The Literary Review has announced its nominees for the 2011 Bad Sex in Fiction Award. If you’re not familiar with the Bad Sex in Fiction award, I can’t describe it any better than Jezebel magazine does: [E]ach year the Literary Review has singled out an author who writes awkwardly enough about sex to convince readers… Continue reading Are men worse at writing sex than women?
Tag: writing
Sisters are doing it for themselves
I don’t have any sisters. I have a “little” (i.e. younger, but now well over six feet of muscles that belong on a romance cover) brother. You might remember him from my post The problem with having an alpha male brother. My brother and I never got along when we were kids, though I can’t… Continue reading Sisters are doing it for themselves
Sarah Mayberry interview – and giveaway!
Last year, after reading loads of buzz online about a couple of Harlequin Superromance authors, I bit into my book-buying budget and ordered about a dozen Superromance novels. Why was this expensive? Because they wouldn’t ship to me in London, so I had to have them sent to my parents’ house and then reimburse my… Continue reading Sarah Mayberry interview – and giveaway!
Authors’ surprising hobbies
I have a game for those of you of a literary bent. Match these writers with their hobbies (answers here but don’t cheat!) 1. Emily Dickenson 2. Vladimir Nabokov 3. Franz Kafka 4. Ayn Rand 5. Flannery O’Connor 6. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes 7. Haruki Murakami 8. Zadie Smith 9. Mark Twain a. raising… Continue reading Authors’ surprising hobbies
Five things romance writers should know about vaginas
If there’s one thing you’d think romance writers – who tend to be women writing for women – know about, it’s the workings of their own bodies. After all, some of us write fairly explicit sex scenes, right? This week, though, I was surprised to discover how ignorant I was as I read the delightfully… Continue reading Five things romance writers should know about vaginas