eroticstoryspinner
Really Really Experienced
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I try not to meet my favorite authors anymore.
- I met Douglas Adams on a Florida vacation - he is missed.
- I met Isaac Asimov at a publisher's party in honor of Nick Hornby, author of "About a Boy", "High Fidelity", and I think "The Commitments". I didn't meet Hornby because I was stuck in a hotel room with a 1 week old and a 3 year old. Spouse was supposed to relieve me so I could go downstairs and join the party. It never happened. I met Asimov because his room was next to mine, and I literally bumped into him while walking up and down the hallway with a toddler in a stroller and a baby at my breast. Asimov is missed.
- I spent an evening chatting in a bar with Robert Lynn Asprin. He is missed.
- I met Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob. I hung out with his younger daughter all day at a convention. He was hospitalized right after.
- I've sat in George R.R. Martin's kitchen a couple of times and have eaten a few meals in restaurants with him. The company I founded licensed some of his intellectual property, and we negotiated face to face. As far as I can tell, his writing productivity fell off a cliff shortly after. Also, I don't think his wife likes meShe left one dinner early with no explanation.
- I met Roger Zelazny in the same bar I met Robert Asprin. They spent and hour or so telling "I can one up that" fibs to each other. It turned out that Zelazny once lived in a house on the same street as mine. He is missed.
- I attended a gust lecture with Erma Bombeck. She is missed.
- My father was the first editor to recommend publishing Lois McMaster Bujold. He read slush piles as a side gig while he was in the Air Force. She was the gem of the bunch, and he stayed in touch with her until he died. She's been my all time favorite author for several years. She bumped Jane Austen down a notch. Anyway, her health took a down turn, and her productivity has suffered. I'm sad for her, but damnit I want more books!
I have attended a lot of Authors Conventions for the fun of it. My spouse's best friend from high school was an executive buyer and reviewer for Borders - that resulted in meeting some authors because we had a "mutual acquaintance". One of my college professors knew Steven King well and had him give a talk to our class. I didn't think King's work would interest me, but I have since read all 58 of his novels under the King name and his pseudonym, Bachman. Personally, with the exception of the movie, "Christine" which didn't do the book justice, I like the movie versions of his books better than the text versions.
Gosh - I've met so many others, but my mind is drawing a blank right now. I have dinner simmering in a crockpot, and my nse/stomach is telling me to get off the computer.
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[Oh! one more] I had a brief but wonderful email correspondence with Sir Terence Pratchett . Piers Anthony indirectly put me in touch with Pratchett by forwarding an email. Pratchett replied to me directly cutting Anthony out of the conversation
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I also know my academic colleagues with books in the same field as mine. We meet regularly at technical conferences. We have the same editors. We each have a "signature look" so we can find each other easily in crowds. One wears a ten gallon hat. Another wears a cravat. Tim O'Reilly attends most of the conferences his company sponsors. He doesn't need a prop because he is so tall that he is always visible in a crowd. One other fellow nerd I make a note to hang out with is readily identifiable by the woman on his arm. She is an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10. Ethnically, she is half German Ubermensch and half Native American. I recommend the combination.
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There was the parade of "fetish" authors through my parents home when I was a kid. Back then, smut was published in cheap paperback or even staple bound volumes sold primarily at news stands and some drug stores (I have no idea why drug stores). Anyway, the publishes paid 6 cents per word back in the early 80s, and that was the best around when it came to freelance work for hire. My father wrote a dozen or more stories that were in anthologies with other authors. The publisher had a list of very specific fetishes and commissioned stories to hit the "sweet spot". I've only read a few of my father's smutty works, but one was about naked women who ride horses bare back and have sex with men improbably while on horseback. Basically, the men rode standing in the stirrups, and the women rode the men while supported on their trusty steed's back. That seemed like a laser focussed fetish to me, but they apparently sold well.
Impressive list. Eric is literally a card carrying Communist but doesn't try to jam his politics down your throat either in person or in his writing.
Before my time writing but I understand thta erotica could pay pretty well and a lot of people used it to pay the bills. In a world of Literotica, it is a lot harder to make it pay. Once I get enough of a back log and polish on my stories, I am considering trying my luck on Amazon.
