I've been following Kelanie Black, erotica writer, for some time. In a field of literature where so many seem to write the same stories over and over, Kelanie stands out as providing a different take on things.She has found a…
Category: reading
Adultery entertainment
As a member of the Writers Book Club on Twitter, I'm required to read a book or story each month.It's a bit of fun, and apart from providing sales and reviews for struggling authors*, it gives me a chance to…
Intense military
Ten Sigma by Andrew Wang is a bit of a strange creature. Science fiction, military, thriller, psychodrama. Something to satisfy every fan, I guess. Science fiction, in that it deals with a future world, an extension of our own, where war, division,…
Steam of Consciousness
My current read is Ten Sigma by A W Wang, another new author with only one published book. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm enjoying the journey. A review to follow in due course. The premise of what I've…
Call me Goat
Just kidding. There's nothing about animals in this book. It's all about torture, as the reader realises they have spent ten bucks on something that is at least over mercifully quick. A bit like a boyfriend I used to have,…
Not without charm
Every now and then a novel comes along, written as a series of letters. 84 Charing Cross Road is one, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society another. (Both books this reader heartily recommends. I have visited both places,…
The new Gabriel
For a while, it seemed as if the end of the Cold War had killed off an entire genre of literature.When the Berlin Wall fell - not that I cared at the time, being in kindergarten, with my reading mostly…
Pool girls
Tiger Stripes: Pool Girl is a story I've been meaning to read for a while. Sasha Rowan puts out a lot of erotica stories, and this one caught my eye.Well, they all caught my eye, but one has to start…
The light of other days
Yesterday I attended my monthly photo club meeting. Our leader is a lovely man in his eighties, fortunate enough in life to have had two spouses, one of each variety, and he has been a photographer since 1960 or so.He…
Page turners
What makes a story good? I see this question asked by many people, of many people. An author is perhaps the worst person to ask for an answer. If they are any good, they aren't working to a formula. They…
