A Generation of Erotic Romance
I loved giving my erotic writing workshop on the East Coast last month. Twice. (Well, once is never enough, is it?) -- First to Maryland Romance Writers, in a roomier, more leisurely time frame -- with opportunity for some excellent, challenging questions. -- And then at New Jersey Romance Writers' delightful Put Your Heart in a Book Conference -- where I had to squeeze the thing into 45 minutes, which I managed exactly. And though there was, sadly, no time for Q&A, I did get to speak afterward to conference participants, including hoydens Janet Mullany and Diane Whiteside, ex-San Franciscans Candice Hern and Julie Anne Long, and many other friends and writers, established and beginning -- all interested in the risky business of imagining and representing the most profoundly physical and yet emotional sensations in little black marks on white paper. Renewing my faith and strengthening my understanding of the generation-long period I and others have come through, both within the...