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Time for another live-reading video from my memoir, "Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist"! This one's about my discovery of queer porn! [...continue...]

Come hang out with me this weekend! I'll be live on Facebook on St. Patrick's Day—March 17—at 1:00 p.m., reading Chapter 13: Editor-in-Chief! [...continue...]

In school, chances are that you learned that an important part of the writing process is "proofreading." Which meant checking over your final draft for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors before you turned it in. Now that we're all grown up... What the heck is the deal with this "copyediting" step? And is it different from proofreading? [...continue...]

You’ve heard of about a zillion different types of editing, but you’ve got a limited budget, and you’re SO ready to get this book out into the world… How much editing do you really need to prepare your book for publication? [...continue...]

True story, folks. I'm awful at titles. When I came up with the title "Creepazoid Territory," I never expected it would make it into the finished book. But hey! Come watch me read the chapter this Sunday anyway! [...continue...]

#NaNoWriMo 2018 has ended. Now that it's over...what are you planning to do with your draft?Allow me to make a blunt suggestion: Bring it to me.  [...continue...]

I've been writing a lot about sex lately, everybody! Sex in private, sex in porn! In America and in Israel! After much work, my articles are out in the world. Here are my most recent three pieces (one on private sex, and two on porn), at Glamour.com and MEL Magazine! [...continue...]

If you are one of those humans for whom sporting matches are of high importance, I wish you a wonderful day and I hope that your team scores many goal-points in today's SportsBowl! If you're not into sportsball matches, however, I've got some links and news for you to check out! [...continue...]

So I interviewed her, on the spot, for Luna Luna Magazine! We discussed her work, feminism, entrepreneurship, blood and sex in Shakespeare, Eleanor Roosevelt, and changing the flow of your own river. [...continue...]

Ok, friends. Let’s have some real talk, shall we? I’m a publishing professional. I’ve worked in various parts of the publishing industry, performing various tasks, since I was in undergrad. I know my way around the writing process, the publishing process, and, most importantly for [...continue...]