I don’t write romance. I write love stories. The reason is that I detest how the romance genre functions, and what it does to people – especially women. You’ll hear it described as ‘escapism’ by devotees. I’d rather call it ‘lies’. It sets up the most insane, life destroying expectations. Romance tells women that ‘happily [...]
READ MORE »It’s banning season, as online companies, mad with fear and prompted by I hate to think what, are frantically taking down books that *might* offend someone. So, in the spirit of joining in, I’d like to make some outrageous suggestions for things we ought to ban. If you can think of anything sillier, or know [...]
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I’ve just started a new series – I’m shooting for monthly stories about a woman who sets out to explore pain-free heterosexual kink. It’s light hearted, each instalment has a story but there’s no real overarching plot going on so it doesn’t matter if you pick them up in the wrong order, or start halfway [...]
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Once upon a time, long distance love affairs must have been rare. Most people didn’t travel, and only through travel would people meet each other. Then all you had to maintain the romance was letters, which would have been slow. When it took a couple of weeks to cross the Atlantic, mail didn’t swap continents [...]
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Everyone knows that authors make things up. That’s rather what we’re for. And everyone knows that authors give themselves names – for all kinds of reasons. Some of us do it for privacy reasons – very much a motivation for smut writers. Some of us do it because our real names are too bland, or [...]
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Most authors start out writing autobiography. It’s partly the fault of that suggestion to write what you know, and partly because most of us starting out writing our own fantasies. We cast ourselves as heroes and heroines, telling all the stories we wish were true. Part of the process of becoming a good author involves [...]
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We’ve just had Halloween, festival of parties, fancy dress and playing with horror. Just like the paranormal romance genre, Halloween is really an exercise in making dangerous things safe and comprehensible. We forget what the monster stories are really for, exchanging them for sparkly vampires who don’t drink blood, werewolves who just want to get [...]
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G Fenton is not only new to loveyoudivine, but also fairly new to authoring. A Sailor Lad’s First Time came out this October, and is a cherry popping tale for all you folk who can’t resist a virgin! We’ve grilled him lightly to find out more about who our new writer is and what we [...]
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While talking dirty can be a real turn on, it’s all too easy to get it wrong and ruin a moment. Language is a very personal thing, and how we use it in sexual situations especially so. The wrong words can make you feel cheap, dirty, unloved, or degraded. The wrong words humiliate when the [...]
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loveyoudivine has just released an old story of mine – Power Play. It’s an odd process, going through a tale I wrote years ago to polish it. Doing so made me realised how much I have changed, as both a person and an author – not that separating out the two would be easy. When [...]
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