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It may not seem intuitive, but your flap copy is indispensable from day one of book creation. Here are five reasons why, and three steps to help you get started. [...continue...]

Last call! Sign up now so we can turn your inspiration into a book! Registration for my novel-organization workshop ends on May 31. [...continue...]

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...]

This time, I'll be reading “Chapter 7: The Conflicted Existence of the Female Porn Writer,” where I’ll tell you about the the column I wrote for McSweeney’s. In that column, I finally got to ask all the questions I had about the porn industry. And, at last, I started to get some answers. And I also had to bite the bullet and tell my parents about what I'd been up to for the past few years. Yikes. [...continue...]

I have been remiss in my duties! Oh dear! I've done two more live readings of chapters from Watching Porn and I haven't posted either one yet! I'm sorry, friends. [...continue...]

In every live video, I'll read one chapter of my book, "Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist." Stick around after the reading for extra goodies, like a live Q&A, links to articles on the topics discussed, and links to the adult industry folks I quoted in that chapter. [...continue...]

You know how I write things like articles and books and poems? Well, check this out: I also write comic books. Right now, I'm raising funds to print my very first standalone comic book over at Kickstarter!  [...continue...]

Image courtesy Erika Lust My darlings, I am so happy to be able to present to you a full-length interview that I recently conducted with the amazing, talented, crazy-smart, gorgeous, utterly effervescent feminist erotic filmmaker, Erika Lust! I contacted her when researching my recent article about [...continue...]

I make the majority of my living on proofreading and copyediting books for major publishers on a freelance basis. This leaves me with many #writereditorproblems. Case in point: I just finished proofreading a novel that I found utterly repugnant, and I need to relieve some pressure. [...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...]