Get together

My wondrous friend Marilyn Jaye Lewis -- an early contributor to my zine Frighten the Horses, a prolific author and editor of erotica and creator of several websites having to do with erotica -- is starting, yes, a new website. And it has a whole organization to go with it.

Last year Marilyn and I, along with writer Susannah Indigo, were nominated for Erotic Writer of the Year in the U.K. by a group that holds a huge annual awards shindig/performance/party/orgy. Marilyn won, of course, and we had so much fun that she started wondering why there were no such awards in the U.S. Marilyn, who contributes regularly to anthologies and knows everybody, felt there should be a way to recognize all the good work that's out there. So she has started the
Erotic Authors Association to “honor literary merit and achievement in the writing and publishing of erotic Literature.” They're looking for members and for nominations for this year. So get on over there and join the party.

By the way, Marilyn's project for last year, The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica, is continually in the top five or six hundred over at Amazon. I surf over there to get a vicarious thrill. My books aren't doing nearly so well. My latest book, Too Beautiful and Other Stories (2d edition), is like number 770,000. It sure wouldn't hurt for somebody to write an Amazon review of it.