Writing Erotic Short Stories

(An excerpt from Write TIll You’re Hard) If you’re writing about sex in the short form, it’s good to remember the basics. It’s easy for all of us to get distracted by the squishy naughty bits: the moaning and screaming and the tearing of...

Dirty Boys Reading and Podcast

The next Dirty Boys Reading is coming up on March 22nd and promises to be a good time. As always we’ll be reading at the Parkside Lounge on Houston and Attorney St. The show starts at 7, costs $10, and this month we’ll have a new reader who I think...

Disgusting, Beautiful, Immoral

“I have to start by saying this is a really dirty book. But I mean that in all the best ways. It’s visceral, smart, sexy, and strangely honest.” – J.S. “I’ve read plenty of smut and lived just as much, if not more but none compares to...

On Writing

I’m sitting at my new table writing for the first time. It’s not the first time i’ve sat here and it’s not the first time I’ve written anything, but it’s the first time I sat here writing. So there it is. I don’t know that a new space will help me write something else...

Thoughts About Men

I’ve always been drawn to old man bars with dark wood, black beer, and ideally a fireplace.  On occasion, I wonder what it is that draws me in, and I’ve often assumed that I simply feel like an old man much of the time. Even as a teenager. But the truth is more likely...