Event: Full Power Erotica in Tour

Date: Friday, May 13th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: "Halfway to Halloween" at Boutique du Vampyre, 633 Toulouse in New Orleans, Louisiana

For such a tightly laced age, Victorians spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal—proving, of course, that what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced. In Carnal Machines, D.L. King has curated stories by outstanding contemporary erotica writers who use the enthralling possibilities of the 19th century steam age to tease and titillate in a decadent fusing of technology and romance.

An indefatigable promoter, D. L. King will be attending steampunk conventions and fairs across the country this summer. She is beginning her promotion for Carnal Machines at an event entitled "Halfway to Halloween" at Boutique du Vampyre, 633 Toulouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday, May 13th at 6:00 pm.

The Erotica Readers & Writers Association website raves, "Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica is a title that should have any sane reader champing at the bit in eager anticipation of good, saucy erotic fun...D. L. King has selected some of the finest erotic fiction authors on the current market to produce steampunk that is worthy of this collection. The quality of the writing is superb."

Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica edited by D.L. King
Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: Cleis Press (April 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573446548
ISBN-13: 978-1573446549
Amazon: Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica

The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica. For such a tightly-laced age, people spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal. Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, et al enthralled us with their visions of new possibilities. The rich and slightly decadent visuals of the steam age lend themselves perfectly to the new carnality of post-punk era. And, of course, what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced. Steampunk, even without sex, is erotic; with sex, it’s over-the-top hot. A widowed lady engineer invents a small device that can store the energy from sexual frustration and convert it to electricity to help power a home. Teresa Noelle Roberts shows us what it can do, confronted with sexual fulfillment. What volume of steampunk would be complete without a tale of sailing ships and the men who sail them? If your taste runs to sexy pirates in space, Poe Von Page will delight you with the mutinous crew of the Danika Blue and their new captain.

Then there’s the very special room on the top floor in the House of the Sable Locks, a brothel where sexually discriminating men go to have their fantasies fulfilled. Even if a man daren’t put those fantasies into words, Elizabeth Schechter’s “Succubus” will give the madam all the information she needs with which to make her clients happy. There are brothels, flying machines, steam-powered conveyances, manor houses, spiritualist societies. The following stories afford intelligently written, beautifully crafted glimpses into other worlds, where the Carnal Machines won’t fail to seduce you, get you wet or make you hard so, lie back, relax; a happy ending is guaranteed.

Event: Full Power Erotica in Tour

Date: Friday, May 13th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: "Halfway to Halloween" at Boutique du Vampyre, 633 Toulouse in New Orleans, Louisiana

For such a tightly laced age, Victorians spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal—proving, of course, that what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced. In Carnal Machines, D.L. King has curated stories by outstanding contemporary erotica writers who use the enthralling possibilities of the 19th century steam age to tease and titillate in a decadent fusing of technology and romance.

An indefatigable promoter, D. L. King will be attending steampunk conventions and fairs across the country this summer. She is beginning her promotion for Carnal Machines at an event entitled "Halfway to Halloween" at Boutique du Vampyre, 633 Toulouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday, May 13th at 6:00 pm.

The Erotica Readers & Writers Association website raves, "Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica is a title that should have any sane reader champing at the bit in eager anticipation of good, saucy erotic fun...D. L. King has selected some of the finest erotic fiction authors on the current market to produce steampunk that is worthy of this collection. The quality of the writing is superb."

Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica edited by D.L. King
Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: Cleis Press (April 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573446548
ISBN-13: 978-1573446549
Amazon: Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica

The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica. For such a tightly-laced age, people spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal. Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, et al enthralled us with their visions of new possibilities. The rich and slightly decadent visuals of the steam age lend themselves perfectly to the new carnality of post-punk era. And, of course, what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced. Steampunk, even without sex, is erotic; with sex, it’s over-the-top hot. A widowed lady engineer invents a small device that can store the energy from sexual frustration and convert it to electricity to help power a home. Teresa Noelle Roberts shows us what it can do, confronted with sexual fulfillment. What volume of steampunk would be complete without a tale of sailing ships and the men who sail them? If your taste runs to sexy pirates in space, Poe Von Page will delight you with the mutinous crew of the Danika Blue and their new captain.

Then there’s the very special room on the top floor in the House of the Sable Locks, a brothel where sexually discriminating men go to have their fantasies fulfilled. Even if a man daren’t put those fantasies into words, Elizabeth Schechter’s “Succubus” will give the madam all the information she needs with which to make her clients happy. There are brothels, flying machines, steam-powered conveyances, manor houses, spiritualist societies. The following stories afford intelligently written, beautifully crafted glimpses into other worlds, where the Carnal Machines won’t fail to seduce you, get you wet or make you hard so, lie back, relax; a happy ending is guaranteed.

