CineKink

Yes, it's that time of year again. The time when the thoughts of the kink literati of New York--and the world--turn to all things cinematically kinky. Well, you know what I mean. It's the CineKink Film Festival!

2010 marks year seven of the annual festival and I think I've gone to at least parts of most of them. T

he festival kicked off Wednesday with a film by Erik Lamens (Belgium) and like a truly fine, dark, bittersweet chocolate, his film, SM Rechter (S & M Judge) slowly melted and lingered in the minds of film goers.

Director, Erik Lamens and Festival Director, Lisa Vandever

Based on a true story in Belgium, the film blew me away. Beautifully shot, scored and acted, the film is the story of a judge who saves his marriage by giving his wife what she needs. After months of deep depression and, finally, a nervous breakdown, his wife tells him about her deep-seated fantasy to be dominated.

I don't want to tell you what happens because I hope you'll be able to see the film eventually. This is a film that should be widely distributed, but most-likely will not be. If, however, you can get your hands on a dvd, please see it. I was awed and moved to tears by this love story.

See the trailer here.

The Holiday That Was

I promised more New York holiday pictures and it's still Three Kings Day for another 10 minutes, so I guess I can still put a few up.

Now, let's start out with a trip to Lord and Taylor's windows. Here's one that is near and dear to my heart. If you follow me and have read any of my older bios, you know all about my thoughts on roasted chestnuts. This window depicts a roast chestnut vendor or yesteryear. By the way, I actually did see a guy selling roast chestnuts on the street by Rockafeller Center! But I didn't buy any.

I loved this one. It's a giant snow globe encompassing the city and a family doing their holiday shopping. Very clever.I wish the snow had been swirling inside.

Moving on, Saks' decorations were really wonderful. Giant, lighted snow flakes on the side of the building. So what? you say. It was all about the carillon and the light show that went with the music. I'd read about it in Time Out New York and they said it sounded cheesey but wasn't a bit. They were right. It was magical. Crossing the street and standing at the entrance to the tree at Rock Center, you could turn around and watch the snow flakes dance and snow and it was lovely to see a whole crowd of New Yorkers gazing up at the building with their mouths open and big smiles on their faces. I was one of them.

And, now for the ultimate NYC Christmas pics. Here's the tree:And people skating at the ice rink at Rockafeller Center.

And a few more decorations in the Center.

It was really windy and about 3 degrees!

And that concludes your virtual tour of Christmas in NYC.

My Dulcet Tones

Actually, they are rather dulcet. I'm just sayin'...

OR

I'm interviewed by Dr. Dick!

(That's Richard to you; Dr. Richard Wagner, noted clinical sexologist and sex therapist)

He has this wonderful website called Dr. Dick's Sex Advice or Sex Advice With An Edge and he pod casts. You've got to check out some of the people he's interviewed--oh, my god--and then there's me! I was interviewed as part of "The Erotic Mind" series. I'm humbled to be in such company.

The interview is in two parts. The first part aired on 1/3/10 and can be found here. The second part will air next week. Watch for it on or around 1/10/10. I had an awful lot of fun, as I'm sure you can tell when you listen, and I think I'm in love with Dr. Dick.

So, be sure to check out the interview, wherein I read an excerpt from my short story, "Hard Wet Silk," give precise directions to my whereabouts, (in case anyone's interested in stalking me) laugh a lot and generally ramble on about writing, literary criticism and smut, you know, all the usual things.

Happy Holidays!

I make no bones about it: I'm a terrible blogger! I always seem to have something to advertise when I blog, and I really don't mean to do that. It was just that, for a while there, I had a lot going on--with appearances and books and calls for submission.

Speaking of which, if you haven't sent me a spanking story, please get off your tush and get to it! As a reminder, this is for the Spank! antho for Logical Lust. Send me your submission as a .doc (not .docx) or .rtf to spankantho@gmail.com. The deadline is January 15th.

But see, you made me write about

business again. And I said I wasn't going to do that...

I wanted to post these pictures of the holiday decorations at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. The stars slowly change color. It's

mesmerizing--so I took a few

pictures. Hope you enjoy them.

But what holiday shopping day would be

complete without the requisite Santa Convention on the street? And I don't really know who the ice princess/queen is, but I guess she keeps the Santas entertained.

Now, I did take these pictures before Christmas, it's just due to laziness that I haven't gotten around to posting them until now.

I attended one of my favorite annual events shortly after this shopping spree--PN's holiday

party. It happened to be the day of the first great snow storm of the season and so, after lots of great food, a bloody mary, some wine, a glass of Port and several shots of Rumplemintz, to toast the holiday, I headed home through the snow. Here's a picture of my street (see, I had enough wherewithal and presence of mind to take a few pictures...).

Here's my door.

I managed to make it inside and had a pleasant night's sleep, even if I was a bit toasted the next day. Figuring I'd have to shovel my way out when I woke up, I was extremely happy to find my landlord had come in and done the work for me!

Tomorrow I'm going to see The Tree and a few 5th Avenue window displays before everything comes down after the New Year's celebration. If my iPhone doesn't freeze, I'll post more pics!

Here's hoping you're enjoying the holidays! Have a happy new year and, please, don't do anything I wouldn't (as it would definitely be illegal and would probably kill you)!

