Most of you who know who I am also realize I am multi-published in erotica (I’m not making enough moolah to make the mortgage, but the car payment is officially covered…) and that I usually write BDSM erotica of the M/F or M/M or M/M/F variety. But no one usually asks about my F/F stuff, which BTW is piling up like last weeks laundry. There’s a shitload of it on my harddrive…
Unsold.
Unpublished.
Enough to make me want to cry.

I also have a stack of wonderful rejection letters, mainly in the form of revision requests, asking me to make my F/F story a M/F, just change the gender, right, it’s still the same story…
Who in the hell said that? Yeah, that would be one of my editors.

The other big request has been that if I insist on keeping it F/F, at least add a man…make it a menage…because menage sells…granted M/M/F menage sells better, so if I could just turn one of the F into a M and then make it a menage…

Seriously.
This is what I deal with. Every. Day.

Here’s an excerpt from today’s rejection letter: “The work was very well written, and I enjoyed reading the sexual elements, straight and lesbian. All were very well done. However, the work on balance is not a good fit for our erotic romance profile.”

This time I was not asked for a revision, so I have no way of knowing whether they would have liked it better if I’d menage’d it or M/F’d it, but I would almost bet cold hard cash that it was one or the other.

I said I wasn’t going to cave under pressure…but today I am leaning toward an avalanche. I think I’m going to menage PornStar which is a story so near and dear to my heart, I want to have sex with both F/F’s in the story…and I desperately want it published.
Sadly, there is also a hunky ex, very alpha male in the story I’d also have sex with…but only if I got to wear the strap on because I think he’s a real jerk who needs it up the a** a time or three…but who my other editors love so much they want him in on part of the action. Dear Goddess, I cannot believe I am even considering it…

Here is the ONLY reason I am considering it…
I want my F/F writing read. Period. If a menage scene or two will get it read I’m closer than I was yesterday to selling a full F/F manuscript. Yeah, yeah, I know…there are lesbian publisher’s out there. But they won’t even consider looking at PornStar because my heroine is Bisexual and does it with the hunky ex…

There’s my rant for the day…please support Lesbian and Female Bisexual Fiction by buying!
Buy lots!
Prove there is a market.

*Want to thank Calico for allowing me to use this photo I found at Callico’s Gallery earlier today! And BTW I also saw she asked a very interesting question over at Filthy Gorgeous Things, an awesome ezine if you haven’t already checked it out…

Johanna Siguardardottir, Iceland’s social affairs minister, is set to become the country’s interim prime minister after month’s of governmental struggles following the country’s banks collapse last fall . The AP’s story led with the fact that she is a  former flight attendant, union organizer and that she is openly gay.However, I found it much more interesting that she has a long background in Icelandic liberal politics. She has been a member of Althingi (the Parliament) since 1978, was Minister of Social Affairs in 1987 until 1994, and again in 2007. She is one of the most popular politicians in the country as noted in a recent Gallup poll that revealed 73 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with her work. She is also the only minister whose popularity had increased compared to a similar poll undertaken in December 2007.Which all leads me to wonder if the AP headline of flight attendant was a slur…(why would they do that, when being a flight attendant is a highly respected field?)…or that they were just trying to make a point that she started out life as an average Jane? (Just to be clear, she was actually a flight attendant in the late 60′s, early 70′s for Loftleidir Airlines now Icelandic Air)

Let’s face it, politics are politics and prejudices are prejudices; and until our media sources can get over their prejudices, we are going to be stuck when them molding the ideas and viewpoints of generation after generation. I’ll try to not get started on that soapbox since I try my best to not allow the media to make my choices for me and it so greatly angers me that so many people I know are so easily led…I’ll save that for another post and just glory in this monumental feat for a bit longer…

So, at the moment Johanna Sigurdardottir, is being touted as the nation’s most popular politician and will lead Iceland until new elections are held. Possibly in May. It is a sad note that few expect her from going from Interim Prime Minister to status as an elected Prime Minister.

So, what else could I find out about Sigurdardottir? She is the mother of two grown sons, is married to Icelandic writer and playwright Jonina Leosdottir, and by appearance appears to be Femme.

Links to more info:
Huffington Post
AOL
*photo credit: Vidskiptabladid

This April I’m going to be in Boston facilitating a queerly feminine storytelling workshop and would love to see you there!  I’m really excited about teaching this specific workshop and getting to spend an afternoon focused on creativity around femmes and queer femininity!   If you are in boston, or know folks in the Boston area who might be interested *please* pass the word along to them about the class!

xoxo