Covert Vengeance (Vengeance Series Book 2)

Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de […]

Paul Reed (May 28, 1956 – January 28, 2002) was an American writer, best known as one of the first major writers of HIV/AIDS-themed literature in the United States.[1] Born Paul Hustoft in San Diego, California, his father died when he was a child and he later adopted his stepfather’s surname Reed after his mother […]

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (12 June 1760 – 25 August 1797) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat.[1] Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller’s clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation […]

Krissy Kneen is a Brisbane-based bookseller and writer. Kneen has been shortlisted three times for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, and in 2014 won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She is the author of a short collection of erotica, Swallow the Sound, and a memoir, Affection. Kneen has also penned a collection of erotica entitled […]

Pierre Klossowski (/kləˈsɒfski/; French: [klɔˈsɔfski]; August 9, 1905, Paris – August 12, 2001, Paris) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus. Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, […]