general advice for erotica writers, part umptymillion

by violet blue on April 11, 2006

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 exclamation points! Take out the punctuation, disable your shift key… Just stop hurting me. Ow!

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