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Small screen but big news! Our own Leslie Carroll, chronicler extraordinaire of royal marriages through history, will be sharing her wealth of historical knowledge (and maybe a little dish as well) on the occasion of the upcoming British royal wedding, tonight with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News, 6:30 PM est. To find out more about Leslie's books about royal marriages, royal affairs, and royal pains (those are the kids), click here . While the smaller story (the one about the evil twin) deals with Pam Rosenthal's dark, comedic, alter-ego, Molly Weatherfield, author of the erotic cult classic, Carrie's Story , that Playboy listed as #12 (between Lolita and Fear of Flying ) of the 25 sexiest novels ever written -- and which will be the subject of the Naked Reader Book Club's online discussion tomorrow night (Tuesday 4/26) 6-8 PM est. To follow the discussion click here . To register in order to participate, click here . And if you're curious this other side of...

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...