Yes, I am home again! And only had 3 voice mail messages and 174 emails to attend to. Not too bad considering I was away for a week. However, I also had an entire laundry basket filled with regular snail mail to deal with, as well. It was a bit overwhelming. (I don't even want to begin discussing the weed situation in the many gardens! Oy! It was exhausting just looking at it all. I feel as if I never even went on vacation.)

My first night home was all about this:



If you haven't seen it since 1982 when it came out, you should do yourself a favor and watch it again. It was just as delightful 25 years later. (Holy Christ, how does it happen, this time-flying nonsense??)

My reading material while on vacation has been great:

Crave: Tales of Lust, Love, and Longing by Catherine Lundoff (Lesbian erotica by Lethe Press)
God, Jr. by Dennis Cooper (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic)
You Are Enough: Always Have Been...Always Will Be by David J. Walker (DeVorss Publications, Science of Mind philosophy)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (Farrar Straus Giroux)

There were plenty of announcements from people far and wide, but alas, most of them are now out of date. Some of the ones that did not go out of date (yet) include:

A great interview over at LustBites with the author James Lear.

A chat with the wonderful hardcore ex-pat fetish filmmaker Maria Beatty over at Galafur.com. (This piece is in French, though, so you might need to bring along a French-to-English dictionary. Check it out anyway for the hot film stills.)

Emanuel Xavier is in some kind of film/TV thingie, called Title This -- A Hymn for Her, that you can view here.

And Bill Brent has many announcements that you can read about at one of his blogs, LitBoy.com

Michael Moore's new film, Sicko, about America's healthcare industry, was apparently "socko" at Cannes. If you are so inclined, read what he has to say about it on his blog, here.

And the lovely Maria Isabel Pita has re-vamped her whole web site. Why not visit it ASAP? You can do it by clicking here.

On the moi front...

I managed to get a story picked up for the Best New Erotica anthology for 2008, edited by Maxim Jakubowski. I haven't accomplished that in several years. (It was my short story "After Hours" from Naughty Spanking Stories Vol. 2, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel.)

And I potentially sold two other stories, one a piece of lesbian erotic flash fiction called "Chicken Hawk" to Alison Tyler, and then a rape story called "Dreams" to another editor, but these sales have not been 100% confirmed.

It also looks like my two erotic romance novels about Hollywood, When Hearts Collide and When the Night Stood Still (currently sold out), are being re-issued under one cover, in slightly abridged forms, from Magic Carpet Books in Spring 2008. The new title will be From Hollywood, With Love. (If you've only read my erotica and have never read my erotic romances, the answer is yes, I can be stupefyingly romantic.)

And the above-mentioned re-issue is in addition to my 3 erotic romance novels with Magic Carpet Books being re-issued, unabridged, as ebooks with fictionwise.com.

So all that is pretty cool is it not? Meanwhile, it is back to deadline's ville around here. I have 2 novels, in their entirety, still to write this summer, and a finished novel that needs serious revisions that I've yet to tackle. And 3, yes 3, novels still in the book proposal stages. So anytime you want to drop by and help out around here would be super-duper okay with me! I might even provide a light lunch! Well, okay.

Thanks for visiting, gang. Back to the grindstone...