Pat Booth (? – May 11, 2009)

Pat Booth was an icon of the Sixties. She appeared on the covers of Vogue and Harpers & Queen, was a muse to photographers such as Norman Parkinson and David Bailey and she opened a pair of boutiques on the Kings Road in Chelsea in the 1960s.

She was the daughter of an East End boxer and a woman of great determination who in the 1970s decided to give up modelling and become a photographer herself. She photographed such well-known figures as David Bowie and Bianca Jagger, as well as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Some of her photographs have been displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. Her photojournalism appeared in The Sunday Times and Cosmopolitan and she published a book, Master Photographers.

In the 1980s she turned her hand to what proved to be her most lucrative career: writing novels about “sex and shopping”. The personalities of many of the heroines in her string of racy novels were not dissimilar to her own. They were headstrong women, often models, who got what they wanted. Her books, which included The Lady and the Champ, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and The Sisters (thought by some to based on the lives of Joan and Jackie Collins), sold millions of copies.( Read more... )

Pat Booth, model, photographer and author, died of cancer on May 11, 2009. She is believed to have been in her sixties

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6282137.ece

Sophie Dunbar (1947 – May 11, 2001)

A former resident of New Orleans, Sophie Dunbar wrote her Eclaire mystery series set in that wonderfully exotic city and featuring Claire Claiborne, owner of Eclaire beauty salon. Her personal favorite in this series, Redneck Riviera, almost didn't get into print, rejected by her first publisher because the characters vacationed away from the Big Easy. Undaunted, Dunbar persisted, switching publishers, and Redneck Riviera made its appearance in spring 1998, albeit out of sequence.

And just to prove that persistence and the ability to solve mysteries runs in the family, Sophie's long-lost son located her after over thirty years apart. As a young boy growing up in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Chris Gardner determined that one day he would begin an investigation to locate his birth mother. But the only clue he had was the name of the adoption agency in New Orleans, where he was born. After extensive research, Chris teamed up with a woman detective who specialized in Louisiana adoptions. Finally, around Valentines Day of 1998, Chris and Sophie made contact. Sophie, who had often wondered about the baby boy she'd given up as a teenage unwed mother, was overjoyed. They met face-to-face at the 1998 Malice Domestic Mystery Conference in Washington, DC, an appropriate setting for the mystery-loving duo.

Unfortunately, Sophie died of cancer in May 11, 2001.

Source: http://www.murderexpress.net/sophiedunbar/index.htm

Pat Booth (? – May 11, 2009)

Pat Booth was an icon of the Sixties. She appeared on the covers of Vogue and Harpers & Queen, was a muse to photographers such as Norman Parkinson and David Bailey and she opened a pair of boutiques on the Kings Road in Chelsea in the 1960s.

She was the daughter of an East End boxer and a woman of great determination who in the 1970s decided to give up modelling and become a photographer herself. She photographed such well-known figures as David Bowie and Bianca Jagger, as well as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Some of her photographs have been displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. Her photojournalism appeared in The Sunday Times and Cosmopolitan and she published a book, Master Photographers.

In the 1980s she turned her hand to what proved to be her most lucrative career: writing novels about “sex and shopping”. The personalities of many of the heroines in her string of racy novels were not dissimilar to her own. They were headstrong women, often models, who got what they wanted. Her books, which included The Lady and the Champ, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and The Sisters (thought by some to based on the lives of Joan and Jackie Collins), sold millions of copies.( Read more... )

Pat Booth, model, photographer and author, died of cancer on May 11, 2009. She is believed to have been in her sixties

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6282137.ece

Sophie Dunbar (1947 – May 11, 2001)

A former resident of New Orleans, Sophie Dunbar wrote her Eclaire mystery series set in that wonderfully exotic city and featuring Claire Claiborne, owner of Eclaire beauty salon. Her personal favorite in this series, Redneck Riviera, almost didn't get into print, rejected by her first publisher because the characters vacationed away from the Big Easy. Undaunted, Dunbar persisted, switching publishers, and Redneck Riviera made its appearance in spring 1998, albeit out of sequence.

And just to prove that persistence and the ability to solve mysteries runs in the family, Sophie's long-lost son located her after over thirty years apart. As a young boy growing up in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Chris Gardner determined that one day he would begin an investigation to locate his birth mother. But the only clue he had was the name of the adoption agency in New Orleans, where he was born. After extensive research, Chris teamed up with a woman detective who specialized in Louisiana adoptions. Finally, around Valentines Day of 1998, Chris and Sophie made contact. Sophie, who had often wondered about the baby boy she'd given up as a teenage unwed mother, was overjoyed. They met face-to-face at the 1998 Malice Domestic Mystery Conference in Washington, DC, an appropriate setting for the mystery-loving duo.

