That Birthday in Barbados

Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – December 13, 1993), was a French novelist. She was the author of the French BDSM novel Le lien (translated into English as The Ties that Bind) based on her own experience as a BDSM slave. She created quite a stir in France at the time of […]

Cecilia Tan (born April 8, 1967) is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] She also writes about baseball, but is not to be confused with a writer of the same name who specializes in Asian […]

Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.[1] Antoniou is also known for her work as an editor and pioneer on the field of contemporary erotic fiction[2] and in particular as editor of […]

Jan Cremer (Dutch pronunciation: [jɑn ˈkreːmər]; born 20 April 1940, Enschede, Netherlands) is a Dutch author, photographer and painter. His best known work is the novel Ik, Jan Cremer [nl] (“I, Jan Cremer”; 1964) and the sequel Ik, Jan Cremer, tweede boek (“I, Jan Cremer, second book”; 1966). The publication of this book created scandal in […]

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:  St. Benet’s: A chilling Norfolk Broads crime […]