Eyecandy Monday

I love texture in a photo. It makes the difference between admiring it and wanting to climb right on in there.

And I abso-freaking-lutely LOVE this photography blog (mostly female models, lots of arty BDSM, some explicit closeups so Not Suitable For Work). Is it Italian? Spanish? I've no idea. A picture is worth a thousand words and these are guaranteed to inspire several thousand of mine.

Best Women's Erotica 2009

Brilliant news! Janine does the Happy Dance all round the house! My short story Ritual Space (which is about the joys of archaeology, claustrophobia and carved phalli) has been chosen by Violet Blue for inclusion in the prestigious Best Women's Erotica 2009.

I'm particularly chuffed to have been picked by Violet Blue because she is a genre hero of mine - an indefatigable sex-positive blogger and educator ... and part-time builder of combat robots. We interviewed her on Lust Bites way back in the mists of time. Her own blog Tiny Nibbles is fascinating, sexy and sometimes alarming reading and I'm an addicted reader. (Did I mention it includes lots of hot pictures?)

*sings* I am H A P P Y; I am H A P P Y...

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The picture above was taken by me in the Roman city of Volubilis, in northern Africa, and therefore counts as Culture.

"At Her Discretion"

So I was doing a websearch on Thomas Rowlandson (whose erotic/satirical cartoons I was intending to namedrop in a story) and I came across this great blog: At Her Discretion.

The owner posts mostly pictures which are quirky, beautiful or weird, usually with historic or vintage interest and tangentally erotic. The commentary is witty. Also (s)he is a big Alan Moore fan, which is a sign of True Taste.

Let's hope this is a blog that keeps going, because I want to see more.