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I thought about waiting until Demon's Layer gets released (next week) to post here, but since the excerpt is available, I can't resist.Demon's Layer: Nisha's spending the weekend with her boyfriend, her favorite werewolf... and a sex demon.The Innferno is the perfect hotel for a weekend getaway, except for one minor problem -- the sex-crazed resident demon. It's possessing the guests and using

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My own contribution, Prairie Rose, is one of several erotic shapeshifter stories in the Dawg Town series. Unusual shapeshifters, to put it mildly. Really cute ones.

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Smart Bitches, Trashy Novels took a look at CDD back on December 11, 2008. They, and the commenters, found it very, very disturbing.So would I, if I'd only seen the site (and the book of short stories) they link to; my first reaction to learning of CDD was kind of a shocked horror. I got over it, obviously.But then I saw this site, and...it's not my cup of tea, but they're *very* clear about

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This is by no means a comprehensive list (and neither is my first post on the subject), but it might prove useful anyway. In case you...have a sudden need to read spanking fic. Or you're writng a research paper or something. I don't know. Vicki Blue's Spanking and Domestic Discipline is a site dedicated to real spanking in adult heterosexual relationships. Well, you can't say it clearer than

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Just for fun--okay, for procrastination, if you really want to know--last week I started googling to see what I could find about the effects of romance novels. Wow: there are a lot of dire predictions out there. I get the impression many people still believe we romance readers are melting our brains, jacking our expectations regarding relationships to unhealthy heights, and compensating for some

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I'm not entirely sure how best to celebrate that. 'Romantic horror,' maybe?The depression recession will be very romantic? The sheer stress of money worries in general, and fear of redundancy in particular will, she argues, elevate levels of the chemical dopamine in the brain - and dopamine is associated with romantic love. I love the idea of people clinging to each other as the economy crumbles;

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1. Susan Kay's Phantom. I have been sucked into this thing so hard. I keep trying to maintain critical distance, but no, in a few more chapters I'm going to be sighing over Erik like someone with the worst case of phangirl-ism ever. Damn it, he has a cape and a mask and an angelic voice and he does magic; how can I resist? It goes straight to my hindbrain like a sweet velvet drug.Okay, the

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Huh. When you google mask fetishes, most results seem to be sites about masked women. I would not have guessed that, given Tuxedo Mask and The Phantom of the Opera, and the number of romance novels with "masquerade" in the title.Googling "masked lover" brought me a lot of references to Venice, more romance novels, and a thoroughbred horse. Oh, and a lot of myspace profiles and blog-pseudonyms. I

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1. Sailor Jim On the Subject of Penises is brilliant. And required reading if you find yourself needing to describe erect penises. Terms like ‘throbbing,’ ‘pulsing’ and all other variations of this nature make it sound as if the silly thing had a blood pressure cuff wrapped around it. ‘His fleshy organ quickly surged into full alertness, throbbing and pulsing and otherwise scaring the shit out of

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I've been thinking about ARGs lately, specifically about how they are an irksome combination of utterly fascinating and, simultaneously, quite boring indeed. And I think the boring part is a matter of lack-of-fit between my own ways of thinking (and playing) and the way most ARGs are constructed. My problem is, ARGs don't look enough like fanfiction.Backing up a bit, ARGS--alternate reality games

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So I was browsing the internet--an activity I am beginning to think I should avoid--looking for examples of fiction or art by women who go all swoony over doctors (disclosure: I am, ironically, not one of these.)And I found these links, which are, I warn you, NSFW.This site is for those of us who like to see gas being used to sedate others. This site is for what? Well, there you go: The Gasman's

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1. I found this via Mosellegreen, an internet friend, and I love it: All My Internet Friends.There are those who say I spend a little too much time onlineSometimes I agree, but on the whole I think I’m doing fineClick, buzzI feel strong becauseAll my internet friends are here with me 2. I've had an interesting suggestion that I set up an author page at CoverDoll, which probably does make sense

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I am having a sudden craving for zombies (that came out wrong--I don't mean as canapes or anything; I'm just in the mood to watch zombie movies and read zombie fiction). This must be a side effect of missing North American Halloween.So, dear people, I will be immeasurably grateful for zombie commentfic, even if it is only a sentence or two long. I particularly like real person zombies: Ayn Rand,

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I've started looking for vintage medical ads, and covers from vintage romances featuring doctors and nurses. No, this isn't just because I'm hopped up on pain pills as I try to wean myself off caffeine, although I can't deny that that might be a factor.LJ's vintage_ads community posts these from time to time. Like this post, full of pharmaceutical goodness. I'm particularly intrigued by Placidyl;

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1. Mormon Depression in Marriage. It's actually mildly depressing just reading that, honestly, especially the description of the utter misery that two well-intentioned people can so easily create for themselves...For an example of how this might play out, consider a not-so-rare scenario of a somewhat undersexed husband who loves his wife, but also looks at pornography against his wife's wishes.

