I'm so excited!! A friend of mine here in Brisbane is a writer of erotic fiction - and she writes for a group called "Ellora's Cave" (www.ellorascave.com). A week or so ago, she came across my own erotica on AFF.net and wanted to know if I had more. She's read more of mine (yes "Bruise" was one of them - as well as my contribs to the "Wild Boys" IFF from a few years ago at BirdGo) and asked if she could send a sample to Elloras Cave. They like it and have asked me to prepare an original fiction with a view to them pubishing it!! Woohoo!!! Imagine - getting paid to write Smut! Doesn't mean I'll stop writing Gatch fiction though - in fact I may find that I find it easier to write as BotP/Gatch and then turn that into original.

Congrats!!

Wow!! That's fabulous, Maddy!! Congratulations!!

Oh WOW Maddy! Go for it, girl! And don't forget us when you're a rich and famous smut writer!

Congratulations Maddy. Let us know when you get around to posting!

Congratulations Maddy!! All the best with it.

That's terrific, Maddy! Congratulations!

Oh that's awesome, Maddy!!!! You write some of the best smut I've ever read, so I am glad someone noticed and has asked you to write for them!!! You must share your original with us!! I can't wait to read it!! SJ

I shall probably ask someof you to beta it. BTW: My mission is accomplished. I've had an e-mail from a friend who has read Bruise up to where it is. Apparently it made her blush.... in front of her husband. He likes it to...

Congratulations, Maddy! You surely deserve it! Please share your work with us when it is finished!

Congratulations Maddy!

You go girl! Ellora's Cave is a big deal in erotic e-books. I wish you the best with it!!!!

Well done looks like Christmas came early for you!

Originally posted by Becky Rock You go girl! Ellora's Cave is a big deal in erotic e-books. I wish you the best with it!!!!

Yup - and I've been a fan of theirs for ages! (yes - I not only write naughty - I read it as well...) I've got a rough plot outline - Regency based - that Im starting to flesh out into a full outline. What I do love about Elloras Cave is that they insist on a proper plot and characterisations (and let's face it - you know what I'm like about plot. Look at Bruise. It started out as PWP and now, some 20 parts later, has become more plot driven).

Originally posted by Madilayn I've got a rough plot outline - Regency based - that Im starting to flesh out into a full outline.

Congratulations, Maddy! And Regency is such a fun period -all that witty and mannered sophistication and proper facades in public, but as soon as the doors are closed...

Oooh, good for you! I just had my first article published in a spa trade maagazine this month--haven't made a move to fiction yet! I write a lot of erotica too (some may remember some of my stuff from years ago, or when I used to roleplay on MSN). I wonder if I'm anywhere near your caliber, Maddy! Katse

And what does AFF stand for? What is AFF.net? I'm having a stupid moment, but if it's a place where I can read naughty things, please, point me in the direction! Katse

adultfanfiction.net

Lots of smut there - some fairly good Gatch ones - but unfortunately the site also has some shockers of stuff as well. I'm a mod over there and we're trying to clean up the quality of writing, but it's a slow job. I tend to put my much racier stuff there - stuff where I'm not quite sure whether Gatchfanfiction would appreciate it (for instance - not sure if Bruise would be really 100% welcome at Gatchfanfiction - I feel that the smut portions are rather more racier than they like - even given some of what is there). And some of my really smutty Harry Potter (Remus/Sirius) stuff is there as well.

Maddy. Some of the stuff there is quite good, and other stuff is... well, poorly written is part of it, but there are others that will shock you, no matter what your smutty mindset is. You have to read carefully on that site...

Oh yeah - you definitely hve to be careful. There is quite a bit of stuff that I take issue with there - but I'm not the site owner and if it doesn't breach the site TOS, then can't do anything. On the other hand, there has been stuff that we as mods have deleted because it was just too distrubing. The big fight is to get well written fic. Unfortunately it seems that adult site also invites bad writing - but it's the other members that are fighting this fight as well. AFF had for some time a really bad reputation as a poorly written porn site. It's taken a number of years and a change of site owner to start to mend that reputation, and the quality of writing has improved vastly in the past couple of years since the Jaxxy took over site ownership.

Maddy it looks like you'll be too busy to write fanfic and "Generations" for a while!! You have your hands full with AFF and original stories. Have they given you any deadlines yet?

I'm not too busy to write fanfic - including Generations. I've been a mod at AFF for a few years - and we work in shifts so that we only end up doing a few hours each week each. As for deadlines - they're loose as it's only an initial approach. They want to see an outline with a sample chapter within three months, and then if they accept we discuss deadlines then. But fanfic is fun! And Generations is a labor of love.