. Yet, I love and respect my partner so much, and cherish her for being my equal, and don’t wish...
I sometimes have a really difficult time reading dark erotica in contemporary settings. It’s fairly popular (if you know what you’re looking for) to find kidnapping, and sexual slavery, and rape erotica. There’s a lot of absolutely fantastic authors like Skye Warren,...
This week there was a rather huge change to how Tumblr interacts with search engines, and how its own internal search engine works. And neither change is good for those of you looking for adult material. Right now, Tumblr has three settings. Safe for Work, Not Safe...
One of the most common questions you get as an author is: where do you get your inspiration? It’s also one of the most complicated and yet simple questions to answer. Anywhere and everywhere, sums it up. Though that’s not particularly helpful or informative to...
We're erotica authors, smut peddlers, purveyors of awesome scifi and fantasy filthy. We write twisted romances, and epic adventures. Join us for our very first podcast as we discuss erotica, Darknest, kinks, and address fan questions! Podcast: Download
St. John’s, Newfoundland, hosted our first annual Risque Sex Expo earlier this month. We were invited to speak on our erotic works, and give some erotic storytelling over the two days. Needless to say, we were thrilled to be involved in such an awesome, positive,...
Originally posted on One Handed Writers. I read an interesting discussion this week on Goodreads about serialized erotic stories. For those of you that don’t know, serialized erotica is usually a bunch of shorts that blend together to form a full novel, however...
Originally posted on One Handed Writers. Amazon has now quietly made it harder for you to find the taboo kinks you want on its site, without notice to its readers, authors, publishers, or anyone. They’ve simply quietly slapped a bunch of titles under an adult filter...
Originally Posted on One Handed Writers. It’s a common misconception that only women read erotica, that men don’t bother with it. After all, we’re told from a young age that men are ‘visual creatures’. Isn’t that on every page in every Cosmo? But it’s not true. In...
Originally Posted on One Handed Writers. I write the niches that I know and love. Rape and incest are on almost every ‘no list’ out there, but readers want it. Regardless of what you think about the kinks, erotica is fiction, and those people deserve their kinks...
Originally Posted on One Handed Writers under "Does Writing Erotica Make You Aroused?". A lot of people have asked if our writing gets us hot. Well, I wrote not too long ago about how one scene led to some of the best sex I’ve ever had, but I have to say that, as a...
Originally Posted on One Handed Writers as "Valentine's". I’ve never been one to celebrate Valentine’s. I never really saw the point, and from a feminist perspective, I always found it offensive in how it upheld so many stereotypes about women, and men, and how they...
Originally Posted on One Handed Writers. I’ve been thinking about cock worship quite a lot lately, though much of what I’ll say will apply to you pussy or breast worship fans too. Worship is something I’ve always felt a little too shy to do, both in real life and in...
Fetlife is no longer allowed* hosting incest, zoophilia or scat.** It doesn't matter if it’s consensual, and between two adults. It doesn't matter if it’s fantasy. It doesn't matter if they’re just idle desires that no one would act out on. On their announcement...
Obscenity laws are disgusting. In fact, over all, just the judgemental nature of other people disgusts me. Even in the fetish communities, or erotica publishers, or places where people with kinks congregate, you will always stumble upon someone who will be absolutely...
I'm now a blogger over at One Handed Writers, joining the ranks of many other awesome erotica authors. I post every other Sunday, and my first post is now live! Check it out! Make sure to leave a comment over there!
It was recently recommended to me to read 50 Shades of Grey, and while I was hesitant the way I always am about popular books, I started in. The first thing that struck me was just how conversational in tone it is. It is written in first person (which is another...
I sincerely apologize for the lack of activity. Once more, life has snuck up on me and began eating all of my time. This time it was because my partner and I have recently taken over as owners and admins of Darknest Fantasy Erotica, a forum website dedicated to erotic...
I've been exploring my sexuality since I was a six year old girl, when I first stumbled upon my father's Playboys. The first thing I did when I got the Internet was start looking up pornography - specifically hentai, since I loved Sailor Moon at the time. I also read...
Erotic Roleplay (ERP) is the exploration of a character's sexuality through text between two people, simply put. It is the development of a character within sexual scenes. Some of these scenes are important, some are not, but all can be immensely satisfying and...
Forced seduction. Bodice Rippers. Blackmail. Coercion. Stalking. Dominance. Romance novels are filled with rape that isn't called rape. If she says no, and he keeps forcing her into sex, that's not forced seduction. That's rape. If he tells her that she has to have...
This weekend, I did an interview with Eden Connor about Paypal, Erotica, and Female Desires. Go check it out and say hello! She's also doing other interviews with readers and writers recently affected by the erotica ban like Sessha Batto and Remittance Girl.
Last week soured me. Some of you have probably already heard about Paypal and their issues with Bookstrand and Smashwords, but for those of you that don’t follow those circles, Paypal has forced them (and paypal says they were forced by one of the credit card...
Taboos are different for everyone. Sure, there are some overarching topics that are pretty standard across North America as being taboo such as incest, but for the most part, one person’s taboo erotica is another person’s vanilla pudding. This creates a little bit of...
I get off on the fantasy of rape, non-consent, reluctance, dubious consent, etc. It's one of my favourite kinks to write erotica about. That’s not an easy thing to admit as a self-described feminist. Even though a large percentage of women (and men!) do have rape...
I have spent a lot of time reflecting on sexism in the Drow society, how it reflects on our own prejudices, and specifically, how certain authors ignore the set world in order to better be able to relate with the society. For those of you unfamiliar with drow society...
Ocera launched on December 4, 2011, and we have an exclusive interview with the author, Joelle D. Haskell, about the process, the characters in Ocera and more! So firstly, how about a little about yourself. How long have you been writing? I started writing as soon as...