Oh, yes!
Another story sale this morning!
I love it when all I have to do is sit around on my quite comely behind and somewhere out there in the world -- k-ching! -- I've sold another story. Yay.
This is a re-sale of my classic erotic short stories "Anal" and "Swingers" (1998) under the combined title of "Chapters in a Past Life." A sale to an anniversary collection of classic erotica from England. I will give you more details at some later date. (You can go out and play, or something, in the meantime b/c when I say "later date" I mean , like, early 2012.)
Speaking of England (and Paris), I just want to re-iterate here that I am almost certainly doing public appearances in England and Paris in October. So if you will be living in England and/or Paris in October, or perhaps you will be moving to either or both of those places in October, put that into your mix of things to do while you unpack!
In Paris: the French-language edition of my 1999 book, Neptune & Surf, is being re-issued by La Musardine this fall and I will most likely be at their bookstore to do a signing and reading (en francais!!) of the new edition. It is being published as an "erotic classic" which of course thrills me. However, it will differ from the original 2001 Editions Blanche French-language edition in that this new book will not include the novella, The Mercy Cure. It only includes the novellas, Gianni's Girl and Neptune & Surf.
For some reason, the new publisher felt that The Mercy Cure, with its theme of ex-Lesbian nuns and the young-bisexual-orphan-girl-turned-nurse from the convent who awakens to her BDSM longings and whose storyline bounces constantly from the present to the past, the present to the past, the present to the past, was too complicated, or something along those lines! (Which is interesting b/c the old publisher used The Mercy Cure's BDSM-Catholic premise as the cover photo for the entire book.) But guess what, gang? I don't care! Just re-publish it! You can say that there was only a single paragraph in all of Neptune & Surf that you liked so you're only going to publish that one single paragraph (en francais! of course) and I will still be pleased as punch about it!! Seriously. When you get to be my lofty age and you wake-up in the morning wondering why you're still existing and then emails arrive from people from hither & yon still wanting to publish you, you instantly remember why you're still existing and you're just damn happy about all of it.
So, in a nutshell, if you are one of those baffling yet beloved collectors of my books, this is an edition you will want in your collection!! It will be unlike any of the other editions of Neptune & Surf so far. (There have been 6 so far...)
As "far" as England goes: we are thinking that I will be appearing in both Bristol and London, but I will not be the sole person at either of those apperances. There will be others who will be just as spectacular in their non-Marilyn-ness as I am in my Marilyn-ness. I can absolutely guarantee that. So I am very, very excited about the potential of all of it. I will keep you posted!!
Meanwhile, heavy sigh, I've got a heck of a lot of shit to do here today gang, so I gotta scoot. As always, thanks for visiting!!
[A random group of unknown yet spectacular people who are not Marilyn. It's pretty exciting, isn't it??]
I love it when all I have to do is sit around on my quite comely behind and somewhere out there in the world -- k-ching! -- I've sold another story. Yay.
This is a re-sale of my classic erotic short stories "Anal" and "Swingers" (1998) under the combined title of "Chapters in a Past Life." A sale to an anniversary collection of classic erotica from England. I will give you more details at some later date. (You can go out and play, or something, in the meantime b/c when I say "later date" I mean , like, early 2012.)
Speaking of England (and Paris), I just want to re-iterate here that I am almost certainly doing public appearances in England and Paris in October. So if you will be living in England and/or Paris in October, or perhaps you will be moving to either or both of those places in October, put that into your mix of things to do while you unpack!
In Paris: the French-language edition of my 1999 book, Neptune & Surf, is being re-issued by La Musardine this fall and I will most likely be at their bookstore to do a signing and reading (en francais!!) of the new edition. It is being published as an "erotic classic" which of course thrills me. However, it will differ from the original 2001 Editions Blanche French-language edition in that this new book will not include the novella, The Mercy Cure. It only includes the novellas, Gianni's Girl and Neptune & Surf.
For some reason, the new publisher felt that The Mercy Cure, with its theme of ex-Lesbian nuns and the young-bisexual-orphan-girl-turned-nurse from the convent who awakens to her BDSM longings and whose storyline bounces constantly from the present to the past, the present to the past, the present to the past, was too complicated, or something along those lines! (Which is interesting b/c the old publisher used The Mercy Cure's BDSM-Catholic premise as the cover photo for the entire book.) But guess what, gang? I don't care! Just re-publish it! You can say that there was only a single paragraph in all of Neptune & Surf that you liked so you're only going to publish that one single paragraph (en francais! of course) and I will still be pleased as punch about it!! Seriously. When you get to be my lofty age and you wake-up in the morning wondering why you're still existing and then emails arrive from people from hither & yon still wanting to publish you, you instantly remember why you're still existing and you're just damn happy about all of it.
So, in a nutshell, if you are one of those baffling yet beloved collectors of my books, this is an edition you will want in your collection!! It will be unlike any of the other editions of Neptune & Surf so far. (There have been 6 so far...)
As "far" as England goes: we are thinking that I will be appearing in both Bristol and London, but I will not be the sole person at either of those apperances. There will be others who will be just as spectacular in their non-Marilyn-ness as I am in my Marilyn-ness. I can absolutely guarantee that. So I am very, very excited about the potential of all of it. I will keep you posted!!
Meanwhile, heavy sigh, I've got a heck of a lot of shit to do here today gang, so I gotta scoot. As always, thanks for visiting!!
[A random group of unknown yet spectacular people who are not Marilyn. It's pretty exciting, isn't it??]
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