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Below I’ve listed my favourite podcasts that inform my romance and erotica editing. These podcasts are excellent sources for book recommendations, trope discussions, and general knowledge about romantic relationships and sexuality.
Perfect listening for a #StetWalk – just remember, these are generally NSFW, and you may not want young children listening.
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This week I hosted a session on Editing Sex Scenes in Fiction at the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)’s annual conference. I enjoyed discussing the particular challenges of editing intimate scenes with my skilled and thoughtful peers, and I always have a great time at editorial conferences, as I’ve written about before.
One of the topics I covered in the session was helping authors make these scenes more inclusive. This article continues the conversation and offers tips for authors who want to move away from stereotypes and tokenism and create more representative sexuality in their stories. Content warning: this article mentions dubious consent and depictions of rape, kidnapping, and nonconsensual acts, as well as BDSM and kink scenarios (no specific instances of any of the above). Special thanks to Katzenbaer for copy-editing this post. You can read her kinky short fiction on her blog, Happening To Her: Tales of the Humiliated. Why dark romance / dark erotica stories interest this editorThe romance and erotica genres have exploded in popularity in recent years. In our post-50 Shades world, stories featuring BDSM and unconventional relationship dynamics have entered the mainstream, but there are still subtypes of steamy stories that don’t make it to the book clubs, that major newspapers will not review, and that cause no small amount of pearl-clutching.
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