Smokin’ Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Carol Queen is an American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture. She has written a sex tutorial, Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot, as well as erotica, […]

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth’s fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its “sensual, ingenious style” and for its provocative […]

Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake is perhaps best-remembered for creating two professional criminal characters who each […]

Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica.[1] She previously studied at the New York University School of Law[2] and earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and women’s studies from the University of California, Berkeley.[citation needed] Bussel has been a Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, a Contributing Editor […]

Pierre-François Hugues, known as ‘baron d’Hancarville’ (Nancy 1719 – Padua 1805) was an art historian and historian of ideas. Pierre Francois Hugues was born in 1719 at Nancy, France, the son of a bankrupt cloth-merchant. He himself later added the title of ‘baron d’Hancarville’ to his name. Read:  A Mistletoe Kiss (Tangled Charms Book 2)