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--- Writing Porn For Fun and Profit! ---
The Bi-Weekly E-Letter
Volume IV, Issue 6
February 16, 2004

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In This Issue:
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From the Editor - New Site!
Sex-Writer.com Update
Article: Enjoy the Ride
            By Don Vaughan
Market News
Market Listings
Column: Kevin's Book Review Corner
             At The Viceroy By Ezwriter
Reader Response
Article: Pseudonyms
            By Abe Anana
Goings On
Q & A
Looking for Writers

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From The Editor
Katy Terrega
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Hello all, hope you had a lovely and romantic Valentine's Day.

Around here our V-Day is not terrible romantic (but fun, nonetheless) and my daughter at age thirteen was kind of disappointed in us. She helped me put together a pretty little tableau of gifts and sentiments for my husband (which he always does for me, as well, and we do for the kids) and couldn't believe we weren't going to have a romantic dinner together or at least some candlelight or champagne or something! Personally, after one dinner out on Valentine's Day many years ago, I gave up; it was horrendously crowded and not a lot of fun. I'll stick to the easy, more day to day romantic stuff, thank you :)

My big news this issue is that I finally got my new site up! Yes, the one I've been hinting about for months now. It's called...drum roll please... The-Write-Resume.com and it's a web-design service that features online resumes for writers. It's a great way to display clips to prospective editors and I've found my own resume sites (I have one for sex-writing and one for my more mainstream writing) invaluable when I'm querying, especially online; I simply write my query and point the editor to my clips to peruse at his or her leisure. I wanted to offer the same service to other writers but it was also important to me that the sites be both professional-looking and affordable (especially since we struggling writers are not always rolling in the dough.) Hopefully I've succeeded on both counts, but maybe you can tell me...

There are still a few bugs to be worked out but it is live and ready for action. Feel free to take a look and let me know what you think of it, and if you're in need of a site, I do, of course, work with those who write sexually themed material :)

Even better, I've got an introductory offer for Sex-Writer.com and newsletter subscribers. If you order a site and let me know you're a subscriber, I'll give you $50 off the final price of the site! You can see all the pricing/content/ordering details onsite at The-Write-Resume.com.

Fairly soon I hope to get started with an affiliate program, which will mean that others can promote the site and get a cut of each sale, so I'll be sure to keep you posted about that, too.

Now onto newsletter business...

We've got a huge issue for you today, including two great articles; one from our old pal Don Vaughan on the strange and bizarre twists that his career has taken and another that's a fun take on pseudonyms We also have a ton o' Goings On this issue; you guys are really ratcheting up the acceptances lately! In addition, the Sex-Writer.com updates are done, we've got some Market News and four excellent Market Listings, plus Kevin gives us a great review of "At the Viceroy" by Ezwriter. I think that's it...

If you've emailed me in the last four weeks or so and I haven't responded, please be patient! I've been working pretty much non-stop on the The-Write-Resume site but now that it's live, I just have to finish up on Sex-Writer.com and the newsletter and then it will be time to work my way through my very full inbox. If you still haven't heard from me in a week or so, however, feel free to pester me :)

Take care and, as usual, please keep in touch! (And let me know what you think of the new site if you get a chance!)

Katy

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Sex-Writer.com Update
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New for February:

Ongoing Updates:
Katy's Blog

5 Updated Listings

1 New Article:
Crossing Sexual Borders

14 New Listings

And...

For both the Newsletter and Sex-Writer.com:

New Writer's Guidelines!

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--- Enjoy the Ride ---
--- By Donald Vaughan ---
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You never know where sex writing is going to take you. Just a few weeks ago, for example, I found myself standing in front of a group of total strangers animatedly discussing the therapeutic benefits of erotica and my own personal love affair with all things porno. The venue? My local Adam & Eve retail store.

Don’t worry, I wasn’t alone. At my side was my wife Nanette who, though not a professional writer of sex or anything else, was more than eager to share the female perspective on the subject at hand. I was wise to bring her, too, because our audience was the very definition of eclectic: young couples, older couples, lesbian couples, lonely old men. You name it, they were there, hooked on our every word, eager to begin their own love affair with smut.