Best Lesbian Erotica 2010

It's that time of year: Time for the annual Best Lesbian Erotica reading at KGB Bar in NYC! I'm thrilled to be in the book this year and reading again at KGB. If you're in NYC Thursday, December 17th, please come by!

Here's the poop:

Drunken Careening Writers - HO HO HO: Best Lesbian Erotica 2010

December 17, 2009

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Molly Bloom is a pseudonym for New York playwright, Theresa Diamond. Her plays, including most recently “Waiting for the Show,” have been presented in NYC venues including the Neighborhood Playhouse, the WOW Café Theater (Rose Toibin), Nuyorican Poets Café, Dixon Place, La Mama (Relationship) and Centered Margins at Chashama.

R.G. Emanuelle is a writer and editor living in New York City. Most of her writing has been nonfiction (food and travel), but she recently returned to writing fiction and has many projects in the works. She is co-editor of Skulls and Crossbones (an anthology of female pirate stories), and her short stories can be found in Lesbian Lust: Red Hot Erotica and the January 2010 issue of Khimairal Ink.

The editor of The Sweetest Kiss and Where the Girls Are, D. L. King also publishes the review site, Erotica Revealed. Find her stories in Girl Crazy, Broadly Bound, Best Women’s Erotica 2009, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 8 and Best Lesbian Erotica 2008, among others. She’s published two novels.

Natt Nightly is a genderqueer, semipassing, androgen of faith, and all-around Boy who writes, thinks, dreams, and is absolutely fascinated by sex. His earliest perversions came straight from the Good Book, informing lust long before he got anywhere near his first erotica. Natt shares his exploits, and the growing pains of a radical political awareness at nattnightly.wordpress.com.

BETTY is a five-piece pop rock alternative band from New York City, fronted by Amy Ziff, Alyson Palmer and Elizabeth Ziff. Friends since an unfortunate incarceration, fierce Elizabeth (vocals, guitar), funky Alyson (vocals, bass) and funny Amy (vocals, cello) began performing as BETTY in the late ‘80s. In the fall of ‘87, the women relocated to New York City. Their debut album was Hello, BETTY! and other full-length albums include Limboland, betty3, and Carnival. BETTY’s turned up on TV, from MTV to The Food Network. BETTY fights fiercely for causes in which they believe: equal rights, finding cures for breast cancer and AIDS, Planned Parenthood, the Pro-Choice movement, an end to sexual violence and everybody’s inalienable right to dance naked in the streets. In 2000, BETTY began collaborating with Michael Greif, director of Rent, on a theatrical piece with music. That show became BETTY RULES, which ran for seven months Off-Broadway. The hit Showtime series, “The L Word” featured a theme song written by BETTY and band members appeared both individually and collectively in several episodes. Elizabeth Ziff signed on as the show’s Musical Composer, and eventually became a writer and co-executive producer of the series. Their latest CD, Bright & Dark debuted in September, 2009. For more, go to www.hellobetty.com.

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition that readings should be by 1) good writers; 2) who read their work well; and 3) something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops.

Boston Reading at Good Vibrations!

On Sunday, November 15 at 3:00 p.m., join D. L. King, Sacchi Green, Maggie Cee, Cecilia Tan, Ana Watson and Teresa Noelle Roberts for an afternoon of lesbian erotica at Good Vibrations in Boston, MA!

We'll be reading stories from Girl Crazy: Coming Out Stories, edited by Sacchi Green, Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, edited by D. L. King and Lesbian Cowboys: Erotic Adventures, edited by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia.

If last weekend was any indication, this will be great fun. Hope you can make it. Good Vibrations is located at 308A Harvard Street, Brookline, MA. (617) 264-4400.

Call for Submissions!

Spank!

Edited by D. L. King

To be published by Logical Lust late summer or early fall 2010

Deadline: January 15, 2010

Payment: $25 and a copy of the book in available electronic formats, plus a copy of the print edition, if the book does well enough to go into print.

D. L. King is looking for hot spanking stories.

Sometimes all you need to get hot and bothered is a good bottom warming... Whether getting or giving is your passion, this book is designed to create the same blush on your face as the one found on your bottom after a few good, hard whacks.

What makes for a sexy spanking story? Short, plaid, Catholic schoolgirl skirts? Bent at the waist, a bare bottom with the boxers and pants down around his knees? A stern schoolmarm, or head master, standing in front of a blackboard, holding a rattan cane? A dungeon wall covered with all sorts of paddles, floggers and canes? A scolding? A punishment? A pert bottom settling over charcoal gabardine trousers? A ritualized display of dominance? The crack of a hand coming down on already heated flesh? Send me something guaranteed to make naughty girls and bad boys, the world over, squirm in their seats when they read this book!

I envision this anthology as being primarily heterosexual, but I’ll happily consider GLBT stories, as well. Remember, no underage characters, please. Stories should be between 2,500 and 5,000 words, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman or Courier New. Please indent the first line of each paragraph one-half inch and do not include extra lines between paragraphs. Please make sure your document contains no other pre-set formatting.

Send your story as a .doc (not .docx) attachment and include the title, pseudonym (if applicable) and your legal name and mailing address to. spankantho@gmail.com. (If you are unable to send a Word attachment, I will accept an RTF.) Subject line should read: Submission: TITLE. Please include, as a second attachment, a 50 to 75-word bio, along with ways you might help promote the book should your story be accepted for publication. Direct any questions to the same address. Original stories only. You must own all rights to any reprints.