Category: Bound
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It’s Not Actually a Cat Video, but Don’t Let That Stop You
Recently I had the pleasure of working with Melissa of Universal By Design on a book trailer for Bound. If you’ve never worked with Melissa, I can tell you that she is a force of nature and she will not rest until you are happy with what you are getting.…
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Domination after Dialysis
BDSM can be a source of resilience when facing a life-changing illness. Find out how!
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The sweet smell of success?
It was the middle of workshop selection weekend for Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit and we were all a little punchy when one of us suggested that a sure sign of success as a writer is when your book is on the top of the bathroom stack. Here’s proof that I’ve…
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Writer of the Week Premiere
Join me on Monday, April 22, at 6:30pm Eastern US time for the YouTube premiere of my Writer of the Week Interview with Melissa Dee.
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An Introvert Ponders Self-Promotion
One of the first books I read about unconventional sexuality as a young adult was called Exhibitionism for the Shy, by Carol Queen. It was exactly what the title would lead you to expect: an instructional guide to an exciting kind of sexual expression for exactly the kinds of readers…
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Praise and Gratitude
Thomas Mann is credited with saying “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,” and I think there’s truth in that. I think that writers are also people who feel compelled to write, whether it’s difficult or not. We are also people…
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Comedy of Errors
Yesterday I finished writing, proofreading, and scheduling my first newsletter of the new year. I was pretty happy with it, and one of the things that excited me most about it was that I was going to share the first chapter of my memoir with readers. That first chapter has…
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Cover Stories
I began to be afraid that, given the title change and now my uncertainty about the cover, that the book was soon going to feel alien to me, like something that was once part of me and now had been severed. It was a terrible feeling. Brooke pointed out that…
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Title Waves
Maybe sometimes a book needs one title that inspires the author to spend the hours, months, years of drafting, editing, revising and generally agonizing over every image and phrase it takes to write the book, and then it needs another title that inspires the reader to pick it up, turn…
Elizabeth Anne Wood, Ph.D. 