This particular speaking gig was the result of an article I had recently published in Penthouse Forum on the therapeutic benefits of porn. In it I quoted a number of well-known and very respected sex therapists who routinely prescribe commercial erotica to couples in need. Apparently the article made the rounds through the Adam & Eve offices until it reached the desk of the guy in charge of the retail division. He gave me a call, asked me if I wanted to speak on the same subject, and a deal was struck. Nan and I received no money for our lecture, though we did get a $100 gift certificate, which we blew on a couple of videotapes, a nifty new vibrator and some apple-flavored lube.

The Adam & Eve gig is just one of many fun yet bizarre situations in which I’ve found myself as a result of my nonfiction sex writing. Over the years, I have interviewed porn legend Amber Lynn in the liquor closet of a South Florida strip joint (despite the rumbling, desk-sized ice machine, it was the quietest place in the joint); talked in person and by phone with numerous other porn stars; discussed the joys of anal play over lunch at TGI Friday’s with a woman who had sex with her husband for one of the very first Better Sex videos; donned surgical scrubs to observe penis enlargement surgery up close and chatted up all manner of people on the sexual fringe, including a guy who created remarkably lifelike rubber replicas of women’s feet for fetishists with money to burn.

If I’ve learned anything in my 25-plus years as a professional journalist, it’s that writing is a journey. Sometimes you know in advance where that journey will take you, and sometimes you don’t. But regardless of your destination, enjoy the ride. You’re living a life that thousands of other people only dream about.

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Don’s work has appeared in Hustler, Penthouse Forum, Screw, Draculina, 18Eighteen and other adult markets. You can see his website here... www.donaldvaughan.com - and get one just like it here... www.the-write-resume.com

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One of our erstwhile readers (thanks!) sent in this info...

Just a few updates -- Cthulhu Sex is closed for submissions until April. PEEP Show Volume 1 is also closed, but the COLD FLESH zombie anthology is still open at this writing (that's Paul Fry's zombie book -- since he does PEEP Show I imagine the stories can get pretty sexy).

(Editor's Note: I didn't get permission to run the Cold Flesh guidelines in time for this newsletter, but you can find them here at http://sstpublications.co.uk/)

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Clean Sheets: Every Little Kiss Erotica Contest

Deadline: March 15, 2004

Website: Clean Sheets
Guidelines: Guidelines
Contact: everylittlekiss@cleansheets.com
First Prize: $100 and publication in Clean Sheets Magazine
Second Prize: $50 and publication in Clean Sheets Magazine
Third Prize: A choice of any two Clean Sheets direct-books
Several runners-up will also receive a small sexy gift from Toys in Babeland

Tell us a story. Make it short -- between 1000 and 2000 words. Make it sexy. February is erotic-travel month at Clean Sheets, and we all know it's also Valentine's Day time. So, have your story involve any kind of travel (on the subway, somewhere over China, anything you like). You must also use the following phrases in an original manner in your story:

"every little kiss"
"harbor lights"
"spider-fingers"

Be short, sharp, poetic, or be funny, expansive, and wild, but be original.

Your challenge is high, since we believe that sex is one of the hardest subjects to write well. But we know you are up to it -- we receive hundreds of emails every week with potential erotica for Clean Sheets. Entries will be blinded (no names on them) and judged by a panel of Clean Sheets editors, including Susannah Indigo, Nola Summers, Brian Peters, and Bill Noble.

The Official Rules:
1. No longer than 2000 words, no exceptions.
2. Include the phrases "every little kiss," "harbor lights," and "spider-fingers" in your story in some original way.
3. Some kind of travel must be involved in the story.
4. Submit your story either as text pasted into the email, or as a .doc or .rtf attachment.
5. Make the reference line of your email "Every Little Kiss Contest: your story title".
6. Email to everylittlekiss@cleansheets.com
7. Deadline is March 15, 2004; winners will be announced and published in April.

