I should check reviews more often!

I just found this little one on Amazon, for RKB's Serving Him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative & suspenseful, June 17, 2013

By 

Kate Chopin "Jess" (Georgia) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Serving Him: Sexy Stories of Submission (Paperback)

I wanted Serving Him based on an excerpt from "The Letter" by Tiffany Reisz, and I ended up loving her story and this book. I'm always in awe of how imaginative and suspenseful these short stories are, especially "The Secret of Time Travel" by Jacqueline Applebee, and "Breath" by Mollena Williams. My absolute favorite story is "Run, baby, Run" by Vida Bailey, and I have yet to stop thinking about it, because I'd never considered how sensual and exhilarating a game of chase could be. This story also has my favorite line "I feel so in love with myself when I'm running" - paraphrased because the book isn't in front of me - which describes the joy this couple is infused with. "Tackling Jessica" and "I Always Do" are also sexy favorites. Definitely another great anthology in Rachel Kramer Bussel's collection!



Nice, eh what? 

a day in the life of an occasional writer of tales

Ah, a rejection.

I'm not so sad... I don't think it's particularly productive to be sad about rejections... well, until everyone is singing their place on the TOC, I guess, that's always a bit chagrinning. But... hey.

I didn't quite do right by this story - it deserved a lot more working on, but it to so long to force out - I don't really write, exactly, I think and dream and watch scenes unfold like films, then struggle with myself 'til the deadline is barely or just past and push it out onto the page because I have to. I seem to be able to work only in tiny clear spaces of mind and time, and those are so few and far between, bookended endlessly by the minutiae of daily life. Other people deal with that better than I do. I know this.

Anyhoo. I sent this story to three different people to read... and no one responded. I know this could be co-incidental and related to other things, but still, cosmically, I'll take it as a sign that I will be the only one to love it and leave it at that.

Well... maybe not quite at that, as I owe it a lot more drafting than I gave it, and I know that redrafting and editing is the appropriate response to rejection. But I'll let it sit awhile, in that particular folder of oops, maybe this one was just for me.

In the meantime, I should be working on two other things. Away I go to do that. 

Mina Murray gave me such a nice review

It's of Night Heat in Alison Tyler's Sudden Sex. I am happy and flattered, as you might imagine. Go forth and read it if you will: http://minamurray.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/sudden-sex-night-heat/

My mother used to adore this song as a tiny baby, apparently, and scream in her cot if it wasn't left on repeat... Me, I'm not quite such a free spirit. Give me land, lots of land, and the starry skies above... but wander with me, holding my hand. I'd rather share it. And then lead me home and make me a soft space. A dim hiding place, with walls of sheets and warm light. Tell me stories and whisper to me, you don't have to be anywhere but here... 

Justine Elyot's Kinky Wife!

Ah, wouldn't we all like one? A kinky wife or a Justine Elyot... not sure which ... here is a little bit of Justine for you anyway, you lucky lucky readers. Erotic fiction and Real People:

Three Dimensions – Inside and Outside the Bedroom

It's lovely to be here with Vida – I'm very pleased to be visiting her today. Thank you for having me!

I've come to talk about my new novella, Confessions of a Kinky Wife, and I'm ruminating today on the subject of realistic people in erotic novels. I mean, we've all read the stories – many of them very arousing – where the characters…aren't. They are avatars, standing in for various kinds of sexual partner. Fantasy dom, fantasy sub etc. etc. I've written a few myself. I don't have anything against it at all.

In a novel, though, or a longer story, I want a deeper level of investment in the people I'm reading about. I have to know what they do for a living, what they do for fun (apart from the obvious), whether they worry about money, what they want from life. My kinky wife is more than kinky and more than a wife – she's a person.

I might not say too much about her work or her favourite foods or authors, but she has them. She's a well-meaning, good-natured type, but she's no paragon. When she gets tired she gets tetchy and snaps at her husband. So far so conventional – but her idea of self-help for the improvement of her temper isn't!

Here's the blurb:

Is it possible to be a confident twenty-first century woman and submit to your lover?

It's difficult, as a modern woman, to admit that you want your lover to punish you. Not just a fun spanking in the bedroom – real punishment.

Philippa knows what she wants. She wants her police officer husband to take her in hand.

But how do you ask your lover to hurt you? And, if they're willing, how do you make sure that being taken in hand doesn't get out of hand?

Philippa and Dan explore the secret world of Domestic Discipline. Perhaps it will suit them, perhaps it won't. But they mean to find out, one way or the other.

It's available from lots of places – one of those is Amazon

For more info on me and my books, come and have a gander at my site: http://justineelyot.com/

Vida says: Run there! Run there now! 

flown babies

It's hard. I wrote a story last month that is kind of staying with me. It's a viking one, and while I was writing it, people kept posting beautiful viking, northern images on tumblr. I saw the forest I was thinking about after I'd written the story, the weapons, the blond, bearded men, the naked swimming children... so many lovely images that were just what I needed to put me in the right zone.

I wanted to the story to be deeply evocative and atmospheric and I've no idea whether I achieved that or not. The story is subbed, but I won't hear a yay or nay til June, and if it does get in then it will be what, a year before the book hits the shelves?

I feel a bit of separation anxiety... I didn't discuss it with anyone while I was writing, didn't get anyone to be a reader, which I should've, of course. I just didn't manage to get it done in time. I'd love to talk to someone about my story, but I can't. My attempts to have people read it have somehow not gone anywhere. I don't know why I want to so much, there's always the fear that it's crap, and people will feel embarrassed and not want to tell me. Still... I miss it. I need to live there a little bit longer, I lived with it in my head for quite some time while it grew and formed, and it's not ready to go yet.

Sometimes it takes such a long time for the anthos I am in to see the light of day that I've almost forgotten about them by the time the story does come out - and while it's lovely to read my own words in print, with fresh eyes, it still doesn't guarantee any feedback. It's a weird little world, writing. Especially when you do it as infrequently as I do.

toot toot!

You know that whole asparagus pee thing? Well, in the interests of science, I feel compelled to tell you that I had spinach for dinner last night and my vagina smells of spinach this afternoon. Not like spinach, exactly like spinach. I'd defy anyone to tell the difference (though that would make for an intersting experiment).

I know Popeye likes 'em tall and skinny, but he'd be so into me right now.

I was torn about pics for this post... I could have gone with spinach juice in a green glass, or a Popeye illustration (I yam what I yam) but who can resist a vulva shaped spinach tortellini?