Murder at Kensington Palace (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Book 3)

Rupert Smith is an American-born English author.[1] He has written novels and biographies under his birth name, and is also known for his genre novels that have a gay pornographic motif, and are aimed primarily at homosexual men.[2] These novels are published under the pen name James Lear. A third name, Rupert James, is used […]

David Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, activist and former sex worker. Sterry’s parents were immigrants from Newcastle, England. His paternal grandfather was a coal miner. His maternal grandfather was a professional soccer player, bicyclist, and boxer, as well as a suspected pedophile. He grew up in New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; Virginia, Minnesota; and […]

Angela Knight is an American author[1] of mostly erotic fantasy. She was a reporter for ten years and a comic book author. She lives in South Carolina. First published under Red Sage, she was able to write romantic fiction for the first time in 1996. She published several short stories in their Secrets anthologies. Editor […]

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 […]

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions. Others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of […]