Lust Bites: 5 Dec 2006 ~ 5 Dec 2008

by Olivia KnightMissing us?Follow the links below or look on the right for our indexed posts.Lust Bites has closed but the contributors who created it over the last two years continue to write, publish, muse, argue and discuss ~ so here's where to find the blogs and websites of all the Lusties. Never mind 'closing one door to open another', we're closing one door and opening 18:Mathilde

Coming attractions: the final week

It's the last Coming Attractions and he is definitely an attraction and he is definitely asking you to come a little closer (and a little closer - and a little harder...) and because this is the last time I get to deluge your screen with gratuitously beautiful men, one just isn't enough.Speaking of deluges, we've long had a thing for wet men. Kristina Lloyd started it and I blame her for my

101 Sexy Dares

by Olivia Knight101 Sexy Dares is not a book for reading.Have a quick flip through, and there's nothing to read at all. Don't gnash your teeth or thrash your heels - reading can be overrated.Here we are, reading:Here we are, still reading.Here we are, still reading.When we could be doing this:You can't read 101 Sexy Dares as you flip through, because all the pages are sealed. Here's what you do:

Meet Olivia in Oxford ~ this Saturday

by Olivia KnightTwo things don't make you special in Oxford: being a writer, and having an Oxford degree. The person pouring your pint probably has 2 Oxford degrees and is working towards their third. The chap who's just rung up your copy of The Independent and your pint of milk is probably on his third novel - having branched out after winning a prestigious award for his poetry.In London, you're

Coming attractions: the final countdown

The Big News: It's time to take a break.^ This week's sporting highlight ^On 5 December 2008, Lust Bites is going to draw to a graceful close and flop on the sofa with that man, after exactly two years of relentless, tireless, selfless and dedicated smuttery, wittery, and endless gratuitous photos. Before you break down completely, there's still one whole month left of smart sexy posts and

Alpha females

by Olivia KnightMy favourite heroines � to write, to read, to watch � are alpha. In A bluffer's guide to� Paranormals, I said this of the heroines, �Alpha-females to a woman: there�s no time for simpering flowers when you�re locked in a battle against forces what man was not meant to wot of. These chicks are tough: they�ll gut ex-lovers, eat snakes to survive, lead armies, face down the devil,

Coming attractions

At last I'm dragging my eyes away from this man, to say...On Monday, I'll be rampaging with my favourite Alpha Females - heroines who are not merely "independent" but kicking ass and ruling the world, often literally.On Wednesday, Nikki Magennis is crushing musicians - or on musicians - with her new rakes.Also,Wednesday is the last day to enter our Halloween Giveaway contest. Write a 200 word (

Halloween Giveaway!

by Madeline MooreYikes! Is that picture scary or what? Well, Halloween is coming, dear Lust Bites readers, which means two things.1) Time to get your freak on! 2) Time for the Lust Bites Halloween Giveaway!This year, we are giving away another impressive batch of erotica books, penned by some of the best writers of erotica working today. That's right, penned by Lusties!

Enchanted in the US

by Olivia KnightOnce upon a time, far far away... I first saw the bear as it came down the aisle between Travel and Biography... Everyone wanted to explain the love between Pearl and Thomas... There has been no sleep on the journey...Enchanted, Black Lace's collection of three erotic fairy tales, is at now available in the United States. If, back in August, you were salivating, coveting, and

The Business of Writing Full-Time

by Olivia Knight�Are you listening?��Yes,� said Tiffany.�Good. Now� if you trust in yourself���Yes?���and believe in your dreams���Yes?���and follow your star�� Miss Tick went on.�Yes?��� you�ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren�t so lazy. Goodbye.�� The Wee Free Men, Terry PratchettStraight off: hold the tissues. I sodding love my life.

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

Coming attractions

by Olivia KnightLast week's wet men notwithstanding, this may be the most beautiful image ever to grace the Lust Bites blog (and we don't hold back with our gratuitous photos). Speaking of backs and holding - mmm...(Perhaps I'm biased. This is almost exactly how I imagine Sir Thomas from "The Three Riddles" in Enchanted, though not featured in his armour here. Or perhaps any woman in her right

Crush Wednesday: wet men

by Olivia KnightWe�ve all been there: garden party, drink in hand, exchanging witty repartee with some magnificent specimen whose eyes smoulder with wry debonair amusement, and you think � What, on earth, could possibly make you hotter? � and with a discreet nudge of the elbow, knock him into the pool.Ahh. Wet men. (Someone else will deal with Angry men in a separate post, as I don�t do anger

Coming attractions

Naked man? Tick. Good biceps? Tick. Plenty of water? Tick. M/m kiss? Tick. All together: holy Santa Maria madre del dio, I am too good to you.This week, we're...Putting the come back in coming attractions!Putting the vision back in television!Putting the man back in romance!Putting the ngs back in Fine Young Things...... putting Olivia back in her cage.On Monday, Madeline Moore discusses writing

Enchanted ~ The Three Riddles

by Olivia KnightEnchanted is the final collection in Black Lace's novella books before we return (for a while) to short stories. Lust Bites was vampires, Possession was shape-shifting and invading spirits, Magic and Desire was fantasy, and Enchanted is fairy tales: be careful what you wish for...The originsLast Friday, in Fairytale feminists, I whisked through the origins of fairy tales and

Fairytale feminists

by Olivia KnightTale as old as timeSong as old as rhymeBeauty and the BeastTheme song to Disney�s �Beauty and the Beast�For the very end of myths is to immobilise the world: they must suggest and mimic a universal order�Roland Barthes, �Myth Today�Next week introduces Enchanted, the novella collection of erotic fairytales � not a combination that startles us now, but a handful of decades ago,

Crush Wednesday: The Doctor

by Olivia KnightFor those who didn�t grow up in the UK and who find the terms �Tardis�, �Dalek�, and �sonic screwdriver� mystifying, this isn�t a medical post. It�s not about doctors. It�s about the doctor. Doctor who? Yes, precisely, so that�s what they called the program.This sets the tone. Although he loves tea, has a Northern accent, frequents London, and thinks no-one should carry

Coming attractions

This week, we delve deep into the imagination - the places it happens, the places it can take you, and the places it comes from.On Monday, Janine Ashbless teases out the fickle creature of inspiration: where we find him, what we can do to lure him, and what to do when he just won't damn well bloody return our phone calls, the bastard! Blood sacrifices, roses in jars, and long hot showers may

Introducing Edie Bingham

by Olivia KnightLust Bites has a brand-new shiny spangly contributor in the flock / stable / chocolate-tray, or whatever the correct collective noun is for erotica writers: Edie Bingham, author of The Pride and Southern Spirits, improv comedian, stand-up, closet-cat, and would-be trainspotter. So while the French celebrate the murder of the aristocracy and the birth of La R�publique, we�ve

Coming attractions

Summer's been cancelled again for the UK Lusties, with torrential rains and thunder - if this goes on, I'll be back in my punt, like last year. So if you're lusting for some heat, the best we can offer you is HIM. Over there. On the right. ---->In the sun. Without the umbrella. With his shirt off. The lucky, lucky bastard...And THIS:On Monday, Olivia Knight introduces Edie Bingham, the latest