That’s right — I’m working on Best Women’s Erotica 2008 (no link yet), and after 6-7 solid years with overlapping book contracts (I have been under contract for *something* since 2000), I do not have a book after this. I do have books coming out steadily through 2008, but after this, I’m free. I have been made five book offers, all which I have declined — and now, everything will go through my agency, yay!. This is the last Best Women’s I’m doing, and I don’t know who’s on board for the series next. It’s been a *really* fun, successful (the series’ first award was my debut as its editrix) run. After this, who knows?
I should be packing (I leave for Mexico tomorrow, Forbes Internet Leadership Forum, Web Disrupters) or working on that book. But I’m futzing with my Google Reader and seeing some cool stuff. Like:
* This great Gawker post: Book Folk Terrified Of Blogs On The Internets! “‘Every blogger wants to write a book,’ Dirda begins. Sure, who wouldn’t! That’s where the real money and glamor is! Oh, hilarious. No thanks!” Agreed.
* My pal 3XL’s awesome post, Rubber55 Spoofs “MTV Cribs”! It’s a hilare, giddly over the top video spoof with some hardcore rubber fetishists and their pimped-out cribs. Aw, yeah!
* This is really fucked up: in Iran, Porn Makers Can Get Death Penalty Under New Law. It goes to their parliament this week. Make “obscenity” and they will kill you.
* I am now a big fan of Literate Perversions‘ Perverted News Roundups.
* But still, don’t miss the drop-dead excellent (and quite long, titillating and positive) piece about Kink.com — A Disciplined Business — in last sunday’s New York Times magazine. It’s so worth it.
* Oooh, also: Death in space, but also what about sex in space? In CNN’s NASA rethinking death in mission to Mars they say,
One topic that is evidently too hot to handle: How do you cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long?
Sex is not mentioned in the document and has long been almost a taboo topic at NASA. Williams said the question of sex in space is not a matter of crew health but a behavioral issue that will have to be taken up by others at NASA.
The agency will have to address the matter sooner or later, said Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania who has advised NASA since 2001.
“There is a decision that is going to have to be made about mixed-sex crews, and there is going to be a lot of debate about it,” he said.
(thanks, Kevin!)
