Driven by the advice of the team at Tehben.com, who seem to spend their lives in a passion of soft drink and smut - not that there's anything wrong with that - I've been hunting for a sample of their…
Remember the days
Jane Caleb Wood puts out a line of tightly-plotted high-class erotica. She has explored various topics and kinks, and this new series marks a new twist.Real life. This is chapter one of Jane's Erotic Autobiography, and it is kind of…
The Father Road
Route 66 is a passion of mine. I have a grand plan for a series of shorts, each taking my blonde photographer Carielle Watson to adventures along the Mother Road in her powder-blue '65 Mustang.So far, she's only explored a…
Brilliant British Bonking
Many years ago in my teenagerhood, I read a series of novels by Tom Sharpe. Great British humour: farcical, witty, earthy, full of inventiveness and wordplay.Well, Tom has returned, it seems. Stephen Cashmore has obviously studied hard at the school…
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 three antigraces
Yesterday I wrote about the three wisdoms (or graces, in the Eastern tradition). These are the sources of knowledge: the intellect, the teacher, the texts.There is a fourth grace. The self. Nothing happens without your involvement.Today, the three anti-graces. These…
The three wisdoms
The philosophical school of thought I follow draws on many sources, and one of them is in the Eastern tradition. Sanskrit terms are used to create an abstract model of "the subtle realm". Navigation through this world is not through…
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…
Fiverr Gigger
Now that I've gotten a copy of Vellum and learnt how to use its basic features, I'm out to see if I can improve the world.Not just my own stories, though the improvement in presentation is clear to see, but…
And Carrie makes three
The process of formatting a book in Vellum is simplicity itself. I use Scrivener for writing, and I have yet to find a better tool for the writer. Apart from being a lovely writing environment, Scrivener can handle all the…
