http://www.maddystuart.com Personal Website of Maddy Stuart, Erotica Author Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission is on the brink of release (my story: "Reclaiming the Sofa" is included). Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel has a blog dedicated to the anthology where you can read excerpts from the stories, order postcards, and watch naughty spanking videos. Here's another YouTube spanking link. ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2008/02/21/blog-for-yes-sir/ I love sex and I love kink. But sometimes I come across things that don't sit quite right, in ways I can't put my finger on. There are moments when I feel like "your kink is OK" doesn't quite capture the nuances of sexuality, or when something bothers me about ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2008/01/29/i-love-bitchy-jones-so-much/ As most writers do, I have a day job. As most people do, I have a day job that is not aligned with my passions. "Make money during the day, pursue your interests at night" was my mother's advice, and I've always followed it. This means that opera, erotica, painting, ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2008/01/02/pseudonyms-personas-and-secrets-getting-out/ Tomorrow afternoon I'll be getting on a plane with all my worldly possessions and heading back north to Toronto. I'm moving because of personal circumstances that I won't be getting into here, but I believe the move is the best thing for me. It's not saying goodbye to beautiful NYC, ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/11/24/moving-out-of-new-york/ "Reclaiming the Sofa" will be appearing in an anthology titled Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Male Dominance edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. This will be my first heterosexual story to appear in print. Here's the full table of contents: The Art of Darkness by Alison Tyler Dear Professor Pervert by Donna George Storey A ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/11/17/my-story-reclaiming-the-sofa-to-appear-in-anthology/ My story "Opera Gloves", which was originally to appear in the canceled Alyson Books anthology Second Skin, will be appearing in the upcoming anthology Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. It's scheduled to be released April 2008, with parties and readings in New York and San ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/11/08/opera-gloves-to-appear-in-dirty-girls-erotica-for-women/ With yesterday's post being more personal and emotional than most on this blog, I've been trying to sort out what exactly I'm doing with this parcel of internet space. The most obvious reason to have a blog, as an author, is to simply own the space, make sure you're the first ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/08/22/how-to-blog/ Rachel Kramer Bussel's post Sex in the possibly public square resonated with me in a lot of ways. For me, sex still exists at least partly in the shadows, in the bad old days of repression and shame. Stealing my brother's copies of Maxim and my mother's romance novels; feeling an ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/08/21/supersexyfun/ Last night's In The Flesh was a lot of fun. It was my first time reading any of my writing -- let alone sex writing -- in public, so I was nervous going in, but once I began reading and the audience started responding, I really started enjoying myself and ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/07/19/last-nights-in-the-flesh/ Just a reminder that I'm reading tonight at the In The Flesh Reading Series. This will be the first time I read my writing publicly. The last few weeks were spent picking out an already-published story to read while simultaneously hoping I could write a new and better one. Although the ... http://www.maddystuart.com/2007/07/18/in-the-flesh-tonight/