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Those of you who haven't seen my last post are probably wondering about that "further."Eugene Woodbury's Angel Falling Softly is a romantic vampire story written by a vampire, but one which wasn't actually marketed as LDS fiction, which I learned from Moriah Jovan's post. And this is Moriah Jovan on genre. I seriously want to read her book now, even though it sounds VERY Mormon and I may miss

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Okay, I was going to post about the Visionary Daughters today, but then Tharain and Amy Star linked me to an informative post about Twilight, and I fell down a rabbithole, and so instead you're getting links about Pre-Existence. I'll get back to the Daughters next time.1. First up, Saturday's Warrior, a musical which begins...oh, let me just quote Wikipedia: While waiting to be born in the

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I freely admit I'm cheating with this first cover. It doesn't depict a "career girl," or even a working girl (or a stripper--more about that later). I just wanted to stick it in as an early version of "The Runaway Bride."Bride in FlightShe looks overjoyed, doesn't she? Heartwarming, really.Moving right along. This next cover is clipped, but I love it anyway. Partly for the title, which not only

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You know what else I like? Ghost-entertainment schlock.I like ghost stories, and haunted hikes, and Ouija boards. I like creepy movies, especially that whole based-on-a-true-story genre, wherein 'based on' usually means, as far as I can tell, that someone associated with the film heard of an incident that led them to write a really creepy fictional work. I like the poorly-lit ghost hunt

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Last weekend I found myself temporarily in the Slough of Despair, and driven by some instinct I didn't know I possessed, I turned on the Country Music channel and wallowed in depression for a while. The depressive funk lifted, as such things usually do, leaving only slight existential anxiety (which should lift in turn once I start taking steps to deal with the Underlying Issues. My Underlying

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It's t_w's fault I'm posting this. Just for the record.So. Once v handed me the Taken in Hand URL, I did some looking around the website, and I think t_b_c is right: for all that it's a defiantly men-in-charge concept, there's something about the tone that suggests otherwise. [I shouldn't even have to tell you this, but the quotes that follow are not suitable for work, for children, for the

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There are perfectly good, rational reasons why I'm looking up erotica and romance and Christianity and...okay, there's no good reason for the dolls. But for MOST of it, there's a rational explanation. It's just the RESULTS that are irrational. 1. A Little Leaven bills itself as "A Museum of Idolatry," and bears the not-quite-informative subtitle, "This Is What Happens When the Church Fails to

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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in

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So I've watched the first two episodes of Absolute Boyfriend, and aside from the cloying overblown 'cuteness' of the heroine, my immediate first reaction was to think her heartless for failing to appreciate Night--I mean, I teared up, embarrassingly enough, over his selflessly working to earn money he knew she wanted (when in fact she wanted it so she could settle the bill and send him back to

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Sasha Bunny doesn't count as a RealDoll, because it's clearly not real.What's not clear is who that's being marketed at. Yes, I can guess at uses for it, but...probably none you want me elaborating on.How about a Virtual Boyfriend to text message you? No?Okay, how about SergioBoyfriend to...I don't even know what that thing is for. It does make every real man you'll ever meet in your life look

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It's just that Invidereliana linked me to something gloriously awful in the comments to the last one, and I wanted to make sure everyone saw this: ALW is making a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.From the NYPost (bolding mine): As for "Phantom . . . Once Upon Another Time": It's set in 1906 in Coney Island. The Phantom, having fled Paris, is running a freak show. At night, he crawls into his

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Of course, those of you with strong sanity-preservation instincts will know to immediately start worrying about what I might post next. >:DSo I've been reading the feministing discussion of ages past about whether Real Doll usage can be compared to vibrators. And I do understand that most vibrators don't look exactly like a penis, but...well, leaving aside the men who pretend their dolls are

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Those of you on my friendslist have probably already seen all of these links; I apologize for the repost, but I wanted all of these in one public post so I can find them easily.Some of these links may not be suitable for work. Or for children. Or for the easily offended, or people who're afraid of dolls.'But why would you WANT to find these links easily, or at all?' you ask. I just do. The Legacy

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A Georgian Romance:Originally released as, "How Gold My Highlights." No, actually, I like this cover. There people have Really Good Hair--the colour, anyway; his cut's a little too 80s for my taste. But hey, what do I know about Georgian hair? Maybe it's supposed to look like that.I'm struggling to remember how I came to acquire a Georgian Romance. Has anyone else even heard of a Georgian Romance

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