Falling for my Brother’s Best Friend (The Baileys Book 4)

Jiraiya (児雷也, born April 28, 1967) is a pseudonymous[1] Japanese gay manga artist and illustrator. He is noted for his homoerotic, hyperreal drawings of gachimuchi (ガチムチ, “muscle-curvy” or “muscle-chubby”) men, and for his use of digital illustration in his artwork. Jiraiya was born in 1967[2] to a working class family in Sapporo, Japan.[3] In the […]

Charles Collé (14 April 1709 – 3 November 1783) was a French dramatist and songwriter. The son of a notary, he was born in Paris. He became interested in the rhymes of Jean Heguanier, the most famous writer of couplets in Paris. From a notary’s office, Collé was transferred to that of the receiver-general of […]

Éric Losfeld (Mouscron, 1922 – Paris, 1979) was a Belgian-born French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague.[1] He was the publisher of Emmanuelle (1967), two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique and Positif) founded by Ado Kyrou. Read:  Reckless Whisper (Off the Grid: FBI Series […]

Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912, in Aalst – 10 May 1979, in Erembodegem) was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism. He was also a painter. He is most known for the novels My Little War (1947), the diptych Chapel Road (1953) / Summer in Termuren (1956), Menuet (1955) and […]

Salpe was an ancient Greek midwife cited by Pliny the Elder, and a writer of a work called the Paignia mentioned in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae. It is not certain whether the Salpe mentioned by Pliny and the Salpe mentioned by Athenaeus were different people. Pliny cites Salpe six times in his Natural History.[1] She is described […]