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Dirt Road: Transient Tales

Contact: lydia_lane@hotmail.com

Deadline: March 15, 2004

Call for Submissions
Dirt Road: transient tales
Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2004

Calling all hitch-hikers, train-hoppers, run-aways, wanderers and adventurers. I am looking to compile personal accounts of "alternative" low-budget and long-term travelers for publication in an upcoming anthology. I am interested in everything from maintaining health, political involvement, artistic pursuits and personal relationships as a transient person, to accounts of touring with bands and circuses and carnivals, to stories of summit and conference hopping, to cross-country bike trips.

I am interested in: touring political and arts projects, trips taken to do radical direct-action and solidarity work, discussion of borders and border-crossing, experiences travelling alone and with travel partners, making money on the road, eating on the road, decisions regarding keeping "homes" and material possessions, squatting, state/police harassment..

I am NOT looking for: "My parents paid for me to go to Europe as a graduation present," "The time I went on a youth program to help develop the economy in a foreign country," "The time I was paid lots of money to teach English overseas,"

I am hoping for diversity in contributors and welcome and encourage submissions from people who have traveled outside of North America, youth, older travelers, people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, ethnic and religious backgrounds, abilities and class backgrounds. I would also very much like to hear from travelling parents and families.

I am looking for submissions of: personal narrative, creative non-fiction, essays, theatrical writing and articles. Submissions of poetry and short fiction will be considered but are NOT encouraged. Only previously non-published work will be considered, with the exception of work which has been self published (zines, etc.) and electronically published as their only means of publication. Authours can submit as many pieces for consideration as they choose, however it is unlikely that more than one piece by the same authour will be published in this anthology. Collaborative pieces will be considered.

If you would like your submissions returned please include a SASE with sufficient postage, otherwise submissions will not be returned. Please include a short bio, your full name (and the name you would like to be published under if this is different), and the best way of getting in touch with you. If you are able to provide a mailing address please do so. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2004. This deadline is flexible, please get in touch before.

Submissions should be sent by mail to:

Dirt Road c/o Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
5960 rue St. Urbain
Montreal, QC
Canada
H2T 2X5

or by email attached as a Word document to:

lydia_lane@hotmail.com (please clearly state in subject heading that email is regarding the Dirt Road anthology)

* Please direct all queries and concerns to the above email address.

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Out of Control: Erotic Wild Rides

Contact: greg@suspectthoughts.com
No Email Submissions
Deadline: March 1, 2004

Editor Greg Wharton is currently seeking gay male erotic short fiction for the anthology project Out of Control: Erotic Wild Rides (STARbooks Press). .

This anthology of hot and wild erotic gay fiction will be about love from the wrong side of the tracks, with the wrong man at the wrong time and the wrong place, of chance meetings that take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

All you wanted was a drink, some conversation and a little attention, perhaps the warmth of another body pressed to yours. But the thought of his hand on your cock overrode the alarm buzzing loudly in your brain. Perhaps you dismissed the fact he had a gun... Or maybe you knew the car was stolen, but he was so handsome... You wanted him more than you have ever wanted anyone, or anything, before. And you couldn't pass up the chance to have him, no matter what it took, where it took you, or what the consequences might be.

Out of Control: Erotic Wild Rides will feature over-the-top tales of a wild evening that turned into several wild days, the blind date turned psychosexual, the perfect lover turned obsessive, crazed and vengeful, road trips full of fast cars and bumpy rides, and lots of beautiful man-on-man, out of control, hardcore sex. The stories in this anthology will be wild, original, imaginative, crazy, sexy, graphic, kinky, and surprising, fulfilling not only some folk's dreams but also a few nightmares. It will be worth the ride.

Stories may be told from any voice or perspective, and in any genre, but of special interest are unpublished darker than normal tales that take us on crazy rides we may not have been on before and won’t soon forget, with strong fully-realized hunky characters that keep us horny long after the story has ended. All aspects of gay male sexuality are welcome: from vanilla to hardcore S/M.

Stories: 1,500 to 7,000 words

Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2004

Payment: $100 (US) original, $50 (US) reprint, payable upon publication

Rights: First North American Anthology Rights

Email submissions will not be accepted for this project. Manuscripts will not be returned. Do not send SASE. Double-space your story in a standard 12 pt. font. Include a cover letter with short biography and complete contact information including a working email address for all contact.

