The House of Pleasure (The Scandal Sheet Book 6)

François Augiéras (1925–1971) was an American-born French painter and writer.[1][2][3] François Augiéras was born in Rochester, New York, two months after his father’s death. His father taught the piano at the Eastman School of Music.[1]. He moved to France (Paris and later Dordogne) with his mother. At the age of fourteen, he left home and […]

Jennifer Stevenson (born October 6, 1955, in Waukegan, Illinois)[1] is a Chicago-based, American fantasy and romance author who mixes romantic comedy with magical realist, regional (usually Chicago-set), working-class, and sex-positive storytelling.[2] She is an active member of the American feminist speculative fiction community. Stevenson has published both short stories and several novel series, most of […]

Gershon Legman (November 2, 1917 – February 23, 1999) was an American cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books The Rationale of the Dirty Joke (1968) and The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (1964). Legman was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Emil and Julia Friedman Legman, both of Hungarian-Jewish descent; […]

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 […]

Violet Blue is an American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator. Blue wrote a weekly sex column for the San Francisco Chronicle until 2010.[3] In her podcast, Open Source Sex, she reads erotica and discusses topics such as fetishes and oral sex.[4] She also has a video blog. She lectures at San Francisco Sex Information. […]