Recommended reads spanking stories

Recommended Reads – Spanking Stories

Book Reviews, Writers

Following on from my last Recommended Reads here’s a couple more by writers who manage to weave kinky sex and erotic style together. This weeks theme has coalesced into spanking so bare your bum or pick up your flogger and prepare for a good… read.

Recommended Reads is published bi-weekly on my substack. This weeks recommendations are erotic serials. To get regular updates and access to my free to read stories.

Recommended reads erotic serials

Recommended Reads – Erotic Serials

Book Reviews, Writers

Beautifully written, slow burn, age-gap erotic serial fiction

Recommended Reads is published bi-weekly on my substack. This weeks recommendations are erotic serials. To get regular updates and access to my free to read stories.

Writers tips - how to think like your readers

Think Like A Reader

Writers

WRITERS TIPS | WRITING EROTICA

Who are you readers?

Unless you are writing purely for yourself, in which case there is no point in publishing your work anyway, there comes a point when you need to think like a reader. So when where and how is your ideal reader reading?

Writing erotic serial stories title photo

How to Write (And Read) A Serial Story

Erotic Serial Stories, Writers

How to write erotic serial stories and what to look for as a reader to make finding your place in a story easy

The serial novel has a distinguished history — Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas were serial novelists.

Writing believable erotica illustration

How To Write Believable Erotica

Writers

It might be erotic but is your reader going to believe it?

Writing believable erotica should be easy but as writers of erotica, we find ourselves placing characters in evermore kinky or outlandish situations, adding more partners and taking our readers into a fantasy world. But to create that illusion the story needs to be believable.

Writing about sex. Title photo

Sex, Strawberries and Cream

Writers

Writing about just sex is like eating the cream without the strawberries

Writing about sex, I recently ran a poll on Twitter asking this question: In my stories and books I try to weave graphic sex into a plot. Some erotica writers go straight for the sex in paragraph one. Which do you prefer?

The results and the comments were interesting:

Erotic stock photos for authors

Erotic Stock Photos

Erotica, Writers

Some of you may have noticed that a lot of the erotic stock photos I use to illustrate this site and my Medium stories are fairly exclusive. This is because they are supplied by a photographer who used to shoot covers for the erotic and fetish paperback market and has a library of unused photos. He is now making these available online other authors. He does charge for the images but the fee for online use is modest.

I’ll let him explain.

What do you want from erotica?

What Do You Want From Erotic Writing?

Erotica, Writers

What do you want from your erotica? This is not solely about whether you want graphic descriptions of all the squelchy details or a little light romance with a hint of gentle fondling, although that is always useful to know. It is about whether you want to be engaged as a reader.

Photo sexy spirits faeries and ghosts

Sexy Faeries Spirits & Ghosts

Erotica, Sex and the Supernatural, Writers

Following in from my post Sexy Demons Incubi and Succubae another group of naughty and often horny supernaturals are sexy faeries spirits and ghosts.