Interviews with Literotica authors

[Bob_Aganoush]

A few years ago I started a project to interview Literotica authors whose work I admired about their writing and backgrounds. You can find the interviews on my stories page. After doing eight of these, I took a break, but am now interested in picking this project up again.

So if you have an author you admire, please either post here or send me a PM with the author's name, and why you would like to see an interview with them. Thanks for your help.

Bob A.

 

[bettiezyx]

AlinaX: What is that photo for your profile pic?

 

[AnneSexton]

British Filth, please; because his audios are delicious and spectacular and because it will be easier (for me) to create a fantasy relationship with him if I know more about him. Pictures and a writing sample will also help.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=533439&page=submissions

 

[AlinaX]

AlinaX: What is that photo for your profile pic?

From the cover of my Synthie Recalibrated on Amazon.

 

[vanmyers86]

What a cool idea! I just read one of the interviews and enjoyed it very much. I look forward to reading more about my fellow writers.

Thank you for doing these.

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

What a cool idea! I just read one of the interviews and enjoyed it very much. I look forward to reading more about my fellow writers.

Thank you for doing these.

You're welcome, Van - it's a nice diversion from writing my own stories. And work!

 

[Phantom300]

Tons of good ones here, but Xarth has always stood out to me.

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

Tons of good ones here, but Xarth has always stood out to me.

Thanks Phantom.

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

Bump!​

Still looking for suggestions/nominations of Lit authors with whom you would like to see an interview (see below). Please PM me, thanks.

 

[sirhugs]

What does this have to do with story ideas?

 

[AlinaX]

What doesn't it have to do with story ideas?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And what Literotic writer would give you a true interview for posting here. I know I wouldn't. But I guess you are looking for some good fiction so here(lit) is as good a place as any.

 

[Carnevil9]

And what Literotic writer would give you a true interview for posting here. I know I wouldn't. But I guess you are looking for some good fiction so here(lit) is as good a place as any.

I think this criticism is a bit unfair. Sure, most of us like to remain anonymous. But that doesn't mean that we wouldn't share our anonymous hopes and dreams and motivations. I think it is possible to share and to learn without revealing those real-life details that we all keep hidden. The ultimate truths can be shared without compromising the daily trivia. I think it is a great project.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I think this criticism is a bit unfair. Sure, most of us like to remain anonymous. But that doesn't mean that we wouldn't share our anonymous hopes and dreams and motivations. I think it is possible to share and to learn without revealing those real-life details that we all keep hidden. The ultimate truths can be shared without compromising the daily trivia. I think it is a great project.

You may be right, yet, I know that I would probably make up who, what, where, when, and how if I was to even write/give an interview. But that's just me.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

And what Literotica writer would give you a true interview for posting here ...

I doubt I would be thought of as one of those worthy to be interviewed ...

(Although I love talking about me and my lovers.)

But when I started writing erotica I decided that this was a place where I could talk freely (too freely as the host has told me a few times) about influences and experiences without self-censorship. Other than the fact that I won't say anything identifying, anything else is fair, there is no such thing as TMI.

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

I doubt I would be thought of as one of those worthy to be interviewed ...

(Although I love talking about me and my lovers.)

But when I started writing erotica I decided that this was a place where I could talk freely (too freely as the host has told me a few times) about influences and experiences without self-censorship. Other than the fact that I won't say anything identifying, anything else is fair, there is no such thing as TMI.

Avro - I should have mentioned that self-nominations were welcome as well. But I looked at your profile and you don't have any submissions yet. Or am I missing something?

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

You may be right, yet, I know that I would probably make up who, what, where, when, and how if I was to even write/give an interview. But that's just me.

Zeb,

I can accept the fact that some of the authors I interviewed may have stretched the truth at times, as can happen in any interview whether anonymous or not. However, as you read through them, I certainly believe that most everything there is plausible, and I'm willing to accept their veracity. I will tell you that I had one author who sent me some responses that seemed just so outlandish that I opted not to publish the interview.

