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general blather

My 2021 Lockdown /Snow Day To-Do List

Posted on October 5, 2021 by ctan / 2 Comments

What’s a work-a-holic to do when the To Do list is neverending and winter is looming? Make a new To Do list of “not work” things to do, that&#...

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Pandemic Retail Therapy: Ebay Shopping for my main characters

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ctan / 0 Comment

I have a writer friend who, when she’s learning what it feels like inside the head of her main character, will sometimes go clothes shopping as that chara...

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Pandemic Road Tripping

Posted on August 14, 2020 by ctan / 0 Comment

Some family members of mine are currently roadtripping across the USA in an RV. So are a lot of folks, apparently. RV sales are “skyrocketing” and s...

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Duck Day 2019 Menu and Recipes

Posted on November 29, 2019 by ctan / 0 Comment

Our thanksgiving-day extravaganza is done, and as usual I’m posting a blog entry for posterity and my own reference so I can find these things again if I ...

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InVocation, an art installation by Midori

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ctan / 0 Comment

Today I was inspired to ship off this ancient, grungy Mac keyboard (see photo) that has been gathering dust and grime in my office for over 20 years. I’m ...

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Silk Threads! Erotic novellas of passionate Japan – last day on Kickstarter!

Posted on November 13, 2018 by ctan / 1 Comment

Folks, it’s the last day of the SILK THREADS Kickstarter and it’s been such a whirlwind that I am only getting around to making this post now. The f...

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They say politics makes strange bedfellows? Bigfoot Erotica & the VA Congressional Race

Posted on July 30, 2018 by ctan / 4 Comments

Reporters looking for hot takes about bigfoot erotica keep reaching me on email and twitter, because of what happened on social media over the weekend regarding...

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Viceland TV's "Slutever" Talks to Erotica Writers about "Women & Monsters"

Posted on March 28, 2018 by ctan / 0 Comment

If you haven’t seen it, Karley Sciortino, the writer of the Slutever blog and a regular for Vogue magazine, has a Vice TV video documentary series (also c...

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FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2018 NLA-I WRITING AWARDS

Posted on March 13, 2018 by ctan / 0 Comment

I just got this press release from NLA: International with the finalists in the NLA Writing Awards and thought I’d post it to share with all. This year I ...

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Circlet Press 25th Anniversary Celebration (at Cecilia's house)

Posted on September 18, 2017 by ctan / 0 Comment

It’s hard to believe that 25 years have gone by since I founded Circlet Press by hand-stapling 100 copies of Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords on the f...

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