I’m wading through book edits while squeezing in reading my way through the 250+ submissions I got for Best Women’s Erotica 2007. Jeebus. Horny in a cafe, again. But — two things are really making me crazy-homicidal with the erotica. One: don’t name your male characters “Sire”. Just don’t. Not seriously. And! Don’t! Write! With…

Just landed in my inbox (and I see the EFF’s Staff Attorney is, ahem, all over it) but it looks like “new media” student group Emersive at Emerson College is: a) full of extremely sexy and uninhibited nerdy guys; b) they have made a beefcake calendar; and c) they are donating some of the proceeds…

I’ve gone loco, I mean local over at Metroblogging San Francisco where I’m now an author! Check out today’s post about christian fundies spraying SF with earthquake exploitation AIDS terror in my post terror in the 94114, and my maiden post about kittens and puppies (really!) in her name was Lola, she was a showgirl.

From my inbox, this morning: Hi, Violet! Here is [name of my next book — all twelve chapters compressed into an attachment] copyedited by Mark Woodworth. (…) Can you look these over and have them back to me by Wed. noon? I know it’s a short amount of time (…) Thanks! [publisher] Update: fun with…

It’s been about a year since I stopped reviewing sex books and videos for Good Vibes, but I was there long enough to watch the world of sex and art coffee table books go through a revolution. And Taschen, publisher of all kinds of those glossy, tasteful and gorgeous books, was one of the biggest…

Subject: burn the NYT clown “Violet – the largely-fictional NYT needs no protection. It’s coasted on an undeserved reputation for far too long. Print his e-mail. Burn him, and burn that little bung who excreted the xenisucks site. Chechen rules apply: no mercy no prisoners no exceptions” Subject: Post it! “Why in the hell is…