 

[Reshbod]

I likely wouldn't make the cut for being interviewed, since I'm a hack and fraud , but have read the ones that are posted. None of the questions I recall seemed too personal, but if anything was I'd just skip it. I do look forward to seeing more interviews posted.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

Thank you (re: published)

I began writing stories here (under a different name) about 20 years ago, it was therapy of sorts, I had just buried my father, husband* and mother in the last few years. While I miss them, each was over 80 when they passed. The * is because I guess that legally I was a fiancee or common-law wife for over 30 years, my parents having extracted a promise from their 20-something daughter not to marry her 50-something boyfriend who had just proposed.

Back when I wrote the stories, there were fewer rules here and they were interpreted and enforced differently. I named names, organizations, businesses and places during my little strolls down memory lane. It was niche writing, one commentator said I should remove the 'too brief and too graphic sex scenes' and split a story submitting half to 'Ladies Home Journal,' and half to 'Business Week.'

Other authors here suggested that my writings would receive higher marks if I did this and did that. As an experiment I did so under different pen names and they were absolutely right. Give the audience what they expect in a clearly understood way and you will be rewarded. But as I said, I wrote as therapy, so after proving it to myself I went back to writing more of my "curiously odd," stories.

Times changed, asshats started pushing their anti sex agenda against print erotica. I started having to put disclaimers in front of a story that the college graduate and her boss with two ex-wives were both over 18. I had to laicize my priest. LW turned into a cesspool. I couldn't put lots of intense activities in mature, I couldn't mention real family at all. Submissions mentioning daddy issues went to I/T, or spanking went to BDSM.

It was a double-whammy. Those who saw my writings didn't appreciate them because it was way too vanilla for those placements, and those who would appreciate it wouldn't see it because they wouldn't look where it was published. I had to start creating euphemisms and pseudonyms.

Years ago, when I bemoaned this process here at AH, a longtime member suggested that since I brought up the fact there were different criteria in print media (I had said fewer, he said different, he was right**) why didn't I go there.

I just donated the first payment on my second book to a charity. It isn't my job, it's therapy. I was just so nice "mostly restoring"** my many stories that had to be changed or split into parts in order to be published here. To my amazement my first anthology still sells at $8 to $11 per copy (all of my cut goes to charity) depending on whether it's in electronic or paper format and where it's sold.

I wouldn't have ever thought that I would be number ten million or so on the NYT best sellers list, but that's in front of 9,400,000 people, assuming that every author lives in New York State. I want to thank the person who suggested that I try that other avenue. And I think that I waited for the second book because I figured that the publisher would realize their error ... but apparently they haven't.

** The publisher left the story lines, real places and real people depicted in the story alone. They did edit the sex scenes, making some of them less graphic, but each was alluded to accurately.

Last edited by AvroAnson : 01-26-2021 at 05:15 PM.

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

Last edited by AvroAnson : 01-26-2021 at 05:15 PM.

Thanks for the explanation!

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

I likely wouldn't make the cut for being interviewed, since I'm a hack and fraud , but have read the ones that are posted. None of the questions I recall seemed too personal, but if anything was I'd just skip it. I do look forward to seeing more interviews posted.

Thanks; I am hoping to do some more.

 

[Bob_Aganoush]

Giving this thread a bump to see if anyone has ideas of authors I should check out for my interviews. Please DM me

 

[000zing]

Wonderful.

Now kindly explain to us all in what sense this is remotely a story idea and why you think it deserves any space on this board.

 

[MikeXIrons]

Wonderful.

Now kindly explain to us all in what sense this is remotely a story idea and why you think it deserves any space on this board.

It's the story behind the story, of course. Especially if there are some "inspired by" tidbits of true stories, I might give it a read.

 

[000zing]

I don't see it. I search the original posting in vain for any trace of an idea for a story. So would anyone.

I don't mean to be confrontational - I'm aware that we digress and bring up other matters occasionally - but there's been a lot of this totally irrelevant posting of late and if we had a mod here worth the name something would be done about it.