How important are character names in books? Sure, a name is often the first thing your readers will learn about a character but surely any name will end up fitting if you’ve written the character well enough. Like with real people. Unlike fictional people, real people don’t have proper personalities when they’re given names. Sometimes…
Author: Etta Stark
Etta Stark is an enthusiastic reader and writer of spanky romance novels. Her particular areas of interest are BDSM, feminism, romance and, of course, tea.
Liebster Award
I have been nominated for the Liebster Award by the lovely Megan Michaels. You can check out her Liebster Award blog entry here. The Liebster Award is passed around the blogging community in order to promote great blogs and find out a bit more about the bloggers who make them. I have listed the Liebster…
It’s the First of May! (Almost)
I can’t believe I missed the chance to post this yesterday. Jonathan Coulton is one of my absolute favourite musicians. His funny/geeky/heartbreaking songs are played pretty much on a constant loop on my Spotify. His song, ‘First of May’ is apparently based on the traditional schoolyard rhyme “Hooray, Hooray, the first of May! Outdoor fucking…
Implausible Marrows
So I have been at a point of almost, almost being ready to submit my latest book, still tentatively called Like the Lightning, to the publishers for several days now. I was reading through draft #3,687,648 (probably) on the train this morning when I realised I had a problem. I had messed up my dates….
Writing Process Bloghop
Today I am taking part in the Writing Process Bloghop. I was tagged by Megan Michaels who talks about her own writing process here. Question 1: What am I working on?At the moment I am finishing my second book which is tentatively entitled Like the Lightning. The title is a reference to the hero’s work…
Is this Adult Content?
This is a question for everyone who uses Blogger. Have you activated the ‘adult content’ warning on your blog? If so, when and why did you decide to do so? I ask because it seems to be de rigueur among fellow Saturday Spankings bloghoppers and the like. However, I find I am instinctively resisting ticking…
When Movie Posters Lie About Spanking
Yesterday I complained loud and long about John Wayne’s use of a coal shovel as a spanking implement in McLintock. And you know what? I’m clearly not the only person who doesn’t associate coal shovels with sexy, spanking action. Below is the original theatrical poster for McLintock. Notice anything missing? Here’s the same scene from…
Spanking in the Movies
I mentioned the other week how you really don’t get a lot of spankings in mainstream movie. It’s not like I expect there to be as much spanking on screen as there is, say, inside my head. That wouldn’t leave enough time for all the car chases and robot battles and stuff. Not surprisingly, I…
‘Safe and Tame’ Fifty Shades Movie
Yesterday, I speculated that next year’s Fifty Shades of Grey movie will concentrate less on sex and more on plot.Seems like I may have been bang on the money. If by plot you mean “making moon-eyes at each other, in between helicopter rides and job interviews”. Which sounds like a fair synopsis of the first…
Fifty Shades Darker: The Infographic
As a teeny, tiny minnow in the Erotic Romance pond, I am of course very well aware of E L James whose “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy spans the metaphoric pond like a big fishy Colossus. Not too many authors in our genre get their works read out by Charles Dance or feature in major…