Last minute Frenzy!

by Janine Ashbless Okay, okay, I know we should be bowing out gracefully but I couldn't resist telling you about this new anthology from Cleis Press and the unstoppable Alison Tyler. Just in time for your Xmas shopping comes Frenzy : 60 stories of sudden sex. It's available on Amazon UK and on Amazon US and does exactly what it says on the tin: 60 short short stories - ranging from 100 words to

Well I Never Did...

by Janine Ashbless Alas, the final demise of Lust Bites is soon approaching ... and so much is left unsaid. You may not realise it but behind the scenes we're constantly discussing who is going to post on what, poking each other with ideas and trying to work out what it is that people really want to see. (We also worry about our deadlines and complain about the weather. See, it's all glamour in

Coming Attractions

The shower cubicle here at Lust Bites Mansion might be a bit draughty, but we can't complain about the fittings...Coming up this week: On Monday we witness a paranormal event: the bilocation of Pam Rosenthal. Pam, in the guise of Molly Weatherfield, is the author of the gorgeous BDSM novel Carrie's Story and has been a guest here before. When she writes erotic romance she uses her other

Vampire Bites

by Janine Ashbless"I do not drink � coffee."Bwa ha ha�Vampires. They�re insatiable, they�re everywhere and they�re hungry for sex as well as blood. Gone are the days when they hung out in dingy castles in the Carpathians and stole the occasional filthy peasant baby for dinner. Nowadays it�s all sharp clothes and nightclubs and urban gangsterism, or exotic locales, designer drugs and hard liquor.

F.F.F!!

by Janine AshblessFirst the news, then the nudes.The great news is that my novel Wildwood is now not only available in the UK, but from today is also in bookstores in the US, and can now be downloaded as a lovely paper-saving e-book from All Romance eBooks.Wildwood: sex among the trees! Sex up a tree! Sex with fairies that turn back into trees when they are done!To celebrate I thought I'd

Coming Attractions

by Janine Ashbless No, this isn't me saying I've got the decorators in, ha ha ha.This week on Lust Bites:On Monday Jamaica Layne will be telling us all about her new novel Market for Love.On Tuesday Olivia Knight (assuming she can tear herself away from Hay-on-Wye, 2nd-hand-book capital of the world but possessing not a single internet cafe...) will be popping the champagne corks for the US

Coming Attractions

by Janine Ashbless This picture shows Simon Keenlyside as Don Giovanni in the current run at the Royal Opera in London. I hope it serves to remind us all that the path of sensual indulgence and concupiscence leads only to perdition. Yep, that's what I think every time I look at this picture.Stiffening our moral fibre this week on Lust Bites :On Monday Edie Bingham brings us a salutary look at Fun

"Mr Black Lace" - an interview with Adam Nevill

by Janine AshblessThis year marks 15 years of Black Lace books, so we decided to get together as a posse and corner the Editor of the imprint, Adam Nevill, for an interview. We should have taken nets. Adam is possibly one of the hardest-working people in publishing (I�ve had e-mails sent from his desk at 7.30 in the morning and 8.00 at night). It�s hard to believe that he manages to write his own

Coming attractions: Publishing Week!

Ladies (and gentlemen), we are proud to present...Mr...Black...Lace!Cue music from Chicago as Mr BL rocks onto the stage....Okay, that's not our editor. We live lives of inordinate blessed luck and luxury, but that isn't, really, our editor. Then again, this is:As the saying goes, "You can edit me any--" No! Stop! Don't say that! Because this week is all about professionalism. Filthy fillies

Smut Slot - Wildwood

by Janine AshblessThis picture of Holly is by my old mate Ian Stobie, and suits Wildwood exactly. Used with permission. Did you know, it's exactly a year since I last claimed the Smut Slot? Well today I'm delighted to offer an excerpt from my latest novel Wildwood, a tale of contemporary magic. If you want some more info about the plot you can catch up here, but for this excerpt all you need to

Coming Attractions

by Janine AshblessWell, after all our burbling about Olympic swimmers I thought the beach volleyball teams needed some praise too. I note that The Daily Telegraph online said that "the athleticism and commitment of the competitors ensures that women's beach volleyball will be one of the most popular Olympic sports." Really? It has nothing to do with the itty-bitty little costumes? Must be just me

Enchanted - Bear Skin

By Janine Ashbless Getting published is like waiting for a bus: you wait years for your book to come out and then two appear on the same day! As well as my novel Wildwood, this week also sees the UK publication of the 3-novella collection Enchanted, and my novella Bear Skin appears alongside Olivia Knight�s fantasy The Three Riddles and Leonie Martell�s gothic The People in the Garden.In keeping

Wildwood - out this week

by Janine AshblessMy new Black Lace novel Wildwood is out in the UK this Thursday! It�s a contemporary paranormal about rival ritual magicians, the English countryside, scary fairies, a love-triangle and of course SEX. Lots of that. And by the end, well, I haven�t brought human civilisation to crashing ruin but let�s just say it�s not far off.So here I am to tell you a bit about this novel in the

Coming Attractions

by Janine AshblessThis week upcoming on Lust Bites looks a bit like The Olivia and Janine Show, I'm afraid - because we have books hitting the UK shops this week and we want to let you know all about them, not to mention give a few copies away!So on Monday Olivia Knight will be telling us about The Three Riddles, her fantasy novella in the 3-author collection Enchanted. Jealousy, magic, suffering

What's Taking You So Long In There?

by Janine Ashbless Okay, so this isn�t actually a picture of me. But if it was, I could tell you exactly what she�s thinking there: "Hey. Wow. What if my heroes START in Damascus and GO to Baghdad? Oh yeah. That means they could visit the House of Wisdom. Cool! And I don�t have to worry about the princess having an actual historical, documented family: I can make it all up! Yes. Yes! Awesome!"

Coming Attractions

by Janine AshblessIt's going to be a week of mystery and revelation here on Lust Bites.On Monday we will be in the mysterious East (okay, I know, shoot me - but I needed a segue). Our friend Donna George Storey, author of Amorous Woman, will be here and with a little help from Jeremy Edwards (!) will be telling us all about those Japanese Love Hotels with the themed rooms. Heh heh heh ... I

Magic and Desire: US release

By the time this post goes up the 3 novella collection Magic and Desire will officially be available to buy in the US. Hooray! All three authors � Portia da Costa, Olivia Knight and Janine Ashbless � are longtime contributors to Lust Bites. To celebrate this publication we�ve got little teaser extracts for you from all three stories. Different styles, different settings (one contemporary, one

Coming Attractions

Yes, I've been watching Prince Caspian. Hot centaur action!! (Sadly, Narnian minotaurs are a bit too fuzzy and animalistic for my taste.)But back in what passes for the real world ... This week on Lust Bites:On Monday Deanna Ashford will be Feeling the Past. Definitely better than smelling it, I reckon...By Wednesday the Black Lace paranormal novella collection Magic and Desire will be available

Looking into the Future

By Janine AshblessYes � that�s me there. The flowing red dress. The skull. The riding crop. The enormous book of dirty stories. The crystal ball � because I�ve been looking into the future.We did it back in December, but what with line-up changes and the unceasing flow of time I thought I might ask round the Lusties and find out what they�ve got in the pipeline for future publication, and what

Coming Attractions

This week on Lust Bites (where we never objectify male bodies. Just fetishise them, ahem.):On Monday Erastes will be naughtily reading other peoples' mail - in fact enjoying a gander at some Gay Love Letters.On Wednesday the third of our Black Lace overviews will be covering Historicals. Bosoms will heave and bodices will be ripped, I promise.And on Friday it's our lovely monthly Smut Slot!