BUST-ed!

The February/March love and sex issue of BUST has an article called "The Thinking Girl's Guide to Erotica" by Rachel Friedman and here's part of what it says:

If you want to start boning up (har0 on quality erotica, you'll want to start with the work of some stellar modern female authors. Perhaps best known is Rachel Kramer Bussel, who edits and contributes to a slew of top-notch anthologies; aside from the Best Sex Writing series, she's worked on niche collections like Tasting Her: Oral Sex Stories; Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission; and Suite Encounters: Hotel Sex Stories.

My fabulous publisher Cleis Press gets a big shoutout, as does ebook publisher Mischief Books. Yay!

Bust reviews Best Sex Writing 2010

Bust reviewed Best Sex Writing 2010 and here's what they had to say:

The third annual edition of Best Sex Writing, edited by notable sex expert Rachel Kramer Bussel, bills itself as a “thinking person’s sex book.” And with essays covering ground from the personal to the historical to the medical (with hardly any writing and bosom-heaving at all) it seems an apt description. In a book about the world’s oldest subject, a few ideas feel fresh, such as John DeVore’s groundbreakingly sexy willingness to admit that model-obsessed male culture has whitewashed the messiness of human desire, and Betty Dodson’s fear that all her feminist sex education has irradiated her erotic life of primal raunch. There’s just a dab here of the overly PC prose that often plagues sex-positive writing with a cringeworthy earnestness, but voices like that of hilariously blunt Diana Joseph, who writes about hearing her son refer to a female peer as a slut, make this collection worth the asking price.



Order Best Sex Writing 2010 from:



Amazon.com



Kindle edition



Cleis Press

Susie Bright NYC book tour

I will be heavily plugging the next In The Flesh on February 19th, with Susie Bright. Just heard from the venue, Happy Ending Lounge, and you'll be happy to know that we'll have sound upstairs and downstairs, so if you can't squeeze in, grab a drink downstairs, listen (there will be video online TK from the reading too) and come upstairs to meet Susie and get your book signed.

Big thanks to Bust magazine for plugging and giving me Susie's other tour dates (I changed it cause we are actually starting In The Flesh at 7:30 to accommodate the crazy huge lineup):

Tuesday Feb. 17, 8pm
Susie Bright’s Celebrity Kink Tour
Babeland SOHO, 43 Mercer St., New York 10013; 212.966.2120
Join sex doyenne Susie Bright for a titillating evening of celebrity sex gossip. Find out what it was like to be raised in a Hollywood Colony, and how Susie’s sex expertise ultimately led her to advising directors on sex scenes, as well as selling sex toys to celebrities. You’ll get the dirt first-hand on what really happened on the sets of Bound, The Matrix, and Six Feet Under, plus insight into celebrities ‘closed door’ shopping experiences!

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 7pm
Meet Susie Bright at Babeland’s Erotica Series Kickoff!
Babeland Brooklyn, 462 Bergen St., Brooklyn 11217; 917-865-2813
Susie Bright reads from X: The Erotic Treasury. In addition to signing copies of her book, Susie will introduce Babeland’s new erotica series with a mini workshop about sexy writing.

Thursday, Feb. 19, 7:30 pm
In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series
Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St., New York; 212.334.9676
Susie Bright reads from X: The Erotic Treasury along with contributors Paula Bomer, Ernie Conrick, Martha Garvey, Nicholas Kaufmann, Tsaurah Litzky, Marcelle Manhattan, Lisa Montanarelli, Chelsea Summers, and host/curator Rachel Kramer Bussel.