I agree, this is a very interesting time to be on the planet, isn’t it?

Best of luck and success with The Edge of Impropriety!

And while they don’t make ‘em much smarter than Violet Blue, I don’t think our culture is “erotophobic.” Just parts of it, and even then you never know how stuff is going to go — just look at some the sexual subtexts underlying this past amazing election.

Which is why I feel myself so fascinated to be an erotic writer during this period.

Oh, and if you want another brain-teaser (one I more or less subscribe to)… Well, you dealt me a Violet Blue; I’ll raise you a Michel Foucault, the fancy French thinker who asked, “What led us to show, ostentatiously, that sex is something we hide?” and went on to point out that “what is peculiar to modern societies… is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.”

Lovely interview.

I have to say I'm totally confused regarding what the industry and romance readers consider sexy, hot, erotica or pornography.

I wonder if Pam's intellectual honesty regarding sex doesn't make it rather more real, and therefore more scary to some readers, who then pronounce it beyond the pale, in the same way that an insistence upon historical accuracy in historical romances sucks the fun out of the fantasy for some readers.

Okay, that was a really long sentence, and I'm not trying to be judgmental here, just musing… I recently read a column that called American culture "erotophobic." (It was Violet Blue's take on the passing of Prop 8.) And the combo of that column and this interview got me thinking.

PS, please don't enter me in the book draw, I'm buying it and stimulating the economy, dangit!

Pam’s working on some fan fiction — or that’s what I call it anyway: some sexy retellings of some classic 19th century fiction. In its very early stages, so I won’t say more. While Molly… well, I’d love to write more as Molly, but I’m not sure what yet.