Submissions should be sent to:

Greg Wharton
Out of Control Anthology
2215-R Market Street, PMB #544
San Francisco, CA 94114-1612

Questions? Contact Greg Wharton at gregw@suspectthoughts.com.

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The Logical-Lust 2004 Erotic Flash Challenge!

Deadline: March 14, 2004

Website: Logical-Lust
Guidelines: Guidelines
Contact: contest@logical-lust.com

Flash fiction is the one of the most testing, and challenging forms of writing. Make the subject erotica and it becomes a real trial! Logical-Lust hopes to make the Flash Challenge an annual event, so enter and tell everyone! The more entries, the bigger the prizes!

So, to encourage, entice, and finally celebrate your very high standard of flashing prowess, here is;

THE LOGICAL-LUST 2004 EROTIC FLASH CHALLENGE!

1st prize; a guaranteed minimum £100! (That's currently around US $170!)
Runner-up prize; £20, with 3rd, 4th, & 5th prizes of £10 each.

(Amounts are in pounds sterling but will be paid out in appropriate currency equivalent to the winners.)

And the really good news? The greater the number of entries, the HIGHER the prize money will go!

Entry Fee - £1.00 for each entry.
Deadline for entries is March 14th 2004, and you may enter as many times as you wish.

How to enter - Entry fee(s) can be paid through PayPal.com or MoneyBookers.com to captivatex@aol.com. If you aren't yet registered with either of those two, it is extremely easy to do so and to send money in UK pounds (but don't leave it until the last few days). Please make your payments on the same day as you submit your ntries, as this will help to confirm validity.

Entries must be in plain text in the body of an email, which must also contain the following;

A short author bio,
a declaration that you are the author,
and a declaration as to whether the material is original, or published and submitted with permission.

Send entries to contest@logical-lust.com

N.B. If you plan to make multiple entries over the period of time up to the closing date, it is recommended that you pay your entry fees as you enter and not as a total in advance.

Conditions of entry - Stories must be of erotic flash fiction of up to 250 words maximum. You have freedom as to the subject matter, subject to these restrictions;

No rape,
no consent-after-the-act,
no bestiality, necrophilia, hate, racism, under age sex, or submissions of an otherwise offensive nature, and nothing that could be construed as breach of any kind of copyright.

The editor's decision will be final as to what entries are, or are not, suitable. Refunds will not be made for unsuitable entries. The onus is upon you, the author, to submit in good erotic taste.

Submissions can be original work or previously published, but bear the following in mind;

All the prize winning stories will be published on Logical-Lust in a special contest feature. You must therefore own the copyright or be free to publish your work in another source. If you don't own the copyright to a story or don't have permission, even if you wrote it, do NOT submit it as an entry. You will have to state whether your entries are original or currently published, and be assured - published material that reaches the short list for final decisions will be checked out by us for it's validity for the contest.

Publishing of prize winners. By entering the contest you agree to have your story published in Logical-Lust if it is one of the prize winners. Only the contest prize winning stories will be featured on Logical-Lust.

Original material. Logical-Lust will take First, but not Exclusive, Publishing Rights to original prize winning stories so feel free to boast about it if it helps to get it published elsewhere! We only require that Logical-Lust is cited as the primary source of the story.

Previously published material. Logical-Lust will take Secondary Publishing Rights and will cite the material's primary source if that is a condition of publishing. Where possible we require to be cited as a source for the material if published elsewhere.

Judging. Subject matter will not be a criteria judged upon. Writing flash fiction is about the ability to write a full story - beginning, middle, end, characters .., and of course erotica! - all within 250 words. Stories will be judged on this, plus spelling, grammar, and literary worthiness. So make sure you edit your stories properly! Those who assist in judging the entries will only be sent the story, and not the author's name, to ensure judging is on a level playing field. The result, and the prize winners, will be announced by 28th March 2004.

GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY! AND SPREAD THE WORD!! LET'S MAKE THIS CONTEST HUGE!

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