Of note

Gawker's reporting that "Married, Not Dead" is out at the Voice.

Larry Smith reports back from SXSW

Also at SMITH, "The Tao of Smut" by Jennifer Leigh

Lena Chan of Sex and the Ivy in the Boston Globe (!!!)

and fun with interviews:

Sexerati interviews Audacia Ray

Lust Bites interviews Violet Blue:

Lustbites: What do you look for in a story? What do you hate to see?

Violet Blue: It's funny—I know within the first 5-6 graphs if a story has what I'm looking for or not, and sometimes I can't even explain exactly what it is. A good piece of erotica should let me know why I should care about it right away, and give me at least one character I like, even if she or he is an anti-hero or seriously flawed. I tend to be drawn more to publish character-driven stories because they really anchor erotica well; plot-driven stories are a joy but good ones with sex in them are hard to find, or perhaps more tricky to craft. And it should seem obvious, but I demand erotica with sex in it—I do not like "lite" romance or erotica that dances around the actual sex, and as a reader I hate to be teased. Not to say I don't love a good love story; it just needs to have some tension and some explicit friction if you know what I mean. And one thing I really can't stand is when authors go overboard with genital and sexual euphemisms —it's often so distracting, and even vulgar. Go figure!