Image of Nina Kate for her Bizarre Magazine steampunk fetish shoot. It’s almost obligatory for me to point you to the new review for Cecilia Tan’s collection of steampunk themed erotica, “Like A Wisp Of Steam.” (It’s available on Kindle now, but has a Spring ’09 pub date.) I’m on the fence about it, of…

Image by my friend Steve Diet Goedde, taken with his iPhone and processed with CameraBag. This week, I got to meet and interview Brad Warner (thanks, Eddie!) Warner’s an ex punk turned Zen master, and had quite a bit to say about Buddhism and sexuality, such as how it relates to sex work and survivors…

Tonight it’s raining here in San Francisco, and I finally got a chance to read you the intense, explicit opening story from Best Women’s Erotica 2009: it’s “Fly” by Valerie Alexander. Penthouse absolutely loved the book and highly recommended it for couples, I’m getting tons of email praise about it, and Erotica Revealed gave it…

Image by (Cristian®), also @ MySpace. Given Barbie’s capacity over the ages (and at any age) to fuel our fantasies, and previous rumors that Barbie’s predecessor was the Bild Lilli Doll — a German doll out of a comic strip who had no compunctions about trading sex for gifts and money: a good time Sally…

Book preview image from Beneath the Skin by Demetrius González. I’m trying not to be too gift-listy this year because I know we’re all broke, and the whole gift list thing is just so… done. However, I likely see and read more sex books than most people in the world. (Seen my bookshelves? Ever wonder…

Image by Christine Kessler, the woman who shot the cover for Best Women’s Erotica 2009. A simple one: I read the introduction to Best Women’s Erotica 2009 for those who prefer audio (you can also read it here). I got so emo while reading the parts about love I think I almost started to cry.…

Get your copy here. It’s not supposed to be on shelves until December 11, but it’s shipping *now* (and I got my hands on a red-hot copy). Best Women’s Erotica 2009 is my newest anthology — explicit lit by women, written by astoundingly talented women from all over the world. It’s so fucking hot that…

Image by DarkDaze, via High On Sex. See also: DarkDaze on Flickr. This weekend my dear, dear friend Alison Tyler had a Fucking Hot contest — sadly, it’s over as of today (that’s what I get for being behind in my email, sorry!). But, the greatest thing about this contest, to me, isn’t what one…

And Carol Queen is also my family — I am a lucky girl. I’m also on the Board of Directors for The Center for Sex & Culture, YAY!!! Check out this fun piece on AfterEllen, Carol Queen Aims to Inspire: In the anthology Live Through This, a collection of stories about the connection between creativity…

Image Transformation by Titus Davidheimann Beek. I started getting links sent to me about the book Excavating Kafka by James Hawes, which is supposed to talk about Kafka’s porn collection — but I didn’t bother to blog it because it was hitting the blogs and some mainstream media. The scandal was that his porn collection…