Unfortunately, Sophie died of cancer in May 11, 2001.

Source: http://www.murderexpress.net/sophiedunbar/index.htm

Night Shift by Red Haircrow

Like the other novella I read by Red Haircrow, even if the setting is totally different, an historical the other a contemporary this one, there is a common undertone to both of them, a mix of sad and bitter that cannot make them ordinary romances, but in any case, the involved men will have an happily ever after of some sort, maybe only a little later than in an ordinary romance would happen.

Another similarity is the difference in age of the men, one is barely a boy, and the other is an adult man, well beyond his young age. Jamie is a 19 years old college student who dreams of Europe and the freedom of being gay he will have in those enlightened countries, and just for these thoughts you can understand he is really young. Since his parents don’t want to support his dreams, he is working the night shift in a warehouse so that he can attend some courses at the community college and save all his money to finance his future backpacking travel, a travel that, according to me, he will never take, outgrowing the dream while, and when, he will gain years and experience. Jamie’s past experience with friends and sex are not good, and I think he sees Europe like a lost paradise, a place where he can be who he wants to be without being laughed.

Derrick is the new night worker; he is older, more thirty than twenty, and “exotic”; he was born in Europe, and even if he doesn’t have any accent, or odd “custom”, just his appearance appeals Jamie: dark haired, green eyed and pale skin, he is at the opposite of the All-American boys whom Jamie sees as the source of all his trouble. Jamie clutches to Derrick like he clanged to his dreams of Europe, Derrick being the “thing” more near to it Jamie can now reach. And Derrick is bisexual, and the interest is mutual, so of course he becomes Jamie’s next best thing.

It’s strange, this is basically a romantic story, and also the ending is an happily for now one, so this should be a 100% romance, but there is something, maybe the setting, mostly by night, or the characters, Derrick is quite aloof, that gives to the story an almost imperceptible dark mood. The sex scene are good, both Jamie than Derrick are basically positive characters, true, with some issues, but nothing major; maybe it’s all in Derrick, a character that, more or less, remains “obscure”, detached, and even if in the end he will explain a little more his motivation, in any case he maintain an aura of mystery, the reason why I said this is an happily for now and not an happily ever after ending.

http://www.jms-books.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=151

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Amazon Kindle: Night Shift
Publisher: JMS Books LLC (November 5, 2010)

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Night Shift by Red Haircrow

Like the other novella I read by Red Haircrow, even if the setting is totally different, an historical the other a contemporary this one, there is a common undertone to both of them, a mix of sad and bitter that cannot make them ordinary romances, but in any case, the involved men will have an happily ever after of some sort, maybe only a little later than in an ordinary romance would happen.

Another similarity is the difference in age of the men, one is barely a boy, and the other is an adult man, well beyond his young age. Jamie is a 19 years old college student who dreams of Europe and the freedom of being gay he will have in those enlightened countries, and just for these thoughts you can understand he is really young. Since his parents don’t want to support his dreams, he is working the night shift in a warehouse so that he can attend some courses at the community college and save all his money to finance his future backpacking travel, a travel that, according to me, he will never take, outgrowing the dream while, and when, he will gain years and experience. Jamie’s past experience with friends and sex are not good, and I think he sees Europe like a lost paradise, a place where he can be who he wants to be without being laughed.

Derrick is the new night worker; he is older, more thirty than twenty, and “exotic”; he was born in Europe, and even if he doesn’t have any accent, or odd “custom”, just his appearance appeals Jamie: dark haired, green eyed and pale skin, he is at the opposite of the All-American boys whom Jamie sees as the source of all his trouble. Jamie clutches to Derrick like he clanged to his dreams of Europe, Derrick being the “thing” more near to it Jamie can now reach. And Derrick is bisexual, and the interest is mutual, so of course he becomes Jamie’s next best thing.

It’s strange, this is basically a romantic story, and also the ending is an happily for now one, so this should be a 100% romance, but there is something, maybe the setting, mostly by night, or the characters, Derrick is quite aloof, that gives to the story an almost imperceptible dark mood. The sex scene are good, both Jamie than Derrick are basically positive characters, true, with some issues, but nothing major; maybe it’s all in Derrick, a character that, more or less, remains “obscure”, detached, and even if in the end he will explain a little more his motivation, in any case he maintain an aura of mystery, the reason why I said this is an happily for now and not an happily ever after ending.

http://www.jms-books.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=151

Buy Here

Amazon Kindle: Night Shift
Publisher: JMS Books LLC (November 5, 2010)

Reading List:



http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle